Its a Saturday and I’m at work.
So all the girls at work decide its about time for another girls night out so we decide to go out after work. Me and another gal stayed late at the spa after hours so I could do her nails for the night and then we ran over to the mall real quick to pick out an outfit. She was currently mad at he significant other so she decided tonight was gonna be a “I look sexy, lets take pictures and post them to Facebook and get my man jealous” night. So she HAD to get a new outfit because ofcours we gals never really have anything to wear…..
We head to another girls house were we proceed to get ready and all of a sudden I can hear the Navy song “anchors Aweigh” which was of-course my ringtone because I’m an awesome navy wife like that. I was doing my hair at the moment to I was in no rush to retrieve the call but one of the other girls picked it up and gave it to me. It was a long distance number which gave me a quick chill and I thought in my head “This could be a creditor/sales call but there is a very small chance it could be Edwin” and I mean very small because he told me he would not be calling me for another 2 weeks….. so I picked it up fast. Expecting a “Hello is this Mrs. Martinez? Hi this is so and so from so and so and was wondering if you would be interested in so and so…..But instead I heard a faint “Hey” and I said “who’s this!?!” and the man on the other line said “your husband”
“Oh my gosh its Edwin!!” I screamed to the girls who were all getting ready. “The girls screamed in unison”Ahhhh!!!!!!” And I told him I was shocked he was calling because I was not expecting it at all. He apparently got lucky and was able to call me because He needed me to fax something to him(once again the friggin recruiters) failed to send a copy of our son’s SSN card which we gave to them. So In a way I am for once glad they are incapable of doing their job….because now I can hear my sweet husbands voice. He only had 5 minutes so I told him I was getting ready to go out and that everything was swell. I told him to get ready for his first letter from me because its pretty thick and full of Lipstick kisses and other goodies. I don’t remember If I wrote about what I put in his first letter but to recap (20 page letter, a picture and note my son drew, News paper clippings including sports scores, comics, and local news, a photo booth picture of me and Anthony). I was worried that they would see how thick it was and make him open it in front of them and see the comics and get in trouble. I have read that if they get anything that they are not allowed to get they will make them do push ups or something similar… I even heard one division had to do push ups for every page they received. I hope this is not the case for Edwin. Poor guy I wrote him a lot!…..LOL! But I have read that they really look forward to the letters so a little push up is well worth the letter. I want to make sure that every time they do Mail call that he gets a letter….I would feel SO BAD if he didn’t get a letter at mail call and felt bad for the rest of the day because of it. He needs to know that we are 100% supportive over here and thinking about him all the time.
He was very short and would not discuss how he has been doing so far as if someone was monitoring his call or sitting right in front of him… which was driving me nuts. I asked him is it just that he couldnt talk about it at the moment….and he said yeah I will write you about all that in my letters. I said ok…so I just went on to tell him how me and the baby were doing and then his 5 minutes were up….before we got off the phone I told him one more time that I love him and miss him very much and then I could hear it in his voice when he said “I miss you too mama” He calls me mama…always has since we had Anthony….and That was it….I got off the phone and was still in shock that it was actually him and that I almost missed his call. Now I do not go anywhere without my cell phone by my side and I always make sure it is fully charged. I also check my mail every day which I have never done before……I usually let a few days go by before checking my mail box….
I cant wait until I can see him and hug him….(especially in his uniform)
only 6 weeks and 4 days away
that’s 46 days!
that’s 1,104 hours!
that’s 66,240 minutes!
that’s only 3,974,400 seconds!!!
(from the time of this post)
In Love With a Sailor 