Day 258: "Forever" Moves Slowly

It's crazy to think that it's day 258 and under normal circumstances, Tyler would still have a little over 100 days left.  I would have a little over 100 days left.  Darling Eisley would have a little over 100 days until she would have a daddy.

How much does that suck?!  It's rhetorical and it's not because, I'll tell you, it sucks a lot.

"Fortunately," he is getting to come home early.  Now, to get too, "Good for you," because to come home early he is foregoing R&R, which means he will be the ONLY person in the Brigade that didn't get R&R and he'll have had a 10 month deployment.

Air Force doesn't get R&R, but they have six month deployments.
Marines don't get R&R, but they have nine month deployments.
Army, starting next year, won't get R&R, but they'll have nine month deployments.

He's proud of what he does, so he's not as irrationally angry as I am about it.  I'm glad he is proud of what he does because otherwise, I imagine, it would be even more miserable to be away from all of half of what you love.

I think I slept wrong because my left trap and into my neck is so stabby painful.  It's been bugging me all day.  I may have to ask Dr. P for another injection on the 27th when I see him if it's still bad.  Though I'm hoping Kim will fix it Monday and all will be "well" again.

There really should have been a list of everything that's ever been "wrong" with me.  I would love to see it and be unbelievably exasperated by its sheer length.

I teach Zumba tomorrow, so I've been putting my playlist together and reviewing my routines to make sure I have them all in my brain.  I find it strange that I have 30+ routines in my head and yet I often have dreams of forgetting the moves in old Hyline dances.  I never had to know 30 dances at once.  I think it's safe to say that I probably wouldn't have forgotten any moves and that nerves are mean.

Speaking of nerves, I still get nervous teaching.  It is less so when I teach a crowd that is a bit more on my wavelength, but this crowd is not.  These women are more... conservative? I don't know... they're at least more conservative about doing many of the moves that are Zumba staples.  They're definitely older, by about 20-30 years.

I've made my routines simple enough to follow by taking out some unnecessary steps, but I can't, nor will I, remove all the booty shakin'.  I can't wait to teach my own classes of outgoing, crazy women. :)