That is a very good sign, kk! How great that you might have a mama friend right next door with similar values.
TC I so know how you feel about waiting on B and whenever he gets home, etc etc...I rolled my eyes with you because I get soooo sick of that kind of BS.
Hopefully you are happily camping now...have fun, happy campers!
Happily snuffling in my jammies and coffee cup as I write this, after a GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP! Seems like Amara woke 8 million times but I went to bed with the girls and got UP with the girls, who slept an extra hour and a half, so I am fully well rested. This is good after the previous night trekking to that show I told ya about, and getting up at the usual time. I was really on edge yesterday. Lack of sleep does me in REAL fast, I don't know how the chronically sleep-deprived do it.
Tonight is another show, and every Saturday. I am looking forward to it. More director complaints: the show we trekked to, has not paid us yet (and is a better-paying one than the usual Saturdays) and my musicians are grouchy about that. It's the City that is footing the bill on that one so gov't things are like, the runaround. Bigtime bother, and more stress. Gah.
So psyched about my car. I canNOT figure out how to get it, due to my other car here, which I want to keep. As a migrant gringa, I am allowed only one car. Solution would be: Viet brings the other car. Strange laws of importation require that NO CAR MADE IN JAPAN be imported, so my Camry is SOL. I can bring in my RAV4, even though it's made in Japan, because my migrant status is a temporary one (same deal with the Camry) and it's not a permanent importation.
The Camry is a '92, with 286k miles on it. Two windows that don't work. It's market value is like, zip. So to sell it seems stupid; it's value to me as a car is much greater than the $500 or so I would get for it. The idea is that Viet drives the Camry and has ability to take the girls AWAY from my house and me for spells, which we are unable to do if I need the car for any reason.
So here's my solution: Have a gringo drive the car into Mexico, with the title in their name, and then fly back to their home never to see or worry about the car again. The hitch is that if that same gringo ever wants to drive into Mexico again with a car in their name (beyond the border cities) they will have difficulties, and yes the Camry will be illegal after their tourist visa expires but that's not a huge deal. So I'm desperately seeking a gringo who would do that, and there are millions who never plan to drive their car into Mexico (just flying in would never be an issue), but how many want to do this for me? Like, none that I can tell! I'm hitting up my family members but they all eventually plan to drive in. Guh.
That's my report for this Fine Saturday.
TC I so know how you feel about waiting on B and whenever he gets home, etc etc...I rolled my eyes with you because I get soooo sick of that kind of BS.
Hopefully you are happily camping now...have fun, happy campers!
Happily snuffling in my jammies and coffee cup as I write this, after a GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP! Seems like Amara woke 8 million times but I went to bed with the girls and got UP with the girls, who slept an extra hour and a half, so I am fully well rested. This is good after the previous night trekking to that show I told ya about, and getting up at the usual time. I was really on edge yesterday. Lack of sleep does me in REAL fast, I don't know how the chronically sleep-deprived do it.
Tonight is another show, and every Saturday. I am looking forward to it. More director complaints: the show we trekked to, has not paid us yet (and is a better-paying one than the usual Saturdays) and my musicians are grouchy about that. It's the City that is footing the bill on that one so gov't things are like, the runaround. Bigtime bother, and more stress. Gah.
So psyched about my car. I canNOT figure out how to get it, due to my other car here, which I want to keep. As a migrant gringa, I am allowed only one car. Solution would be: Viet brings the other car. Strange laws of importation require that NO CAR MADE IN JAPAN be imported, so my Camry is SOL. I can bring in my RAV4, even though it's made in Japan, because my migrant status is a temporary one (same deal with the Camry) and it's not a permanent importation.
The Camry is a '92, with 286k miles on it. Two windows that don't work. It's market value is like, zip. So to sell it seems stupid; it's value to me as a car is much greater than the $500 or so I would get for it. The idea is that Viet drives the Camry and has ability to take the girls AWAY from my house and me for spells, which we are unable to do if I need the car for any reason.
So here's my solution: Have a gringo drive the car into Mexico, with the title in their name, and then fly back to their home never to see or worry about the car again. The hitch is that if that same gringo ever wants to drive into Mexico again with a car in their name (beyond the border cities) they will have difficulties, and yes the Camry will be illegal after their tourist visa expires but that's not a huge deal. So I'm desperately seeking a gringo who would do that, and there are millions who never plan to drive their car into Mexico (just flying in would never be an issue), but how many want to do this for me? Like, none that I can tell! I'm hitting up my family members but they all eventually plan to drive in. Guh.
That's my report for this Fine Saturday.
fiddle. Even without details, that drama sounds really wretched.
: fern! This anecdote is too cute. I am sooo soooorrry about your family drama and collection letter.
i'm glad you got moved upstairs and away from the mold. i hope the family drama resolves itself soon
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claudia. Sorry 'bout yoru bad day. I had one yesterday, too. I tooootally lost my cool with Sarah and have felt awful ever since. 
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: my mom is coming sunday. maybe she can get him back on his routine.
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GRR!
and check email and shoot off a note to you wonderful mama-jamas.
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