In the life of me.

Seriously, this lady, who has no voice today, enjoyed silent laughing her ass off at this:

I know I did a post about cameos before. What can I say, I love them! Also, the gentleman who sells them at our PX every year made an early visit this year. Typically, he comes to our PX around Mother’s Day. He was here most of this week. I was rather saddened by what he had left to sell.

Three years ago was the first time we bought from him and he had three tables full of great jewlery, most of it cameos. There you could chose between Blue Agate or the Shell cameos. Instantly, I fell in love with the Blue Agate. Here is the cameo Bry bought me then:

The following year he was down to two tables. Bry bought me two cameos then:

This year he had one table and this time the remains of the Blue Agate did not impress me. I toyed with the idea the day we saw him about getting a Cameo bracelet and then figured it would probably be too much. Yesterday, we went to the PX again and dropped by his table. I peeked at the price of one of the Blue Agate bracelets and stuck it back where it belonged…$930! It was then that I drifted over to the shell side of the table. There, in silver and mother of pearl, was a bracelet that I just had to have. It turns out The Teacher made it in 1940. This particular piece is considered an antique. This Teacher is in the hospital and has been there for nearly two months now. It is so sad! All the pieces I have, he made. Now he is not doing so well and his factory has no new workers. Here is the beautiful bracelet Bry got me for an Early Mother’s Day present:

*hugs*
~Jen

Bry will be home tomorrow! It will be great to have him back and move in October. The downside is that the company commander now views Bry as a quitter. It is not that he is a quitter at all. Nobody was sleeping well due to the stress of the entire situation, the FSTE was denied twice already, why waste time and have it be slammed down again? Plus he did not want to risk deploying from here, moving, and deploying right after the move. They were trying to say that it wouldn’t happen that way, but I have known that to happen to several people, I’m not going to trust the fluff they were trying to shove our way, neither was Bry. I told Bry to just take whatever they throw at him when he gets back to show that he is not a quitter. He’s worried that all this will keep him from the board next month. Who knows. I’m prayin’ though.

*hugs*
~Jen

Ok, Bry is on TDY, but apparently it might not be for long. It turns out that his paperwork got all mixed up. Why? How? The TDY was last minute and he had retention breathing down his neck to re-enlist right away. So he did. Soon as he signed the re-enlistment papers stating that he’d move to station of choice, he was on orders. The FSTE paperwork (the papers that would extend his tour here so he could deploy) got denied by branch and HRC. He was told to re-negotiate his re-enlistment to fix the problem, or if he didn’t, he’d be returned to 1st MI and we’d move to Bliss in October. He’d still eventually deploy though, no biggie. I can handle that.

I told him to go ahead and not re-negotiate. I would rather him be actually part of a unit that deploys instead of being attached to a unit that deploys. Especially since the unit we’d be at with Bliss is a great one that I have heard nothing negative about. Whereas the unit he’s attached to right now…just don’t even get me started. The unit we’ve been in looks like a group of angels compared to this one. They’ve done more negative bs to my husband in the past two weeks than we dealt with in nealry 4 years with our original unit.

The thing that irks me about all of this is that we planned a trip for John and I to go to the US and see Bry while he was there. So if he does get sent back here then the tickets are kinda worthless. We’d have a year to use them, but we’d have to fly from here. Basically, it means John and I can go to the US solo or we could pay for another ticket and pray Bry gets leave approved so he can join us.

A plus side I just realised from all of this if things go the way -I- would like them to…we can try for #2 this summer as originally planned. Needless to say, we need prayers that this all gets sorted out.

*hugs*
~Jen