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Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on December 9, 2012 at 2:09am

Ok, this might sound stupid and shallow to some, but one that has driven me NUTS over the years is hair cuts! Not theirs - mine! I have very fine hair, and a lot of it, so it's really heavy. The longer it is, the straighter it is, and the shorter it is the more curly it is. And I mean curly - not lots of body or wavy - flat out looks like a perm curly. For some reason, this always surprises hair stylists the first time or two that I go to them, no matter how many times I've said it (I've even resorted to bringing in pictures of myself with the cut I prefer...) - I always spend about the first year at any given duty station looking like some blind and drunk person cut my hair... Since we gave transferred every 2-3 years.... and heaven forbid the person who cuts it Pcs be another spouse and they Pcs before we do, and I get to start all over....

I know that might sound dumb, especially since I'm not very vain or even very girly, but to me, it's fort of that insult to injury. I can deal with moving, I can deal with both my husband and son in the Navy, I can deal with deployments, helping spouses, and all that, but to I really need to do it looking like someone took a weed whacker to my head on top of it all?!

Permalink Reply by Absoltuekraze on December 9, 2012 at 2:21am

This is exactly what I mean! :) no one thinks about little stuff like this. Until you're committed. Not that I regret it but its fun to share.
Hahaa. I hope you found someone good this time!

Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on December 9, 2012 at 2:18am

Oh, something that makes the tricked but not paid for it thing a little better is look at it like this, it's not so much that they get promoted but not paid for it, it's that they get to wear it as soon as they know that they will be promoted that cycle ;-) The other branches do it a little differently - you find out who made it, but they aren't allowed to wear it (or get any of the perks with the new rank) until the money kicks in.

Lol - sort of like the military version of when you're waiting at a restaurant to be seated - the Navy gives you a seat in the lobby until your table is ready, the other guys just put your name on the list, give you a buzzer and says "wait outside" ;-)

And just wait - 7, 8, and 9, when you make it, you can wait a whole year before you see that money :-(

Lol - I know this probably doesn't make it much better, we hate waiting for that promotion money to kick in, too, just trying to find the bright sure for you :-)

Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on December 14, 2012 at 1:45am

Thought of another one -- when you really have a craving for ___ (insert specific dish or restaurant here) but you can't have it, because it was a local "mom and pop place" or local chain at your last duty station (or the one before...) and it's thousands of miles away. Lol - we have actually joked that if we ever won the lotto, we would fly all around the world, picking up all our friends and all our favorite foods from everywhere and have one huge party somewhere LOL.


OH ---- and curtains!!!! No matter how "standardized" they seem to make housing (on or off base), why is it no two houses ever have the same sized windows!?! And just when you give up and get rid of some of the old ones, because "they're never gonna fit anywhere again" sure enough, the next place, they would have been perfect! :-/