Finally another good day!
Today was fantastic. The weather was perfect. 70 degrees, with a nice breeze. I took Jack for a walk with Monica while she walked her little dog, Baby. Afterwards, Jack and Baby played in her backyard and cracked us up with their crazy antics.
I've become very close to Monica and Lori and I finally feel like I have a best friend again. I've had plenty of close friends, but it's been a long time since I've had that friend that makes me feel like I'm in High School again. That kind of friend where you practically live at their house, and do everything together. It's been a long time and I'm so happy that I have that again.
In 1.5 weeks my DOM will read 75% =O. I know, I can't believe it either. 75%??? How can that be? It's been a long time coming, but I'm just now starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Could this deployment REALLY be ending?!
In other less exciting news, I've been going to physical therapy a lot. I'm getting a great workout while I'm there, but my back is starting to hurt worse. I'm not quite sure if this is normal, or if I'm doing something wrong, but it's starting to discourage me. I'm almost in as much pain as I was when DH left after R&R. It was so bad that I had to go to the ER to get a prescription for Vicodin. I hope it doesn't get that bad again. Oh well, I have many more PT visits so hopefully it will only get better from here.
DH has been doing well too, surprisingly. There's a part of me that expects him to be miserable all of the time, and I'm surprised when he's not. I don't want him to be miserable, but I'm just surprised how much he can put up with and still be ok.
I've got a lot of homework to do tomorrow, but I'm not stressing over it. Soon school will be over, and with that, the end of this deployment!
Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
A Little Bit of Everything
Sorry blogger peepz. I've been busy actually getting out of the house lol.
I started physical therapy. It's been going really well. I'm going 3x a week for a few weeks and then will change to 2x a week until I no longer need to go. My physical therapist is really nice and she basically has me doing stretches and exercises the entire time. Perfect. I get a workout and fix my back all at once. She's trying to help me build up the muscles around my back to help support it. A lot of core and glute workouts. The only thing I'm afraid of is.. My core and leg muscles are already strong so I'm afraid it's not going to make that much of an impact, but we'll see. She also said that in a few weeks I'd most likely be able to get back to running =)
School has been going well. It's spring break haha!
DH has been gone a lot for various reasons. Thankfully I have my friends to keep me company and pass the time. Next Tuesday I'm going shopping in Nashville for summer clothes and to replenish my supply of heels and tennis shoes since they were stolen from our storage unit. I feel that I deserve this little shopping spree because I've done exceptionally well at saving during this deployment and taking a little break from saving $1000+/month won't hurt anything.
I also changed the return date on my DOM. For those who know me, you know this is nothing new =P. However, I don't really feel like I'm cheating because I simply changed the date to when DH will go to his transition FOB before he leaves Afghanistan completely. I've said time and time again that this deployment will end for me when his quality of life has improved and he is safe. I'm 90% sure that his quality of life will improve and he will be safer once he is at the transition FOB. I may not see him for a little bit after the date I chose, but for now that's the date I'm aiming for. I couldn't stand to see "40% left" on my DOM so I needed to change it. Now I see "34% left" and I feel much better.
I'm also getting a little cold. How could this happen? I've been taking my vitamin everyday =( . Stupid hospitals and their germ-infested elevators… (I had to take a friend to the hospital about a week ago and the only thing I touched was the elevator).
I can't wait until the title of my post says, "He's Home!!"
I started physical therapy. It's been going really well. I'm going 3x a week for a few weeks and then will change to 2x a week until I no longer need to go. My physical therapist is really nice and she basically has me doing stretches and exercises the entire time. Perfect. I get a workout and fix my back all at once. She's trying to help me build up the muscles around my back to help support it. A lot of core and glute workouts. The only thing I'm afraid of is.. My core and leg muscles are already strong so I'm afraid it's not going to make that much of an impact, but we'll see. She also said that in a few weeks I'd most likely be able to get back to running =)
School has been going well. It's spring break haha!
DH has been gone a lot for various reasons. Thankfully I have my friends to keep me company and pass the time. Next Tuesday I'm going shopping in Nashville for summer clothes and to replenish my supply of heels and tennis shoes since they were stolen from our storage unit. I feel that I deserve this little shopping spree because I've done exceptionally well at saving during this deployment and taking a little break from saving $1000+/month won't hurt anything.
I also changed the return date on my DOM. For those who know me, you know this is nothing new =P. However, I don't really feel like I'm cheating because I simply changed the date to when DH will go to his transition FOB before he leaves Afghanistan completely. I've said time and time again that this deployment will end for me when his quality of life has improved and he is safe. I'm 90% sure that his quality of life will improve and he will be safer once he is at the transition FOB. I may not see him for a little bit after the date I chose, but for now that's the date I'm aiming for. I couldn't stand to see "40% left" on my DOM so I needed to change it. Now I see "34% left" and I feel much better.
I'm also getting a little cold. How could this happen? I've been taking my vitamin everyday =( . Stupid hospitals and their germ-infested elevators… (I had to take a friend to the hospital about a week ago and the only thing I touched was the elevator).
I can't wait until the title of my post says, "He's Home!!"
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
It's a Good Day
I have such a big smile on my face. Where do I begin?
First and foremost, I finally got to talk to DH 1.5 days ago. Yayyy! And I got to talk to him again last night. Another yay!
Today I woke up early (9:00 haha) and went to IHOP with my friend for free pancakes. I ordered a slim-fit omelette complete with swiss cheese and turkey bacon (yum!) and a stack of pancakes. I had to cut back somewhere and it certainly wasn't going to be on my carb intake LOL.
Then I went to APSU to have my math midterm proctored. I was pretty nervous because the material is a little difficult for me because 85% of it is word problems. I despise word problems. Good news is, I think I did pretty well. Only a couple (out of 50) confused me a bit.
Then I came home and checked on my school work to see what has been graded. My public speaking mid-term speech outline (aka: midterm speech essay) has been nagging me for the past two weeks. I wanted to know how I did since the teacher is a very difficult grader (I may or may not have mentioned this before) and she was returning many outlines to people to redo them. I was nervous, to say the least. However, I am happy to announce that she gave me a 95 (Yay!) and put "a very strong outline." The nerd in me is on cloud 9 right now.
I also got a 92% on my pop music quiz. I keep getting 92s and I think it's hilarious. I'm glad I'm keeping my grade up, but 92 is such a random number and I have gotten it four times in a row now.
I also had ice cream for dinner. No it's not healthy, no it's not going to help keep my girlish figure, and no it isn't going to keep me full for the rest of the night. It is, however, something I think I deserve right now. Or maybe I just don't care about counting anymore calories and have convinced myself that it is fat free.
Did I mention that today is a good day? If I haven't, I'll say it again… It's a good day =)
First and foremost, I finally got to talk to DH 1.5 days ago. Yayyy! And I got to talk to him again last night. Another yay!
Today I woke up early (9:00 haha) and went to IHOP with my friend for free pancakes. I ordered a slim-fit omelette complete with swiss cheese and turkey bacon (yum!) and a stack of pancakes. I had to cut back somewhere and it certainly wasn't going to be on my carb intake LOL.
Then I went to APSU to have my math midterm proctored. I was pretty nervous because the material is a little difficult for me because 85% of it is word problems. I despise word problems. Good news is, I think I did pretty well. Only a couple (out of 50) confused me a bit.
Then I came home and checked on my school work to see what has been graded. My public speaking mid-term speech outline (aka: midterm speech essay) has been nagging me for the past two weeks. I wanted to know how I did since the teacher is a very difficult grader (I may or may not have mentioned this before) and she was returning many outlines to people to redo them. I was nervous, to say the least. However, I am happy to announce that she gave me a 95 (Yay!) and put "a very strong outline." The nerd in me is on cloud 9 right now.
I also got a 92% on my pop music quiz. I keep getting 92s and I think it's hilarious. I'm glad I'm keeping my grade up, but 92 is such a random number and I have gotten it four times in a row now.
I also had ice cream for dinner. No it's not healthy, no it's not going to help keep my girlish figure, and no it isn't going to keep me full for the rest of the night. It is, however, something I think I deserve right now. Or maybe I just don't care about counting anymore calories and have convinced myself that it is fat free.
Did I mention that today is a good day? If I haven't, I'll say it again… It's a good day =)
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