Okay, I'll admit it: I just want my page to come up if anyone ever does a search for "Chocolate Air Force."
Weird title, but the point is I'll be giving up chocolate, ice cream, and all sugary sweets for a while. My good friend Brad has joined the Air Force and he heads off for training on the 2nd of January. Thanks for your service, Brad!
So knowing he'll be having many aspects of his life totally controlled for him, I decided it was a good idea to get some areas of my own life in better control. Hence, no chocolate or ice cream for me during his basic training. If it gets hard at any point, I can just remind myself that what he's doing is a much greater sacrifice and much more difficult to do. How can I wuss out when he's doing what he's doing?
In the interest of full disclosure, I have asked him to text or call me the MOMENT he gets back in town. I've also suggested that showing up at my door with a carton of ice cream and a chocolate bar is an acceptable means of letting me know he's back. I've read that initial training is 8 1/2 weeks, but he doesn't know his actual schedule.
And that's something I have to admire. He's signed up to serve his country, and is basically going in with the attitude that whatever happens will happen, so much so that he hasn't really even checked to see what his schedule will be or when he'll get a break back home. Awesomely committed.
So I also don't know when I'll have any chocolate or ice cream. Might be 8 1/2 weeks. Might be months. I trust that he'll really let me know when he's back in town and not just decide that a continued choco-fast is best for me.
Good luck, Brad, we'll be missing you at the gym!