Busy times
Sorry I haven’t been writing much. Here’s a quick update on things:
1. We are having a major inspection at work next week. Everything in our offices will be scrutinized. This will be a lot of fun, considering the last 10 years of papers have not been shredded and no one knows what is going on in my office. I’ve been playing catch up since I got here. A week or two after the inspection, the deputy JAG from Washington, D.C. is going to be visiting our offices. And we have a trial coming up that is bringing additional stress to work. Once all that stuff is done, I’m sure things will slow down considerably and the stress level will go way down. But for now, that’s not the case.
2. We’re still getting our stuff settled in. We do not have a bookcase, but we have boxes and boxes and boxes of books - nowhere to put them. In our bedroom, we went from a walk in closet with tons of space to a very small closet. We don’t have anywhere to put our boxes and boxes and boxes of clothes. We no longer have a spare bedroom, so we have nowhere to put our boxes and boxes and boxes of craft and fishing and photography stuff. Well, we do have somewhere to put them (the shed), but we have nowhere to put them that is easily accessible and that we can work in.
3. B is taking a scuba diving class. It’s a very concentrated class, everything is done in one week and this weekend he’ll go scuba diving both days - one day in Tarifa, one day in Gibraltar. I’m green with envy. I’ll be going to the next class.
4. Our car is here and almost done being taken care of. You cannot believe how much is involved with getting a car here. Obviously, you have to ship it from the states and do all that associated paperwork, but once it gets here, you have to go to the security office, then to the gas station, then back to the security office, then off base to get the car, then back to the gas station, then back to security, then back to security a week later, then back to the gas station, then back to security. It’s quite ridiculous. We’re still not done, but we’re at the end of the process. We just need our license plates now.
On top of that is the everyday stuff like homework, grocery shopping, making dinner, and watching American Idol, so as you can imagine, life is pretty nuts right now. We haven’t gotten to do much sightseeing for the last couple of weeks, hopefully next weekend I’ll be able to go somewhere. Hopefully Sevilla.
