Little update...
I've been doing ok, considering.....
The hubby called me again today to let me know he was about to fly from kuwait to his assigned base in Iraq.
Being able to actually hear his voice truly makes a world of difference. For the first week he was gone I hadn't heard form him at all. I started to freak out because my other army wife pals told me that they already heard from their hubby's. Turns out he had a different training regimen and wasn't released for the day until lights out. Finally got my first call form him last saturday (not this past one, the one before). Since then I've gotten two more calls, the other being earlier this evening. I can't imgaine how much harder it's going to be when he's been gone a few months. I won't be able to see him for 6 or 7 months until he gets two weeks of R&R before he goes back.
Isaac is doing good, and Isabella is gaining weight FAST. She's already up to 10 lbs. I on the other hand, have been losing quite a bit. yay. but also nay. I've dropped 7 pounds this past week and I don't think that's healthy. The crappy thing is I'm still happy about it, and unfortunately it's all to easy for me to relapse. My heart can't take another round of that shit, so my early new years resolution is to stay above 100.
I'm not quite sure how I feel at this point on a whole. I had bad post-partum with Isaac, and I was expecting the worst, especially with everything going on. But thankfully, I've been doing pretty good. My ups have been surreal, and my downs have been...short lived and completely normal to the situation of which they've applied. I mean yeah, there are a few things I'm stressing over, definately, but over all, I think I'm in a good place. I'm feeling anxious, but I'm not feeling down, which is good. I'm hoping I stay in this neutral mentallity. I suppose the most adequate way to describe how I' ve been feeling is...awkward?
In other areas of my life... I'm trying to stay very busy as I said I would. Right now I'm looking into a community college nearby Nate's parents' (where I will be staying til the summer). I'd like to take a break from my nursing curriculum and look into phlebotomy. If I decide to pursue it, I will be a licensed phlebotomist by the end of may. After that I'll continue on with the normal school year.
This is exactly what I did when I was going to the UofA and got my EMT certification aside from attending school there, and it worked out well for me. I've also realized that I have many other options should I decide to choose a different path. It would take me only a semester to get an associate's in arts and sciences, but it would be useless unless I pursued a full paramedic career. To do that would take me ten more months, but it is tempting. I'd like to do it all, and that's my problem. I have only a year left before I can become a nurse but I still want to go off and explore these other things. Granted, they are all great supplements for either career I choose, I feel I need to stick to one thing for now. I'd like to do the phlebotomy thing regardless, because sticking patients is part of the job either way, and I want to be good at what I do.
Education aside, I've found a new hobby thanks to my sister in-law, though I have to admit, it is the epitome of dorkdom. I've become involved in the SCA. If you don't know what that is, think, nerdy history buffs embracing mideival life (the fun parts of it). People meet up to plan out things for the events they have, to learn crafts and recreations of the day, from belly dancing, to making 14th century garb, fencing, heavy combat (full armor, weapons etc.) jousting, theatre and such. Really anything you can think of associated with those time periods, even leather working and armory.
Meetings take place a couple times a week around here, but you don't have to go every time. Like, wednesdays are training nights for fighting. Then they have events and such whenever...
I'm currently learning heavy combat, and yes, it hurts. But despite the fact that now, and probably for quite some time until I'm decent at it, I will be getting the shit beat out of me by big burly men twice my size, with rattan swords and wooden axes, it is amazingly fun, and great at reducing tension. Am I crazy? perhaps... but that's what nifty knight helmets and chest plates are for. Speaking of which, I need a full set of armor that I can call my own. Unfortunately, this will be expensive. I will have to have mine custom made due to my size, or more so, lack of it. Our "kingdom" has a couple excellent female fighters (Ithough I've yet to meet any of them personally) that have been at it quite awhile, so I have full confidence that I'll do all right. But for now, I'll have to suck it up and take the bruises with the ass beatings.
So umm...that's all I've got for now, and yeah, it's cool, you can totally make fun of me now, haha.
I've been doing ok, considering.....
The hubby called me again today to let me know he was about to fly from kuwait to his assigned base in Iraq.
Being able to actually hear his voice truly makes a world of difference. For the first week he was gone I hadn't heard form him at all. I started to freak out because my other army wife pals told me that they already heard from their hubby's. Turns out he had a different training regimen and wasn't released for the day until lights out. Finally got my first call form him last saturday (not this past one, the one before). Since then I've gotten two more calls, the other being earlier this evening. I can't imgaine how much harder it's going to be when he's been gone a few months. I won't be able to see him for 6 or 7 months until he gets two weeks of R&R before he goes back.
Isaac is doing good, and Isabella is gaining weight FAST. She's already up to 10 lbs. I on the other hand, have been losing quite a bit. yay. but also nay. I've dropped 7 pounds this past week and I don't think that's healthy. The crappy thing is I'm still happy about it, and unfortunately it's all to easy for me to relapse. My heart can't take another round of that shit, so my early new years resolution is to stay above 100.
I'm not quite sure how I feel at this point on a whole. I had bad post-partum with Isaac, and I was expecting the worst, especially with everything going on. But thankfully, I've been doing pretty good. My ups have been surreal, and my downs have been...short lived and completely normal to the situation of which they've applied. I mean yeah, there are a few things I'm stressing over, definately, but over all, I think I'm in a good place. I'm feeling anxious, but I'm not feeling down, which is good. I'm hoping I stay in this neutral mentallity. I suppose the most adequate way to describe how I' ve been feeling is...awkward?
In other areas of my life... I'm trying to stay very busy as I said I would. Right now I'm looking into a community college nearby Nate's parents' (where I will be staying til the summer). I'd like to take a break from my nursing curriculum and look into phlebotomy. If I decide to pursue it, I will be a licensed phlebotomist by the end of may. After that I'll continue on with the normal school year.
This is exactly what I did when I was going to the UofA and got my EMT certification aside from attending school there, and it worked out well for me. I've also realized that I have many other options should I decide to choose a different path. It would take me only a semester to get an associate's in arts and sciences, but it would be useless unless I pursued a full paramedic career. To do that would take me ten more months, but it is tempting. I'd like to do it all, and that's my problem. I have only a year left before I can become a nurse but I still want to go off and explore these other things. Granted, they are all great supplements for either career I choose, I feel I need to stick to one thing for now. I'd like to do the phlebotomy thing regardless, because sticking patients is part of the job either way, and I want to be good at what I do.
Education aside, I've found a new hobby thanks to my sister in-law, though I have to admit, it is the epitome of dorkdom. I've become involved in the SCA. If you don't know what that is, think, nerdy history buffs embracing mideival life (the fun parts of it). People meet up to plan out things for the events they have, to learn crafts and recreations of the day, from belly dancing, to making 14th century garb, fencing, heavy combat (full armor, weapons etc.) jousting, theatre and such. Really anything you can think of associated with those time periods, even leather working and armory.
Meetings take place a couple times a week around here, but you don't have to go every time. Like, wednesdays are training nights for fighting. Then they have events and such whenever...
I'm currently learning heavy combat, and yes, it hurts. But despite the fact that now, and probably for quite some time until I'm decent at it, I will be getting the shit beat out of me by big burly men twice my size, with rattan swords and wooden axes, it is amazingly fun, and great at reducing tension. Am I crazy? perhaps... but that's what nifty knight helmets and chest plates are for. Speaking of which, I need a full set of armor that I can call my own. Unfortunately, this will be expensive. I will have to have mine custom made due to my size, or more so, lack of it. Our "kingdom" has a couple excellent female fighters (Ithough I've yet to meet any of them personally) that have been at it quite awhile, so I have full confidence that I'll do all right. But for now, I'll have to suck it up and take the bruises with the ass beatings.
So umm...that's all I've got for now, and yeah, it's cool, you can totally make fun of me now, haha.
SCA sounds interesting.
ciao
Juno