Four months down. Maybe three to go...we still don't know for sure.
Two more weeks will mark one year for us. A year with half of the first eight months spent apart. And a deployment during the last four.
In some ways, it's been a very rough year. I've gone through a lot of changes...first, losing my job, and not knowing what to do. Then getting my shit together to finally take the GRE, and start looking at grad schools. At the same time, finding a new recruiter and taking the Aviation Standard Test Battery. Both very long processes, and a lot of uncertainty along the way. Unemployment didn't help anything. Finally, moving across the country to a state I'd never even visited, to start graduate studies at a university I knew almost nothing about.
The most important change in my life, however, was last October. A completely out-of-character decision led me to a concert, where I met the man who really is my other half. In all the craziness that's gone on in my life since then, he's been there for me, though sometimes more figuratively as his job has called him away. I feel like I could write for days about everything he means to me, but at the same time I don't know any words that could come close to communicating everything I feel. I always have to settle for the old cliches, but they seem to say it best anyways.
In spite of the rough patches, it's definitely been the best year of my life. And once he's home (and home for good!), it will just get better.
I can hardly wait :)
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