Why in the world am I doing this??

Well I must say the idea of blogging is quite intriguing and just about everybody and their brother keeps one. So why not me? I always have lots of thoughts during the day that I wish I wrote down.. and maybe now I will. I will admit I decided to write this while watching Julie and Julia. I saw how much it empowered her and I have now decided I am going to try this for myself. I am not exactly doing anything daring like she did, but just writing out my thoughts, ideas, and the like. I came up with the title "Marrying the Marine Corps, Dating the Army" because well I am joining the Marine Corps next year when I graduate from college and my boyfriend is in the Army. And as anyone who has a loved someone in the military, even if you aren't in it, it will control you somehow. It determines when you get to see your loved one and for how long. It decides where they go and when they will go. It also decides that as only a girlfriend I am not privileged enough to know if something should happen to him while he is overseas. A deployment consumes your life and it seems like you think about that person a million times more than when they were at home.

My name is Nicole and this is going to be my journal for the next 44 weeks. My boyfriend Jeremiah is deployed until next April (hopefully not longer). He deployed on April 6, 2010. Yesterday was 8 weeks of being without him. I never count the days, just the Tuesdays. It has been 8 Tuesdays since he left. I have decided to do this because well to be honest I have never been good at the pen and paper type of journal but I do enjoy putting my ideas and thoughts on papers. I am doing this too because Jeremiah once let me read his journal and this way he can. Anytime he likes he can read it.