{"id":1686,"date":"2013-01-08T18:31:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2013-01-08T18:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:31:23","slug":"because-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/01\/because-i-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I Can!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"No,<\/a>
No, I don’t mind chewing my orange juice one bit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course I miss my family when I do my reserve duty, and I have to deal with flying in the month of January, but there are a few perks to being on my own for a week.<\/p>\n

Such as getting to buy and drink “HIGH PULP” orange juice<\/a>!<\/p>\n

And working through a box of Raisin Nut Bran cereal<\/a> for breakfast every day I’m here.<\/p>\n

I eat sushi for dinner without commentary from the peanut galley.<\/p>\n

I can stay up as late as I like to read my book…when I’m not studying for my first Air War College exam, I’m working on World War Z<\/cite><\/a> by Tom Brooks right now. Yes, a zombie book, but there’s another layer to it that makes it a very worthwhile read: do YOU have the skills to survive for a generation or longer without electricity, fuel for your vehicles, or the Internet?<\/p>\n

For the first few days I truly enjoy the quiet when I’m off duty. I don’t talk much, I get to surf the web without feeling guilty, the TV is on the channel I want. But after about 4 days of this, I do begin to get lonely. I begin to surf online albums of the boys’ baby pictures and pictures of Dave and me enjoying life.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’ll take this over a long deployment…and kudos to those who are separated for much, much longer than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course I miss my family when I do my reserve duty, and I have to deal with flying in the month of January, but there are a few perks to being on my own for a week. Such as getting to buy and drink “HIGH PULP” orange juice! And working through a box of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[331,13,616],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-force-life","tag-air-force-reserves","tag-ranting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t