Oh the FRUSTRATION.

If I could but the word "frustration" in big, bold LARGE letters, I would. Planning an international move tests the bounds of your patience. Planning it with the military tests them even further.

Frustration #1 -

The cost to have someone come and deep clean the apartment is $400. Our deposit was only $300, so why would we pay $400 to help us get $300 back? Looks like we may end up doing this terrible, terrible deep clean ourselves.

Frustration #2 -

My SOFA (military family member) passport has not come in yet. They won't release our plane tickets until I prove I have a passport. John drove all the way out to the passport office only to find out they couldn't give him any information except that my passport should arrive "soon."

Frustration #3 -

We planned the move and the movers should be coming March 14-16 (they'll confirm the day later), but our move out application isn't complete until we submit copies of our orders and a copy of my entry approval notice from Japan. The approval notice should arrive in 10 days, but we have six days to submit the information to the moving company. John is headed to talk to them now to explain our situation.

Frustration #4 -

I turned in my 30 day notice to move out, only to have the apartment people tell me that my move out date would be March 30th. For military lease breakers, they only do 30 day notices by full calendar months. So, if I had turned in my notice to move out on Feb 12th, my 30 days still would be on March 30th.

Ugh. I'm going to go scream right now. Not to mention I should probably start selling my car.