On the eve of my departure, back to the states, back to the people I love and most importantly, away from this hell hole I live in, it has been decided by the fates that I'm not allowed to leave. Yet.

Military sucks big hairy monkey balls sometimes. Yes, I do get 30 days off a year. Awesome benefit, isn't it? IF THEY LET ME USE IT! However, today was a rough day to begin with. Lots of things to do before I leave. Gotta clean, gotta wash the dog, gotta go to the bank, gotta pack... lots of stuff. I made sure I got everything taken care of at work. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I'm a dental assistant in the US air force. All day today, couldn't find records, my doc had a mild breakdown where she forgot that she too was a dentist and didn't need the record to tell her what needed to be done to a patient, ran well into lunch but my boss gave me the rest of the day off, so nice of her! I took the opportunity to take a nap and from there the shit hit the fan.

When I wake up, which was a lot later than I intended, I noticed I had missed a lot of calls from the clinic on my cell. It was almost the close of the day so I ran out the door to go back to work to find out what was going on and pick some stuff that I needed for my leave anyway. (I would have called the clinic back but we got these news phones and it won't except calls from a cell phone) I got there ten mins after the place had close and there were still some people there but not many. Boss was gone, nobody knew what was so important to blow up my phone like that . So I called my boss using the info that I had for her, no answer; the other number listed, I get a german guy. Obviously wrong. I tried that first number for hours trying to get someone to pick up while rushing around to do other errands. Since it was getting so late, I rushed to the bank but it had closed ten mins earlier. That was bad news! So no money to play with while I was gone.

I had the girl who is watching my dog come back home with me so that she could drop me off and use my car while I'm gone, and even she had to come back like twice because I left things in the car, like my camera and my authorized leave slip.

I come back home and check my FB finally. There's a msg from one of the other people I work with saying "that I need to call my boss ASAP but it wasn't anything that I was in trouble for, its just I needed to talk to him before I left or else I would be in trouble." Foreboding right? But I still don't know whats going on! So I called my boss's boss. And she's a bitch. gah, hate her.

Anyway, I finally found out 4 hours later that I need to sign something and do an online thing to update my training record. But I can't do that. I don't have a car to get back on base and I don't have a key to get into the building. See, I can't just use a regular computer, I have to use a gov't computer to access this stuff. And none of it can wait till I get back from leave. Why wouldn't someone have realized this sooner? Seriously? I was less than 12 hours from getting on a flight!!!!

Which leads me to cancelling my flight and rebooking one for the next day, Thursday.

But at least I can still go home, unlike last time where I got stuck here due to the weather. I cancelled that because I didn't want to get stranded at the airport and I wanted to use a better time that wasn't so stressful... oh yeah, be careful what you wish for...

just fml. Lost one day of being home with my family as I'm only spending a week with them and then flying over to see my SO for a week.