Still waiting for a phone

Thursday November 19, 2009

We had kind of a slow day today. We got up around eight and I went down to the café to check e-mails and do some school stuff. Todd stayed around the house to work on his resume. He’s been checking out the want ads and is ready to start looking for a job. There are at least a few Solar/Green building companies in the area looking for people. He’s feeling good about the prospects. The only issue we’re having right now is we don’t have a contact number that he can put on any applications or his resume.

Todd called the company that is responsible for getting our phone hooked up. Apparently since our house has just been converted to apartments, they’re confused at the location to hook up the phone or something, who knows what the delay is. Therefore, we are still in limbo waiting for our land line. Wow, that feels so weird to say, land line, and the fact that were angsting over having one is even weirder…. what even is that? Were both pretty annoyed at how expensive communication is here. I am pretty sure Todd has mentioned this before. Without jobs we can’t really afford the cell phone and monthly internet payments, but at the same time we can’t fully stalk jobs to earn money to pay for it all. What a conundrum.

I read on my Kindle (thanks freeeends, I’m obsessed) the rest of the day. Thanks Nikki for the book suggestions, I’m loving “The Help.” I gotta get in my “fun” reading fix before I have a serious grad student face. Todd took care of biznasss with that resy (aka CV down ‘unda) and job searching pretty much all afternoon. We did get our debit cards and health insurance cards in the mail today, so that was exciting. In the afternoon we walked to the grocery and picked up some items. Todd experimented with, of course, the Asian selection, what else? Needless to say we had another yummy stir fry concoction with chicken, shrooms, red capsicum (pepper), carrot, asparagus, and ginger.

Some Leah observations for today:

-There are a lot of tall Aussie women (Sarah you’ll be right at home)

-“No” is pronounced “No-OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” with a high voice inflection at the end, like it’s a question. Once we can start skyping from the privacy of our own home, we’ll demonstrate.

-We saw a really long, stretch-marked ass-crack hanging out of a jirt (jean skirt). There’s still white trash, one might say, even in Oz.

-Plain yellow mustard is called “American Mustard,” but tastes like honey mustard

-We got the TV schedule and there is no “The Office,” no “30 Rock,” or “SNL.” “Good Morning America” is on at 3:30am (Hey Robin Roberts!) but we do have all the “Two and a Half Men” we could ever want to see. Whoopeee for “MEEEEEEEEN!”