So, okay, I lost the bet.

To be honest, I didn't think I would ever win this one, super high stakes or not. There was a small chance that I might get posted to the asscrack of doom without the chance to communicate with anyone outside of the barracks unless I was on leave. I might have had a chance to win it then.

In any other scenario it was always a long shot. An extremely long one. So long that my noonas fell over laughing when I told them. And I couldn't rightly argue.

Five weeks without a phone during boot camp was purgatory, even though we didn't have a minute to ourselves all day and were dead tired the rest of the time. So even though that time was included in the bet, I never really felt it counted.

So… if I discount boot camp, that's seven weeks without posting a selfie.

That's not too shabby, right? Even if I did lose the bet.