Goodnight Moon

This will be my last post for this blog. In a few days I'll delete the blog entirely. Today we received notification that my husband will be honorably discharged from the Navy after 10 loyal years in September 2012. Thanks to President Obama's Plan to downsize our nation's military, our family and some six hundred others in San Diego have been been punched in the gut today. We had just reinlisted for another 6 years just last year. We were supposed to have our truck shipped on the 30th of this month and our pack out on the next month. We were excitedly planning our first move overseas. I was looking forward to time off with my family while we settled in. And now this!

Pack Out Is Scheduled

I cannot even recap on how confusing the whole getting ready for the overseas pack-out has been. We started our adventure by visiting Personal Property back in this post. We were sent an email with instructions for logging into the DPS website. I am usually by no means technically retarded, but getting registered for use of this website was confusing and made me feel a bit incompetent. I'm pretty sure this had a lot to do with the fact that I couldn't devote 100% of my attention to accomplishing the task. Anyway, getting registered to use it was the hardest part. Then there was a bit of reading before doing a fancy guestimate of how much shit we'll be taking with us for this move. My husband had to complete the last step in person. Our official pack out dates are December 15th to pack it all up...which happens to be the same day as my company's Christmas Party...and December 16th to load it all up. So we'll be living in a near empty house and out of suitcases for the Holidays and until we fly out on February 1st. Nothing gets ya into the holiday spirit like an empty nest!