You Know You're a Military Spouse When...

It's 3:30 in the morning. I have been up working on homework, but I can only take so much of State and Local Politics before I reach my breaking point. So, why am I still up instead of in the bed resting before another day of homework? Because I saw the SCARIEST MOVIE EVER the other night, and Ryan is at work, so I cannot sleep. Period. Plus, I have taken in so much caffeine the past few days because of work and school that I am pretty sure my blood-caffeine level is probably way past the legal or recommended limit. So here is a fun little blog I've been throwing around in my head for a few days.

You know you are a military spouse when...

• You wake up and realize your husband took the toothpaste to work.
• You HATE RAMs. 
• Grocery shopping becomes fun at the commissary because of all the money you are saving.
• You LOVE deserts. The kind your husband wears; not the kind he gets deployed to.
• You do not own a "helmet," "bullet-proof vest," "flashlight," or "water bottle." However, you do own four things that serve those functions, but they have a silly name you can't ever remember.
• Your laundry is sorted into lights, darks, towels, sheets, and green things.
• When your doctor or nurse says, "You'll have to call Tricare..." your first thought is, "Is avoiding serious illness or death really worth the trouble?"
• You have at least three good stories of excuses a clerk has come up with when you ask if a store has a military discount. "No" would have sufficed.
• Your alarm clock regularly goes off at hours in which no human should be awake.
• You never ask why anymore.
• Your husband regularly refers to you as "maam."
• Though you try and try, you never can get someone to comprehend your husband's work schedule.
• You don't find it weird at all there is a gun just propped up beside your bed.
• You sometimes refuse to watch movies depicting the military with your husband because you know you'll get a lesson the whole time about how the "real" military does it.
• You firmly believe your husband's branch is best, but you don't really know why.
• Sometimes your husband speaks a foreign language only people in uniform can understand.

And last, the one that inspired this blog...

• You know you are a military spouse when you have to plan when to watch horror movies so you have your husband home the maximum amount of time after the fact to protect you.

Can my fellow military wives think of any others?