prepping

Do you ever have those days when you really want to talk (or in this case write) and you just don’t really have anything worth saying?

I’m trying to get things done tonight. I’m doing laundry, dying my hair, got my soldier’s care package put together (going to take it to the PO on my way out of town in the morning). I’ve got plans to finish all my laundry, including pulling my sheets and putting clean ones on but that might wait, haven’t decided yet…they is kind of stinky…for good reasons but still! LOL

I’m excited. I’m going to finally get to meet my Georgie tomorrow. It’s only been, what, 4 years in the making? LMAO I can’t wait to actually get to spend some real time with her. I know it will be more than worth the 6 hours in the car I’ll be spending tomorrow. I was going to try and see Kay tomorrow while I was in that neck of the woods but it’s looking like a no-go but it’s okay because she is apparently coming up for a visit this weekend so we are going to try and get together then. But expect lots of pictures because between her and I I’m sure there will be plenty taken, and at least one AMAZING one of her and I to be plastered all over the interwebs!!!

So B has a new girlfriend…she looks frighteningly similar to me. She even has the same given name….a little creepy I won’t lie. But he’s a good guy and I wish him the best of luck.

I am excited because in a few months my BFF Caleb is going to be moving back home!!! OMGEEEEEEEE!!!

For those who don’t know (because it’s a looooonng story) Caleb and I have known each other since high school. We hooked up right before he deployed overseas with the Army and then again when he came home for R&R. We’d talk at least once a week roughly while he was deployed. Really, his deployment was what made our friendship so strong. We haven’t hooked up and now we’re pretty much just really great friends, almost like siblings. Unfortunately when he left the Army he stayed up north and moved to Pitt so I never really got to see him. Things aren’t going well for him with his PTSD and everything else so he is going to finish up the semester and then move home for a year or 2, sort things out, take classes at the community college here in town and try to get himself back together.

The problem is (at least in my opinion) that Caleb went from highly structured military life to college life & civilian life at the same time. Anyone who has gone to college can tell you that they are 2 different mentalities! He has tried to adjust but he has also been trying to deal with his PTSD on his own and it hasn’t been working so he’s started therapy recently but it’s still just too much for him to deal with. He’s 24 years old and he hasn’t had the real chance to ‘grow up’ so to speak. He went from high school to the Army, from the Army to college but at the same time he’s NOT a college type of mentality. In his mind, he still thinks and deals with life like he’s Army. All of these mentalities are not the ‘grown up’ civilian ones. Army: structured, regimented, routine. College: free-spirited, carefree, loose. It’s a chance for kids to break away from their parents and be stupid. Caleb hasn’t been able to wrap his mind around them, they’re just stupid kids to him but he can’t just deal with it, he gets angry over it. He’s a wreck. I think the time home will be good for him. It will give him a ‘safer’ environment to readjust in. In Pitt he doesn’t have a social network to fall back on, but here he does. He has friends and his family. We all think it’s for the best including Caleb himself. I’m even more excited for December!!

Augh, I have noooo motivation now. I just want to curl up and go to bed but I can’t. 1) Still doing laundry. 2) Have to pick out clothes for tomorrow as well as get the directions for the trip. 3) Get down the address for the package in the morning. Plus Isaac is supposed to call when he and his brothers get done celebrating the youngest’s birthday. He turned 21 and Isaac turned 30, it’s kind of funny they share a birthday LOL.

I want to talk about Isaac too but I know you guys are probably tired of hearing about him so I’m going to be all squeeeeee on another entry so you guys can read it if you feel like but you don’t have to.