Sorry Jess

Sorry Jess but the countdown I have on the side of my blog is no longer a countdown to your birthday. Yes, the Navy has delayed Lee getting out. Fortunately, it is only by 1 day (so far). It is still just an annoyance. One of MANY we have endured over the last few years.

However, it probably doesn't rank in the "Top 5 Ways We've Been Boned by the Navy":

5. From April of this year until mid-August, (when Lee gets out) the ship will only be in Norfolk for 5 weekends. (One of which Lee had to work.) That means that Lee and I only get to see each other 4 times in 4.5 months.

4. The Navy not letting Lee get out early because he would miss a pointless trip to Rhode Island. This is basically because the ship's XO (executive officer) wanted to look tough in front of the new captain.

3. Cancelling the ship's port visit to Canada, causing us to eat the cost of 2 plane tickets (for my mom & I) to meet the ship in Canada. Cost: $1,000.

2. Extending Lee's deployment by a month to 8 months, causing us to pay a month of rent down in Norfolk even though neither of us were living there yet. Cost: $1,300.

1. Moving Lee's deployment back a month and lengthening it to 7 months, forcing us to move our wedding from May 5th, 2007 to September 16th, 2006. Yeah, that's 8 months earlier. That was a lil' stressful. Plus, not knowing until he was on his flight home IF he would even make it back for the wedding. Cost: Unknown. Probably years off of my life.