Really, How BLONDE can you be??? December 27, 2008

Apparently, I can be pretty blonde. Even if all the natural blonde in my hair faded about a decade ago, and the bleach is what keeps me out of my mousy hair color. I am definitely a blonde, with really blonde moments.

So my hubby is active duty. He left a few months back with a few months left to go. We have known about this deployment and its “tentative” dates since we reported to this ship over 3 years ago. You get check lists, and reminders. People ask you a million times if you taken care of this or finished that. One of the things at the top of the list. When does your id expire? Well for me, that would be the 9th of this month. Nice one!

You would think that I was a newbie. That this was my 1st cruise. I roll my eyes at these women with their rookie question’s at the spouses support group meetings. Can my husband get a better dinner time? Why can’t I be guaranteed when he will get off the ship? Someone’s sitters, mothers, cousin’s, dad said that I was allowed to call the ship. And so on and so fourth. But really, I let my id expire? What more of a rookie mistake can you make?

I had told Wes before he deployed it was going to expire. I must have told him 100 times. We even went to base to take care of some other forms at Navy legal before he left. As we departed the base we pulled in to PSD to get it renewed. When I said, “Oh no it doesn’t expire till December of ’09, lets not wait lets go ahead and go”. That would be that the id reads 2008Dec09. Guess me and my dyslexic self decided that actually meant 2009.

So needless to say, 1 email to an Ombudsmen, 2phione calls to friends who’s husbands check their emails more often then mine, 1 call to a girl friend who almost had to renew hers without her husband, I think I know exactly what I need to get a new one. Apparently that nice little POA is good for more then just checking my son in at the CDC.

So Wednesday after my video conference with Wes I will take a short little jaunt over the id office and hopefully be told I have everything I need and get a new one. Since nothing in the military works this way, I will not hold my breath!