Well....it's been an interesting day to say the least.

Let me begin by saying I either have terrible luck or wonderful luck most days...today I had terrible luck.

Back in January, I filed an insurance claim with verizon but, because they didn't have any blackberry storm 2's in-stock, they sent me an "equivilent" instead. They assured me it had global capabilities like the storm 2 though. Well, today we made a trip to verizon to switch phones (so he has one that will actually work in afghanistan) and they informed me that it does in fact, not have global capabilies. Fantastic. Naturally, I burst into tears and went outside to calm down...(thankfully Ronnie's still here and he calmed me down). My only option was to file ANOTHER insurance claim and get one overnighted....well that's not going to work for us. Basically, we were told that they couldn't do anything for us. This is the part where I call Ronnie's mom crying my eyes out not knowing what to do. I feel bad now that I know she was in the middle of closing a house....I'm sure a hysterical daughter-in-law probably doesn't leave a good impression on the clients. :) Anyway, she said not to worry about it and that she'll buy him a new phone to take with him. Long story short, I calmed down and we bought a new phone....and no it probably wasn't just the phone that made me cry. I haven't cried over deployment in a long time and I'm sure I was overdue...

On a different note, if anyone wishes to sent Ronnie letters/emails/care packages, please give me a call or email me at argallagher@live.com and I'll get you his address. Ronnie will only be using his phone for emergencies from now on because it's pretty expensive to both text and make phone calls. I'll be posting a wish list on my next blog, just in case anyone is wondering.

If you didn't know, during his OSUT training (BCT & AIT combined) we wrote to each other as often as possible and saved the letters. I literally wrote to him every single day, including Sundays, so he got two letters put in the mail on Monday :). He didn't get to write as often but you better believe that I knew exactly what time our mail was delivered. Sometimes, I even sat on the steps, waiting for the mailman to come. Anyway, after he came home I put together a huge binder with all our letters (by date) and included all the greeting cards and pictures he got. (Oh, and HANDS DOWN, I'd grab that binder first if there was a fire...well right after our dog ;) ). During the deployment, we plan on doing the same thing. He'll be out on missions a lot so we may do more emailing instead of written letters but I'm going to continue the binder--because SOMEDAY all this army stuff will indeed end and this is our way of remembering how we felt. We will be starting on our letters tomorrow! In addition, he's going to sit in front of the camcorder and leave me a message that I can replay over and over again :).

Well, it's time for me to go relax with my other half :) I'll write again soon!