Should I stay or should I go?

As Steven's graduation date gets closer, we are getting more information with regards to the upcoming moves...or the TDY to Little Rock for training and then later the PCS to Pope...but still no orders.

We may be faced with a moving dilemma because it's not likely that we'll get en route TDY orders. Without those orders, we'll have to move ourselves to Little Rock and then back to San Antonio and then the AF will take care of the PCS to North Carolina. Because of this, we are thinking about me staying in San Antonio while Steven does his training in Little Rock. Before we decide on that, we will be sitting down to budget. If we're not going to be rolling in dough by being apart then I see no point! I would be fine working just about anywhere for those months, and I think I'd probably have to get a raise to make staying here work. I'd want to fly up to LR and hang out probably every other weekend or so. Also, would I go nuts living with my parents for that length of time? I'm not sure - still quite a few things that need to be figured out! Another big question - who gets to keep the TV? lol

All I know is that we'll be working on a budget to see where we'd stand if we both go to Little Rock, or if I stay here, and I'll just be hoping for an en route TDY so that the AF will take care of the move and I can look for a job up there. :)

I wish we had our orders SO badly! I'm too anxious about moving to keep waiting and not have a clue about when we're leaving. Also, everyone keeps asking when when when and I still don't think they believe me when I say that I have no clue. It'd be helpful for planning at work to know when we're leaving, but for now we just have to plan as though I'll be gone right after Steven graduates - which could happen. It wouldn't be bad to have someone trained and ready to rock and then have extra time though.

I just want to know when we're going! There are so many things up in the air since we don't have a date....fingers crossed these orders come soon so I don't go crazy!

Our first real move is coming up..

About a week ago, we found out (finally!!) where we will be going when Steven graduates from training. We were both anxious to find out where - now we just have to wait until he gets his orders to find out when. At least half of the battle is over though. We'll be going to Little Rock AFB for a few months and then to Pope AFB (North Carolina). I'm really excited even though it'll make things a bit hectic moving twice in about 5 months.

While we are excited about the news of where our new home will be, we're going to miss being in San Antonio. We got incredibly lucky to have our first base in my hometown. While we were here, we were able to hang out with family and made some great new friends as well. My wonderful friend Kara and I were hoping that our husbands would end up at the same base again at some point, but I don't know if that will happen. They're in California now and we'll be moving as far east as possible away from them. Of course moving away from friends and family is sad, but it's also exciting. I see being separated as a good excuse for someone to take a vacation!

Since all we know as far as a move date is that it could be as early as 6 weeks, I am trying to slowly do things to prepare so I don't have to take a ton of time off work while I have a job! Speaking of jobs, looking for a job will be interesting. I'll only have a few months and I'm hoping I'll be able to find something on base in Little Rock because we may have to get rid of my car. It's stressing me out because I don't want anything to happen on the drive up there. The check engine light came on the other day for a while and I went to get my oil changed and apparently there's a bad leak so they wouldn't do it. I'm going to try taking it somewhere else later and I hope they'll at least change it so we don't end up with additional problems because of loss of oil. Even though I really do love not having car payments and I like my granny car - it scares me to think that it may decide it's not driving me to Little Rock. I wouldn't mind getting a new car (maybe a RAV4?), but I wanted the timing of that purchase to be on our terms. I don't really want to buy a new car and put a ton of miles on it right away, and new vehicle taxes and fees are less in North Carolina than in Texas or Arkansas, so I hope we can hold out until we get there. One good thing about possibly getting rid of the car would be that Steven and I would be together for the drives unless we rent a U-Haul or something - but if we did that we wouldn't have to worry about either of us towing a car. So...not all bad either way.

I have been browsing online looking at houses and that's always exciting. I've also been trying to gather information on the areas and fun things to do so we can make the most of our time in our new homes.

Steven's out of town for the weekend - so I better get going! I have lots of chores to do while he's out of my way. ;)