In our past deployments I have said goodbye from home. Never had I had to opportunity to be there when those white buses pulled away. So this was a whole new experience for both of us. Ill save you the boring details of the day, which included breakfast burritos, packing and a lot of sitting on the couch watching TV. A massive number of the Marines in our squadron have never deployed before. I am just a small percentage that not only have done this before but more then once. We sat around in the parking lot for about an hour or so just people watching. I held it together rather well (I think) I didnt start to sniffle till he left for the armory, but everyone was crying at that point. I hung around to see him walk to the bus then to watch it leave, then I got in the car, and went home. That's when reality hit me.... the fact that I will be living alone for the next 6 -9 months with out my best friend. And I started to cry. Luckily I HAD to pull myself together cause I had daycare pick ups and drop off to tend to when I got home a bottle of wine and it was Thursday which means its spaghetti night. Spaghetti helps. Wine helps. Trashy TV helps.
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