the fun has arrived

well.

here we are at Ft Bragg/Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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There isn't too much to report at the moment: after a nice week in Kentucky with family, the move went relatively smoothly. The movers only took one day to pack and one day to load, so we found ourselves with an air mattress, two suitcases, and a clean apartment late Tuesday night. We spent our last few meals at restaurants we had not managed to stop into yet - if you're ever in downtown Columbia, SC, please do yourself a favor and stop in to Bourbon on Main Street. Order anything with the Cajun pimento cheese (which I will be attempting to recreate at the soonest possible interval) and try not to let your head explode at the four page bourbon menu - and enjoyed walking around what will likely be the only time in our lives we get to live in a downtown atmosphere. I can hold out hope that some company in Chicago will offer Husband oodles of money, but it's a pipe dream. We then stuffed suitcases and felines into vehicles and made the delightfully quick drive north, arriving just in time to head out to dinner with Aunt N. 

Aunt N and Uncle J are also stationed at Ft Bragg, and he is currently deployed. Aunt N has graciously allowed us to stay with her for the next two weeks until our new home is ready, so we have a suite in the basement to share with the cats. It's actually a pretty sweet set up - the air mattress I bought is about 18" off the ground, so we aren't afraid of leaking air and waking up with butts on the floor like we were with the last one. We have a full bathroom and a spare area to put the cats' accoutrements in, and we remembered to set aside the XBOX and smaller TV that Husband used in his room at Ft Lewis, so we have a few terabytes worth of movies and TV shows to watch (a bonus of deployments - people rip books, movies, and TV shows to external hard drives to take with them overseas, which get passed around until one either runs out of space on their hard drive or ends up with enough entertainment to get through an apocalypse...) I also downloaded twelve new books on to my Kindle from said hard drive, so we're not hurting for stuff to do if we decide to take a little time to ourselves. Oh, and of course I brought yarn. We're a little bit frustrated about having to learn a whole new installation and surrounding area, and of course we miss our friends and work networks (interchangeable phrases for the most part) a ton already.

Husband is going to begin inprocessing on Monday, and we're going to spend the next two weeks getting familiar with Fayetteville, Ft Bragg, and trying to wrap our heads around what we will be calling home for the next few years. Bonus round: I'm feeling like a badass because I have not one, not two, but THREE job interviews next week! Mom's sending good job vibes to me from Chicago, but I'm feeling rather pleased to just have interviews - THREE TIMES AS MANY AS THE LAST TIME I WAS SERIOUSLY JOB HUNTING!! OH - and Husband let me go shopping today, and I found some super cute skirts, a dress, and a lace top at Loft for less than the original price of the lace top. 

Basically, winning.