Army life

  • Ready, fire, aim

    I’ve jumped off the deep end and am chugging the Dave Ramsey Kool-Aid. Hell, I stayed up till 2:30 am reading and finished the book today. Overall, I’ve realized that my parents did a really job teaching me about money; I just did a bad job of learning. Hindsight, thou art a heartless bitch. I…

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  • How quickly we forget

    Jane at Taingamala (a fellow Alpha Gam!) just posted about going on a business trip after her hubby returned from deployment. It really it home with me because Mac has been gone for the past three weeks. The year that Mac was deployed, I adjusted to being alone. I created routines that helped me deal…

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  • Making your marriage military official

    Now that you’ve married your military man, you need to enroll in Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS). DEERS grants you access to Tricare (the military health care system), the Post Exchange (PX = military Wal-Mart), the Commissary (military grocery store), and qualifies your beloved for dependent’s pay (bigger paychecks), among other things. Talk to…

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  • The strangest question

    “You must be ready for your husband to deploy again, right?” I’m honestly shocked every time I hear somebody ask me this. Also surprising is the fact that I’ve been asked this more than once. Once upon a time last year, a seasoned Army wife was hired at one of the plants at work. She…

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  • In my mind, I’m going to Carolina

    Today, I realized that we will be leaving Fayetteville within 18 months. I have a lengthy list of things to do and places to see while we still live in the Old North State. Since we live in NC, our Living Social and Groupon deals feature inns, lodges, and adventures that are on my list….

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  • The house that built me

    So this week I’m blogging while watching Sister Wives. I really have an obsession for TLC’s reality programming. On the teaser preview for next week, the teenage Brown kids road trip back to Utah and visit the large home in which they were raised. They wander through the house, and the clips show some of…

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