You Might be a Military Wife if...

Interestingly enough, most of this is actually true for me personally, or else I can see it being true in an few years. (!) Not sure if this will ammuse anyone, but I thought it was pretty funny.

..you can unpack a house and have everything in place in 48 hours

..you string concertina wire to keep the neighbor's kids out of your
flower beds

..your husband's work and dress clothes cost more than yours do

..you've changed more oil and mowed more lawns than your husband
because he's never there to do it himself

..your children say "hooah" or "roger that" instead of "ok"

..your husband does a route recon and takes a GPS for a trip to the
mall

..you only write in pencil because EVERYTHING is subject to change

..you need a translator to talk to your civilian friends, only!
because they have no idea what DFAS,AER, TDY, ACS, NPD, PCS, and ETS
mean

..you have a larger selection of curtains than Wal-Mart does

..you can remember where you kept the Scotch tape in your last
house, but unfortunately, not in this one

..you mark time in duty stations, not years

..you refer to friends not only by name but by the state that they
live in

..you know that "back home" doesn't mean at the house you live in now

..you tear up when you hear "Proud to Be An American," even though
you've heard it 50 times by now

..you know that a 2 month separation IS short, no matter what your
civilian friends say

..you ALWAYS know when payday is and get ticked off if there are
more than 2 weekends during that pay period

..you know better than to go to the PX or commissary between 11:30
and 1:30 unless it's a life or death emergency

..you show your military ID to the greeter at Wal-Mart

..you know that any reference to "sand" or a "box" describes NTC at
Ft. Irwin, not your kid's backyard toys


..you find yourself explaining your husband's LES to him

..you have enough camouflage in your house to wallpaper the White
House

..you don't have to think about what time 21:30 is

..you've ever been referred to as "Household 6"

..you start ripping open MREs and looking for the M&Ms when you run
out of Halloween candy

..you can't remember the last time you saw a doctor who wasn't
wearing BDUs

..you've ever had a pet named Scout, Ranger or Sergeant

..the local dry cleaner knows you by your first name

..it only cost you $25 to have a child

..you find that a large number of your clothes and household items
are olive drab or loam, even though you never planned it that way

..you pick apart uniforms on TV and in the movies, even though you
used to yell at! your husband for doing the same thing

..you know what "pogey bait" is and which kinds everyone in your
husband's platoon prefers

..you wish you could go to CIF to DX your old stuff like your
husband can

..you've learned to sleep through the sounds of tanks, planes,
helicopters and artillery simulators

.you give your kids a hand receipt when they take your Tupperware to
school

..you can hate military life but be terrified to leave it all in the
same breath

..you defend your lifestyle no matter how bad things get because you
know there's no other life for you!