Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Break

It has been a while and a lot has happened. We moved from Guam and that was pretty successful! We purchased a house in Southern California, had most of it painted and are settled in!

School is going very well and I have been crazy busy!

Ronnie was promoted and is getting ready to leave on deployment.

That sums up the last 6 months. Hopefully I will keep up this time but vacation is almost over!

Sunday, April 04, 2010

Pack

Tomorrow strangers will enter my home and box up 95% of my belongings. I have been through this 3 times already and hate it as much as the first. I normally have everything nice and organized like a week prior but nothing seems ready. I have to pull everything off of the walls and seperate the things that I plan to keep until we fly home....I have a busy night ahead of me!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Guam

As my time here dwindles down, I am starting to get sad. I only have 27 working days left and 51 calender days left. Ronnie ships the Jeep out this week and then juggling getting us back and forth to work starts....(not going to be fun). The first week in April we pack out all of our stuff. Shelly will get a few packages to hold for us!

We will live out of suitcases and seabags until..... Not sure when. This is our tricky part. We have been looking for a house to buy in San Diego (which scares the hell out of me). Everyone that we have seen that we like has been sold and of course the market is now started to bounce back. As if the San Diego market is not high enough!

I am starting to get sad about leaving. This is one of the difficult yet exciting parts of the military. You go somewhere and get settled in and comfortable then you have to move to a new location and start over. It is difficult because it takes the average person 6-12 months to truly settle and get comfortable. The you pick up other tasking and 'expand' your scope of responsibility/involvements. Shortly thereafter, you get orders to a new location and begin preping for the move. The exciting part is looking back and noticing the impact you have made on people and getting to go somewhere new. Starting over just stinks!

I have issues when it comes time to pack out my stuff. I get all girly and call my aunt who has been through this process and I act like a big baby. I don't know what it is but it just gets to me to watch someone pack up all of my stuff and haul it away on a truck. Hopefully it will not be so hard this time with Ronnie here.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Change

The Navy is in the middle of a huge uniform change. We are changing our everyday uniform as well as our working uniform. Since we are moving this is a great time to purge out our old uniforms. It is also the best time to spring clean. We got rid of 3 huge trash bags of old uniforms and clothes that no longer fit or that we no longer wear!

I am trying to get motivated to go into the computer room to scan in old documents and paperwork in order to get rid of "paper" prior to us leaving. I also want to com up with a way to better organize our electronic manuals for all of the crap that we own. Slowly, we are going to move through all of our rooms and get rid of stuff that we no longer need or use. Who knows what we are going to find.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Count Down

Where has the time gone? It seems like just last month we were moving from one house to the one we are currently in. I does not seem like we have been on Guam for 3 years. I have been walking around for the last few days thinking that I had 90 days left here. Really, it is only 79! That is only like 60 working days! Wow.....we have tons of stuff to do. Luckily for us, the military has check lists that we can use to keep us on a good time line.

We will be home soon!

Friday, February 05, 2010

Jelly Fish Lake

Our trip was wonderful. Here is some footage:



Thursday, February 04, 2010

Tragedy


One month ago we lost a member of the family. It is something that I still have trouble with and was/is very painful for me. When we return home, we will be a family of 3. Bear is no longer with us. A time will come when I am ready to talk details, but that time is not now.