Shiny
Yes, I work the night shift on alternate months. I love nights...the day shift kills me and I start that again this Friday. I am and have always been, a night owl...hoo hoo (or is it woo woo)...damn, I can't even get my bird calls right

Opt
My H has been out 4 months (this time, he was gone 5 months before the last and failed reconciliation attempt). I think you're right. It's amazing how they "get over" their trip to hell and back and just come waltzing home like they've been away on business or something....amazing.

Tal
I too will welcome a sense of normalcy in my life, I haven't felt "normal" since June 2002 (bomb #1 ). I guess my disappointment, is in the fact that I thought my H and I would have had a chance for a SERIOUS talk in which gound rules, expectations, latent hurts and fears would be discussed so that we wouldn't be harboring any unsaid words that could lead to another failed attempt to reconcile...THAT talk hasn't happened, but THIS has...

Kitti
You're wise to hold off on both (congrats and condolences) until I get a chance to get some bearing here.
T2