a deuces wife

This is a blog about my life as a soldiers wife.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

I have left Fort campbell

Well I finally left Fort Campbell. Our family got so jacked up by Campbell that we are still trying to recover. We didn't leave until the 6th of March, we made it across country in 4 days. The drive was nice. Everything went well on the trip aside from driving through Wy. The winds there messed with the truck enough to make it start to smoke. We made it to Fort Lewis by the 10th of March. My hubby was able to sign in like he was supposed to, then all kinds of shit happened to us again. We were told back at Campbell that our oldest child would get us placed on the housing list quicker because of his special needs. So we go and talk to housing they basically laugh at us and send us away. So all the while we are spending 78$ a night for a hotel out here. We find an apartment, but are running low on money. We manage to get the deposit money only to be told that they rented the appt. out. The good news is they had another one same design on the second floor for 400$ more a month. All of this occurred within about 4 days and within the same month. I could see it it was straddling months but it wasn't. So we basically told the appt. complex to kiss ass. So we are still in the hotel and all but out of money. Our travel pay is supposed to come in so I am doing alright, until I find out that the travel pay isn't coming there is some confusion on the paper work. So by now we have been in the hotel for almost 2 weeks. We go back to housing, they have a house for us but not until the 11th of April. We have to come up with almost 700$ dollars to move onto post. We have to beg borrow and steal to come up with the money and we still where 2 days off of the 11th. I wound up having to take the kids and our dog down to Oregon to stay with Morgana or else we would have been on the street. We are now in our new house. It has lots of windows and decent amount of space. I like the new house. The kids seem to like it also. Well I am off I will rant some more later.