So, it’s been a while, huh? It's been a busy few months! We moved to our new base, so
getting settled has been an adventure. Here’s a little bit about that…
It’s definitely a small town, but it’s nice having my
husband home more than a few days at a time. It’s also nice to be able to make
plans and not have to cancel them! A few weeks ago, we went to a concert.
Together. It was fantastic. I know that probably doesn’t sound like much, but
at the previous base if we wanted to make plans, he would have to use leave
days, even on regular days off and base holidays. Pilots don’t get regular days
off.
As usual, we live off base. The base housing here seems way
nicer than any other base we’ve been to, but we still have no desire to live on
base for a variety of reasons. The new place is nice, more room than we need,
but it works out well. We were able to put our adorable little house up for
rent with a property manager and it was rented after only 2 weeks on the
market! Since I was raised Catholic, I buried Saint Joseph in the front yard. I know that’s
supposed to be more for selling your home, but I figured we needed all the help
we could get in this market and the house did rent really fast! I don’t know
anything about the tenants (people keep asking me this), it’s why we have a
property manager… We’re not “landlord” types.
The thing I miss most is probably decent shopping. When you
grow up in Florida,
you know that no other grocery store can compare to Publix and the nearest one
to us is an hour away now. The Kroger here is kind of sad, and the commissary
on base is really small. There is a good farmer’s market, though. I also miss
the amazing outlet mall… The mall here is kind of limited, so I will need to do
some shopping when I visit home (Florida)
or my wardrobe may start to suffer.
Miraculously, nothing was damaged in the move! The one
really nice thing about moving with the military is they do almost all of it
for you. Some people elect to try to move themselves and the military will reimburse.
(You can actually make some decent money this way if you’re smart about it.)
However, we are lazy and if we had to pack ourselves, we’d give up half way
through.
Another thing to be thankful for is my job. Since I
telecommute, I can work anywhere and my leaders and team mates have been so
incredibly supportive of me! I really can’t thank them enough!
I don’t want to speak too soon, but I haven’t been contacted
by the spouse association here, which is amazing.
There may not be a ton to do here, like our last base, but
at least it’s close to things, which helps. At our last base, it was estimated
that my husband spent 2 out of the 4 years we were there away from home, I am
looking forward to having him around a little more :) The next update will be a
little more fun, I promise…
