Hats for sale

A year is 365 days, each day with the same amount of potential as the day before and the day after. The days themselves are neutral blocks of time, but what we do during each moment and our perceptions of the results of our deeds color each day as good, bad, productive, wasteful, exciting, miserable, [...]

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Divisible by 13

I like birthday math. I’m sure it makes me somewhat strange, but it’s true (I’m strange). I like to take my age and do the math. This year, upon turning 39, I am now divisible by 13 and 3 (as well as 1 and 39, naturally) and they are both prime numbers which means I [...]

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Reboot to the head

Every once and a while, when the planets are misaligned, the selfish ‘tween in me wants to scream at the universe for not making things go my way. I want the square peg in the round hole, dammit, and I want it yesterday! When I was growing up and picturing and planning my life, I [...]

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WAG that Tale

Gainfully Deployed has earned some new fans (via the Facebook group) this week and for that I’m very appreciative. Thanks for being curious/interested/bored enough to check in. I know many of the new readers are wives, moms, and/or girlfriends from K’s unit, so I thought this would be a good time to explain a few [...]

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Progress Report

I love the smell of new months…even if that month happens to be February, the longest shortest month ever. But I’ll forgive February this year because I can see grass, which I haven’t seen from November to April the previous 2 years we’ve lived here. Thank you, Mother Nature, for cutting a sister some slack. [...]

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Talking about a revolution

I’ve decided that I’m ditching resolutions in favor of a full-scale revolution (defined as: “A sudden or momentous change in a situation.”). I don’t suppose it surprises anyone (besides me) that starting a revolution involves more than acquiring a theme song. Being a revolutionary takes thought, consideration, a fair amount of flexible scheduling and tweaking [...]

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Standing on Ceremony

Tonight is the official leaving ceremony for K’s unit even though they are not leaving right away. After a short discussion (because we were in agreement), K and I both decided it would be better for the kids and me not to go this time around. I have already been to one of these affairs [...]

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One small step

The past year and a half of being mostly unemployed (with the exception of some scattered freelance work) has been both difficult and enlightening. At the end of the last deployment I swore I would not work full time during a deployment again. When we realized that another deployment was on the horizon, we decided [...]

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Goals

I am a planner. A list keeper. I have to do things all the time. I’m not terribly good at relaxing, although I’m quite fond of a nap when I can sneak one in (even though I never put one on my list). Last deployment I thought I was going to have all kinds of [...]

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