This is my life in a nutshell. Fast-paced and busy one minute. Slow and boring the next. Complete with the daily dramas of the Dennis-the-Menace style Kid, the husband who wants to be in the Armed Forces again after years as a civilian, with me in the middle hanging on for dear life!
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
0300?
I was awakened by two different things this morning, both of which are extremely aggravating.
The first was this awful dream I had about John and the military. He had reenlisted, gone through the Warrior Transition Course, as planned, and was almost finished with AIT when he called me and said he had gotten orders to ship to Afghanistan. So I was going to have to go without seeing him for two whole years.
But then I hear this shrill screaming outside our apartment. It was 0230 on a school night! I was worried it would wake Evan. It didn't seem to be a "help me" sort of scream, but rather a we-are-morons variety of scream. I waited for it to stop, and when it did not, I went outside to check. This may have been a mistake, seeing as I am blind as a bat when it is not dark or in the middle of the night when I am half asleep. But then I stumble my groggy arse out without glasses. I think I cussed out someone I did not know. I still have no idea who it was. I hope it was not a neighbor I am friendly with. I guess I won't be anymore if it was.
So now I am sitting here, fully awake. I have been since 0300. It is now 0542, and I have already brewed coffee, had a cup and getting ready to fill 'er up a second time. I have managed to eat breakfast ( mmmmmm, Cheerios) and get my morning supply of nicotine. Lets' start the day!
I am a wife, full-time registered respiratory therapist, mom. When this challenge didn't prove to be substantial enough, I became a pre-med student. I hope to become a pulmonologist sometime before I reach retirement age! I have an addiction to science and expensive handbags, am loyal to a fault, and am the most driven person you will ever meet.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better. whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.
"We Have Lived and Loved Together" Charles Jeffreys
We have lived and loved together Through many changing years; We have shared each others' gladness And wept each others' tears; I have known never a sorrow That was long unsoothed by thee; For thy smiles can make a summer Where darkness else would be.
Like the leaves that fall around us In autumn's fading hours, Are the traitors' smiles that darken When the cloud of sorrow lowers; And through many such we've known, Love, Too prone alas to range; We both can speak of one love Which time can never change.
We have lived and loved together Through many changing years; We have shared each others' gladness And wept each others' tears. And let us hope the future As the past has been will be: I will share with thee my sorrows, And thou thy joys with me.
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