Off Hiatus!

Clearly I have been gone for a while.

I blame it on two things.

1-Pure laziness. Yep that's me!

2-Typing on a cell phone(even a nifty iphone) takes a bazillion times longer than typing. I also loose track of what Im saying when posting from the phone.

So now that we've gotten that out of the way. I'll update you all a little!

This will in be no specific order, in fact it will  be a little jumbled!

We are currently living back in Lakewood(by .Ft. Lewis)

Yep. Not in the Valley. The house we were attempting to buy came to a stand still. We were using a VA loan on a foreclosed HUD home. Our house budget is modest at 120K. We are not about to put ourselves over what we feel we can feasibly afford and at that price our mortgage would be no more than $700. The down side. Most homes in our area at that price are foreclosed. If you have ever searched for a home and looked in to foreclosures, you have noticed a not so nice trend. People like to destroy the home before they leave.....

The first home we wanted to buy, the people went so far as to take fixtures, and molding. Rip random chunks of tile out and punch holes in the walls.

Well this house, that was oh SO perfect for us, really didnt need anything major. It was just slightly out dated. Well kept just outdated. Sparkly popcorn ceilings have long been shunned lol.

The only down fall of this house was the back deck. It was just old. It was only about a foot high so no fall risk, but like I said just old. 

Well the VA can be picky. When they come do their inspection, it has to be up to their standards. They will list a $25 dollar fix that I could do in my sleep. 

The thing with HUD or bank owned homes is that they will not fix anything, and they will not let US fix anything. Putting us at a stand still.

Jared and I made the decision to not waste  around $500 on the VA inspection and $400 on the general inspection, to just be put in a dead lock on the house.

We took this as our sign. To not tie ourselves to the valley just yet. All of our stuff was here in Tacoma already so we wanted to try things here first and then go back to the valley if we needed to!

That leads me to the fact that JAREDS HOME!

Yeah I know I'm about 3 months late. I'm loving it though.

Fact 3- I no longer work at the clinic in the valley. I've applied for 3jobs up here but it can be awhile before I hear anything. I kind of have a feeling I was leaving the clinic at a good time. I just hope for some of my co workers/patients that things are going better.

Fact 4- Jared is on terminal leave until Nov 1st when he will officially be off active duty and out of the army!! 

In true army style though, it was an ordeal for him just to get on terminal leave. 

He was initially supposed to be home in April, to give him adequate time for all of his out processing stuff, before his terminal leave date(90 days from his ets date). Well April came and went and he was finally home in June. It got even more messed up from there.

A lot of the things he had to do are classes you have to sign up for. A big one being SRP. They only do things certain days of the week and times. If you cant make it to a class that day, you wait a whole week. 

One of the most stressful aspects is clearing CIF, which is turning in all the gear that he has been issued. Lets just say gear is notorious for growing legs and walking off.

 Then there are the leave forms and orders. 

Jareds unit is still in country so his forms had to be sent to another brigade to be signed off He can not fully clear post until those orders are given back to him, signed. 

Well his orders sat at this other brigade for almost 2 wks because they "lost" them. The whole time Jared gets treated like a child because he cant get anything else done without these orders. Finally someone did enough bitching and he finally got his orders. Even though he went a week and a half into his terminal leave.

He cleared post in 2 days!!

Most of that spent at CIF trying to appease the inspection people, which is another story for another time.

I think thats about it though. We have been going home about every 2 wks for this or that. We just got back yesterday, went home for the weekend because my brother just got back from his West Pac tour and I haven't seen him in about a year. We will be going back in 2wks for mine and Rylans birthdays. Meghan got us tickets to see the USED in Spokane. We have only been waiting 8yrs to see them lol!

After that though we will settle in to normal life here, with not to many trips back home. 

Hopefully jobs come threw for us, and Jared can start school soon!!