Ok, I am writing this particular post while flying, it is being written on December 30 and will be posted on or after the 31st.
Well, our lives have been topsy-turvy for the past month or so since I last wrote and here is why:
December 12 George received his separation orders for get this December 29! Yup, 17 days is all the time they gave us to get everything squared away and get out. So we have been running around like a chicken with our heads cut off trying to get everything in order. We were packed out by the movers on Christmas Eve, handed in our keys and IDs on the 29th and are currently flying off the island today on the 30th.
Everything happened so quickly that my head is still spinning. I barely had enough time to call my doctor and get a 90 day supply of my meds. I was hoping that they would have had a heart and given us until at least the New Year to get this all accomplish but whatdayagonnado? I can honestly say that I was woefully unprepared for anything. The only thing that went somewhat smoothly was the actual pack out. Seriously HUGE kudos to the movers from Royal Hawaiian, they arrived at 8 am were done packing the house by 11 am and done loading by 1:30 pm. They seriously rocked that day aside from the bad things that people have told me about them. So that was really great.
Getting ready to actually leave the island was not fun. First of all, we did not get the money promised to us when it was “supposed” to be there. Next it took forever for us to finally get everything packed and us in the car to go. Then when we went to check our bags at the counter, Cody included, we found out that because of the cold weather we needed a letter from his vet. We didn’t have one. It was a good thing that our neighbor came out to see us off, so he went with them. It was bad enough that in the course of two weeks we had to say goodbye to ALL of our friends in Hawaii (I know that we missed a few and I am sorry for that) but to top it off last minute we had to say goodbye to Cody too.
I have been through a lot of moves and had to say goodbye to a lot of friends but this one was the hardest. I am not saying that any of my friends are more important than others, so please take no offense in that. This farewell was so hard because in the short amount of time that we were in Hawaii we quite literally created a family. We were all so far away from home and family that we had no choice but to get close. In the time we have been together we had to cling to each other in order to get through all of the trials that life has thrown at us. We have been to hell and back and we survived because we had someone to lean on. So when I had to give those fond, farewell embraces to each of them it had a much deeper meaning. I miss and love you all.