6.30.2009

I can almost taste the freedom.

We "basically" have a year left in Guam. Oh goodness, it feels wonderful. We haven't officially gotten our orders to Washington but Jamie was told that they need him to feel a spot in August 2010. I guess that is "basically" a guarantee. Jamie's old detailer still has not released him to this new guy. The new guy is old & little peeved but is still processing Jamie as if he was his own. Awesome. There are still a few more steps before we get the okay & one of those really amuses me. There is the phone interview & then a polygraph test! WOO! I wish I could take a picture of Jamie going through a lie detector test. So very awesome. Haha.

We have been talking about Washington a lot lately. We want to buy a house (after we're there for a few years) & make it our forever home. If Jamie is forced to leave Washington, we've decided that he can just be a GB. I don't want to move Presley around too much. Plus, I want to go to school & work part time. Not to mention, Jamie has convinced my brother, Sabin, to move to Washington when we do. Jamie is going to get him a civilian job on base. Sabin has awesome work experience now. I need my brothers to be near. I have never seen my niece & it would be good for them to get a fresh start somewhere new.

Jamie's cousin is leaving for boot camp on the 10th of July... to be a SUBMARINER! Heck yes! He's actually going to be doing the same exact thing that Jamie does. Awesome. He's going to try to get stationed in Washington after boot camp & all of his schools in CT. I'm so excited.

On a side note, we finally found out what is wrong with my mother-in-law. What bothers me is that she didn't directly tell Jamie, we found out through his aunt. She has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Apparently, she is in Stage 4 of the disease. Which is supposed to be the final stage. It makes me feel bad but not for me. For Jamie & his brother/sister. I don't know if she has even told them how sick she really is. Jamie said that if she really is that sick, she is just trying to live her last days like she would anyway. I guess that kind of bothers me. I would want to do everything that I could never do. Live life to the fullest. I guess I'm different. I just don't know how I feel about this. Me & my mother-in-law have never been close (and we are coming up on our 6th anniversary) so it's a weird feeling.

Of course, I would be upset if she passed away but mostly for Jamie. Also for the fact that she has never seen or hugged Presley. I don't know.

I need to clean. It's almost 1am. I need to be in bed by 1:30.