I don't wanna sound cliche or anything. But Mondays tend to either be blah or complete suck fest for me. Today, it's basically suck fest.
And I blame Saturday.
Yeah, I really do. Today wouldn't suck if I hadn't REALLY been hit by the fact that my little brother was getting deployed today. So today, I'm waiting for the reality that Nathan HAS BEEN deployed.
I know some of those reading this have had friends and family be deployed. I have also. This isn't altogether new to me. My other "little brother" got deployed almost two years ago (is back now) - a Marine in Afghanistan. And no offense to Nathan, but this kid said, "Yeah, National Guard in Iraq is pretty much pussy shit compared to what I did." Granted, a large part of why he said it that way was to comfort me 'cause I had just found out and wasn't too thrilled with the idea. But, I'm glad. 'Cause it's comforting me now.
Something I did not know on Saturday when it hit me is that Nathan won't actually be leaving the US until the end of June. And then he's in Kuwait before Iraq. And during all of these location changes, he'll have a few days where he'll have phone and internet access. So, in the long run... Not really that huge of a deal...
That's not to say it's not going to be hard and it's not going to suck. We haven't been that close for about 3 years anyhow. But, it's just weird. It's one thing when I can just randomly decide to talk to him and get in touch with him. Now, if that happens, I won't really be able to get in touch with him. At least for a while.
And what's weirder - I'll meet his first kid before he does. That is one thing I never expected... But what can you do?
Basically, all this to say... it's weird. Life is weird. And I don't like that his actual deployment was on a Monday.
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