Thank Goodness

Bad news first. My internet service is down at home, and the technician can't come until next TUESDAY. Yeah, um, like six days from when the cable modem quit working (yesterday morning). The timing on this sucks so bad, because I'm trying to do all this research about Munich and moving to Germany and stuff, and it's just a terrible time to be disconnected. But a wise woman talked me down off the ledge last night, and gave me a good idea for a workaround... I am going to get a free AOL account and use my dialup modem until the cable internet comes back again.

See, every cloud has a silver lining.

Here are the things I'm grateful for today:

• The meeting with HR went well yesterday. I am mostly feeling a lot better about things, just not so stressed about getting over there. It's a huge job, a giant project, but they do it all the time and it is all going to work out okay. I'm almost positive.
  
  
• Thank goodness for friends who talk you through freakouts late at night. And friends who bring over KFC for dinner and agree to come and help you hang wallpaper. And friends who send care packages that make your day. And all the others who do all those other things that make life easier when it gets crazy. What would I do without these wonderful people in my life?
  
  
• I only have one more day at work. Well, all day today, and tomorrow morning. Happy!!!
  
  
• Marty's helping with making the calls and stuff... this is something that stresses me out a lot, and I appreciate anything he can do before he heads off.
  
  
• I may get a househunting trip to Munich after all! At first they were saying they might not send me because the time is so short, but after the meeting yesterday it seems a lot more likely that they'll send me over for a week to help Marty look at places. I would feel much, much more comfortable about this move if I knew what type of place we'd be going to. After all, I have to figure out what we need to take, then divide up the stuff between what's going and what's staying, supervise the packing, all of that stuff.
  
  
• The relocation person seemed to think everything would work out okay with taking Ziggy over. Such a relief. Although I still need to confirm that there's no quarantine coming back into the US from Germany (I know there isn't on the way over).
  
  
• One way or another, I'm gonna get connected back to the internet from home tonight. It's terrible to be so dependent on it, I guess, but this is not the time for me to try to go cold turkey, when I am researching all this stuff and corresponding with the relocation counselor by e-mail. Terrible, terrible timing. But I'm going to find a fix. You watch me.

Okay, that's it for now. That's probably enough, right?