How To Survive a Deployment

I've discovered that giving in to my obsessive compulsive tendencies while Zac is away has really helped me feel a lot more in control of our situation. I cleaned my room in Pittsburgh and, now that I'm moving back home with my parents this coming weekend, I cleaned my bedroom at home and got rid of a lot of things that I definitely should have let go a long time ago. It was a long overdue clean and purge. And now that I've finished that task, I feel so much more in control of everything. I know that I can't have my man with me physically and that I can't talk to him as much as I'd like, but I CAN control how my drawers are organized. I can ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple) my clothing, especially my tee shirts and panties and bras. I can fold everything a certain way and put everything away at my own pace. I can fold my panties how I do when I'm at work. And my bra drawer is immaculate. Anyways, so now that I feel so empowered just by cleaning one part of my life, I plan on cleaning my car until it's spotless (except for Zac's sock in the backseat... that will never ever leave), helping my mom clean the loft, computer room, and laundry room, and possibly tackling the basement little by little over the summer. Right now, this is how I'm surviving this deployment. Between working and visiting friends and family, a few vacations, doing these cleaning projects, random Skype calls with my love, getting a tan, and working out, I think my summer will go by crazy fast and once he's stateside, everything should be a lot better. He won't be being worked to the bone and I won't have to worry about tsunamis, bombings, and different countries dragging my man into their skirmishes. If I figure out any more ways to survive deployments, I'll add to this... until then, bonne chance, toutes les femmes.