The latest

Well I have the paper orders and I went to transportation and they set me an appointment for the 10th of September. I'm glad they're not in any hurry :( Still nothing new on the house, I have a feeling we are going to have to rent it out. I'm not real happy at all about that. It will probably cause us to not be able to buy in Alaska. Anyway not much else going on at all. We are about 70% packed, just waiting on everything to fall into place.

Stress

Well I got the paper copy of the orders so now I can file for the pay to get started. I'm going to try to do that Monday.

I am getting real sick of the Texas weather. It has been over 100 degrees everyday for as long as I can remember now. Today it is 106, I really can't wait to get away from this crap.

The house is getting to be more and more of a worry. I'm afraid we might have to rent it out, that really scares me. In fact the whole financial process of this move is scaring me. We have so much left to do but I am losing motivation. Depression has set in.

Arghhh

So I will never figure out how it is that one office can get it done in 2 hrs, 2 other offices can have it done in 2 days, but 1 office needs at least 2 weeks. I'm referring to Katie and Dakota's doctor offices getting copies of their medical records for us. We had to have them today and only the one office was being a complete pain in the butt about it. I had to send Katie in to talk to them, I was ready to burn the place to the ground, and probably would of had the cops called on me if I went in. Anyway she managed to get them and we got the review done. Now we just wait for the paper copy of our orders so we can start the painfully annoying process of clearing Fort Hood.

I do know that I will be putting in for 30 days of leave and 12 days of travel time. That means we should be leaving Fort Hood on 28SEP and getting to Michigan 2 days later if all goes well. Plans are to be in Michigan for a couple weeks then start the journey up to Alaska.

Been a couple weeks

Well it has been a couple weeks so I thought I would try to give you all an update. Let's see what has happened? Well for one my laptop died. I guess the trips out to Iraq and back have taken their toll. So not sure what to do about that. Katie's computer is starting to have it's own issues, but that doesn't surprise me as it is 4+ years old. Not sure what we should get or if we even should get anything. Although not having one would make communication with families a real pain in the butt.

We are hiring a guy to repair the hallway floor and retile the bathrooms. He starts this Thursday hopefully he will be done by Monday. He did a full remodel of our neighbors bathrooms turning the bath and a half into one big bathroom. From all I can tell he did a really good job.

Today I got an appointment to have a gooseneck hitch installed in our truck. It is going to be installed this Friday. I also made a down payment on a trailer.

We decided that financially it will be best for us to do a "DITY" move. That is a do it your self move. The Army will end up paying us about $16-22,000 to do it that way, with about 60% up front. So that is the reason we are buying a trailer. It would cost a bunch to use u-haul or hire a moving company, so we really will do it ourselves. The trailer we ordered is a 8'x24' enclosed gooseneck cargo trailer. It is not a cheap one with plywood and aluminum on the sides. Instead it is an all steel construction. And worse comes to worse and we can sell it once we are in Alaska with the crazy prices of things we may break even. But that is not the plan. We plan to make it there and have a nice trailer for future use paid for by the Army!

Well that's about all I can think of for now. If I misspelled anything it is probably due to the fact that I am typing this all out on my phone!