What a busy few days. Yesterday was a little rough. I had my old manager from Starbucks called and told me that Starbucks was "moving towards my seperation". Apparently my original transfer failed. My old manager, my new manager and myself were all UNAWARE of this. When my new manager tried to enter me into her system, she couldn't find me, so she called Starbucks corporate and and they also couldn't find me. Basically I got lost in the system. According to Starbucks "laws" a employee cannot be AWOL like that for more than 3 days without approved leave or on vacation. So Starbucks corporate was ready to give me the boot. Both my old manager and my new manager stepped up though and got everything cleared up and I am going back to work on Monday.

Kyle and I help Jenn and Jay move into their house today. We're pooped! It was good to see them get settled! It made me jealous!! Hopefully we will be in our house soon! I keep praying and praying!! 

Kyle's truck still isn't ready. Hopefully by the end of next week. At least he has a rental car though so I don't have to share! 

All of my Starbucks buddies from my old store in Boise got laid off yesterday. My heart goes out to them and I wish them all nothing but the best. I love you all and I miss you and I promise that just because this door closed, doesn't mean another will open. 

Poor kitties...

Sad day yesterday. Pidgy, our little rambunctious cat, decided to sit in the window of our hotel room, and she was seen and we had to get rid of our kitties until we move (they are not allowed in the hotel). So Kyle and I were going to board them, but then I got all sad cause they would have been in a cage for 2 more weeks, so we called Jaime and Justin and they graciously let us use their spare room for a little bit. We were over at Jaime and Justin's for a few ours and Kyle was playing with their two little girls, and I couldn't get him to leave! It was kinda cute! 

On our way home we decided to stop by our will-be house to see if they had even started on the repairs....and they have! There was fresh paint, and the sand had been raked. (yes i said sand. Grass doesnt grow here, because well grass doesn't grow in sand) So I am hoping and praying that they will let us in there soon! 

Kyle and I drove out to Destin yesterday and I was noticing the whiteness of the sand. It looked like snow on the ground. Then I looked out into the ocean and saw this BEAUTIFUL turquoise waters in the middle of the bay and realized that there is this huge sand bar on the middle of the bay and all the boats park out there and its a huge paaaaarrrtay! How fun! There is a blow up water slide and tons of people around! 

Marine Forecast

Just to make you all jealous, here is the forecast for the Gulf Waters today:

GULF WATER TEMP

SURFACE:  81

BOTTOM:  73

BAY TEMP  78

15 days and counting...

Day 15 in a hotel. I have officially lost my mind and it has been expensive. Sad thing is, we have about 7 more days here, and we have to pay for it without being reimbursed! rar. 

 I actually have something to do this weekend, I am going to help Jenn and Jay move into their house! I am actually looking forward to hauling boxes! Jenn has a margarita machine and I told her to keep it easily accessible, and I will just drink and move, drink and move. 

Monday I am off on a roadtrip to Alabama to get Kyle's truck. We have had some major issues with the whole truck fiasco! For those of you who don't know, we had Kyle's truck shipped to him in Alabama, the driver forgot to lower the top rack of the shipping truck, and hit an overpass with Kyle's truck. They delivered it in Alabama, to a body shop, and I must say the owner of the body shop has been the sweetest, nicest man I have ever dealt with, I just want to give him a big hug! Anyways, there was extensive damage to the truck, that has taken about 3 weeks to fix. The company who shipped it, Coast to Coast Auto Shipping has been AWFUL to us! I do not recommend them to ANYONE. They wont ship Kyle's truck to us here in Florida, so I am going to go get it! Its not like I have anything else to do, so I am going to go buy a book on CD and hit the open road, again. Sugar Free RedBull, book on CD and driving the beast....3 things I just can't live without. 

Creepy Crawler Sightings: 3. I was standing outside the lobby of our hotel, on the phone with Kyle, and I look down and there is a lizard, just chillin' in the hot sun. Depending on how well you know me, you know that I don't particularly care for amphibians or anything that slithers, or has more than 4 legs. So you can imagine the sight of me trying to put a safe 10 ft distance between me and the lizard at a running pace. The "light rain showers" in Florida is the like the heaviest rain you've ever seen in Idaho, or even California for that matter. After it rains, all the frogs make their way to the side walk. uuuugh!!

My new Starbucks store is 26 miles away from where we live. It's funny, the further away you move from the West coast, the more sparse Starbucks stores become, which might be why none of them are closing over in these parts. I am not sure that the drive will be worth the means, but we will see. At this point I am not willing to give it up, because I am so bored! 

Kyle got another 100% on his test!! He came home, we ate some questionable Chinese food that my stomach is still unimpressed and reminding me of it, I made Kyle treat me to ice cream from the lobby, and then we watched Dexter.

Kyle was asleep by 9:30p.m. and I am in the lobby of the hotel, the only place where there is internet willing sleep to come, but I am totally caught up...humph...

On another note, it totally amazes me how much deodorant I use, and yet I STIL stink. I shower and 4 hours later, there it is again, the dreadful unladylike smell of body odor. I am half expecting the skin of my underarms to melt off from a combination of constant deodorant use and scrubbing in the shower. Is this too much info? 

Ketchup, Mustard, and Mayo

Rar...didn't get a good start to monday! I went to the housing office to beg my "housing counselor" for mercy and let me move into something bigger than 150sq. feet. It didn't work. She actually told me it would be about 2 more weeks! aaaaah! I told her that we were rapidly approaching the 10 maximum that the army will pay for our hotel, and all I got was an unsympathetic look and "there are 15 people ahead of you m'am" So I guess I better hunker down, hold on and pray for daylight.... 

I managed a mission with the cats today so that the housekeeper would clean our very dirty room (they haven't cleaned it all week due to our illegal cat situation). Gotta smuggle them out to the car disguised as a bundle of dirty laundry, drive around base long enough for housekeeping to clean, and just short of me going crazy because everyone is just pissed that we are on the car and they are making as much noise as possible, then smuggle them back in disguised as clean, unfolded laundry. 

I am so bored I could cry. Having a load of laundry to do is literally the highlight of my day. I go and walk around the commissary and the BX (on base walmart-type store) and dream of the day when I can stock my on base house with things like ketchup, mustard and mayo. I would like my readers to remind me of this one day when I am bitching about being too busy, or hating work or when I am attempting to remove the mustard from my silk duvet cover, because Kyle can't seem to eat on the bed without spilling (he thinks its charming, I on the other hand do not) 

Kyle and Pidge on the longest road trip of my life! 2700 miles which took 34 hours!