Please Send Internet

So much to tell you about and I have no idea where to begin...  Let's see.

We're still without internet at our house.  We have determined that it's not a T-Mobile issue, and some of our friends who successfully set up their phone and internet through T-Mobile came over to try and set ours up and failed, so at this point, it seems like it's a house issue.  But our property managers are insisting that it's NOT a house issue.  They're coming over tomorrow to do the house inspection with us, so I plan on presenting them with our computer, telephones and modem, and not letting them leave until they've either got our system online or agreed that the landlords will pay the EIGHTY EURO service fee that T-Mobile will charge to come out and do it for us.

In the meantime, I'm still doing most of my internetting from the phone--pain in the ass--or at the Business Center when I come on base to run errands.  It is... less than ideal, but it keeps me from feeling entirely disconnected from the world.

We made the Incredible Journey to Ikea last weekend to get a crap ton of furniture and organizy type solutions, but it's still taking forever to unpack.  We've got all of the boxes, aside from our wall art unpacked, but it's reached the stage of unpacking where I feel like I'm just moving piles of stuff from one place to another place.  I try to remind myself of how horrifying it looked last Monday after the movers left, and reassure myself that we're getting there, but oh, how tired I am of piles of stuff and bare walls.  Once our loaner furniture is gone on the 9th, I think we'll feel a lot better about our space, but that seems sooooo far away.

Our 18 week OB appointment was awesome and came with the lovely surprise of finding out that our little Frankensteins have little lady parts.  Colby dealt with some initial disappointment which I fully understood, because I would have felt the same had we found out it was two boys, but I think he's really come around, and he talks about "his girls" all the time now.  I melt.  It also means that I can plunge full steam ahead in my nursery plans.  I had a theme in mind that was pretty gender neutral, but I now I can girly it up just a little and finally update our registry with items that aren't all yellow, green or white.  I have tons of pictures and updates to share with you from the appointment, but they'll have to wait until we get internet at home so I can get the photos from my computer to the World Wide Web.

I also still want to tell you all about Switzerland, but that involves photos.  And we went to a Medieval Festival at a local castle (we have a local castle!!), but again.  Photos.

I went to my first spouse social last week, and met some nice girls, but oh, it made me miss my friends.  Again, I just remind myself that it took time to bond with the other wives in Washington and Charleston, and I know I'll get to that place here as well, but it was definitely a different vibe than my amazing Charleston spouse group, and it made me feel a bit homesick for the first time.

So, I suppose the bottom line is that we're doing well, still loving Germany, still hating the moving process.  We're going to look back on this time fondly some day... right??

Comments

[The Incubator]

This is yet another chapter in that book you should be writing. Each move has its own personality -- and there are adjustments and bumps in the road that go with each one. You will have two little distractions that will make this move completely new and interesting!!! (Wish you could remember your Precious Moments bedroom that you graduated to!!!)

[Solange]

Colby will have such a great time with your girls. I know my husband is COMPLETE putty in Caity's hands so I can't even imagine two of them having daddy wrapped around their fingers.
I hope you can get your internet sorted quickly! Ugh, it annoys ME that you have to have all these hurdles to jump over and I'm not even there! 80 euro is ridiculous. They should pay that for sure.
Can't wait to see all those pictures!!!

[Christina]

Very exciting news!! Where do you register in Germany?

[Kate P]

That loaner furniture will be gone before you know it! I am dying to know if there's any difference between IKEA in the U.S. and IKEA in Europe.