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Sunday, March 26, 2006
My Faith in Mankind is Renewed

Saturday afternoon , P and I were involved in a minor 'hit and run' accident. The New No Name Car was at the shop getting the DVD player installed (for P's pleasure and my sanity), so I was driving a rental car. While driving on a windy 2 lane road between my house and another base in the area, a car towing a trailer full of wooden fence sections was approaching us. As we were traveling in one of the curvy parts, one of the fence sections (about 3m x 3m or 9ft x 9ft) flew out of the trailer and hit the hood of the car I was driving. I immediately pulled to the side of the road. I looked in my rear view mirror, and I saw that another piece of fence had come off the trailer also, and was laying by the side of the road. The driver of the car only slowed down, but made no attempt to stop and check on us.

I checked out the car I was driving, and noticed that there is a SERIOUS scratch on the hood, and the passenger side rear view mirror was broke. I stayed on the side of the road for a few minutes, hoping that the driver would come back, but NOPE...he didn't. Eventually, I found a place to turn around so I could drive by the site again, but NOPE, the owner of the fence was still no where to be found. At that point, I basically gave up, and decided to continue with our day of shopping. Just as I resigned to just paying for the damages to the rental car (I had insurance on the car, and the deductible was 750 euro~about $900), I noticed a Polizei car at the site, cleaning up the million pieces of wood from the roadway. Just as I arrived the officers were preparing to leave the scene. I flagged them down, and told them what had happened.

Basically, he told me that since I didn't get the license plate number, it was considered a hit and run, and to not hold my breath concerning restitution.

Fast forward to tonight...the Polizist (policeman) called me at home to inform me that someone that witnessed the accident and called them later in the afternoon to report it, and gave them the details and the license plate number from both the trailer AND the car. I was SO happy that that he called that I screamed in his ear. The Polizist also gave me ALL the driver's information. Tomorrow, I will pass this information on to the Budget Car Rental, so my reputation with my favorite car rental business is unspoiled.

So...it looks like I won't have to pay for a paint job and a new mirror for a car that doesn't belong to me. YEAH!!!!

On a serious note...do you know that it is against the law in Germany to witness an altercation and NOT report it? It's a more strict form of the Good Samaritan Law.

Update...about 30 minutes after the Polizist called me, the driver of the offending vehicle called to give me his information. I asked him if he had noticed that he lost his fence sections. He said that when he arrived at his daughter's house, and noticed that they were gone, he thought someone had stolen them out of his trailer...while he was going 70kph?


Posted by Margaret      8:40 PM      |

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The Secret

Last week, after picking P up from that place that I pay so she can play all day, she told me a 'secret'. The secret is that she has a boyfriend in her class, a 4 year old named Ryan. I may be wrong for this, but the first thing that came to mind is that I REALLY hope she won't make it a habit of having boyfriends that:
As a symbol of their undying 'love', one of them made this out of 2 popscicle sticks (if you can't read it, it says P heart Ryan):

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On another note, until 6 months ago, milk was a major food group in P's diet. She drank it all day, everyday.

Now...

She won't drink it. At all. Not chocolate, not strawberry, and most certainly not plain.

Is this normal?


Posted by Margaret      7:58 PM      |

Monday, March 20, 2006
T-ball Gear

Once P turned 5, I was able to sign her up to play T-ball on the World's Busiest Air Base. Because her birthday was during registration, once I did register her, all the teams were full, and she is now #9 on the waiting list. Last week, I on the website for the Red Dot Boutique, I saw some T-ball gear on sale, and asked my friend K to let me know the prices of a few things. Today, we got a package inthe mail. She sent P the following (of course everything is pink): Here is a picture of all her gear (I love the bat on the left. On it, it says 'GIRLS RULE'): It all fits in the bag rather nicely: Here is P in her pajamas:
Now, if she only had a team to play on. The season opens 3 April, and 9 people don't pay within 5 days, she'll get a slot on a team.

I REALLY hopes she does make it on a team, because I'll be John Brown (don't ask) if I chase balls around the yard the entire summer.
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Saturday morning, P asked if she could use some of my glitter tape. Since I'm not the one to stifle P's artistic side, I told her that she could use it. This is what she created:


Needless to say, there is no more tape.


Posted by Margaret      10:12 PM      |

Sunday, March 19, 2006
No One to Blame

Friday after I picked up P at the place I pay so she can play all day, we made our weekly pilgrimage to the store on the World's Busiest Air Base to rent movies for the weekend (along with everyone else on base, it seemed).

As we passed one section of movies:

P: Mommy, I saw your movie back there.
Me: Which one?
P: The one where the boy had 2 guns.
Me: I don't know which one you are talking about.
P: It was the movie where the man said fuck.
Me: Oh, that one... (at the time, I had NO idea which one she was talking about)

She then showed me the DVD cover of the movie Four Brothers.

At the moment she dropped the f-bomb, it seemed like the store was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. The folks standing near us just looked at me, trying to figure out to whom they can report me.

Me? I stood there trying to figure out why P didn't say 'it was the movie where the man said 'we have to do this for mom'.'

I think she was going for shock value.


Posted by Margaret      12:01 PM      |

Friday, March 17, 2006
Danke!!

I just want to take a moment to kick a shout out to Uncle LeRoy for the 'secret' incentive award bonus that I recieved with my pay. When I first saw the amount of the incentive award bonus, I thought WOW, I can get the expensive, overpriced seat covers for the new no named car. With the remaining funds, I may even get this side rail for the new no name car (only in black):


Why is this needed, you ask? Currently, P has to climb into the new no name car on her hands and knees because the car sits so high. It's the least I can do to avoid taking P to the place that I pay so she can play all day (say that 10 times fast) with dirty pants first thing in the morning. And to protect my reputation.
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About 5 minutes ago, P called Crazy Dog into Chaos Cave (her room). After being in CC for about 5 minutes, I heard a him yelp, and he came running into the dining room. When I looked to see what was wrong with him, this is what I saw:


P said she put the bib (belonging to one of her dolls) on him because she was going to share her popcorn with him. Poor CD!!


Posted by Margaret      8:17 PM      |

Monday, March 13, 2006
Why?

Why do seat covers for my new No Name Car cost over $300?

Also, would I be wrong to charge P for the covers for the back seat? She DOES sit back there.

That is all.


Posted by Margaret      7:42 PM      |

Thursday, March 09, 2006
C Noodles and Sticky Cheese

If P someone asks for spaghetti with noodles for dinner, she they DO NOT mean spaghetti with SPAGHETTI noodles. She They mean spaghetti with 'C' noodles (macaroni), because spaghetti with spaghetti noodles is just plain spaghetti. If you choose to assume that the requester meant spaghetti noodles, you will be forced to do one of 2 things: Since I am still learning to pick my battles with P, I chose the second option. Once I was finished making the 'spaghetti with noodles', I topped it with mozzarella cheese and put it in the oven. After the cheese was melted, I fixed P's plate and she sat at the table. From the kitchen, I hear:
I didn't want sticky cheese on top!!!
I picked the 'sticky cheese' off the top, and all was right with the world, and she ate 4 servings of spaghetti with noodles. She also ate another serving as a pre-bedtime snack.

What lesson did I learn?


Posted by Margaret      9:56 PM      |

Wednesday, March 08, 2006
My New Gadget

Yesterday morning while gathering everything for work, I grabbed my cell phone and I realized that the message on the display said the battery was invalid. After asking my boyfriend Google, the phone was declared dead. I needed an immediate replacement.

During lunch, I was off to find a replacement phone. It only took me about 2 minutes to find a exactly what I wanted.

This is the old phone, a Motorola V300:
This is the new phone, a Motorola RAZR3:


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An up date on the job situation:

I made the 'first cut off' for positions in the following cities:
Where do I want to go? I've always said that I'd go anywhere where P can go to school. The next step in the process could be telephone interviews if they choose. So, for now, it's more or less a waiting game.


Posted by Margaret      7:34 PM      |

Friday, March 03, 2006
It's Winter...Again.

It has snowed everyday since Monday. Things didn't start getting bad until Thursday. We woke up on Thursday morning to 5.5 inches of snow on our walkway. Since it was nice and fluffy, I was able to sweep it away. While I was abiding by German law and sweeping off my area, P decided to get 'dressed' and her and Crazy Dog ventured out into the yard and played for a while. Did I mention that it was 0615 (that's 6:15am for you civilians)? Because the roads were basically sheets of ice, everyone was on a 2 hour delay, which means you could be late to work by 2 hours. I got word of the delay and I was already on my way to the place that pays me. So much for 2 free hours. It continued to snow all day and night Thursday.

This morning (Friday), we woke to another 4 inches of snow, and another 2 hour delay for work. I arrive at work casually late (but excused). After picking cotton for about 3 hours, all non-mission essetial personnell (that's me!) were released for the day, because the road conditions were so bad.

Once we made it home and changed clothes, we were out in the yard having a great time.


My little angel:


Our 3 foot snowman:


Even CD had a great time (his 'sweater' is actually half a sleeve I cut off an old sweater):



CD and his snow balls (he really needs a haircut):


Everyone have a nice weekend!


Posted by Margaret      9:57 PM      |



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