the latest craziness

I don't even know where to begin.

CJ is getting deployed to Iraq and we've been preparing for that for a while now. She was supposed to be leaving in September. The plan was for her to leave on the 2nd to spend a week in Florida with her dad and then go straight from there to St. Louis to meet up with the unit she's going to Iraq with. From St. Louis she was supposed to be going to New Jersey. Well, she left for Florida as planned and while she was there the Army changed her plans. She had to come back here instead of going to St. Louis. She's been here about 3 weeks waiting to find out what's going on with her deployment. She finally has concrete plans (well as concrete as it gets with the Army). She's leaving tomorrow for St. Louis. She'll be in St. Louis until the 9th and will then be in New Jersey for a while before going to Iraq. I just feel bad for my girlfriend having to go through another difficult good-bye and being worried about what might happend to CJ while she's in Iraq.

My sister had her baby a month early. The baby is doing pretty well now and should be coming home soon but for a while I was really worried. My sister is home and seems to be doing ok. We'll see how she does when the baby is home!

My baby brother got arrested and is sitting in jail. It all started with an argument that he shouldn't have jumped into. I'm not sure exactly what happened but he ended up pushing his dad and his dad pressed charges. There's nothing I can do to help him. I hate just sitting around waiting to find out what's happening! I'm hoping he'll just get probation because if he goes to prison it'll ruin his life. I wrote him a letter telling him that if he gets probation and he wants to come here, I'd be happy to take responsibility for him. I hope he considers it. I think he'd be better off getting away from everything and starting fresh.

On top of all of that, I've been sick. First stomach issues. Then a cold. Then a sinus infection. Then bronchitis. Then an ear infection. Now I'm having stomach issues again. I think it's all the stress.

*sigh*

I need a good weeks worth of sleep.