Being without an internet connection for a few days is beyond frustrating.

Not simply because I can’t keep up with posting on the blog, but because that’s how I do my job – online.

So being unplugged inevitably puts me behind schedule & I scramble like crazy the next few days I’m back up to make up that lost time.

Today is one of those days.

So a short & sweet teaser for you.

“Get a kit…Make a plan…Be informed”

These signs were everywhere when I first arrived at Humphreys.

In fact, they were everywhere enough that I started wondering, “Just what am I supposed to be planning for? And where do I get this ‘kit’ you speak of?”

I had no clue…and it was a little disturbing because at that time the boy up North had been trying out his new nuclear toy….blowing things up like the 8 year-old bully he tends to be.

Well, tonight is the FRG meeting for the battalion & I’m supposed to have my kit ready.

FRG – Family Readiness Group: The Army equivalent of an elementary school PTA meeting. Unorganized, desperate Army housewives from age 17 to 56  sitting around gossip-central. There’s the usual power struggle to be the “leader”; the busy-bodies who want to know everything about everyone one; the young mothers frantically trying to keep their babies from crying during the commander’s speech; and then there’s me. The lone outsider.

The battalion is almost 800 soldiers.

If we were back in the states, that would mean a good 600 wives. But only 10% of soldiers in Korea have their family here…so I’m guessing the roughly 30 that were there at the last meeting will be there this time.

I was planning on using tonight to work…not just on the business, but to tackle all the housework that’s been piling up.

Did I mention the FRG meeting is mandatory?

And did I mention it’s pot-luck?

Oh yeah, and did I mention that until this morning I was under the impression that this was an FRG meeting for D company – not the B Company Eric’s in – so I have nothing to cook?

[whispering to the side]

(Battalions are made of up companies – A, B, C, D…you get the point)

And did I mention that I have to have my kit ready to take to the meeting?

Oh…I did?…Well…

Did I mention I have to do this all over again for the B Company FRG meeting on Thursday night?…another lovely pot-luck extravaganza.

Fudge it.

Fudge, fudge, fudge.

Big heaping piles of fudge muffins!!!

I’m never gonna get caught up.