USMC animal shelter as Mateo.
Once a Marine kitty, always a Marine kitty.
(Obviously not us.)
Adorable kitties are adorably distracting. Sorry about that. (Back to the BIG NEWS.) Remember in my last blog post when I said we weren't going where we thought we would be going? And remember how I said you can never count on anything in the Marine Corps, except to count on it changing? Right. It changed. My adorable Marine (the adorableness quotient in this household is off the charts) has been accepted into the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. That's right, my dear readers. The McBrides are MOVING! (These McBrides, the two of us. The rest of the McBrides are probably staying put in their respective cities.) This is what the husband really wanted to do and he is looking forward to being a student again. If all goes well (and you know it will), he'll finish with a Master's degree in Computer Science. (I, on the other hand, will probably need to resurrect my trusty red pen and brush up on my editing skills. I see a lot of late night "grading" in my future...) For those of you unfamiliar with California geography (and let's be honest, my geography skills are pretty much nil), Monterey is in Northern California (Helloooo, NorCal!), right on the coast and about an hour south of San Francisco. We report for duty in July so I have about five months to get in my fill of Disneyland, palm trees, and celebrity sightings. I am less than thrilled to be leaving my bookstore and the awesome friends I've made here, but such is the life of a Marine Wife. No longer a single one, pining for her deployed husband, but an attached one, following aforementioned husband to parts unknown.
...and that's where the fun begins.
It's been swell, SoCal.
More swell than I could ever imagine.
