The Blog of mandy5367

I met Jeff while I was working as Assistant Manager at GameStop. His cousin got hired as a holiday GA, and he came up a few times to visit him. I was in a relationship at the time, at about 2 1/2 years. Jeff and I began to talk, and I felt we were pretty great friends. He would sit up at work with me for hours upon end (off camera of course ^^) and I was delighted to have someone to spend time with while I was there. He let on to me that he was interested, but was nice enough to completely drop the idea when I told him I was happy in my current relationship. Honestly, I wasn't interested. The idea of him had never even crossed my mind.

After about two months he told me he was leaving for the Navy in january. And he did. We promised to keep in touch and after he got out of boot camp his parents gave him his cell phone and laptop and he started "A" school. Things had been getting seriously rocky with my current boyfriend and eventually fell out. About a week after we broke up I jokingly told Jeff about it by saying "Guess who needs to take me on a date when he gets home?" He was very excited to hear I'd at least give him a chance to take me out, and we began talking more deeply about each other. I came to notice we were very compatible, because he finally told me a lot about himself that he never let on when we were just "friends".

We both live in Cincinnati, and he is at the base in Great Lakes, IL. After three weeks of seriously talking I planned a trip up to see him. I was falling for him, and I felt like I needed to see him on a more personal level now that we were closer. He requested liberty for the weekend and booked a hotel nearby. I drove the 328 miles to see him, and it was an amazing weekend. I really fell in love with him, because he is such a gentleman and he really knows how to treat a woman (seeing this I was just like "Thank GOD! FINALLY!").

After I came back home we texted and called more and more, and I told him I would be his girlfriend, but I wouldn't accept it unless it was asked in person. He finally made Phase 2, so he decided to make a "secret" trip back home for a weekend. Secret being he didn't tell anyone he was flying out of state, lol.

It's been a week and two days now, and I'm a Navy girlfriend. Sounds so weird because I've always hated the military. He graduated last Friday, and receives his orders tomorrow. He's begging for shore duty, but they said it's a horribly slim chance because of something about George Bush.

I'm already not dealing well with not seeing him. And I actually get to talk to him everyday, and sometimes see him online with our web cams. But after he gets on a ship I know I'm not going to hear from him for months....

A few days less than a year left on his contract. I just have to ride it out.