Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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Hurry up and wait
My husband has been out of basic for over a month now and I haven’t seen him once. It’s honestly a living hell for me personally. We got married on October 9th and he left for his first duty station on the 10th. After we were married we had about 7 hours to be with one another before i had to have him back on base and only 10 minutes together the next day before they put him on a bus to take him even further away from me.
So far they’ve told us multiple different things about when i’ll finally be able to move with him, about two weeks ago I was told he’d get me in a week or two and as the time passed it became a month to two months. It’s been over a month since i last held him or kissed him. It’s been 5 months since i last got to fall asleep listening to his heartbeat. There’s a lot of waiting when it comes to the military. I knew that going into this life with him, but i didn’t realize how difficult it’d be.
Missing him has became a normal thing for me. Every second of the day is filled with me wishing he was back in my arms again and not thousands of miles away. I live for the face time calls and the phone calls I get when he’s not busy. He seems to enjoy being away from home and loving being at his duty station, which i’m glad for. I’m glad he’s happy and enjoying his time there, it’s just difficult for me to be so far away from him.
It’s not the life I would’ve chosen for myself honestly, but it’s the life that comes with loving a hero.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
Military Blues 