Good Morning (6/7)

[americaninoz]

How is everyone?

QOTD: what are your plans this weekend?

[dorothyinAus]

Good afternoon! I'm not bad today. It turned cold again and I woke up with a splitting headache. DH was so nice though. He took off work at lunch time to run by the grocery to get me some chicken soup and lemonade (7-Up) and offered to cook dinner tonight if I am still feeling off.

QOTD: We don't have any real plans for this weekend. We've been busy for past few weekends and we are looking forward to a quiet, lazy one.

[americaninoz]

Ahhh that's so sweet of your husband Dorothy

I'm just working today - 2 hours to go. Looking forward to getting home.
This weekend I'll just be working on prepping for dd's b-day party on Sunday. It will be quite small though, so I'm not stressing about it. I did go to a party store nearby the other day though, to look for Elmo themed stuff. They had all the stuff I saw in American stores but SO SO much more expensive. Like they wanted $20 for 12 large elmo themed paper plates - OMG!
Dh and FIL are going to work on house stuff - our new carpet is so fluffy that half of our doors had to come off, so they need to trim them all down - fun fun!

[Deleted]

I'm beat, it's been an exhausting week!

QOTD: I'm headed to Gibraltar EARLY EARLY EARLY tomorrow morning for two weeks. LOTS of packing and laundry to do today!

[travelingturtle]

Good morning!

I'm so over DHL. It's a long story, but they were supposed to send me something 2 weeks ago and it was only supposed to take two or three days. I still haven't received it, or the replacements I've since ordered that were also only supposed to take two-three days. They can't send it to me with tracking because for some reason DHL-the mail company, does not have access to tracking mail? And they can't do anything other than continue to send replacements that I don't receive. Add to the fact that every time I call I have a minimum 10 minute wait, which I have to pay for, and I'm over it. ***vent over - for now***

QOTD: We have an English-speakers playgroup tomorrow morning and a BBQ on Sunday.

[irish]

Morning. Work today but later it should be a bit of fun - one of the girls is finishing up on maternity leave and we'll have a little send off party for her (she'll be off for at least 6 months) and we got her a small gift.

DH is going to try to get N's last immunisations done - for the third week in a row!! Turned up the last two Fridays and the nurse has been off and the drs won't do it. I even asked the first week if the nurse would be there the following week and was told she would be, but then dh turned up and she was at a wedding...

For the weekend, I'm getting my hair done tomorrow and that's about all that is planned for the whole weekend!! DH was supposed to go to my brother's stag party in the west of Ireland but they were leaving at lunchtime today and we would have no one to mind N between lunch and me getting home... Might look up some (cheap) holidays for the 3 of us towards the end of August...

[glitterfart]

Morning! I´m hoping it doesn´t rain so that we can actually finish moving the giant pile of topsoil in our yard and get on to getting the side yard ready to put out grass. And maybe do a bit of sewing should I not be sooo tired I can´t move ;-)

[popcorn]

I am not happy today. I'm actually incredibly depressed today. I feel like everything about Germany sucks and I don't want to be here. I hate that we moved here and that everything here is so fucking hard to do. Nothing is simple and everything is costing us more money than we thought. I'm just sick of everything and this ordeal with getting our car registered has been the straw that broke the camel's back and sent me into this angry state. I'll be over it in a day or so, but today I just feel like wallowing in self-pity and watching sad movies curled up on the couch with DD. Of course that's not going to happen because she never stops moving so...looks like the same old same old.

QOTD: We are planning to hang our TV on the wall, but we might not. We are also going to do some cleaning, get the kitchen ready for the cabinets and everything to be put in next week, and pack some things for our trip to the US. I can't wait to get out of here for a month.

[Deleted]

We are having a dinner party with friends tonight. So I am busy prepping and cooking before my oldest gets home from preschool.

Tomorrow we have a barbecue at a friends house. The weather is supposed to be lousy all weekend, where has our summer gone?

[allibally]

Jul 6, 2012 2:40:54 GMT -5 popcorn said:

I am not happy today. I'm actually incredibly depressed today. I feel like everything about Germany sucks and I don't want to be here. I hate that we moved here and that everything here is so fucking hard to do. Nothing is simple and everything is costing us more money than we thought. I'm just sick of everything and this ordeal with getting our car registered has been the straw that broke the camel's back and sent me into this angry state. I'll be over it in a day or so, but today I just feel like wallowing in self-pity and watching sad movies curled up on the couch with DD. Of course that's not going to happen because she never stops moving so...looks like the same old same old.

*hugs* It's all so hard. It's probably just all the moving stuff that is still causing issues even after. When DH I moved to Zurich it was difficult and he was only moving from a different state in Switzerland! He was working really long hours too.

One day I finally felt motivated to leave the house. I went downtown and enjoyed myself. I came home and I couldn't get the key to unlock the common area. I was crying and getting frustrated. I couldn't ring the bells to the other apartments because I was scared to not be able to speak German. I finally broke my pride and turned on my US cell phone to call H. He had to come home and open the door for me. I felt humiliated at the time. Now I laugh about it!

Hopefully, you will get out of this funk popcorn. We are all here for you.

[allibally]

I was suppose to leave for Chicago yesterday. But the routine oil change and tire rotation on my minivan led to needing to replace a rusty part. Which they didn't have on hand. Time I could of left I decide to wait one more day. My dad leaves today for two weeks in Indonesia for work so I figured it would be nice to spend a little more time here anyways.

Also was a good thing I didn't leave because at 5pm I got a text from ComEd telling me we had a power outage. Glad I didn't have to spend the evening alone in a hot apartment. Thankfully for H it was restored at the original time 10pm and not the previously texted 7am. o.O

My plan is to leave to get lunch at my favorite drive-in and then leave for Chicago from there.

QOTD: I don't know. We haven't talked about it yet.Saturday we might lay low because of the heat. But Sunday it's suppose to drop from the high 90s down to the low 80s. So maybe I can convince him to leave the safety of a/c.

[dulcemariamar]

Dorothy: I hope you feel better.
Traveling: I hope you get your stuff soon!!!! I hate waiting for a package to arrive.
Popcorn: I am sorry you are so sad. ((((Hugs))))) At least you have a trip coming up to look foward to. That is so exciting.

Me: I have a dr. apt. today and I have to clean my house. Fun!!!

QOTD: I am going to make smores. I am not going to say how much I spent yesterday at the American store for the supplies but I hope it is worth it.

[popcorn]

Jul 6, 2012 4:02:34 GMT -5 dulcemariamar said:

QOTD: I am going to make smores. I am not going to say how much I spent yesterday at the American store for the supplies but I hope it is worth it.

This sounds amaaaaazing. Enjoy!


Allibally: Thanks for the kind words. I feel like you can definitely understand all the beauracratic crap in these parts! It's nice to know I'm not alone. I feel so supported by this group (got some messages from a couple others who saw this) and I'm really happy to have you ladies! I know things will get better and even in general I'm not unhappy--it's just a bunch of things piling on top of each other causing one day to be lame. But there is hope! One day things will be all better and we'll laugh about these silly stories just like you can.

[allibally]

And seriously you've been there for two months right popcorn? You still don't have a kitchen... I would of been going crazy too.

[irish]

Popcorn, you've a lot on your plate right now, with the move to a new place, an increasingly active Kernal and now a bean in the oven too... Not to mention your non-existent kitchen!!! Big hugs for you all! It will take time to settle. Remember back to when you moved to Spain? Probably took a while to settle there too and now you have other priorities too.

Take care of yourselves...