Being away from home

This would make a good country song!

 

Social media helps me. Of course, that's a double edged sword because you see what you're missing which can contribute to the loneliness on bad days, but on the good days, you see what you're missing. A picture is worth a thousand words as the saying goes and with the rise of people posting more and more of their lives on one media platform or another, you can experience your family and friends lives while you're away and they can experience yours. Keeps your time away from being an empty void punctuated with the occasion phone call, like it was in the not too distant past

 

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There's 10 types of dogs that don't shed hair, but you should brush them weekly anyway.

Also Google : 10 Most Popular Dog Breeds That Don't Shed

 

Being away from home is fun until you've seen everything. Then you want to stab your eyes out driving past the arch for the 500000th time.

 

I am not sure what homesick is. I do get roadsick, when I am at home.

I was born with a gypsy soul and a bad case of Wanderlust, so life on the road suites me pretty well. My first foray from home was the Military, went to Basic and AIT from Sep to Dec then went home for a week, them went to Germany and did not get home for another two years. I think that kind of beat the homesickness out of me. There were those of us who went out and enjoyed our experience over there, and there were those who were barracks rats and just muddled through each day wishing they were somewhere else. We had more fun.

Now when I am at home, by the 5th day I am getting antsy, and by the 7th, I am raring to go. It helps to have a VERY understanding Girlfriend, who is busy in her own right and is not incredibly needy. I stay out about 6 weeks, then go home for a week. It has become almost a schedule. Gives me about 8 weeks off at home a year.

On the road I try to find things to occupy myself. I run hard so end up taking a 34 every few weeks or so as I am out of hours, or the opportunity presented itself. I try to make the most of those days. In Canton, I called a cab and went to the Football HOF. In Ontario, CA I rented a car and went to a Dodgers Game, and the beach. Things like that. Enjoy yourself out here. It won't last forever, make the most of it.

Yesterday I grilled some Steaks for dinner.

It doesn't have to be boring or monotonous out here, unless you let it become such. Don't be a barracks rat.

 

Ex wife is from Jersey... Most miserable 5 years of my life. The Alimony was money well spent to get rid of her.

 

LMAO

 

Ain't no different than being deployed for 6 months to a war zone. Except maybe less worry on opsec, oh and getting to call home more often, and having access to real running water, and flush toilets, and made to order food, and internet access, having to worry far less of an ied, or roadside ambush.

Yeah it's rough

 

I'm an Army brat. I don't know what homesick means.