aaand time gets shorter..

Our time to prepare is getting reeeally short. As for information.. we now know we can no longer keep Athena. Because she is half Rottie and part Pit, which just looking at her you can tell and i know in my heart that even if i were to spend the money on a DNA test to find out what all breeds she is exactly it won't make a difference. So Jason and I have been just cleaning and packing to go home with a dog and all her possessions in tow. There are multiple people back home who want to meet her to decide if they want to take her. So we've got options now, and I know God will allow her to live with the right kind of people.
We went through some of our cupboards last night and he informed me that I have to toss all my spices because TMO (the moving company) won't move any open containers.. of anything. I also have to get rid of my paints, which I am bringing to PA to give to family. I was planning on buying all new un opened stuff and having my mom send it to me once we got our address, but we will see.
I was so stressed out yesterday that when Jason asked me what I wanted for dinner I cried cause I didn't know. We ended up ordering stuff from Pizza hut, which was good so we couldn't complane. We did manage to have fun the past couple days. Tuesday we took the guy who helped me with the Camero last week and his family out to dinner. And we gave their 1 year old baby her birthday present that I got her at the San Diego zoo. It was fun watching the baby pick up the bag her stuffed hippo was in and carry it over to her mother, then when she got the hippo hold it close and "run" away with it as fast as she could. And yesterday Jason taught me how to change the oil in the Camero too.. which he did have to help cause the plug (bolt) and the oil filter were screwed in so tight I couldn't get it undone.. and he had to tighten it up for me too. He put me in a pair of his coveralls from work.. (theres a hole in one of the pockets and a hole down by what would be his ankles and is my feet) and lets just say the crotch goes all the way to two inches above my knees. I looked rather akward to be honest, but at least i had something to wipe my hands on. haha..
Today Jason has already taken Athena to Pet Smart to have a what we call "Puppy Spa day". She gets a special bath and gets her nails trimmed. She loves it, so whoever gets her will have fun taking care of her because Athena just LOVES the attention. Deffinately is a pampered pooch. I have to do the dishes, pick up my last paycheck and deposit it, get a box of heart worm medicine for Athena from the vet, pay the cable bill and set up a day for them to come turn it off, AAANND get my last Japanese Flu shot!! Then about 11 or so we decided that we would start heading out to go to PA/NY, because I have difficulty seeing at night (or in the dark for that matter) we decided we would stop in either Fredricksburg or Breezwood at a animal friendly hotel and stay there the night. So yea I gotta get off the computer and start getting stuff done.

We have dates.... and some really bad news

Right now I'm in California. Jason and I went to the San Diego Zoo, as well as the Museum of Natural History and two art museums and a photography museum. We both had a lot of fun and enjoyed ourselves.. Jason did give me the update on what he's learned. And soo far we will be stateside for my birthday!! In fact we will be working on moving out of our house on my birthday...
The bad news however... my neighbor sent me a message letting me know that some guy was going around to each house posting fliers about a breed ban that the USMC has started a couple months ago and is beginning to reinforce.. and wouldn't ya know that Pit Bulls, Rots and their mixes are on it. If you don't know Athena is a Half Rot, boxer, pit mix..Another friend of mine confirmed that the MC started this a couple months ago and suggested to just and in order for us to be able to keep her because this breed ban is world wide, she has to undergo a Canine Good Citizen test. ( http://www.akc.org/events/cgc/training_testing.cfm ) After reading everything that is listed on the AKC sight for the good citizen testing... Jason and I are both seriously worried and heart broken that we will more than likely not be able to take Athena with us to Japan... My mother called a church friend of ours who has fostered dogs and apparently done the CGC before and she's said she'll help.. I'm just still really worried... Prayers are very much needed on this situation.

And the craziness begins..

Friday is my last day working at Walmart. (happy dance) My neighbor is watching Athena.. although we have still to go over some ground rules.. such as don't leave her playing with her rope for more than 5 minutes and if you let her play with it play with her, otherwise she'll have the little strings that make up the rope all over your living room because she's a wiz at knots.. Fun stuff like that. I'm spending the night at a friends house in New Bern friday night and Saturday we have to get up at 4 in the morning and get me to the airport in order to catch a 5:30 am flight to California!!!
Jason is graduating from MOS school next wednesday and thursday we learn the dates of when we are supposed to catch a plane to start the final trip to Japan. We are hoping to be able to go back to PA-NY either Halloween weekend or the weekend after, to take the cars up and to say good bye to family.
Yesterday I experienced my potential first good bye. My best friend Maggie came to spend a day with me, partly cause I was having a going away party for myself to hang out with my friends down here for probably the last time. There are a few girls I'm gonna have to work something out and go see them before i leave but we all still had fun. Anyways, Maggie and I just hung out and enjoyed ourselves then before she left she promised to do everything she could to come and see us (mainly me) on a weekend before we leave. Even though we still might see eachother one more time I still cried after she left.
I'm not looking forward to all the good byes that are going to be happening in the near future. I'll be semi relieved when all this is over.
I have a few things packed.. but the rest of it I figured I aught to just leave for the moving company because they have to inventory everything otherwise it can't be insured. Annd we want thing to be insured!! I guess this is all I've got for an update for now. Hopefully I'll be able to post more updates in the near future.