New Work Schedule

So this month Matt's schedule is changing up. Rather than working days (typically 7-3, sometimes later) he'll be working swing shift. That'll be from 3-11pm. It might make communication a little more difficult because the he'll be able to talk in the middle of my morning and the middle of the evening- right in the middle of commonly planned activities. But we'll sacrifice because its always SO good to talk to him!

This is only for one month though so whether its good or bad it'll be short.

Matt is nearly done with his first set of CDCs. Have I explained them before? In order to go from level 3 to level 5 certification he has to complete this extra training. I don't actually know what the acronym stands for though. He is taking the first big test this week and will then start on the second and last set of books. I'm not too worried about how he'll do though, in order to even schedule the tests they had him talking to all his upline supervisors, so about 4 or 5 different people, who all quized him on the information. That was after taking 6 pretests as well. So I'm positive he knows the material.

The military also just reinstated the Patriot Express. This is a flight that flies free (except some port fees) from Seattle, through Japan, and onto Korea. Its a Space-A flight. This means that Matt might get three visitors later this year. :) He's allowed to have people stay for up to 30 days during his tour so we are going to attempt to take advantage of that. We'll stay in his dorm room- which is really actually small for 4 people. But he also has a common room and a kitchen that we can use during the day so it won't be too bad. He still has to do some paperwork to get that to happen but we are all stoked to be able to see him sooner than expected. It makes the next 7 months seem a lot shorter!

Matt is also thinking about career changes. Not out of the military but within. We keep batting around the idea of him becoming an officer and a few different jobs that he might change to later. But its all just ideas and talk so I won't mention specifically what jobs we are talking about. When it stops being just talk I'll mention it again.

This 4th weekend he is running a 5k (actually, he's getting ready to run it as I write this blog!) and there'll be fireworks and a bit of a festival going on. Its nice that they try to make things as much like home as possible. Although nothing will ever be as much like home as the Strawberry shortcake we got while watching the Strawberry Festival parade at home... :)