I’m a 27 year old Navy wife, currently living nowhere near the water because we’re at an Army base. Go figure. I’ve got my fingers crossed for a better location next time we PCS… but I don’t mind it too much here. Even though I was born and raised in Southern California, I think I’m a Southerner at heart. Who was meant to live in New England. (Yeah, figure that out!)
I finished my Master’s degree in International Policy with concentrations in nuclear nonproliferation and Russian in 2009. Shortly after, my then boyfriend (now husband) graduated from the military’s language school and we moved from beautiful Monterey, California, to a not so beautiful part of Georgia. My master plan was to go into the Navy as an officer post graduation, but we got married in August 2009 and my plans changed.
Now, we’ve got two puppies and a house, and we’re dealing with deployments and biding our time until shore duty, which can’t come fast enough.
In the meantime, I’m blogging about my daily life and trying to figure things out.
There isn’t much demand for a Masters in Genetics and Horticulture either!
Keep up the positive attitude lady and you’ll come to love this Military life!
hugs,
An over-educated Army wife with three small children.
Hey! Your email button isn’t working for me so feel free to delete this comment when you’re done but I wanted to give you the recipe for the sweet and sour chk because like I said, it’s too easy! You need 4 large chk breasts, halved. Brown these a bit before putting in oven. In a bowl, mix 12 oz can of frozen orange juice concentrate (thawed), one pack of dry onion soup, and 2/3 cup of water. Pour mixture over browned chk in casserole dish. Bake at 350 for 45 min. or until chicken is done. I flipped the pieces half way through the process. Then at the end I cut it all up and allowed it to simmer some more before taking it out of the oven. Prepare brown rice to supplement! Yum. It was pretty tasty!
Hi! New follower! I worked with Russian linguists when I was in the AF!
I was excited to read that you are a linguist! That’s awesome! I’m gonna follow your blog via BlogLovin and acutally found you thru twitter! So I’ll keep up that way too! Do svidaniya! (Was that cheesy? It’s one of the few things I remember from working with the linguists) 
Yes! It’s interesting being landlocked when your hubby’s in the Navy! We are currently far from the water as well! Hubby’s stationed at a Navy installation on an AFB.
Even weirder because he deploys on subs! It would have been nice if they could have put us on the coast… lol
My brother trained in Monterey to be a linguist, ended up not doing it, but met his wife there, who is now a linguist in the AF. They moved from Monterey to GA too.
Love your writing style!
Thank you!
They jokingly call DLI the Defense Love Institute – so many of our friends met their spouses while studying in Monterey!