Hey, You People are Weird....

Being a military wife means having all kinds of interesting odd things laying around the house. Cots and cords. Camelbacks and canteens. Survival tools. And of course, there's the apparel. Footwear, ponchos, neckwarmers, gloves, cold weather gear and warm weather gear. Oh, and there are tons and tons of uniforms, and things that attach to said uniforms. On and on it goes.... airforcewife has blogged repeatedly about being married to a "geardo." It is a rather amusing existence.

In the evenings, my husband and I try to sit out on the patio, relax after our day and just take in the chirping sounds of nature. It's very therapeutic and had become a ritual I began to enjoy until one day my husband decided to change it. And not in a good way.

I was sitting outside unwinding, being one with nature, when my husband arrived home late from work. He joined me on the patio with wads of paperwork in his hands. After the normal greeting, he walked inside and turned the patio light on, which resulted in me feeling like I was being placed under the bright lights of an interrogation room. The soothing ambience disappeared instantly and the feel was, well, just not the same.

A few nights later, the same thing happened, only this time, my husband didn't turn the spotlight on. Nope, instead he strapped this device which had a mini-spotlight on it around his head and began to read. The military man's version of something like this. He was so proud of himself for finding a solution to the problem, and at that point, I was happy to be married to a geardo. 

Last night, I sat outside with my husband and his contraption and I started laughing out loud. I appreciate my husband's creative solution, but I have to say, he looks utterly ridiculous sitting on the patio with a spotlight strapped to his head. The neighbors must think we're the weirdest people they have ever seen in their lives. And truthfully, we probably are.....

Comments

[Sarah]

Our house has random bullets all over the place. One was on our bookshelf and a neighbor Army kid picked it up and said, "Yeah, my dad has these too." Heh.

And you reminded me of an old post I did about the weird things on our fridges...
http://tryingtogrok.new.mu.nu/our_fridges

[Erin]

hilarious! My husband also wears his "headlight" all over the place, in the house even! He'll just sit down on the couch whenever he's done doing what required the light, and just switch off the light and lay there...it's still on his head...it might make me furious if it wasn't so damned funny! Ah, and the 550 cord...I hated the stuff laying around until I became a serious gardener! And we have tailhooks for garden ornaments...you know, from jets? No garden gnomes for this geardo family :)

[SwordsmansWife]

Y'all make me laugh. I used to have a headlamp when I was in college. I had several biology classes out in the field. Ah, the days...

[David H Brooks]

This is truly weird but innovative no doubt. Indeed military people seem to do strange things even when they are at home.

[AWTM]

I had to read this out loud!

Very funny

[Kim]

By BF has been known to do this when we sit out on our balcony. I know our neighbors across the way have done a double-take when they see him out there! :)

[She of the Sea]

I'm thinking it is an attempt to avoid the reading glasses...'cuz headlights look much cooler than reading glasses...

I would love to see that first hand, just so I can laugh at Mr. Andi.