My life as a day camp counselor

I would say that I am a "girly girl".  I don't like sweating.  I like being completely comfortable at about 75 degrees year round.  I don't like bugs or dirt or water.  Suffice it to say I am being tested at Day Camp.  I'm out of the office in "the field" in charge of children and participating in varied activities all of which expose me to lots of bugs, dirt, and water.  I am trying to be a good sport, I mean, I wore waterproof mascara this week!  I had to wheelbarrow in the muddy field, stick my face in a sprinkler, and spit it out into a bucket.  Wheelbarrowing is hard!  I know this because Nick says the Drill Instructors made him do it across a field for OCS.  If they do it at OCS, it has to be remotely torturous!  Today I had a camper tell me that he believes blood cells are shape shifters and can probably turn into microwaves then asked me to cuddle all in the same sentence.  He also told me his theory of evolution and Pangea.   All in all it's been an eye opening experience.  I did learn platypuses are venomous.  Like I said-eye opening.  

Nick is no longer in the Persian Gulf but in Pascagoula, Mississippi (I still say the spelling in my head when I type this like I'm 8) And you know what that means??  iChat!!!!!  Woot Woot!  So now instead of random bi-weekly (maybe) phone calls and unreliable email I get to chat with my hubs!  In only five months (maybe-Navy and maybe rhyme for a reason) I get to live with Nick.  I'm wearing my Navy tank tomorrow just to show my support for the DDG 105.  I will end this post by listing all the Navy acronyms (and weird melded together half words and just plain weird words) I have learned in my first year of being married to an Ensign. 

• SWO
• SWOS
• METOC
• OCS
• NAOE
• Fitrep
• Westpac
• Unrep
• CO
• XO
• Ombudsman
• Conning

That actually turned out to be shorter than I thought.  Someday when Nick makes Commander or something I will look back and laugh thinking "How naive I was!" and I'll be wearing a blue and gold neckerchief and drive a luxury car and hob nob with other swanky Navy wives who also wear neckerchiefs... or not.  We'll see.  Perhaps living in Naptown has given me a skewed view of Naval life.

Love, Kaley