I got my money.

Okay. So, my last entry was about my lack of money…right. This one, however, is how I lit a fire under peoples assses and got shit to happen.

I still hadn’t received a dime last Wednesday. I also didn’t receive my "Wednesday Letter." Generally CJ only has time to write a letter on Sunday, so I usually receive it on Wednesday and that’s how its been for two months. Not receiving my letter, is just as bad…and almost worse, than not receiving my money. Seriously.. I look forward to seeing what he’s doing. And mostly…I look forward to seeing "I love you, I miss you, I want you   etc" scribbled in his odd handwriting. My lack of complacency in the whole matter had come to a head at that moment when I gazed into an empty mailbox. I slammed it shut and rushed to my parents house. You see, they’d gone to Colorado, so I had their house to myself. Granted…I have my own house. But theirs is so much nicer. 🙂 Anyhow, I went inside and immediately called CJ’s mom, Tina. She’s been there for me since the day CJ left. His whole family has. She’s known me as long as CJ has, but we never really had an excuse to just…talk. And when CJ left, she and I became really close. She calls everyday. She and I get along really well. I adore her, and everyone else. His brother and sister, Suni and James, call me their big sister. There’s no line as far as the fact that im an "in law" to them. Im just their big sister, Heather. I like it that way too. They all mean alot to me, and I can’t imagine doing this without them.

Moving on…  Tina suggested that I get online (Guy, my father *in law* was in the Marines as well) and find a phone number to MCRD San Diego. Well…I did just that. And someone put me in contact with RTR. (Recruit Training Regiment). The person at RTR told me I needed to call another number. I think it was for the First Officer of Finance…or something like that. The point is…HE told me to call there. I specifically asked if he was sure that was the right person. I didn’t want to get CJ in trouble. I understand that he’s busy. I know they probably didn’t tell him that the 250 he was supposedly sending, didn’t get sent period. But, the guy ensured me that I was calling the right person, period. Well…I called that number, and got this lady, the First Officer of Finance, or what have you. So I left a message and a few minutes later I got a call back. She told me that she was NOT happy that I hadn’t received my money, and that she hadn’t known that someone had been calling up there constantly to try and get me the money for Aidan and I (CJ’s recruiter called about 3 times per day everyday). So she said she went down and chewed a few people out and I should be getting a phone call from someone who was going to take care of the problem, and should have long ago. I asked her if I was getting CJ in trouble for the whole thing, and she told me no no no. It shouldn’t get back to CJ, other than the fact that CJ would have to go to send the money. I was satisfied. She told me that if they didn’t help me, and get me that money, to call her back. She insisted. She was definately helpful, and NOT a happy woman that a wife and child of a recruit were going hungry because someone was being lazy and not getting things done. Its been two months… TWO MONTHS without a dime..

Well…about 10 or 15 minutes had passed. I just guessed that no one was going to call for a while, and I got up and started cleaning a little bit. That’s when I got the phone call… IT WAS CJ. Oh God I can’t put into words how excited and upset I was at the same time. He said "Hey baby…I can’t talk. I am on the DI’s cell phone. They just told me that I had to call to tell you you did the wrong thing and that you were supposed to follow protocol. You can’t call the higher ups like that." I was like………WHAT THE FUCK.  Okay, first of all…I WAS TOLD to call that number. Second, how the HELL would I know what "protocol" is?? Im a CIVILLIAN. I don’t know that shit. And I know that some douche up in accounting got yelled at and they got mad and took out on the person below them, then that person to the one below them, etc, till it got back to my husband. I was NOT a happy camper. I was more mad that they put CJ in a position where he had to call and scold his wife. He whispered that he was sorry and that he HAD to call and tell me that. He said he loved me and he was sorry. So…I know it wasn’t his fault. Well…he said he was going to do what he could and he got off the phone. I was really upset. I was hurt. I called Tina back and told her the results of my adventure in calling MCRD SD.

Guy was in the background RANTING over "What kind of Corps are they running today?" sort of stuff. If you know Guy…you know he doesn’t rant. He doesn’t get fired up about anything. He was not happy. He and Tina both assured me that I did the right thing. I did what I was TOLD TO DO. And that they were mad that they made CJ "scold" me. After about half an hour, i got off the phone with them. That’s when CJ called me again. He was on the DI’s cell phone again. He said that he and the DI walked up to the accounting place and sent off 250 right then. So it’d "be there in the Near Future." And then the DI said "no no, tell her it’ll be there in a few days."  CJ goes "Yes Sir!"…"it’ll be there in a few days." I must admit, hearing him say yes sir was really adorable. 😉 But then I asked him if he was okay. And i also asked if I got him in trouble, and if he was mad. He assured me that he was not mad, and he was not in trouble. He said he was fine, they just hadn’t given him time to write.  SO…that’s what I got out of it…I got my money.