Here’s some REALLY bad fairy-tale writing for you all today. Sitting on hold, being hungry, worrying about hubby, feeling tired and icky – all equal completely useless writings:
Once upon a time
In a land far, far away
There lived a princess
Whose prince was in a land
Many leagues hence
She would get word
From him daily
On how he was doing and
What was happening.
And then suddenly there was nothing
And she was sad.
There is a Jamaican quote, I am sure, regarding getting used to something only to have it taken away suddenly … now if I could only remember it.
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Sometime last week was, apparently, the Miss Universe 2010 pageant. Twitter was a-buzz with it and to some extent so was my Facebook friends list. I have to admit that my interest in beauty contests remains limited to a brief stint back in 1993 when an old high school and music classmate of mine not only secured the Miss Jamaica World title, but went on to win the Miss World title as well.
I have never been a fan of beauty contests. They have always seemed to me to be more along the lines of “noise”.
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23 Aug 2010 at 14:22
Camille
military-spouse
military-spouse musings
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Whilst I was preparing for this deployment, I stumbled upon many situations where people would bitch about things that seemed really trivial and anal. Little by little, however, I am realizing that you really can’t know what it’s like until you are in the situation.
I should know this lesson by now … I’ve found myself on the inside AND outside of this concept so many times that it should be perfectly obvious to me by now.
The one that struck me today was a comment by a military spouse with a non-deployed husband. She missed her husband – she commutes to a neighbouring state to work whilst he remains back home to work. I couldn’t help but feel as resentful as the bitchy army wife I read about on the MilSpouse website forums so many months ago. I really felt like saying “I bet he’s stateside though, eh?” or maybe a little more nasty with a “Be thankful he’s not half a world away”. It’s amusing since I believe these were the EXACT same sentiments that that wife on the forums was expressing. Amusing because back then I was muttering whilst I read and saying, “Chill out! The whole world is not defined by you and your deployed husband.” …
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18 Aug 2010 at 21:48
Camille
personal
introspection misanthropy personal
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Today was my birthday. I don’t usually like telling people, and I get all blushy and stuff when I get that kind of attention. My Facebook page was aglow today. It makes me uncomfortable, but even if I hide my birthday, someone who already knows it will say something and then the whole world will know.
It was a damned good thing Mom and Dad were here though because I started out the day weepy. Hubby called first thing (of course) and that started me off. It’s really tough, you know, this separation. It’s not like when we were separated back in the early days – me in Jamaica and he here. Then, when it got too tough to bear, we’d work out some finance magic, I’d hop a plane and we’d have a week or 2 of glorious togetherness. This separation … is solidly concrete. There will be no more visits period until he returns at the end of his tour, and the best communication we have is a half-hearted internet connection to talk over.
I know – some people don’t even have that, and I get that … but there is always something or someone worse off … and right now I am talking about us.
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12 Aug 2010 at 06:31
Camille
personal
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Thanks a very good friend, BorderFX and Aperture is making me look like a bonafide amateur photographer again. 
