Let me just say from the beginning, that if the rest of 2007 is going to continue the way it has traveled today, then I will go down and check into a special room, put on my special white coat with the shiny buckles, and save my loved ones the hassle of doing it themselves.
First I start out doing a good deed. I went to help a friend who got a flat tire. On the way home, my mom calls and askes me to go with her and my nephews to get their hair cut. I tell her to give me 45mins. She works overnights, has had no sleep, is watching 18month and 3 yr old boys, who wont take a nap, and she is stressed out. Then tells me that I help everyone else, but not her. Which in the past two weeks I have given her a ride to work twice due to blizzards, and dug her car out twice so that she could get around town.
Second, my landlord deceids to yell at his nephew, out in front of my house, threatening him with a shovel, with the neighbors a half a block away yelling at him to shut the hell up.
Third, I get home and check my email for a communication from my husband, who is currently in Iraq, who should have called or emailed me by now. What I did get in my email, was a letter from the Company Commander's Wife, telling us that 2 soldiers, in my husband's mechanic only Company, have been wounded. One seriously, and one not seriously. The families have been contacted, but they cannot tell us any more than that.
When those things happen there is a communication Black out, no incoming or out going mail, email, or phone calls. So now all I can wait for is a communication from my husband as soon as the Black Out is lifted.
So, yes I have had an emotionally draining day, and I have NEVER had a New Year's start out like this on the first day. I have heard stories and thought to myself how bad could it be? Now I know.
