Day 230: Making Deployment Count... Well as best I can

So tonight I realized that I have about 4 1/2 months left of this deployment. That is a good thing!..... Mostly. I am happy that time is passing and that I am getting closer to being reunited with my husband again.... Check that, I am ecstatic that I am only 4 1/2 months away from him coming home. The only bummer (and I use that term very lightly) is that I feel like I have not accomplished what I wanted to this deployment and having only 4 1/2 months left does not give me enough time to do so.

When the deployment started, I thought I would be able to get back on track with eating healthier. I figured once I got settled here, I would work on making myself healthier again. I did it two summers ago when Ian was gone for trainings off and on, and I did really well at it. So, I figured I would be able to do it again, this time with a whole year to get some progress made. Well, I kept putting it off and putting it off (you know the "I will start tomorrow" way of thinking). Now, here I am with only 4 1/2 months left, and I have not changed much until just recently. I am not doing as well as I was last time, but I am slowly making changes.

Money wise I had hoped to be doing better. I had hoped that I would have a lot of money saved up or a lot of debt paid off. Well, that hasn't happened either. Any "extra" money we were making from the deployment is going to paying for the phone calls and internet from Afghanistan. It is also going to packages and various other wants/needs that my husband has over there as well as helping to take care of his soldiers. We just haven't really made a lot of extra money. All the money I have made so far has gone into catching up on bills and paying for Christmas/birthdays. Now, with 4 1/2 months left, we are just now starting to pay off bills. We will not be making as big of a dent in our debt as I wanted (mostly I was hoping to have my student loans paid off), but something is better than nothing.

While I have not done all that I wanted to just yet, I know that I still have some time to go. I also know that my first goal of making it through the deployment is still to have something for my husband to come home to, which I am on target for.

Working towards my goals and the homecoming one step at a time, one day at a time.