Here we are, a part of this lovely BRAC move. The same BRAC move they knew about 5 years ago and have been putting off until the deadline this year..To the Army Gods that Be, from my house to yours: "THANK YOU!
This move is really chapping every part of my behind that is left. First it's the stress of the impending move but you can't do anything yet because you don't have orders. Then you get orders and put yourself on the lovely housing list only to hear "Oh congrats, You're number 585 out of 600" For those that don't know about housing lists, you don't recieve on post housing until your number is up. In my case that would be 584 people from myself and to get a house you also have to first have someone leave that house, which is 584 people leaving that post before you even qualify to get a house. Not..HELPFUL. I know lots of people who live on post but apparently they have the secret to getting on post and I do not.
Then you give up on on post housing and start looking for a rental bc you gotta have some place to live for your child to start school 20 days after you arrive. Which would be fantastic except for the fact that this is a BRAC move, which means everyone in the Brigade is moving...to the same place.. 2500 people ALSO looking for a place to live.
And then we uncover the lovely "nobody likes renting to people who have a big dog" Soooo our options are 1. find poochy a new home, 2. live in a box, 3. Stay here and let the hubster live there alone in the barracks.which also means -another- year apart after a 370 day deployment. SOOO we had to find a new home for our beloved poochy. We have less than 2 weeks to be there and haven't found 1 person to rent to us. So sue me, animal lovers, I cannot do another year apart.
We find us a lovely apartment, sans pooch, walking distance to the big ones school, near base, everything is going our way until we realize that our new house is not in the district we thought it was, the district we are already pre-registered in. It's in a district that you cannot pre-register in online, ya gotta be there in person and, oh yah, the Pre K programs are "filling up quick" and we can't register her until we get there. If the big one doesn't go to the school near us she'd be assigned to another school 30 mins away..near Juarez. Here is what my problem is.. we're a 1 car family at the moment!!! The hubs has to go to work.. School starts WHILE hubs is at PT still.. It..doesn't..work..out. Or should I just tell my darling 4 year old who is so very very excited about starting school that she doesn't get to go? Nor do I feel comfortable putting my 4 year old on a bus to Juarez.
All this drama for 1 year.
aaaaaaannnddd my husband just informed me that he unscrewed and 'popped apart' a piece of my car..........
I need a drink............
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