were leaving on a jet plane

In a few days. I am still packing at this point. Well, actually I am writing this while John is reading a book and watching "Finding Nemo" on Disney. You do have to love that movie though. There is so much to pack and in so many different places. I need one bag for the hotel for all three of us, then I need our suitcase for the trip, the diaper bag (which I am thinking about putting in the suitcase), then the car seat bag, my purse and the carryon. We took the dog off to day care so he is there until Thursday. 

We went to John's ENT today. Apparently he has had this hole in his ear drum for a long time, since childhood they said. We just cant believe that no one caught it. John said that MEPS has one of the most thorough exams. The doctor said that it probably just got worse because nobody caught it. We were just thinking of all those times when in the USMC he would have to go into the water, and his swim quals, and now being here. Its just amazing no one else caught it. His doctor said since it is such a chronic condition that he is referring John to Birmingham. Go figure. So he is going to a specialist up there that only deals with ears. He will do the procedure on John to close the hole. Then John will have all his follow ups down here in  Enterprise. So everything turned out ok. He still has to have surgery, but its not a huge deal, outpatient. Two to three weeks recovery, I.E. no swimming sort of thing. Which means no dunker. He wont be able to get the referral into Tricare until Thursday at the earliest. I hope they get things going though. He has a min of two months before his next class. And with how slow they do things around here, I just want this done with because John will still have to go to dunker. That class runs 5 days a week, so we are not worried about him not being able to get in. 

Not much else going on. Finished enrolling today for school. Got my first course and now I have to buy books. I find out in a week or so about FAFSA, but of course we didn't qualify for the pell grant, so it is student loans again. I can get all my student loans in deferment, except the private loan. Which we didn't realize doesn't qualify for deferment status. 

Well I am off to more packing. We are getting up tomorrow at 4am. So guess I will be needing some beauty sleep tonight.