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October 2005 - Posts

Inhale, exhale

I didn't realize I'd been holding my breath the entire time Ryan was in Iraq. But I guess I have been. The shock of a deployment is staggering. I remember clearly where I was the moment I found out he would have to go to Iraq. In Nashville, in March, Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:39 AM by ryanseals | 6 Comments

hot off the Sunday presses

Hey everybody, here is my latest from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, which ran last Sunday. There should be two more stories about coming home and our overall mission coming out soon as well. I’ll post them after they are printed. - Ryan Elections Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:24 PM by ryanseals | 2 Comments

United States at last

Hey all, I am back in the states in Camp Shelby, Miss., and it feels so great to be back in the United States. So many exciting things to come in the next week, and I just can't wait to get home to Tenn. to be with Christy and the rest of my family. I Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:21 PM by ryanseals | 2 Comments

Almost home!

Ryan's safe at Camp Shelby, Miss.! After a looooonnngggg flight, he's there, safe, back on U.S. soil, on the next-to-last leg of this long journey. I'm beyond words at this point. More to come later!!!!! AHHHH!! -- Christy Share this post: email it! | Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:42 AM by ryanseals | 4 Comments

Hallelujah!!!

I just figured out what the most beautiful sound in the world is. Hearing Ryan's voice on the phone, not from Iraq, but from Maine. The United States. Folks, he's almost home. -- Christy Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:54 PM by ryanseals | 5 Comments

Well said

"The Shawshank Redemption" is one of my favorite movies. The following is one of my favorite quotes, and I think, interpreted somewhat loosely, yet somewhat literally, it applies to our situation. Well really, it applies more appropriately to Ryan's. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:56 PM by ryanseals | 0 Comments

Not scared!!!!

Needless to say, it's been a long 18 months. Since the time Ryan's been gone, I've lived in three places and had two jobs (OK, one was an internship). I've sprouted five to seven gray hairs on my hairline. (Bastards, you're going down!) And I've probably Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:04 AM by ryanseals | 3 Comments

Another step for democracy

As you have probably read in the news, the constitution referendum voting was an overall success for the Iraqi people. From what I've heard thousands upon thousands of people came out to vote their opinion on the new Iraqi constitution draft around Tuz. Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 16, 2005 4:20 AM by ryanseals | 0 Comments

Once more, with feeling

I decided to move up this link about a soldier's account of a "ramp ceremony" for fallen service members in Afghanistan, just in case you didn't make it to the end of my long post earlier. -- Christy Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:57 PM by ryanseals | 0 Comments

And my long answer is ...

Hmmmmm. If I had to do it all over again, would I? That was the question Sarah asked in this post . I'm not sure exactly what it is that I could "do over". Go through the deployment with Ryan? The answer to that, of course, without question, is yes. There's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:19 PM by ryanseals | 3 Comments

Somebody get me a new bubble

It's really interesting, for me, to step outside the little bubble I've created for myself with this blog and my job and friends here and to see, well, how people perceive me in the outside world as a military wife. Recently, in some ways, it's been implied Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 3:58 PM by ryanseals | 8 Comments

I'm not sick but I'm not well, and it's so hard, because I'm in hell...

Ever had that feeling like you really don't want to do anything anymore? Feel burnt out, stressed, you know that genuine "blah! to the world" feeling? Well, I am now on lap 16 of this long deployment, and it feels as if all of that has caught up to me. Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 6:21 AM by ryanseals | 3 Comments

Pity Party of 1? Cheer up a bit!

I'm tired of being grumpy. So I thought I'd cheer myself (and maybe like, one of you readers) with a storybook tale** of Ryan's and my relationship. Thus ... here it goes . (**Note the pictures! Go me!) Once upon a time, there was a boy and a girl. When Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 5:23 PM by ryanseals | 9 Comments