The ball of our next move is rolling. After many Skype sessions extolling the virtues of moving our stuff in December and not January, Mac finally agreed with me. He called the transportation office to set up our shipment. It started off so well: he picked the delivery date for the week of closing with…
deployment
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The homecoming outfit
I know I’m not alone here in immediately preparing for homecomings as soon as Mac has left. Even if R&R is months away, counting down to something just makes each day a little bit more bearable. During Mac’s first deployment, I really didn’t put any thought into what I was wearing when he came home….
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October care package – sneak preview
Let’s pretend that I forgot to photograph the care package for the post I scheduled yesterday before I mailed it. I had every intention of a Friday recap post in the morning then my care package in the afternoon. I was too depressed after I got back from the Tech game Thursday night / Friday…
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September care package – 100 day countdown
A few weeks ago, I had a moment of grand inspiration for a care package. My idea was to create a 100 day countdown for the last 100 days of Mac’s deployment. It took me a bit longer than I planned to finish, but I hope Mac loves it. What you’ll need: 100 cards or…
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Football care package – August
August’s care package is football themed in honor of the upcoming football season. Mac has his Xbox 360 with him, so I decided to surprise him with a copy of Madden 25. Much to my surprise, Xbox stopped making new copies of their games on the 360 platform to push the new Xbox One system….
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And then I watched 25 seasons of TV in 3 months
Back in May, I wrote a post about my Netflix binge tendencies. Out of curiosity, I went back to see just how many of those shows I watched. It was eye-opening, shall we say. 172 episodes (8 seasons) of Supernatural x 42 minutes / episode = 120 hours 100 episodes (7 seasons) of Rules of…