Today’s the day!

Though we’ve been posing as civilians for the last two and a half months of military terminal leave, today is the first day we are officially, on paper, recognized by the Army as “retired.”

And how quickly we have realized that out here in the real world, we’re definitely not in Kansas (or Alaska or Washington or any other place we’ve been stationed inside the safety and security of an organization that has told us exactly everything to do our entire adult lives) anymore.

In an effort to wrap our minds around this strange new world in which we live, Super-Spouse and I started a list of the biggest differences between our old and new lives.

Sweet military friends soon also about to enter the Twilight Zone, listen up so that you, too, are not shocked when your civilian friends don’t leave for work at 4 a.m.