This deployment the most interesting thing happened. First of all, about a year ago, one of my very best friends in the world (Andrea) moved to San Diego. With her, she brought her roommate from PT (Physical Therapy) School, and within a week of their arrival, Andrea's college roommate also moved here.
It was a complete and total coincidence that we all happened to be in San Diego at the same time. The joke was that Andrea had a friend in San Diego representing each stage of her life: childhood (ME), College (Sue), and Grad School (Kristen).
Around the time that Hubby deployed, Andrea broke up with her boyfriend, Sue's husband moved to the East Coast to pursue a job there, and Kristen (continued) her long distance relationship with her boyfriend. ANOTHER coincidence.
We came to name ourseleves MOY (Mourning Our Youth) and have had many drinks, laughs, and nights on the town together over the past several months. We've celebrated our birthdays, taken a weekend trip to San Francisco, obsessed over Twilight together, and shared our pain of being ALONE. It's so interesting how life brought us all together to share the tough times over the past many months. For me, personally, having those ladies here, has made a world of difference this deployment.
Last night, we went out to dinner at an awesome Fondue restaurant in La Jolla to celebrate our time together and to officially say "goodbye". You see, Kristen's boyfriend moved out to San Diego after Christmas, Sue is leaving at the end of the month to be with her husband on the East Coast, Andrea's boyfriend will most likely be moving out to San Diego by the end of February, and Me? Well, if all goes as planned, I should have my Hubby back in my life by the end of February also.
While we are all so excited to have our "Happy Endings", I think we are all a bit nostalgic too.
It just goes to show that God really does provide you with just exactly what you need to get through the tough times. In our case, he gave us each other.
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