Moving issues, dog issues....

Why is this process so hard? Why have you people at Fort Hood banned pit bulls or any mix thereof from base? Seriously this fucking sucks… Per army regs we have to apply for base housing, and to our shock we can get base housing when we get to fort hood, they don’t have a waiting list! But like so many other things in my life that cannot seem to go right this is the same… My dog Roxy is not allowed on post. Why you ask, because she is part pit bull. She is a Mutt, a full American dog mutt, but since the last time I brought her to an on post vet they looked at her and classified her as a bit bull… So she is banned from Fort Hood and we cannot accept the house on base. Not that living on post was my first choice as our experience here at fort Rucker kind of sucked. It was nice being so close to everything. And since Hood is such a large base it would have been nice to live on base for the first year…. But because I have a dog who looks like she might have some pit bull in her we are shit out of luck! This also pretty much applies to any home we were going to try and rent as well. Either they will not rent to you because you have pets, and the slight few that allow pets won’t allow vicious breads… Roxy has never so much as hurt a fly. She might jump on you and lick you to death, but she is the sweetest dog.

Our neighbor offered to take her in if we could not take her with us. While that is an option, I much rather not lose my dog. I’ve had her since the spring of 2003. She’s my puppy!!

So for those of you who know me, you know how my husband already feels about the dog. <he is not a fan; he hates that I allowed her to sit on furniture and that when I first moved in she would not listen to him. She now listens to him, but he holds a grudge> He is all for leaving my puppy here when we leave and doesn’t understand why it’s such a big deal for me. It just is.

We want to buy a house when we get to Killeen anyway. We both hate renting and throwing money into a house we will never own….

I’ve spent the majority of these last two weeks looking on line at homes. Microsoft Earth is an awesome tool! I love being able to get a shot of the house, I know it’s not the same as seeing the neighborhood but it helps! If I see those big ogle power lines in the back yard or across the street I know right away that that is not a place I want to live and it quickly becomes crossed off of my list. I love that I can move the maps and see where the schools are. I also love the FamilyWatchdog.us website, I’ve been cross reverencing addresses with them, and will not move to a street with a pedophile! So you’d think with all of this technology and virtual tours that it would be easy to find a house… Well then you would be so wrong! While my list of prospected homes has gone down I still have about 30 I want to look at when I get there, as many have been on the market for some time now and I doubt they are getting sold any time before I get a chance to look at them.

So far this week I have made our Penske Truck Rental Reservations. Have I mentioned yet that we are doing a DITY Move?? :-P Reservations for the Hotel, both in route and once in Killeen. Plus reserved a storage unit to stuff all of our crap in once we get there and have no place to live. Anything else I’m forgetting?