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!

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!!!

Whew, that last post was a doozey, huh?  Seriously – the jet lag has offically kicked my ass.  I think today I might actually be able to stay awake past 8pm, since I was able to sleep past 3 am.  Not much longer, mind you, but still – longer.

Alright!  First things first!  Because today was the girl’s first day at school (I cried!  It was stupid!  They are in 6th and 7th grade, for god’s sake!) I have today off.  Wait.  Actually, because my New Fabulous Job is SO fabulous, I actually don’t have to go to work until Thursday, and THAT is only because I feel guilty about not being there.  It really has nothing to do with the girl’s first day of school, it just sounded better than “I am not working”.  So.  I have been running around all morning taking care of bidness.  You know – dry cleaners…cell phone…setting up a local bank account so we can pay rent…that kind of stuff.  What’s that, you say?  Why am I so quick draw on setting up an account to pay rent?  Wellio!  I would love to tell you!  It is because we found a house on Saturday.  Yes, that is fabulous!

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