FUCK I HATE THE ARMY!!!

UGH!! Just when I think the army and I can live simultaneously they go and do something that makes me want to knock heads together and throw plates against the wall! They actually had me thinking that being an military girlfriend wasn't so bad...and then they go and do something like THIS:

So Friday night I'm doing my thing at the Callahans- bathing the boys, reading bedtime stories, etc. and once Kik's in been I go into the livingroom and Scott's there! He came to pick me up! So we talk with Gemma a bit and I get dressed and we go home, and he gets in the door and sits on the couch and says "I have good news and bad news".

Good news: he's quitting after his contract is up (that's two years away- so it's not really good news)

Bad news: HE'S BEEN POSTED TO FUCKING EDMONTON! That's right- after all the assurances, preference forms, and planning- he's being sent to goddamn Edmonton for the duration of his contract! Now, I'd have no problem with this if say- they sent him to Edmonton in two years- no problem whatsoever actually. I'd actually love to experience living out west. But not now! Now I still have to go to school and get my ECE- which will probably take two years because I'm not a psych major. I can't move out to Edmonton and go to school there because their ECE (or ECD as they call it in Alberta) is two years long and Scott's contract frees up in January 2011, and if I started school there in September 2009 I wouldn't be done till April 2011. So we'd end up staying there longer than had I just stayed put.

Then there's the option of me doing a distance ed ECE program out of St. Lawrence college and going to live/work in Edmonton with Scott. Problem with this is: A) I'm not sure I'm disciplined enough to do a distance ed course, B) I'd have to find a part time job in a stange city and C) we'd have to pay rent/ possibly my tuition. This doesn't seem like a big deal except that one of our goals was to buy a house sooner rather than later and if we're shelling out rent/tuition money we can't afford to put away as much towards a down payment.

Option three is that if I get into an accelerated program I can tough it out for a year, get through my ECE in one year- and THEN move out to Edmonton to be with him. The pros of this option are that I get my ECE close to home, there's lots of ECE jobs in Edmonton, Scott would have time to get the lay of the land/decide where he'd like us to live, and we'd have another year to save up for our house- and we've already scouted out a few new developments going up we might actually be able to afford. And then if we liked it there he wouldn't have to automatically quit. Downside to this is: I probably won't get into the accelerated program at the Gonq since they upped their requirements, so if I get into anything it'll probably be the accelerated one at Brockville- which won't make my parents happy.

I'm just so frustrated! Had he been sent to Petawawa everything would have worked out so perfectly- and then they could have sent us wherever the fuck they wanted! Now I'm barely going to see him once a month let alone every weekend like I've become accustomed to...and it just seems like everything's being put on hold for no good reason!

And what bugs me about all this is that there's no good reason he got sent there. He's not an administrative burden, he has nothing on his record, he has excellent grades, he doesn't fuck around, he's well behaved, etc. He has family in Ottawa, his nephew is going to be born soon, his girlfriend is here, his LIFE is here! And one MCpl said to him "well it's because we need the best in Edmonton and you're one of our best"- BULLSHIT! They're also sending idiots who've been reported and have failed tests, so that's not the reason at all! Why even try if they're just going to send you wherever the fuck they feel like anyways? He's going to see the career counsellor tomorrow to make his case and hopefully have it changed...but there's very little chance of it working, and yet I'm still holding out against hope that whoever's fat finger did this will change their minds.

And that brings me to another issue: There should be a status between "single" and "married/common law". Seriously. The fact that just because you're married your marital status isn't taken into consideration is absolutely awful. I'm tired of being treated like I don't exist by the military just because I have yet to have the ability to marry my soldier. Yes, some proof needs to be made- but honestly- this ruins EVERYTHING!

So off he goes tomorrow to tell them that if they insist on sending him to Edmonton he'll go but he's going to be a fuckoff and ask to be reposted for VR every day. Personally I wish I could see that- Scott does everything with so much integrity that to see him fuckoff would be quite the interesting experience. I just pity the dunderhead who has to deal with him when he does.