The Good and The Bad.

Well today has been a roller coaster, and I am currently at the bottom of a hill, hoping to start climbing again eventually. This morning started off great. My husband has been a PFC since AIT, and not because he didn't deserve to be promoted. Only 8 months into his first duty stations, he got deployed. Anyone who knows anything about being a 13F knows how deployments work with them. They are managed through Headquarters and sort of, contracted out to the platoons. While all of the infantry guys can be promoted through their platoons, the 13F's have to be promoted through Headquarters still. And of course Headquarters deals with eight million things at once, so they took forever to get his paperwork done. That and they were on E4 overload. So finally today, my husband got his E4. And he says that they're going to send him to the board for E5 in July, so he could be an E5 for a year before we ETS. So that's my good news. It's been a long time coming, and they told him he'd have it months ago, so we were so happy to finally get the news.

The bad news is just horrible news. Well, I guess there's nothing we can do about it, but I'm still pretty upset about it. Yesterday my husband told me that he's leaving a day later. I was kinda irritated with that, but expected it and wasn't too upset because it was just a day, which wouldn't be much in the scheme of a year. However, tonight he told me they have now added another five days onto that. All because the new unit coming in doesn't have their crap together like they were supposed to and are getting there late. Thanks a lot whoever you are. So, it looks like he'll be getting to Hawaii only like 4 days before me, instead of a week and half like before. So I'm just super bummed out about that. It pretty much ruined how well the day was going. I guess I can only try to find the positive in it, and that's that he won't have to wait as long by himself and that we'll get to do more of the house unpacking and setting up together. Or like I told him today, I'd be able to unpack everything now so that he can find the PS3 and play COD while I work...