Higher ups not happy

Matt was able to speak with Major General Tempel last night at their very casual dinner. He told him about what's been going on with getting us to Korea and everything that's happened this summer. In Matt's words, the general was "visibly upset" about the situation. He immediately called over one of the Colonel's and asked what was being done about the situation. So, I'm grateful to know that this is not the normal with PCSing to Korea. Matt let him know that he has Monday off to try to get things in order with getting our household goods shipped and such, so I guess we can just pray and hope that more can get done during that day.

Matt was also able to speak to someone who just got back from being stationed in Korea and is now heading to Italy. He told Matt that typically the dental corp doesn't have to deal with "big army." But, in Korea it's a bit different. So, all this stuff that is going wrong is due to dealing with "big army." The way he explained that is that usually the dental corp is left to do it's own thing, but in Korea they all have PT at 6:30 in the morning with everyone. So, in other words, the dental corp isn't able to have full control of what it does there. I don't know if anything can be done at this point, I mean Matt leaves for Korea in a week and a half, but I hope that having the issues we've had and letting those higher up know, it'll change for future dental/med personnel PCSing there.

Matt should be able to put in our application the day he gets to Korea. He said it usually takes about 7 days. The hope, for him at least, is that as soon as we are approved we can get on a flight and get out there. I, of course, hope the same thing, but I don't believe that's what will happen. The only reason I'm so pessimistic about it is because of Korea saying they needed to have his application 30 days in advance of him moving there. That makes me think that we will have to wait 30 days after the application is received. I honestly and truly hope that is not the case, but with how amazingly well (please note sarcasm) everything else has gone this summer, it's hard for me to stay optimistic.

On a completely different note, since moving in with my family and having so much to do here on the farm, my kids seem a lot more happy and less stressed. Therefore, I'm doing a lot better as well. I still don't get enough sleep so by 7:00 at night, I'm exhausted and tend to get inpatient with my kids and bed time. I don't do well when I don't get enough sleep. Add in the fact that I haven't been able to start exercising since my miscarriage, and it's a double whammy. I'm allowed to do light exercise, but without enough sleep and time during the day, I'm too tired by the time the kids are in bed to do anything. Hopefully this week I can figure something out. I was wanting to buy a gym pass but didn't want to pay for it if we had a chance of leaving sooner than later. All of these uncertainties pretty much suck, but I'm sure in the long run it'll all make sense why things have happened the way they have.