A Funny Day....in Retrospect

So now that the day is over and Matt is home and I've vented, I can laugh at today's events. Moving to another country has gone quite impressively smooth, but there have been lots of little things/bumps along the way. Today was one of the accumulative days. This is how today's events played out:

* My new cell phone service (that costs a small monthly fortune) doesn't work inside my house because the walls are too thick - according to the sales lady that helped me set up my service yesterday and I returned to ask why it didn't work. I have to go outside to talk to people or stand by an open window upstairs. The dog next door (we live in a tri-plex so when I say next door, I really mean five feet away from me) barks up a storm while I'm trying to talk. Thank goodness the dog isn't home much.

* I get a paper in the mail from our internet company (in German, of course). Since I can't read it I take it to the base with me and find out that it's a letter saying that my bill is overdue. I never got the bill. I'm a little anal on my bills. I pay them the day they come. Except now, and I have to go to the bank and pay them a fee to wire my money to the company. I like the security of the payment, don't like the extra stop and fee.

* I ask my landlord for garbage bags (garbage deserves it's own post. Long story short, I have five different trash cans). He brings me a small roll (which now I see is generous after my experience at the office) and tells me where to go to pick up more. The next town over. I go there and they give me a slightly larger roll of bags and when I ask for the special bags to use for diapers, they tell me I have to provide them with my child's birth certificate and rental agreement before they'll give me trash bags. What?!?

* I come home and try to call Matt. My phone won't connect. The kids are hungry and tired. Levi is still fevering with absolutely no other symptoms, except severe grumpiness.

* Later I make dinner and get the kids fed. Matt still hasn't appeared or answered any texts (they're a little more successful than calls, but I still have to stand by a door). He finally calls and says he had a meeting that went really long and has another to go to.

* I get the kids in bed. I plug in a transformer in the kitchen to charge my now completely dead toothbrush. I blow the entire kitchen's power. I start to cry.

The kids are happily asleep, Matt's home, my kitchen's power is back up and going (my landlord showed me how to do it - I'm sure it'll probably happen again in the next three years), and now I have a couple hours of quiet down time to enjoy. Life is wonderful and there's a beautiful sunset outside. I guess I need days like this to appreciate the smoother days.

Oh, and as a reward to anyone who took the time to read this novel, we found out yesterday that we're having a girl. Hailey is ecstatic. Everyone else will know when I remember how to get the little pregnant lady on the side of my blog. I'm due in December.