So I never got the papers that M allegedly signed and sent in October. So I sent him a new packet as soon as I got here to Reno, and he received them in Kuwait, so I should be getting them back any time now.
I am still waiting on AmeriCorps and rumor is that a lot of acceptances will go out in January and some will go out in February as one campus does not begin until late February. I also applied to a State and National program (SN), Nevada Conservation Corps, as sort of a Plan B, which also begins in late February and is a six-month program. Guess I'm just really not wanting to do the average work-sleep-play-apartment-blah situation.
Depends on when I get the papers and consequently the divorce decree if I will be able to change my name back anytime soon. If it takes too long, I will be in/prepping for AmeriCorps already, and I'll have to stay E for a while (for ten months for NCCC or six for SN). Changing my name will probably be the final step of letting go. Physically, at least.
If AmeriCorps doesn't take me, I am really wanting to enlist in the Air Force. I'm sure many of you have heard this before, and I had 100% intentions to do it last time as well, but my recruiter was an idiot and it didn't seem like it was meant to happen at that time... and then I got married. Right now, it's just a matter of deciding whether to go Guard or active. I'd want to go active at some point anyways, so the reason I'd go Guard is to get my education first.
I'm not putting a lot of thought into Christmas this year, and it's a relief. It's still hard, though, thinking about this year in comparison to last, with M. And his best friend, of course, haha! M's friend came to all major holidays at our house!
I just realized the other night how my situation is strange here in Nevada. It would be more usual for me to have kids than to have been married so young and now divorced -- I feel like I stand out. Around Killeen, it's not at all unusual to be married very young, even 18 and I assume in some cases 17. So of course young divorces are nothing to be surprised by, either. Here in Nevada, though, more young women my age have kids than have been married. I don't know, just the other day I was thinking about this and it made me feel like a freak.
I am still waiting on AmeriCorps and rumor is that a lot of acceptances will go out in January and some will go out in February as one campus does not begin until late February. I also applied to a State and National program (SN), Nevada Conservation Corps, as sort of a Plan B, which also begins in late February and is a six-month program. Guess I'm just really not wanting to do the average work-sleep-play-apartment-blah situation.
Depends on when I get the papers and consequently the divorce decree if I will be able to change my name back anytime soon. If it takes too long, I will be in/prepping for AmeriCorps already, and I'll have to stay E for a while (for ten months for NCCC or six for SN). Changing my name will probably be the final step of letting go. Physically, at least.
If AmeriCorps doesn't take me, I am really wanting to enlist in the Air Force. I'm sure many of you have heard this before, and I had 100% intentions to do it last time as well, but my recruiter was an idiot and it didn't seem like it was meant to happen at that time... and then I got married. Right now, it's just a matter of deciding whether to go Guard or active. I'd want to go active at some point anyways, so the reason I'd go Guard is to get my education first.
I'm not putting a lot of thought into Christmas this year, and it's a relief. It's still hard, though, thinking about this year in comparison to last, with M. And his best friend, of course, haha! M's friend came to all major holidays at our house!
I just realized the other night how my situation is strange here in Nevada. It would be more usual for me to have kids than to have been married so young and now divorced -- I feel like I stand out. Around Killeen, it's not at all unusual to be married very young, even 18 and I assume in some cases 17. So of course young divorces are nothing to be surprised by, either. Here in Nevada, though, more young women my age have kids than have been married. I don't know, just the other day I was thinking about this and it made me feel like a freak.
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