Well, it has almost a been a month back at home now for me, and I seem to be settling in quite nicely. The transition from being a full-time soldier to a full-time husband hasn't been the easiest one, but I am making progress. The biggest problem? Feeling that I'm not pulling my fair share by sitting around not working. Mostly that has come from me being on the go day in and day out for as long as I can remember, even before the deployment. Before I left I was just finishing up my bachelor's degree, and then I went straight into training. Now, having this down time between coming off active duty and finding a job, is just hard adjust to. The good news, though, is that I hopefully will be working soon, as I am following up on a few job leads and landed my first interview for next week. I still plan on keeping a low profile until the first of the year to enjoy Christmas and New Year's.

Christy has been very supportive of me taking this time off to recover from being gone. She kind of gets aggravated at me whenever I start talking about not pulling my fair share and says I deserve it. Her view is that  I worked for 500-plus days in a row, and the days I did have off in that period, I was still at work anyway. She compared that to spending her days off from the paper in the break room, and tells me I should chill out already.

I guess all of this is part of the readjustment process. It's great to be back, and I'm excited about going back to work soon. I have a lot of good things to look forward to.

- Ryan

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