Dear so- and so

Dear USAF,
Thank you for all of the things you have given us as a young married couple, Like 3 moves in 3 years.  Healthcare that we wouldn't be able to afford otherwise.  A place to live, and electricity.  Friends from all over the world, and all the other wonderful things.  On the other side of that; Why?  Why are you sending Aaron to Korea Again?  Why are you giving us a year together a year apart a year together and another year apart?  I feel like I'm being punished for being so darn happy these past few months.  Secondly, this time moving back home isn't really an option since there will be so many new little babies around.  That means we won't be able to save a bunch of money this time and will probably actually lose money.  Thanks...Thanks a lot.
Hating you,  Chelsie


Dear Mom,
 I am so sorry to hear about your recent fall and the stitches you had to recieve,  I'm praying for a quick and easy recovery.  I love you!
Love, Your favorite Daughter


Dear Work,
Thanks for providing a nice distraction, I really enjoy working and staying out of the house, you could not have come at a better time.  I am also happy for the little bit of extra money, although right now it is going to a few small debts, I'll take any hours you have for me.
Content with my job, Chelsie


Dear Non-existent friends,
Hi there, In case you had forgotten I'm still around, just not as much as I used to be.  I know that you have other things going on and I understand that sometimes the holidays make it hard to be around, but I wish you would call or text me just to let me know you still care.  I know most of you are just happy that it isn't your husband going to Korea, and I get that, I just wish you would be a bit more there for me.
A little lonely,  Me

Dear so and so, about the holidays

Dear Holidays,

This year I am back with my husband but I'm far far away from my family.  Please stop trying to rush us.  I love you and it's okay to take plenty of time.  I am super excited about making a whole thanksgiving this year including a turkey.  And then there will be a whole month devoted to Christmas, don't go rushing Christmas I love the baking of thanksgiving.
Love me



Dear Husband,

I am sorry that we are on opposite schedules right now, but I am very excited about getting a job.  Please be supportive and help out around the house.  I won't be here 24 hours a day now, and you will have to learn to put clothes in the bin, and put dishes in the washer, and trash in the can.  This isn't rocket science I know your mom didn't follow you around throwing everything away for you and I won't be doing it anymore either.
Love your wonderful wife



Dear Creative Juices,

Thank you for flowing again, I am so excited to be writing again,  I love feeling like I am finally doing what I was meant to do.  Please don't stop.  I will feed you chocolate, and give you a massage if you want me to, just don't desert me for so long again.  It was hard feeling like I couldn't get past the road block in my mind.
Love the writer in me


Dear Back,

I hate you!  That's right, if I never had to use you again it would be too soon.  I am tired of the muscle spasms, the crunching and popping, and feeling in general like you are going to give out at any time.  I am only 22 and this is completel unaccaptable.  Do you understand me?  Get into shape or I will be having them fuse you...I know you don't want that so please give me a break.
Love your owner


Dear Family,

I know you don't want to feel like you are crowding me, but you have my number.  Please feel free to call me.  Even if it is just to talk...I miss you guys.
Love your Sister, Daughter, Aunt, Grand daughter

Aww wait. No way. She didn't just say what I think she did. Did she?

I'll admit it.  I am a total geek.  Completely and unrepentently nerdy.  I cannot help it.  My cat is named after a character on Battlestar Galactica... That's right go look that up real quick.  I'll wait.



You see?  A total geek right?  I've never been ashamed of that fact, I read Fanfiction.  I tell totally corny jokes.  I laugh outloud at thoughts in my head.  It doesn't bother me, in fact I rarely even explain to people anymore, often times they don't get what's so funny.

I was raised in such a large and loving family that I'm socially akward.  It's okay.  I've accepted it.  I have on multiple occasions (okay like 100 times at least)  laughed so hard I cried with any given family member.  My younger brother J and I were once coming home from getting some icecream for the family and we got to laughing about selling Pots at the Stop sign and we were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe...it seemed perfectly logical to roll down the windows...to get air?  That's right we are driving into the neighborhood with the windows down fanning air into our faces trying to breathe.  We are weird like that.

My Mom and I have both laughed so hard we have peed on ourself...Sorry Mom I'll tell my story if you don't mind me telling yours.

My parents run a firework tent each year, and one year we had one in a walmart parking lot, only it wasn't open 24 hours.  It closed at 12 and opened at 6 so if you had to pee during those hours...tough luck.  Well one night me, N and J were staying there with my Step Dad BU.  We really needed to go to the bathroom and had been waiting for at least 2 hours for the walmart to open and when it opened we headed to the store just the three of us kids.  We were at the very back of this huge parking lot, a war could have happened in this lot, it was huge.  We start walking and my sister N sees a cart tipped over on it''s side, so she walks over and tries to pick it back up to take down with us.  Tries being the operative word, she was in 6th grade and about the size of a toothpick.  So here she is struggling to pick this thing up and I start laughing, and soon I'm crying because I start peeing and can't stop...I peed so much I soaked my shorts, undies, and socks and shoes...gross.  I laughed the whole way into walmart where BU had given me some money to pick out a change of clothes.  The point is family will put up with weird crap.  My family will probably put up with about 10 times more weird crap then a normal family, and because of that I don't have a filter.

If I think something is stupid I usually say as much.  If I have an opinion I will share it without being asked.  It isn't that I mean to pry and be "rude" according to social norms.  It's just that I was raised by a big southern baptist family in the south...we overshare.  We say "bless her heart" and gossip to our hearts content.  I know this means that many people are "put off" by me at some point in knowing me.  I guess this is just to say that I have come to terms with me.  No matter how many times we move, how many friendships I gain and lose over time, my family will always accept me, because they know I do it because I care.  I am fiercely loyal and I would do anything to help a friend. 


I just need people to put up with my quirks, and know that if I say something that's over a comfort line, just tell me.  I will always apologize if you let me know it was too far, and I will try to better about keeping my opinion to myself next time.  Thanks for putting up with me guys.

Dear So and So

Dear Back,


I know I didn't take my muscle relaxer at all yesterday because I was feeling so good, and I continued to feel good all day so I didn't take it again, but I really don't think its fair for you to totally lock up on me like I'm Emily Rose before her exorcism. I am trying to make it through the day without a nap, but you have made it PAINFULLY clear that I'm not allowed to skip doses...I get it

Love Your owner



Dear Ovaries,

I know that four of my sisters are pregnant and...I get it. Yes DH and I have been married for 3 wonderful years. However we have decided to wait until things are more financially stable, and we are closer to family to start trying to have children. Please stop trying to strangle me every time I see a baby...I know they are cute, I know I love children of all ages and have wanted kids my whole life, but I am still young and can afford to wait a few years...or five. Please stop sending out enough hormones to make me think drinking the water might get me pregnant okay?

Love me who is only 22 still



Dear Mom,

I love you. You are amazing and because of you I am the envy of all the guys DH works with. Your homemade chicken pot pie recipe is so good that DH practically kissed my feet when I made it tonight, I am so glad you let me hang around in the kitchen all the time when I was young. Your patience is amazing, and I am grateful now that I'm older

Love your very happy Daughter



Dear DH,

Thank you for all of the ego boosting tonight after dinner, after such a crappy day having you raving about dinner really did make my night. I love you.

Love your tired wife

Dear New Boss

Dear Aarons new boss, I know that Aaron isn't a part of your AMU, because his got deployed less than a month after he got here and those that were left behind got "integrated" into yours, and because of that all of them have been given crap jobs or shifts because you feel like they "deserve" it for not being deployed to Korea. Aaron just got back from 13 months in Korea, he did nothing to deserve having his shifts changed not once but twice in two weeks, from the fantastic day shift to the less than fantastic swing shift, and then now to the dreadful midshift. I understand you feel the need to "squeeze" these guys into the shifts that "need" people, but what about putting the single guys that would love to be able to stay up all night on the weekends into these shifts, instead of the guys who have wives????

Dear Tricare

Dear Tricare,

Thanks for the run around, when someone is experiencing, numbness, tingling, fatigue, dizziness and any other number of symptoms, I'm sure protocol is to give them more red tape than they thought imaginable. I really appreciate not being able to see someone until november, and not being able to get the tests that I need without having everyone and their mom approve it. What's better, is that I live an hour from every single doctor you have referred me to, and gas is getting pretty expensive, wouldn't it be cheaper for you to approve a one day free for all, so I can get some answers and you can quit having to file all that paperwork? I'm just guessing here, but I'm sure the thinking behind all this is that it will weed out the people who don't really need treatment, But once a person proves that they are willing to go through all this, can't you offer some way to make it easier on the sick person? No? Okay then, I guess we will keep dancing this tango until I get some answers.