at least it's not algebra

i am horrible at math. no really, i am that embarassed person who has to count on her fingers to do basic addition..... being here in guam has made me feel like we're living in a math problem......
if jeff and amy would like their hotel room temperature to be 76 degrees fahrenheit and the thermometer reads 28 degrees celsius, how many times do they push the little button to make the AC turn on? oh & this word problem is also a great headache inducer...... if amy needs to call the states and reach someone tuesday evening around 6pm EST, what time would she need to call when calling from guam?
it's not too bad, i think i'm figuring it out....
in other news, we have a house now! i'm excited to move in & get settled!

we made it!

yay! we're here in guam!! it's beautiful!! still in the 1st phase of getting settled..... house hunting, jeff's in-processing, using the wonderful services offered by uso...... wink, wink.
can't decide if we want to live on base or off..... i really like 2 of the places we saw today, but i'm concerned about the distance (it's only about 10-15 mins from base, but with one car, that's alot of trips in a day) there are more pros & cons for both sides, & i think we're leaning more toward base housing, but still undecided......
love staying at the resort right now, but will really like finding our place.
i'll post some pics whenever we get our computer, which might be a while considering all of our things are still sitting in our florida apt with no ship date in sight.
overall, guam - two thumbs up! i think we're really gonna love our time here!

ORDERS

jeff just got his orders!

from island 1 to island 2

so close to the move.......

from here........

to here.....

countdown to insanity

we are one grand jeté from a flight to guam & still no orders. i'm having issues because..... A. we have no scheduled move date for movers to come get our stuff, so we're paying rent & utilities for a vacant-ish apartment. B. we will stop receiving BAH as soon as we sign onto base housing in guam. C. we can only take 3 checked bags without paying a fee because our first flight is on a different airline taking us back to jeff's "duty station" - it is not an international flight & usairways was sucky on the phone about our "situation". welcome to the military huh. so awesome. i just hope we can get reimbursed for BAH if we have to pay rent for the rest of this month & if we have to pay to check some bags, which we will most likely have to do because i'm not sure i can live out of 1 shared suitcase until dec 30...... in case you're wondering the other 2 checked bags are jeff's uniforms. so i have to find the biggest suitcase ever (not too big because airlines will charge you for that too) in order to fit the rest of our clothes, records & papers, toiletries, shoes..... i think we can make it work, just at a place right now where i just have to vent.

i will learn to live minimally. it's ok. it'll be kinda nice to not have to worry about stuff. right now we are cluttered with stuff- stuff in storage piles, stuff in HHG piles..... so much stuff to sort through. i guess this "situation" is a blessing. in disguise.

joys (aka deliriums) of moving

ah the moving preparations..... the house is a crazy mess. still no orders. but we had an "awesome" yard sale on saturday.... only lost $13. to explain, the ad in the paper cost $26 & we made a whopping $13, so.... oh well. not entirely a bust, we had lots of laughs & allowed boredom to influence our already silly tendencies.....

waiting.......

trying to fit into the bottom of our tv hutch.....

so after moving the majority of all our sale items back inside, we hung out until it was time to party halloween style...... jen had us all over to her house & then we went to the coast to toast.

the artist & the grafitti

me and adam ant (mr. todd eric allen, my boss)

jen & amanda messin