ammogirl

An update:  we will finally get email on the 10th of November.  Hopefully.  Did I already tell you that?  I can’t go to my site to check, and it’s so long between entries right now I can’t remember what I last wrote.

So!  The big move!  We woke up early on Friday, sent the girls off to school, and headed over to the house, where….we found they were STILL WORKING ON IT!  Holy crap!  I mean, NO bedroom door, NO roof on the shed or carport…I panicked immediately, because our loaner furniture was on it’s way, and we needed the keys to that house…hold on a minute…

…sorry, I just had to meet my new Chief, who WALKED IN WHILE I WAS POSTING AT WORK.  God.  I’m going to get fired.  Oh wait, I can’t be.  Anyway.  Where was I?  So, the house wasn’t ready, but it didn’t matter because we still got the keys.  It was just chaos for a few hours, while we had construction workers, household goods movers, AND loaner furniture movers in there all at the same time.  Finally, though, everyone was finito, and we were able to check it out.  And make a list of everything we needed to buy, because hello 220 volt electricity.  Which…yeah.  Good thing our escrow just closed.  Jeez. 

Anyway, we took some pictures, but of course that does nobody any good, because there is no way to post them.  You will just have to use your imagination.  Three stories.  You’ll see.  Soon.  Really.

We spent the entire weekend doing house stuff, including sweeping like 5826 times, and Monday the girls rode the bus to school for the FIRST TIME EVER, and I was panicked and stressed and almost threw up for eight hours straight until we walked down and met them at the end of the day.  Of course, it was all unnecessary, because they are not small children, and totally competent.  Or so they tell me. 

Today at work I was welcomed in to the Circle of Trust.  This involved being invited to the daily ritual of walking to the coffee shop for a coffee.  I had to pay, but now I am A Part of the Team.  I got a double espresso, because I figure they are going to have to deal with ME sooner or later, and it’s better if they just experience it now.  Less shocking that way. 

I haven’t said so yet, but it is very, very nice to be back with my family.  Life is good for ammogirl (except the lack of internet).

Lunch is over.  Time to go to work.

Tschuss!

Well, I think I might have temporarily solved my non-internet access problems: I can post from work!  This is fabulous, because we found out today that we will not have internet up and running at the house until at least the tenth of November.  However, THEN, John assures me we will have super sonic speeds, so I can post twice as fast, ha ha, look, I have been gone forever but can still tell really lame jokes. 

So, we move into our new abode tomorrow, and I can’t wait!  I still haven’t been able to take pictures, but I PROMISE they will come soon. 

I sense the only problem with posting from work is the pretending that I am actually working on WORK, as opposed to not.  It’s a little suspicious for me to be typing so diligently away when I don’t have access yet to any of our drives or databases.  Perhaps I can pretend I’m writing a mission statement or something.  Anyway, the problem is sort of reduced by the fact that I have two monitors, and one of them is positioned just so, and nobody can see what I’m doing.  I should be good, for now.

Remember when I used to work out everyday, RELIGIOUSLY, with NO EXCEPTIONS?  Well!  That sort of…did not happen once I left Korea.  What?  It’s hard when you are moving moving moving and there is no gym.  I have excuses!  Or, had, anyway.  This week I ran out of them, and on Monday started up again, and was doing fine, except for the blinding pain in my hips from running three miles, because hello, I am apparently the quickest fall-out-of-shaper ever, until YESTERDAY, when I found out we have mandatory squadron PT, and ended up doing two heavy cardio days IN ONE DAY, and NOW?  Now I am cursing the day physical activity was ever INVENTED. 

And, you can see that although I haven’t been posting lately, you haven’t been missing ANYTHING.  That’s what happens when, even though you are living in a fabulous foreign country, you do not have in your possession: a house, a car, or any of your personal belongings.  The military, people.  It ROCKS.

Now I need to "work".  So.

Tschuss!  (sort of like this: chews!) (oh, and it means "byeee!")

I have been to SO many appointments and signed my name SO many times and recieved SO MUCH ‘helpful’ pieces of paper over the past week I want to die.  However, the main part of our inprocessing is done now.  Also done: procurement of cell phones (prohibitively expensive here, like, don’t ask for my number because I will probably not turn my phone, ever) AND internet/home phone appointment.  The good news is, internet is pretty fast here, the bad news - we don’t know if we’ll be able to get it at our house yet.  You guys!  What would I do?  John assures me everything will work out but I refuse to listen to him for dramaticality sake.  It’s more fun to assume the sky is falling. 

Oh!  We also took our German driving tests, and I would like to let you know that John did NEARLY as well as I did.  We both passed, of course, and since we are both sick of asking people to drive us around (or, I mean, JOHN is sick of asking, I just sort of…go along for the ride.  Whoever is driving) and neither of our cars, unfortunately, will be here until mid-November, we bit the bullet and rented a car for a month.  We’re riding in style - a Ford Fiesta.  Oh yes, we’re cool.  I drove around a bit (on base ONLY - I’m not stupid.  Or…brave) and made it through my first traffic circle unscathed, with only a slight amount of panicking (When do I go!  What do I DO?!). 

Today being Saturday, we did a little drive around the local villages, to get our bearings, and to get used to driving around here.  It’s…different.  The right-of-way laws are a bit hard to get used to, and the streets are very narrow.  But, it’s absolutely gorgeous.  It’s like, farmland and forest, then a small village, then more forest, and on and on.  I SWEAR I will take pictures soon…

John is staring at me and making me very uncomfortable right now which means our time is about up and it’s time to say goodbye to the Cyber Cafe for today…

I hope everyone is well, I haven’t had a chance to read anyone’s blog.  I am dying a slow death by internet withdrawal here.  Instead of bugs on the walls I keep seeing the firefox symbol. 

Auf Wiedersehen!!!