Its been 20 days since we arrived and well we are going stir crazy. There is a popular song I heard the other day that fit my feelings perfectly, "Hotel California". The last verse says...
The last thing I remember is I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax," says the night man, "We are programmed to recieve
You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave."
Again, perfect!
The girls and I are stuck inside today, as we are expecting delivery of the items Jim shipped from Korea AND our Unaccompanied Baggage. This is good and bad. Good because the things in those deliveries will be useful when we get a place of our own. But bad because I am not sure where we are going to stick the stuff till that time. I know we are getting the crib, linens, a TV and one of Jims black lockers. Of course, he is at work, so that leaves me to figure this all out. The one thing I was hoping that I had packed in UAB was the nice stroller. But after looking over the packing list we found it was shipped with our regular household goods. We purchased a cheap (and broken we discovered) umbrella stroller, just to get us through the airport. We figured that we wouldnt need it once we got here as Rosemary walks relavitely well. But each time we go get groceries we have to walk about a mile each way, and carry back heavy groceries. Hopefully soon we will have a car so this will be a mute point, but right now I would love to have my nice, large wheeled, baggage carrying stroller. Oh well, we will muscle through it, with a smile plastered on our faces.
On other news, we are still waiting for a house. We have been assigned to an apartment on the 3rd floor on post. Its tiny, only 1,000 sqr feet and three bedrooms. So you can guess how small the living area is! Its also on the 3rd floor, did I mention thats three flights of stairs to be climbed with two little kids AND most of the time carrying something like large bags of groceries? Yes, I am excited.... oooh baby, hold me back.... Its been a series of unlucky events and bad timing to get us to this point. We have one last attempt to get out of being forced on post, but we arent holding our breath that it will work out.
Jim got his international license the other day. He scored 100%!! Good for him, but now I am procrastinating like no other. If I get any less than that I will never hear the end of it. I was originally just hoping to pass... now I have to be perfect... fun times. I have to do it in the next few weeks because my car should be here sometime in the next three weeks. But that still gives me time to find other things more important, right? right.
Thats about it right now for updates for us. Jim should be purchasing his new car here in the next day or two, so I will post pictures from that when he gets it. I took some pictures this morning of the girls and I, plus a random video. And I am going to add a link to the latest installment of Carmens pictures off of her camera. So, enjoy!!!
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