sunshinej wrote:

safe travels, stusue 

Thanks so much, Sun!  

I leave a week tomorrow and I have so much to do!!!!  

3 planes and over 30 hours to get back home.  

I just want to be there. 
 

stusue -- I'm praying that your trip home won't be too hard.  Also that you get some time to recover.

lilyr wrote:

stusue -- I'm praying that your trip home won't be too hard.  Also that you get some time to recover.

Thanks so much, Lily!  

First I fly to Hong Kong, then change planes and fly to Frankfurt, then change planes and fly up to Bremen, then hop in my booked airport shuttle taxi to my home, which is about 40 kms away.  I get home about 11 am so then I can cry when I see the state I left my house in, pull myself together and go get my tablets, get something to eat, then crash and resurface sometime in the ... hopefully ... not too distance future.


 

I'm kinda wondering how grey my hair has become but I don't really want to know, lol. 
They're having a pre-Black Friday sale at Best Buy so I ordered a 40 inch TV for $159, figured I probably wouldn't do any better, and it was online, so no crowds.  We just have a small one in our room, hard for me to see.  I got a few video games along with it and also a new Google Chromecast, hubby left ours in Florida by accident.  The Chromecast turns a regular TV into a smart TV, you can stream Netflix, Hulu, etc. with it.  TMobile just made a new announcement that they have a new way to compress data so you get 3x as much, and they've doubled almost everyone's data besides, and now they're letting us stream Netflix, Hulu, and other services (but no Youtube yet) without counting it against our data, same as they're doing with the music services.  You have to use their lower quality streaming to get it for free, but it says it's DVD quality and should still look pretty good on a phone or tablet.  If you want to stream in hi-def it comes out of your data.  This is an insane good deal for someone like me, now I don't even need regular internet.  I'll have to look for a signal booster before I go to work again, though, cause TMobile can be hard to get/poor signal  once you leave the city areas. 
  Hubby's construction job fell through, he was going to replace someone who left but I guess the boss decided he didn't have enough work at this time of year to bother hiring someone.  But he's been hired for a dishwasher job, the lady said call the day after Thanksgiving and she's put him on the schedule.  I could even hear her through the phone so I know it's true, lol.  Part time to start but at least it pays $10/hr.  Not super fantastic but it will bring in enough to cover some bills and let us have a night out occasionally.  There's not a lot of work here, he's been responding to ads but ???  Like the other day someone advertised for a carpenter's helper and said it would be helpful if you knew painting and tilework.  Hubby responded, he knows general carpentry, he paints well with a brush and he's done some tiling on floors, but not walls.  The person responded (pretty quickly) saying he had a job doing the surround on a fireplace, did he know  fireplace work????  Huh?  That's not at all what your ad said you were wanting.  But at least he's emailed/called a fair number of these ads, so if they need somebody later on maybe they'll call.  But for right now the dishwashing job has it's own appeal.  No money to deal with, no customers to deal with, just go in, do your drudgework and collect your $10/hr.  He didn't know the restaurant so we looked it up and it seems to be an upscale banquet facility so they will probably be jam packed with Christmas parties next month. 
 

Oh, no ~ ss Oscar.