OMG, WHY AM I GIGGLY?!

Blue Fox always textes me in the mornings so before I wake up, I have a text from him saying, "Morning" and attached to it is a smiley. He even said in the first phone call, "Are you sleepy? (no) Good, because I wasn't going to let you go yet." and "I don't want to go to sleep because I'm afraid of having a nightmare." and I said, "I promise you won't get one, sleep. You have work tomorrow." and he said, "Fine. But if I get a nightmare, it's all your fault." and I said, "I promise."

The next morning, he said, "You promised me that I wouldn't have a nightmare." and I replied, "Ohmygod, did you get one?!" and he told me, "No. I didn't. (laughs)" and I said, "Oh good! My powers worked!" and he replied (and I'm thinking of it as a joke), "Your powers work on me like stardust that fills the sky... Stratch that, that didn't make sense. Wait, no. It did. But it's too long. Nevermind."

Blue Fox: I'm still at church. We are about to go to eat with some homies and gangsters and mobsters.
Otter: What about the hustlers and the swindlers? You know they're good company, those hustler and swindler fellows. Invite them too!
Blue Fox: (literally laughs out loud)

Later that night, he calls me. AGAIN. Ohmygod, I love it when he calls me. And we talked about random things. He asked me something serious - well, it's not too serious - it was about his younger brother. Since his brother isn't taking school seriously, he wasn't accepted to a university and is stuck with community college. Community college isn't all that bad, although, it's not the greatest thing... So, after two years of community college you can switch to a university that accepts you. Blue Fox believes that it's not the best thing to do and that he should take it because their parents would pay for it, spend money when his brother won't take it seriously because he doesn't know what he wants to do with his life and has absolutely no goals. So, Blue Fox believes that his brother should join the army. Why? Because Blue Fox is doing Army ROTC in his university and he asked me what I thought would be a better thing for his brother. It was kind of a heavy thing to ask because... Personally, if you can't get into a university, enlist active duty in any miltiary branch. Why? Because one, you can take the Montgomery GI Bill after serving just four years in the military and that is tuition payed by the military in ANY university or school you want to enroll in OR you can take the Post-9/11 GI Bill, serve four years as active duty, switch to reserve until you graduate, and then go back to active duty! I personally like the Post-9/11 one because unlike the Montgomery, you can use that when you leave the military but with the Post-9/11, you can switch from active to reserve, go to school, still be in the military but you have to pay 20% of your tuition and the rest is paid by the military... Graduate with good grades and come back to active duty after four years of school. And even though the pay isn't as good if you were to enlist right after high school, the benefits outweights the pay. Medical/dental benefits during and after serving the military, school is paid for, and you get a leg up when you're back in the civialian world because you will have more experience than most people. I think, for someone like Blue Fox's brother, is the best choice because after serving four years, they will ask you if you want to extend another four or six years... By that time, Blue Fox's brother should have an idea what he wants to do with his life. Then from there, he should take over his life.

Blue Fox also asked me for advice for his friend who's in the active army. His friend wants to finish off his five-year deployment but he is scared of losing his girlfriend of less than three years. According to him, his friend's girlfriend was afraid of that because she can't wait that long... And to Blue Fox, she seems like the kind of girl who can't be alone. To me, that's an uh-oh. I just told Blue Fox that when he talks to his friend, he should tell him that he should think of the relationship a little more. If you are with someone who can't seem to wait for you or can't be alone or can't wait or have that bond to do so after almost three years of being together... Somethings missing. You should already have a strong bond with that person by three years. Honestly, I told Blue Fox that he should take a break from the relationship so that he doesn't get hurt when he's deployed, when he comes back and finishes, he can try and see if there's anything left to work with from where they stopped. If there isn't anything to work with, that means that if you tried it from the beginning, it would have ended but since you ended it first, you aren't the one left hurt. But if she truly loves you, she should understand your job. The military is now your life, if they say that you need to be stationed somewhere, you can't question. You go automatically. If you miss your deadline, you are terminated from the military and you serve time in jail, I believe. So, you need to go when you need to go. If she doesn't understand that, imagine how it'll be like when you're married. Total stress. So, I told Blue Fox to make sure that his friend understands that... Because it'll be hard when you're deployed, surrounded by men, in harsh environments... The last thing you need is a girl who can't wait for you, who will stop loving you, who will cheat on you and all of that. You can't have that in your life when you're serving your deployment. At the end of that conversation, Blue Fox said, "I like the way you think..."

We ended our phone conversation earlier because he had work in a couple hours, so we ended it an hour earlier than the last one (since he wanted to break that record) he then told me, "Darn. Hmmm. Quality over quanity, this time. Haha."

Gushing on the inside,
Otter