DOD school here is raising money to go to Germany. The parents are e7-07. Yet are asking e1-e4 for donations. Greedy much????

My husband did not "pick" me up from the Caribbean and bring me here. I was actually in the U.S. attending grad school when we met. I never planned on remaining in the states--awesome as it is. In fact, part of the condition of me marrying him was the understanding that we are moving back to the island when he retires. So, please stop with the isufferable insinuations.

Fuck the state of Il. I found out if Im willed the family farm, the state can still take it from me bc Gma will be placed in a nursing home and gpa's insurance and Medicaid will be payin for it. The only loophole around it is if I was put in the will for land and everything on it 7 years ago, then the state cant take it, except I was young, dumb, and in high school then. If the state gets it then it sells to a dumb developer who tears the out buildins & house & we lose our hertiage, and puts up butt fugly butched up houses. I love that farm, its my second home. I cant get a loan to buy it.

If I had to describe my sex life according to a movie title it would be: High School Musical 20..i.e. NON Exsistent!

I'm in grad school while my husband's deployed. In a way it's good because I'm so busy with classes and assignments, but sometimes I feel so overwhelmed and all I want to do is call him up and vent - which is not a possibility. I'm not complaining, but I feel like no one REALLY understands what it's like. Or they try to brush it off, or say shit like, "I could NEVER do what you're doing!" Well thanks, friends. Anyways, whatever. Just a bummer I guess.

I am 28 years old, in bed having drank a bottle of red wine and crying because I hate my job so much. I have to force myself to get out of my car when I get there. I'm a 3rd grade public school teacher.

My husband spent the last week at work because we live 40mi. from base and he works 18 hour days. This weekend he wanted to spend time together, go out, things he never wants to do normally. However, I had to finish my finals for school this weekend. He was upset. He is spending this next week at work too and next weekend is my birthday weekend. I plan on spending it with my girlfriends. I hate to say it, but I really feel disconnected from him, physically and emotionally and I'm ok with it. I'm a horrible person for feeling that way but I am just not into him right now.

The hardest part of my husband being on an unaccompanied tour is, dealing with out child alone, all of the time. I can't wait for Tuesday, back to school he goes!

Bought a TV from amazon and the UPS guy tried to leave it at my door! It's a TV in a box that says what it is all over it! I'm sure no one would have had a problem picking up a brand new TV for free. Thank goodness I was home but I was so pissed when I opened the door an he was getting in his truck driving off. What if he came while I was picking my kid up from school? Probably would have been out a whole lot of money. Just pisses me off. The TV is awesome at least. Can't wait for DH to come home from the sandbox and check out his new toy

With the troop reductions we're getting nervous about DH's enlistment being up next year. He's putting in a package for another MOS but he's also researching possible careers and schooling just in case. I see friends whose husbands careers are on the chopping block and they're in denial. Wake up! They're kicking good Marines/sailors/airmen/soldiers out for stupid things or just not letting them re-up. Have a back up plan. After ten years with him in, I hope they don't take that away but if they do, we're going to do our best to be prepared; never hurts to have one just in case