Here's The Before...

With the help of one of Jerome's battle buddies, we made it into base housing with (almost) all of our stuff that we had originally brought with us/acquired while we were here.

I was surprised to see that our name is on the front of the unit:

PV2 is his rank, for those of you who don't speak Army.

Even though we were early for our appointment, the nice lady let us in and showed us around. We signed the papers and she handed off the keys and left.

We pulled in the first truckload of stuff with the help of one of Jerome's buddy's wives, Dawn. It's hard to believe we managed to collect all this stuff in just a month. She drove us back to the house so we could finish final paperwork and clean up a bit.

Later, Specialist Hole (Dawn's husband) helped us move the last of the stuff and let us borrow an air mattress and some sheets. We had two truckloads of stuff, but it barely took up a corner of the living room. A lot of it was quickly unpacked into the kitchen.

The next morning, Jerome left for California to get the rest of our stuff...finally.

This leaves me alone. So, because my mom asked, and because I have nothing better to do, here's a picture tour of a mostly empty house:

The front door...

The kitchen...

That's not my sweater...nope nope.

The stairs:

These will be fun to vacuum,

The living room...

Nicely lit by the windows, but empty.

The laundry room...

Complete with brand new Whirlpool washer and dryer delivered this morning.

The back yard...

We need a rake!

Insert patio furniture here.

And look! A shed for Jerome's bikes to live in!

The office...

Don't look at my mess, this is where I've been spending most of my time...

Aaaand the bedroom...

Yay, more mess!

Not much to see right now...but let's see how it goes after all of our stuff gets here.

Besides, the puppy will make for much cuter pictures...even if the background is just a bunch of boxes.

...yeah, I said puppy. Full details on that one next time...

Running Around in Circles

I have tried several times to make a post with pictures of our house.
...well, the house we're currently living in. More on that in a minute...let's go over how we got here first.

What happened to the apartment you ask?
Well, both the Army housing website and the nice lady we talked to about the apartment told us it was two miles away from the fort. When it came time to go sign papers, Jerome looked up the address on Google Maps only to find that it was 40 miles away. 40 miles is waaaay too far, especially if you don't have a car.

We learned a lesson. The house hunt started again.

The first house we clicked on sounded perfect. Wary, we looked it up on Google. Yep, it was really only five miles away from base. Jerome made the phone call and set up an appointment for the next day at 10am.

The neighborhood is okay, the house is cute, the landlady is nice. The house came furnished. Three small bedrooms, two bathrooms, a cozy living/dining area, and a great kitchen. All hardwood floors. The only thing we didn't like: no pets.

We signed a temporary agreement and moved in that night. We started making plans. The Christmas tree will go here, we can put some pretty pictures here...etc.

Lucky for us, our things are still stuck in California. If we'd gotten them up here right away, we would be having to move again.

It turns out that Jerome's higher ups had decided that our lack of a vehicle was a huge problem and went behind our backs and went up the chain of command to get our name bumped up to the top of the housing list.

We hadn't been in our house two weeks when we found out. Luckily, we hadn't signed a lease yet.

We will be moving into our unit on post on October 21. I will email the new address to all at that point in time.

There are loads of great reasons to have base housing. The one that I care about most: we can get a dog!

At this point, we have a loose plan for Jerome to go home and get our things the following weekend. If you're involved in this and have not been contacted yet, be patient, you will be. It would help if we knew exactly what was going on ourselves.

I will try to get some pictures up again later this week, but my camera and computer and Blogger all seem to be not getting along.

On a completely different note: I have never had to cook breakfast every day before! I'm looking for different things to do besides your normal pancakes, French toast, bacon and eggs, etc. I'm scouring the internet on my own, but if anyone has any fun breakfast ideas, I'd love to see them. Drop me an email: Mutnik@gmail.com

Jerome will be home soon. I'd better get going. Later, y'all.