Soooo, Shawn and I are in the middle of getting ready to go to bed on Thursday night, when I get a phone call from a former military spouse, and a friend of ours, who just moved back up to Ohio with her husband and kids. She is in the process of finishing up her degree and was afraid that she might have to come back down here to finish up the last couple classes that are required, instead of having to take 8 more classes up in Ohio because the credits didn't switch over. Anyways, she calls me and wants to speak with Shawn, I give her a bad time because she called my cell...then she breaks down in tears telling me that she was about 3 hours away from us when her breaks went out on her, and she almost rolled her truck and she is stranded.
Of course we wake up, grab almost every tool Shawn can think of possibly needing and head out on her little late night adventure. I did mention it was a 3 hour drive away right?? By the time we show up it's almost 1 in the morning and we are exhausted. After 3 hours of working on her truck, a trip to a 24 hour Walmart we are still no closer to fixing her break line than when we first pulled up. So after a half our of convincing her that we are not driving all the way back to Goldsboro and then back up there the next day, we all crash in a hotel.
So Friday morning we wake up, go to a local hardware store, get her new brake lines and install them. We have now been in this town for 12 hours trying to fix her truck! Luckily it did work and we were on our way back home by the 13th hour!
After all of this crazy day, we still got our trailer hitch installed on our truck, we cleaned out our Guest Bedroom completely, disassembled our table and are going to do more tomorrow. So it was not a wasted day of no productivity in regards to the move! We spent our very last Friday night in our home last night, but we also did find out that someone was approved to rent and that they will be moving in on the 15th (which is the day after we finish moving out) So that is one WONDERFUL stress off my shoulders.
All this packing and moving, it is exciting like i have said before, but scary! One of the things I keep thinking in the back of my head though is that no matter where I go, I know that Shawn and I will have the same military support that we got from this base. That is just something wonderful about the military! Everyone knows how everyone else feels, You are away from your family, your home. Maybe you spouse is deployed on the holidays, or you can't afford to go back home to your folks for the holidays.. it doesn't matter, you will have somewhere to go and someone to spend it with. When they say you join the military, you join one of the largest families, that is really true, because everyone helps one another out!
Alrighty! Well enough for today! I have an office to take apart! :-)
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