When good plans go bad

For most of you, this will be a recap, and you can just skip it since you already know the story.

We've had orders to Okinawa for what, 6 weeks or so.  I was super excited and we had movers scheduled and plans in motion and life was good.  Thursday, Dan forwarded a very short email from the monitor to me.  All it said was "We're shifting you over to become the MCAS Iwakuni SJA. The current SJA, just dropped retirement paperwork." 

I had to read it a couple times.  You think something so monumental would have a bit more written about it, but I guess the essentials are there.  Lest you are unaware of military-speak, it says that the current law boss on the base located on the mainland of Japan had just put in for retirement and they were going to have Dan replace her.  This means, no Okinawa for us, but rather, Iwakuni, instead.  I felt like the gps when I make a turn it doesn't like.... "Recalculating, recalculating!" Sure, it is still Japan, but the difference and the implications are enormous.

So things have been a little crazy.  It takes a bit to enter paperwork into the system and that is required before Dan can get his orders.  So we know things are changing but we can't do a dadgummed thing about it because we have no orders!!  The lady at the travel office did do us a lovely favor and she was able to reserve the family and the dog on a flight to Iwakuni for the end of August, which is fabulous.  This means we can bring the dog.  Dan has a timeframe- they want him by 31 August, so that is good to know.  The only thing we do not have is orders to change our movers and we do not have medical clearance.

We can't take care of the movers until we have orders.  I fear that once we go in to the office, they will cancel our move and make us re-enter everything, which would push our time-frame back.  Dan was able to call the already-scheduled movers and ask them if they could do the new move and they thought they could, on the day they were already scheduled.  But that may not work out.  Bah, it is too stressful to think about.  We hope to have movers 2 weeks from today, but who knows?!

This is my excuse for not blogging.  And now I am going into denial and will catch up on blogging to avoid the insanity that my life has become.