quick update
Aug. 2nd, 2005 05:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jocelynceeWell, SBC has been a complete and utter B-U-T-T for the last six weeks now... My dad is a Methodist minister and my parents live in a parsonage provided by the church. For some reason, the monster-company can't get it through their thick skulls that the parsonage is NOT a business... So, since they keep insisting that my folks pay the (much higher) business rates for internet, and my parents are so not interested in that, there is no internet at the house. I have to go other places to get access, and therefore, post here.
So, while I'm at my grandmother's this morning, I thought I'd check in.
The flight was long, but actually good. I got to Stuttgart airport at 6 a.m. with the help of Lyndsey (thanks, chica!) and go to check in. My flight is full, they say, but I can get on a flight with KLM (my favorite provider so far) that is will make my trip Stuttgart-Amsterdam-Memphis instead of Stuttgart-Paris-Cincinatti-Memphis. This is perfectly fine with me, so I take it. Then she says: hurry, it leaves in 20 minutes. So I do, and I make it. Goodbyes are short, but sufficient, and I make it on the plane with five minutes to spare.
After four hours of a six-hour layover in Amsterdam, I go through the rigamarole and go to the desk to get my seat assignment, where I am told that this flight is ALSO overbooked. They just manage to get me on the flight, though, and I get home a mere 30 minutes later than my original flight would have.
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lionbard) came through Memphis next day, and we met for barbeque (oh, how I missed it!) after Mom and I got our hair cut in Jonesboro. Nick stayed at the house for a while before heading on towards Tucson. We had a really good visit, and he of course liked the little present I got him in Germany. (The man's more of a chocoholic than I am! And that's saying a lot!)
Got to see Kit (bluecanarykit) in Jonesboro Saturday; we went to Grammary's house (where I am now) and I invited her to come too. She and I went out driving around for an hour or so while Mom and Grammary watched a movie, so we got a little girl time. I'll be spending the night out there on Friday for some more good girl time, and hopefully also some good work-on-Blue-Canary time as well. :)
Sunday was church with Mom, Dad getting home from the conference in Alabama that he left for on Friday, and general laying-around. An ice cream social at church that night (wow, can those ladies make goodies!) was a good close to the day and the weekend.
Yesterday was a productive one; I took care of what phone business I could in one day, which, turns out, was quite a lot. I can officially get into the apartment on Sunday 7 August, and pay the deposits, etc., on Monday morning. That will save the cost of a hotel and take care of the kitty when we drive in on Sunday evening. Utilities are taken care of; address is changed at the bank; GTA contract sent to the German department and they know about it; tenative schedule given to Dr. Talighani so she can make the teaching schedules; the mess with the deposit from my room in Germany is a step closer to being resolved.
After all that I drove to Jonesboro and went to the Elks to sing karaoke with my grandmother. :) It was good to see her having such a good time. :)
So, this morning I'll be driving to Heber Springs to visit Granddaddy and Suphap, as well as to relieve them of my junk that they have so graciously stored in a closet in the spare room since I came home at Christmas. It will be good to see them both again, and maybe Suphap will teach me to cook another Thai dish. :)
Can't guarantee another update before Friday or so, and even then I may get distracted at Kit's house. Still, you never know. So, until then...
So, while I'm at my grandmother's this morning, I thought I'd check in.
The flight was long, but actually good. I got to Stuttgart airport at 6 a.m. with the help of Lyndsey (thanks, chica!) and go to check in. My flight is full, they say, but I can get on a flight with KLM (my favorite provider so far) that is will make my trip Stuttgart-Amsterdam-Memphis instead of Stuttgart-Paris-Cincinatti-Memphis. This is perfectly fine with me, so I take it. Then she says: hurry, it leaves in 20 minutes. So I do, and I make it. Goodbyes are short, but sufficient, and I make it on the plane with five minutes to spare.
After four hours of a six-hour layover in Amsterdam, I go through the rigamarole and go to the desk to get my seat assignment, where I am told that this flight is ALSO overbooked. They just manage to get me on the flight, though, and I get home a mere 30 minutes later than my original flight would have.
Nick (
lionbard) came through Memphis next day, and we met for barbeque (oh, how I missed it!) after Mom and I got our hair cut in Jonesboro. Nick stayed at the house for a while before heading on towards Tucson. We had a really good visit, and he of course liked the little present I got him in Germany. (The man's more of a chocoholic than I am! And that's saying a lot!)Got to see Kit (
bluecanarykit) in Jonesboro Saturday; we went to Grammary's house (where I am now) and I invited her to come too. She and I went out driving around for an hour or so while Mom and Grammary watched a movie, so we got a little girl time. I'll be spending the night out there on Friday for some more good girl time, and hopefully also some good work-on-Blue-Canary time as well. :)Sunday was church with Mom, Dad getting home from the conference in Alabama that he left for on Friday, and general laying-around. An ice cream social at church that night (wow, can those ladies make goodies!) was a good close to the day and the weekend.
Yesterday was a productive one; I took care of what phone business I could in one day, which, turns out, was quite a lot. I can officially get into the apartment on Sunday 7 August, and pay the deposits, etc., on Monday morning. That will save the cost of a hotel and take care of the kitty when we drive in on Sunday evening. Utilities are taken care of; address is changed at the bank; GTA contract sent to the German department and they know about it; tenative schedule given to Dr. Talighani so she can make the teaching schedules; the mess with the deposit from my room in Germany is a step closer to being resolved.
After all that I drove to Jonesboro and went to the Elks to sing karaoke with my grandmother. :) It was good to see her having such a good time. :)
So, this morning I'll be driving to Heber Springs to visit Granddaddy and Suphap, as well as to relieve them of my junk that they have so graciously stored in a closet in the spare room since I came home at Christmas. It will be good to see them both again, and maybe Suphap will teach me to cook another Thai dish. :)
Can't guarantee another update before Friday or so, and even then I may get distracted at Kit's house. Still, you never know. So, until then...
