We were promised that it would get better. Yesterday was absolutely glorious. No too hot, not raining, humidity under 100%.
Got school work done and spent the afternoon at the beach. Larry and the boys spend the night hours fishing. We are having fresh caught shrimp tonight for dinner. He's been spoiled living here at the beach - all the fishing, shrimping, crabbing and clamming is just a short walk away.
I'm re-thinking most of my earlier curriculum choices and now that I have a post office box I can actually get mail.
That was an unexpected frustration in this whole move- when you move without a forwarding address you can send it to "general delivery" at a main post office at your new town. Well.. I choice Camp Lejeune. But apparently I chose the wrong main zip code because when I got there they didn't have any mail and had to look up where it was actually sent- which is downtown Jacksonville.
And while using the term 'downtown' is really a stretch here. it's definitely out of the way and hard to find. My GPS is totally unable to find it and insists it's in Jacksonville, Florida. (sigh, technology)
And when we got there to get the mail, I ask, can I get a PO box? and the answer is " you need proof of physical address- registration, drivers license, lease, etc" to which I looked at him and said "if I had that I wouldn't need a PO box" And he tells me 'oh, that's ok, you can have it sent general delivery for up to a month" so which I reply "it's already been 3 weeks." he says, well, as far as concerned, it started today." gee, thanks.
So this goes on a few weeks when I go to the base post office (the one that didn't have our mail) to cash in a money order (long sorrid story of shipping a car going sideways) and ask them, can I get a PO box? I brought a copy of Larry's orders knowing that usually gets us far on base. Sure, he replies and hands me the same form. I start filling it out and hit the same "physical address" part and instructions that I need 2 proofs of physical address.. and look at him and say "this part is a problem" He says "what's your husband's unit, put that there"
Seriously, that's it?
That's it.
I have a copy of his orders..
That's fine. I don't need them.
Oh glory day.
On to update addresses for all things like bank statements and credit cards...
So I can get the mail actually delivered, hopefully.
The other rather unexpected part in this is that when you use your credit card at the pump and it tells you to put in your zip code... it's hard to remember it. In a military town I don't get too many crazy looks when I have to pull out my phone to look up my address and zip. Usually I just say "we're new, I'm having a hard time remembering it"
We bid on a short sale house. It's a lovely house and we have absolutely no furniture to put in it. Almost absolutely, practically speaking. It's more house than we need. But it has all hard wood floors and I really like that idea. PLUS it has washer/dryer hook ups. And a real size kitchen and fridge. Another huge bonus and it probably wouldn't be TOO hard to put a gas tank and line in for my dryer. BUT you can see the water from it - as in the water that rises when a hurricane visits. So I am almost guarantee you that the first real hurricane of the season will be the month after we close on it if we get it. It's ok as long as I'm mentally geared up for that. It's not like we'll have had time to buy furniture for the thing. I'm still not entirely sure what is on that moving truck since we sold and gave away so much stuff including furniture. It will be like Christmas when we actually do get to open that truck and boxes.
In all it's having a real shower I miss the most. The shower in the camper is good to rinse but not enough water comes out to actually de-soap or de-shampoo so we a trek down to the public bath house for showering. Besides if your use the camper one then you have to empty out your grey water tank that much faster and I'd have to find somewhere else to put my dirty clothes hamper. Some camp grounds have nice laundry and bath houses. This isn't one of them. But it's cheap, it's on the water for fishing and on the beach for swimming. Priorities, people, really. who needs clean clothes and bodies when there is salt water to be in?
I thought it would be washer and dryer I missed most and those are a close second. I'm almost to the point where I think I don't need a dishwasher - it's kinda nice having the dishes washed, dried and put away without having to empty the dishwasher hours later and sort clean vs dirty dishes. I do miss counter space and wish I had a full size dish drainer not the 'it looked good at Ikea' wall one that isn't intended for any of the dishes sizes we have. Not having a washer/dryer or storage space to store dirty clothes it's dramatically changed my view on clothing - every day they need clean underwear. Aside from that, if it isn't visibly dirty or smelly it can be worn again. Some of the family are better at staying cleaner than others. Especially when there is salt water and sand to be digging in.
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