I know I'm way more excited about this move than my mother is. On Friday my husband turned in the last bit of my medical paperwork that was required for our overseas screening! Phew! Fine-all-lee! So I asked my husband, what's next?! I'm ready to start booking tickets, but I guess all of our overseas screening stuff now has to go through admin...and since we're going into a holiday weekend, that means Tuesday it'll start going through admin...the CO has to take a looksie at everything...and THEN Matty will go to PSD and we'll get to pick a date to leave sometime between January 1st-February 1st! This means they'll be shipping our stuff as early as mid-November...depending on the date we choose to move.
This sort of changes things that I had told my employer...especially since I just finished taking a month off of work. If we're going to have an empty house in mid-November, I'm not so sure if I can continue to work through December. Seriously, I don't know how I'll manage to live in an empty house with two small children and no dishes to prepare our meals on. So now I'm brewing up a lot of questions.
What are my rights as a Navy Spouse? If I decide to stop working in November, will I still be eligible for unemployment? Do I start collecting unemployment now or after we get to Guam? Will I still be eligible in January if I stop working in late November? On the other hand, it would be best financially for me to continue working until near time to leave. We could use every bit of extra income we can earn. Plus, as long as I continue managing this property, we don't have to worry about rent. Would it be best to rent furniture here until we move so that I can continue working? Hmm...that actually sounds like a good idea...but will it cost a fortune? Are they loaner furniture programs available here in San Diego through the military? Or do we need to completely rough it and bust out the air mattress and sleeping bags and live off of plastic cup, utensils, and other camping gear?
I need to start getting my dogs ready for this trip too! I just found out that Continental is the ONLY airline that flies dogs into Guam. It's going to cost around $570 for Molly, our English Bulldog, and around $470 for Buttercup, our Beagle...this price includes a night at a kennel in Honolulu, lucky girls! They'll have to be shipped in separate crates (which we're hoping to find second hand for as cheap as possible) and Molly will need a crate that's at least one size larger than she is since she's a short-nose breed. I need to get these girls microchipped this month and their blood work/tests taken care of now that way they can do the 5-Day quarantine instead of 30-120! I think Buttercup will need one more Rabies shot before we do her blood panel...so we can say that she's had two rabies vaccinations prior to the big move.
Matty gets irritated with me every time I start talking about what we need to get done. He likes to do things one step at a time. I like to be overly prepared and to take it all on at once. Catalina is not excited about the move. She's enjoying her kindergarten class and all her new friends, but I try to remind her that a beautiful bright girl like herself is going to be top of her class no matter where she lives! It's the truth too. :)
Well ladies and gentlemen, I hope to have more news to share after Tuesday. Tomorrow we are having a Labor Day cookout at my father's ranch. I have meat marinating overnight and everything is going to be delicious! Hope you all get to enjoy the day off and share it with family and friends.
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