Next chapter....coming up!

[mishka422]

He is going Navy. His dad was a Marine (ok...is...I know, I know, once a Marine, always a Marine) and we flat out told Marc that he was not cut from the cloth Marines are made of. That's a whole special kind of crazy! LOL He has been raised in the home of a Marine so he's pretty used to being under strict orders. I know all about that crazy scripted call. I'm prepared for it, kind of, LOL. It's so different with my baby leaving.

Gabe and I were dating when he left for boot camp. I wrote letters like crazy. Of course, that was LONG before email or anything of the like. He never told me not to send it on cute puppy dog stationery. LOL! He got bent every time he got a letter from me and that was almost daily. HA! I promised Marc I wouldn't do that to him.

Thanks for the encouraging words. I hope I can maintain composure! LOL

[JustStunned]

Eight weeks at Great Lakes...He'll do fine and so will you.

My father trained at Great Lakes during a different time early 1941. Grampa was Navy also. I felt a different calling. That is often what it is or becomes, a calling.

Mom sent a single piece of chewing gum in her daily letter to me while I was at PI. I paid for each one and it took about two weeks for the gum laiden letters to cease. Mom never truly understood why I paid.

Semper Fidelis

[mishka422]

LOL! I'll bet you did! ARGH!

[scooby]

Mishka

Attaching to your thread. Kuddos for your son. If I had to do it again, I would go military mainly for the schooling. I was able to get a BA but unable to get a MA, which made my BA useless. Now I am older, getting divorced, losing my job, and looking at going back to get my MA....ugh!

[mishka422]

Welcome to my thread Scooby. It's a lot of up and down but isn't everyone? Lol.

[scooby]

Very true. Feel like I am on another planet most of the time. My h is one crazy idiot. But I have gotten to the point I laugh now.

[gunny]

my buddy once mailed a postcard with a Russian astronaut on it to me at bootcamp. We were out a ebeach for a couple of weeks, and my drill instructor called me up, handed me the postcard, and made me dig!! Funny thing is, my buddy was a Marine grunt, and he was just getting some fun payback for past transgressions! Funny memory from the old days!

[mishka422]

That is priceless gunny! Payback is a bummer!

This move felt like it was coming together and then, last night, after working moving most of my kitchen all day yesterday, I realized that was barely a dent in the massive amount of stuff to move. How do 3 people need this quantity of stuff? If gotten rid of a ton of it but I need to do more. The thrift store was loving seeing my car pull up for a while there. I never unloaded less than 8 bags at a time.

We have to be done moving by this next Sunday. None of the big stuff can be moved until then. Even the smaller things can't go really until we have the bigger things to put them on and in.

I am going to move the coat closet and the linen closet tonight. I need to start wrapping all of the depression glass in my great great grandmother's china cabinet. That thing scares me to death to move. Gabe is petrified something is going to happen to it. It is absolutely beautiful and if something happens to it there is no easy way to fix it. The glass inside is valuable too but moving those pieces is easier than the cabinet.

Again, babbling. Too much in my head spinning right now.

I will say, Gabe is the voice of reason. I get freaked out and panicked and Gabe calms me down quickly. Thank heavens.

[kat727]

Take deep breaths! It will be fine. Foreseeing gloom and doom just brings that to you. Have you asked lots of friends to help out? I find if you feed people they will come.

How come you can't get the big stuff moved earlier? Either way, the great thing is that it is down the street. Not too far to move. You got this.

kat

[mishka422]

We can't move the big stuff without a vehicle to load it in and we won't have that until Saturday morning. My cousins are coming to help and we are using her son's landscaping truck and trailer instead of shelling out money for a truck.