Just a 3 day update....

03/26/2006, 08:24 AM

ok, so granted that McDonalds are huge all over the world, but here they are, i dunno, somehow elevated as a "higher" restaurant then some. i think they are trying to take over Europe. however, one thing that makes them even bigger right now is their kids meals or kinder menus. Why u ask? Well not only are the portions perfect, and the quality of the food is much better, but most people here are buying them for the kids prize. WHAT??? I know what you are thinking. Why would anyone spend 4 euro to get some piece of plastic that will either break or get lost in a day or two. Well, because the prize here isn't a piece of plastic. Right now they have these awesome key chains that everyone and i mean everyone from toddlers to the old people are collecting. Hell, even mom and me are getting a small collection of them. They are really well made here and not to mention sooooo cute. If you want to see what i am talking about, go to the German McDonalds website and check them out for yourself. And hey if you want, you can send me 4 euro plus 2 euro shipping and i will get one for you. They are such a better idea for a kids toy then they usually have in the states.

Macdonald's food over here is also of way better quality. like right now i am snacking on this wonderful garden side salad. Yes they have these in the states, but this one is much better. The choice of veggies and size and even the dressing is better. Like instead of fatty ranch and bacon ranch and thousand island dressing, they have house, Caesar or balsamic dressing. I am having the balsamic dressing which let me tell you is heavenly. oh, and if you get a big Mack, its not the size of your head, its what they use to be about 5-10 years ago. and you wonder why America is fat....

Monday the 20^th of March

So we have started to actually decorate the rooms now. Scary i know, it means that we are actually committing to living here for a longer period of time. Mom just bought the carpet for her room and next for her will be wallpaper and curtains. i am going to buy my carpet next pay period because it will cost around 80 euros so about 100 bucks. Not bad at all. I am going to wait to get the wallpaper, however, until Leo gets back. i think that he should have some say in what the room looks like.

Today is the first day of spring!!!! and it def. feels like it too. Its like 60 out and wonderful. A nice breeze, sunny. You couldn't ask for a better spring day. Perfect for a bit of cleaning and moving into rooms. One thing that we need to do though is get some kind of mesh or soft screen like we had in Italy so we can put it over the windows so we can actually open them. Even though we are on the top floor, the cats are still stupid enough to try and jump. When we lived in Italy on the top floor we put Kittie on the sill to see what she would do, and had i not been there, she would have tried to jump all the way down. So from now on we have to get screen. Its better that way anyway. Here in Germany we have tons of flies and will have tons of mosquitoes come summer.

Tuesday the 21^st of March

Well i was suppose to get carpet today but because it was raining i wasn't about to get it. That's sad because i really wanted to have my room closer to complete. Of course it wont be complete until Leo is here and we get our bed and his stuff moved it. Then it will finally be finished. So hopefully tomorrow. * Crosses Fingers *

So we went to the Thrift store and got a few things for our house including a chair for my desk. The arms for it however are too tall for my desk so i am debating taking them off. I would like to be able to push the chair in. I also got a disc that supposedly has over 5000 programs and stuff but for some odd reason it doesn't want to work very well in my computer. It takes forever for me to even open up the damn folders and stuff and then trying to open and install the programs, yeah right. I haven't even gotten that far yet. And here i thought i was gonna have all these new programs to play with today....

I am in need of a definite vacation. Today at work i just wanted to strangle half of the people walking in there and then i wanted to burn down the damn store. God! I need to get away from there but unless i suddenly get rich some how....

So in the mail i got something for my five year high school reunion. But i don't think i am gonna go. I mean come on, who really changes after five years. Ten yes but five no.... So unless i just happen to be in the states in late august when it is happening..... But who knows.

Sunday the 26^th of March

Ok, so its about 1 in the morning and i haven't had a chance to write in the last couple of days so now its time to do an update. Let see, well i never did get any carpet because of the fact that i ran out of money. Big surprise! I forgot that i had to pay the rent and that obviously comes before carpet. However i have acquired a few more pieces of furniture from the thrift store, the free pile of course. I now have a TV stand, a TV and another chair. This one doesn't have arms and works well with my desk. I also find out that a friend of mine who lives just a few blocks away has a bed that me and Leo can have if we want it. Nice huh? And it will be free!

One of the supervisors at work is currently really sick so right now everyone is pulling a lot of shifts. Now everyone applies to Collin (supervisor), Mike ( manager) and me (intermittent). An example of this is the last 3 days. Thursday i worked from 11 to 2, then came back at 530 and worked til 1030pm. The next morning i worked from 8am to 9am for free, left, came back at 11 and worked til 830pm. Saturday i worked from 4 to 10pm. Today i go to work at 9am and work til 4pm. Luckily, i have Monday off so that will be a nice break. What will i do you ask? I have no flipping clue. Hopefully by then, our internet will be up and i will be able to just surf all day long. That would be so nice. But we will have to see about that one.

So right now the Leo Comes home count down is at 21 days. Not counting the actual day that he gets back. He leaves Greece on the 15^th of April but doesn't actually get into Hanau until the 16^th. I have requested that day off from work so that i can spend the whole day with him. I haven't seen him since the 4^th of March so it will be nice to see him again.

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention that we finally got a phone line in our house! Yeah! That is kind of obvious since i was talking about internet in the house.

Another thing that we are looking into for the house is TV. Don't really know how we are going to do that but.... we will figure it out. It would be nice to get AFN which is American forces network. It has channels like abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, fox, and other popular American channels. I just need to convince my mom to get it. Before we didn't because we didn't have enough money for it but as soon as Leo moves in it will be a third income and things will be easier to afford. Well i am off to bed. We lose an hour of sleep tonight due to daylight savings time.