the first day of the rest of my life...
ok. so at this point i cant remember who all i've talked to and who is informed so. this is how its goin down yo:
about 3 weeks ago we got the call and were told charles was to report to OTS (officer training school) in montgomery, alabama tuesday, june 8th. thanks for the warning, eh? since then we've been running around like crazy trying to get everything ready for him to leave. today he went up to MEPS (cant remember exactly what that stands for...) and officially swore into active duty. i went up to see him take his oath and now i'm sitting around waiting for him to get home. tomorrow evening is the going away party/cookout that i'm throwing him at my parents house. expecting around 50 people. should be pretty epic. spending all day sunday together. (dont bother calling me... i wont answer.) and then monday we're going out to breakfast at cracker barrel and he's leaving from there for alabama. he'll be driving out monday, staying at a hotel overnight. and then will report to the base on tuesday morning. fast forward to three months down the road: he will graduate from OTS with all the pomp and circumstance on september 3rd. either shortly before or after that (depending on his schedule and when he has to report to his next station... which we should find out sometime in the first couple months of OTS, i expect) i will be packing up all our junk and hauling it all out to panama city, fl. and that is where we will be living for about the next 8-9 months and where charles will attend his first "school" to learn his job. following that we will be in either georgia or oklahoma for an additional 4 months of training from whence we shall move to his first actual duty station. our options for this seem to be, again, georgia or oklahoma. other possiblities include alaska and japan... bit of a jump there. we should have a clearer picture of where exactly we'll be heading after he graduates from OTS.
so. thats all the facts. on the flip side of the factual, i'm very much feeling as though i'm caught up in a whirl wind... i'm not exactly scared. not yet anyway. i'm sure all this will change on monday. but right about now i'm feeling pretty confident. i will not lie though, the thought of moving away from home and my family for the first time in my life does make my stomach clinch a little bit. but it had to happen at some point. i cannot stay here for the rest of my life. and this is feeling right. i am and am not feeling excited about living alone for the first time in my life. i'm afraid that it will not feel so much like home without him here. i'm missing him already and he's not even gone. on the other hand, i am looking forward to a bit of 'me time' and having some time to focus and figure out where i stand and what exactly i want to do with my life. who knows if three months solitude will yield any answers, but i am hopeful. i am planning to quit my job sometime in august (early to mid) in order to have some time to organize our stuff, make preliminary trips out to panama to find a place, and wade through the paperwork to get the miltiary movers scheduled and taken care of. i am counting down the days. i haven't decided yet on whether i want to request a transfer to a cvs out there to insure i've got a job or whether i'd like to make a clean break. the excitement with which i have numberd my days at my current store makes it hard to want to pursue the first course. just looked it up and there are a total of 6 store listing for panama city (i was kinda shocked but then i remembered that there are 4 in OP with another each in green cove and middleburg so i guess thats about standard... jeez...) so i'm sure there'd be one close to home... but... yeah. barf. i think i'll do a bit more research into the area befor i decide to stick with cvs. hopefully there's something better... anyhoo... i guess thats all i've got for now. i'm sure i'll be updating sometime again soon. love you all. thanks for reading.
about 3 weeks ago we got the call and were told charles was to report to OTS (officer training school) in montgomery, alabama tuesday, june 8th. thanks for the warning, eh? since then we've been running around like crazy trying to get everything ready for him to leave. today he went up to MEPS (cant remember exactly what that stands for...) and officially swore into active duty. i went up to see him take his oath and now i'm sitting around waiting for him to get home. tomorrow evening is the going away party/cookout that i'm throwing him at my parents house. expecting around 50 people. should be pretty epic. spending all day sunday together. (dont bother calling me... i wont answer.) and then monday we're going out to breakfast at cracker barrel and he's leaving from there for alabama. he'll be driving out monday, staying at a hotel overnight. and then will report to the base on tuesday morning. fast forward to three months down the road: he will graduate from OTS with all the pomp and circumstance on september 3rd. either shortly before or after that (depending on his schedule and when he has to report to his next station... which we should find out sometime in the first couple months of OTS, i expect) i will be packing up all our junk and hauling it all out to panama city, fl. and that is where we will be living for about the next 8-9 months and where charles will attend his first "school" to learn his job. following that we will be in either georgia or oklahoma for an additional 4 months of training from whence we shall move to his first actual duty station. our options for this seem to be, again, georgia or oklahoma. other possiblities include alaska and japan... bit of a jump there. we should have a clearer picture of where exactly we'll be heading after he graduates from OTS.
so. thats all the facts. on the flip side of the factual, i'm very much feeling as though i'm caught up in a whirl wind... i'm not exactly scared. not yet anyway. i'm sure all this will change on monday. but right about now i'm feeling pretty confident. i will not lie though, the thought of moving away from home and my family for the first time in my life does make my stomach clinch a little bit. but it had to happen at some point. i cannot stay here for the rest of my life. and this is feeling right. i am and am not feeling excited about living alone for the first time in my life. i'm afraid that it will not feel so much like home without him here. i'm missing him already and he's not even gone. on the other hand, i am looking forward to a bit of 'me time' and having some time to focus and figure out where i stand and what exactly i want to do with my life. who knows if three months solitude will yield any answers, but i am hopeful. i am planning to quit my job sometime in august (early to mid) in order to have some time to organize our stuff, make preliminary trips out to panama to find a place, and wade through the paperwork to get the miltiary movers scheduled and taken care of. i am counting down the days. i haven't decided yet on whether i want to request a transfer to a cvs out there to insure i've got a job or whether i'd like to make a clean break. the excitement with which i have numberd my days at my current store makes it hard to want to pursue the first course. just looked it up and there are a total of 6 store listing for panama city (i was kinda shocked but then i remembered that there are 4 in OP with another each in green cove and middleburg so i guess thats about standard... jeez...) so i'm sure there'd be one close to home... but... yeah. barf. i think i'll do a bit more research into the area befor i decide to stick with cvs. hopefully there's something better... anyhoo... i guess thats all i've got for now. i'm sure i'll be updating sometime again soon. love you all. thanks for reading.