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Congratulations Emily! Don't second guess yourselves - for all you know, they would have walked had you asked more. You have a buyer, you will hopefully have a closing, and you will be able to come back to the US and not worry about owning/renting a condo down there. That's pretty awesome if you ask me. Can't wait to see where you land:)
Congrats, Emily!
Awesome Emily - Where in the US will you move?
Oh, wonderful :-) Very happy for you!Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
Congratulations Emily!
Wonderful news!
Yay Emily!
We'll spend the first couple of months traveling around visiting family, going to doctor's appointments, and getting all our ducks in a row, then we're heading to Kansas. We have friends who are going cruising on their sailboat in late May and offered us a great deal on renting their furnished home if we do some minor house-sitting duties. We can still travel some, and since we'll be right in the middle of the country, it will be easier to travel to some of the places we want to go in the west. We'll be in Prairie Village (Kansas City suburbs, I guess you'd say). It will be interesting cycling in a different part of the country -- hoping to get to the Katy Trail and other bike paths relatively close by.Quote:
Originally Posted by spokewench
Thanks everyone for all the support. Crossing fingers it all comes to pass -- a contract doesn't always equal a closing, but we're going back to the US no matter what.
I lived in Prairie Village when I was a toddler. Last year, when my sister, mom and I went back to visit my uncle and aunt in Kansas City, they drove us by where we used to live in Prairie Village. Of course, I did not remember it since I was too young when we lived there. WHen it was built it was prairie, no trees, etc. Now the trees are so big it is amazing; or is that just showing my age???
Dear running shoe manufacturers,
Is it too much to ask you to make the tongues long enough to extend past the last set of eyelets?
Signed, Already had tendon cysts from the laces on shoes that DID have long enough tongues.
I am sure it's changed a lot. The photos of the house we'll be renting show HUGE trees all around. I always think of Kansas as rather desolate and treeless since I grew up on the Wizard of Oz movie, but Prairie Village surely does not look to be that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by spokewench
Very good news Emily!
Wouldn't it be funny if it is the same house?Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
It's on Juniper Drive. Yours?Quote:
Originally Posted by spokewench
That is great news Emily!! If you find yourself in CO let me know!!
Where in Colorado are you? I am sure we'll get there -- it will be much closer than when we lived in NC! Have only been to one little corner of CO so far (Durango area), but what I saw was gorgeous!Quote:
Originally Posted by solobiker
I'd have to ask my Mom, she will remember
We are in the Denver area but spend most every weekend in the mountains hiking, camping, backpacking, etc. It is a gorgous place to live.Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
Dear co-worker,
please stop putting your husband down whenever you talk about him. It's not funny, it's not a female bonding thing, at least it certainly doesn't work for me, it makes him sound like an helpless idiot and it makes you sound mean. You chose to share your life with this man, at least grant him a little respect.
Dear self,
yes, when you walk in the door at work wearing XC skiing gear, everybody does think you've been skiing already. Even if it's nine in the morning in downtown Oslo, and even though they do know you regularly change to the work clothes you keep downstairs, and regularly ski after work. Really, there is no way of getting through that door without somebody asking if you've skied to work. Just suck it up and smile.
+1 on both. I've been there, especially with #1. I find it offensive to hear women continually complain about "all men." That's a stereotype no better than "all women..."
Dear hot water heater,
FOUR service calls in 9 years???? Seriously? Is it so hard to heat water without your circuit board going crazy? Sheesh.
Dear District Tech People;
Next time update the report cards when the report data entry window is closed. Maybe that way you won't lose people's work. What moron decided that this was a good time to do an update?
A very disgruntled teacher
Dear Principal,
Just to clarify, I WILL not be be re-entering my report cards on MY time. I did that once already and I can hold a conference without that little piece of paper if necessary. You're lucky I'm willing to bring in my own computer and hotspot, because if tried to do this work on a district computer, you know the ones that take 30 minutes to boot up, I'd be lucky to finish before spring break!
Veronica
V- Wait....there was no back-up of all data *before* the upgrade?!? I am so sorry that you have to deal with this!
I don't know if they backed it up. They're "looking into it." The one e mail I got yesterday said that the update should not have caused data loss. But it did. I had worked on these over a couple of days and the stuff I did the first day was still there the second day. But everything is gone now.
My husband says I should just make all my students read silently for a couple of hours so I can redo everything. I get very annoyed with our administration because I don't think they fully appreciate how much time and money teachers put into their classes. I know my students and their families appreciate it and I'm tempted to do conferences with just my records.
Our computer equipment is so old. I think I got my work laptop in 2003. Yet, they want us doing so much with technology. I'm lucky that we have a travel laptop and a hotspot that I'm going to start taking to work today because so much of what I do is technology oriented and my work computer has become unreliable. I don't know... I want the best for my students. But I don't think I should have to provide it.
Veronica
Dear fed and state govt.
You and your idiot tax structure can kiss my lily white behind.
We both fill out 1040EZ, quick ten minutes and done. Then we start on the state forms, endless, stupid and because we've had a Civil Union we are required to file jointly, meaning we have to fill out a fake (never mailed) third federal form "as married" to get the info for the state form, in addition to a new Form CU.
We would be getting back an additional $336 from the federal government if our marriage was recognized. This makes me very angry! Two straight people can meet, get married five minutes later and get the extra money, we've been together 23 years and we just keep getting screwed.
Signed,
One very disgusted taxpayer
I'm so sorry, Pax. It shouldn't be like this. It just shouldn't. :mad:
Me too:( So very frustrating.Quote:
Originally Posted by indysteel
So sorry, Pax and sweetie, this just isn't fair :(
Ugh. So sorry, Pax. Holding out hope that this is the last year you'll have to deal with that on the federal level, at least ... it could yet happen.
Thanks everyone, it just gets so disheartening at times.
Dear Mother Nature,
Will you just make up your mind already? I was wearing my wool long johns when I took the dog on her morning walk, and I'll be wearing shorts for the evening walk. This back and forth is nuts!
Dear Supreme Court,
How about hurrying up and getting rid of that stupid DOMA, so Pax and so many other folks don't have to go through this crap? I'd also really like to see my brother and his partner actually get married some day, after nearly 10 years together it's high time...
Dear Computer Gods,
You have a sick sense of humor. Ten minutes after finishing reentering all my report data, 29 grades for each student! I get an email from the tech department saying they have recovered my data. Yes, it took them a week.
I could have been riding my bike!
Sick b@stards!
Veronica
Nooo!
I think your computer people are the same as ours. I locked myself out of my campus self-service thingy (different password than the email/Blackboard system, and I don't use it anywhere near as often), e-mailed a week ago and I'm still locked out. :(
Dear Honda sales guy,
I don't know if I'm happy or not that you persuaded us (especially my DH), to trade in our 2010 Honda Fit for a 2013 model while we were in buying 2 new tires. On the one hand, the payments are not that much more and the interest rate is fantastic, we now have a brand new car with 18 miles on the odometer, and the blue matches my bike perfectly. On the other hand....we are going to owe $260 a month for 5 more years, instead of $212 a month for 26 months....
Dear [REGIONAL BUS SERVICE OPERATOR]:
You suck. I have been on the phone with you constantly about your operation of a bus you just took over since you took a good bus and made it crappy. Now, we need new parking permits to park in a commuter garage that is the ONLY place to park and ride in a city with very limited bus service going into neighborhoods (so people can't take the bus all the way). There aren't enough of the permits for everyone who wants one (by a long shot), but you sent an email saying they could be picked up as of 6AM today (the new ones - I have one, but you changed your gate system on really short notice). Given that you don't have enough of them, I figured I needed to be early. It seems you can't read or don't know your own hours, since the office doesn't open until 8:30 (after I got up at 5:30 to be there at 6, I discovered this).
You are supposed to be getting an additional sales tax revenue (we have bumped our sales tax to fund you so you can actually provide service that's worth a d@mn). I'm a huge environmental person, and therefore mass transit supporter. But - you've finally frustrated me to the point that I think we should give up on it. You are incompetent and inefficient, and I can only imagine how many new ways you'll find to waste that extra money without actually providing any better service. #FAIL
Signed,
Grumpy to have gotten up this early and now not have time to exercise
Bummer, Blueberry! Can you take the academic scholar bus? Bike to university near you, bus to other one? It's free last I heard.
ETA: I just looked it up and I think you ARE talking about the academic bus. Too bad they messed it up!! Any way you can ride your bike instead of driving to the bus stop to eliminate the parking issues?
(ETA again: I took that regional bus back when I was in grad school, and the service ran once an hour, stopped running at 6pm every day, no direct routes between the universities (I went to two at the same time because my program was a jointly run endeavor--had to make the transfer mid-way) and had vans instead of buses...so it was worse at one point, it really was! Doesn't help you now, but just giving a little context. I hope it gets better).
You're right - I've been taking the academic one, but it's been so often late and there are so many safety issues that it's just about not worth it (regularly running red lights, panhandling on the bus). It's being operated by the city agency, not the regional one - and I think that's actually worse. At least I do have a free pass for it - it's now the "express bus" fare, and it's pretty expensive for most people.
I should bike to it - I know I should - but it means having to lug around even more stuff for the day. That and cold rainy weather is why I haven't been. And there aren't bike racks at the most convenient stop (but they are working on that, I think). I don't use the parking permit *that* much, but when the other half is out of town (which he will be for a week soon), it makes more sense for me to do it that way. I know it was worse - I actually remember back in 2000-ish that it wasn't as good. But if you rely on the regional service, the routes that don't take 1.5 hours still end really early. Bleh. I just wish they could get their acts together.
At least I got a permit. The other half went at 8:30 with my old drivers' license, my parking contract, and the old pass. They gave him the new one. I also have the ear of someone who is trying to fix things, I think. I'm hanging in there with it - I just wish we would *actually build* regional rail.
I know! I was taking that bus mid- to late- 1990s and they were talking about regional rail back then, almost 20 years ago! If they had just done it, we wouldn't be having this conversation now! I'm actually trying to figure out how to get to one of those hospitals for an appt on Fri on the regional bus. I'll likely just end up asking my brother for a ride (for an eye appt--can't drive). Such potential for an awesome system, and yet they don't actually do anything to make it happen!
PM me if I can help.