Cancellation
My orders have been cancelled. I have a day to think about what I want to do about it. I can try to get them reinstated, but there is no guarantee that I will get the same orders. I have to reenlist, then hope I get orders that I like. That is what I have been trying not to do. But I feel strangely satisfied with this turn of events, actually. Seth is upset, thinking that I will not be happy going back home and getting my education. He sounds like a father or something as he tells me how bad the economy is, that I won't find enough work to sustain my standard of living, etc. I will be in school for up to eight years, going for free AND getting paid extra money by the government for housing. I am not too concerned about the economy right now as it pertains to me. Plus, Paul will be in school with the same deal. With BOTH of us using the Post 9/11 GI Bill, I don't think we have to worry too much.
I know his heart is in the right place, and it's really nice to have my dear brother looking out for me. I know that he doesn't have faith in my choices, though. He hasn't known me long enough to know that I know what will get me through just fine and dandy. I think part of it is that he will miss me, but I will always be able to visit him when he get back from Korea. His next duty station will only be a state away!
I haven't talked to the family, yet. I just found out about all this today while I was at my doctors appointment. One good thing is that my last PT test really WAS my last PT test, and I got a 90. That means, I have an unbroken 90 or above PT score for my whole military career^_^ It doesn't win me any prizes or anything, but is pretty self-rewarding, lol.
I'm a little sad that I won't have an opportunity so soon to go out of the country again, but there will be ample opportunity for that later. Can we say a summer vacation to Japan in a year or two? That would be nice. Or maybe Ireland or Germany? Equally nice. Either way, I am leaving my military career on a good note. I've got plenty of money left over from what I made on deployment, I'm even closer to having my car paid off completely, I'm in great physical shape still^_-, free education is waiting for me, and I finally get to go home and get shit started.
Maybe after a year of going to school and getting the hang of things in the civilian life, Paul and I will reopen the "Starting a Family" conversation. We talked a bit about it a week ago, and we were thinking of trying for a baby after I got back from Korea. But if I'm not going, we get to try while we're at home. I don't want to start a family all at once, though. I'm concerned that if we start TOO soon, I won't be able to handle the adjustment, school, and a family all at once. And we all know how fragile my emotional state can be when I am overwhelmed, lol. When I separate, we will have been together for a year and a half, about. If we wait for a year after I start school to get adjusted and used to new stressors, it will be about three years. That sounds hunky-dorey^_^ Sounds just about how long "everyone" suggests to wait until you start your family, after you are through the turbulent first years of marriage (if we can even call our marriage "turbulent"). We will be in our "routine" and settled in a new place with a good plan ahead of us.
I'm pretty happy about being done and going home, regardless.
I know his heart is in the right place, and it's really nice to have my dear brother looking out for me. I know that he doesn't have faith in my choices, though. He hasn't known me long enough to know that I know what will get me through just fine and dandy. I think part of it is that he will miss me, but I will always be able to visit him when he get back from Korea. His next duty station will only be a state away!
I haven't talked to the family, yet. I just found out about all this today while I was at my doctors appointment. One good thing is that my last PT test really WAS my last PT test, and I got a 90. That means, I have an unbroken 90 or above PT score for my whole military career^_^ It doesn't win me any prizes or anything, but is pretty self-rewarding, lol.
I'm a little sad that I won't have an opportunity so soon to go out of the country again, but there will be ample opportunity for that later. Can we say a summer vacation to Japan in a year or two? That would be nice. Or maybe Ireland or Germany? Equally nice. Either way, I am leaving my military career on a good note. I've got plenty of money left over from what I made on deployment, I'm even closer to having my car paid off completely, I'm in great physical shape still^_-, free education is waiting for me, and I finally get to go home and get shit started.
Maybe after a year of going to school and getting the hang of things in the civilian life, Paul and I will reopen the "Starting a Family" conversation. We talked a bit about it a week ago, and we were thinking of trying for a baby after I got back from Korea. But if I'm not going, we get to try while we're at home. I don't want to start a family all at once, though. I'm concerned that if we start TOO soon, I won't be able to handle the adjustment, school, and a family all at once. And we all know how fragile my emotional state can be when I am overwhelmed, lol. When I separate, we will have been together for a year and a half, about. If we wait for a year after I start school to get adjusted and used to new stressors, it will be about three years. That sounds hunky-dorey^_^ Sounds just about how long "everyone" suggests to wait until you start your family, after you are through the turbulent first years of marriage (if we can even call our marriage "turbulent"). We will be in our "routine" and settled in a new place with a good plan ahead of us.
I'm pretty happy about being done and going home, regardless.