Well, I Did Marry A Sailor

Well, It's official. Brandon is going to be deploying to Iraq in February. I have been holding off on actually saying anything to everyone until we knew for sure. He will be gone for about 6 or so months and as soon as I have an address for him I will share it. Joey and I will be staying here in Misawa. As to where exactly in Iraq Brandon is going...I have no clue. What is he going to be doing...again, no clue. I just know he is going and I know two of the wives from the group he is going with.

I'm not sure just how I feel about this. We came to Misawa following 6ish years on sea duty (hey, even when the ship was in dry dock, it was still sea duty) and a year of a unaccompanied tour with Brandon in Bahrain. This is our shore duty. That is technically supposed to mean he stays here....on shore! I think the hardest part of this deployment is going to be that I am in Japan. When Brandon went to Bahrain I was in Virginia but I knew if anything bad happened my family was only a 3 or 4 hour flight away. When everything did fall apart, our families were there for us immediately. Now I am a 14 hour flight and a 9 hour train ride away.

Please keep our little family in your prayers while we get ready for this deployment an that Brandon will be safe while he is gone.

Mmmmmmmm!

Yesterday I dragged my way through the icy parking lot into my building, freezing int he 26 degree weather, I kept muttering to myself "I hate snow. I hate snow. I HATE SNOW!" I've been feeling a bit blue for awhile and the snow just makes it all worse. In December, for the first 20 days, we had a whole 18 inches of snow. Not that big of a deal for people who like snow. I'm not one of them. Then, between the 21st and the 31st, Misawa's snow total went to 58 inches!!! That is 40 inches in 10 days. I hate snow.

Anywho...That's not what the post is about...just setting the mood.

I made my way through the icy parking lot without breaking another hip and stumbled into the most beautiful thing in the world, or at least mine right now. A box of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. I guess a couple had just returned from Tokyo and brought back 2 dozen glazed doughnuts. I stopped dead in my tracks, my moth gaping wide, and just stood there like an idiot.

We just can't get good old American glazed doughnuts here. We can get the cake type ones but even those are topped with something strange usually. On my recent trip back to the states, even in the midst of a hurricane, I found my way to some glazed doughnuts. I was a little obsessive in my pursuit of them, practically running over some volunteer fire fighter that thought she had authority over who could and could not get into the doughnut parking lot, but I got them. On my return trip I did not attempt to get to the one and only Krispy Kreme in Tokyo, I just wanted to get home. After a minute of standing there looking like an idiot, I excused myself and went up the stairs to my apartment.

But then!!!!!

Someone knocks on the door and when I open it I find a man there standing with a ziplock bag containing a Krispy Kream Doughnut. Then couple that had brought them back with them remembered me from when they first moved in to our building and he said I really helped them out when they got here but I don't remember them in particular....I try and help all our neighbors when they move in. Well, they decided to give me one of the doughnuts!!!!

Sweet Brandon didn't even want me to share it with him. I locked myself in my bedroom (so Joey wouldn't see it) and slowly devoured my doughnut. There are so many little things we can't get here in Misawa and a few of them, like glazed doughnuts, really can't be mailed to us. But this couple truly made my day...all with a little doughnut.