…I must digress.  This woman who called?  Nice lady.  But–and subsequent playing “Who does this sound like” with friends and family confirms this–she sounds exactly like Roz, the giant slug from Monsters, Inc.  Go here before I continue so you, too, have this voice in your head.

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Okay, done?  Now be certain that during the entire phone call, Roz the giant slug was exactly who I pictured.  It made it almost fun!  Almost. Anyway what " />#8216;Roz’ said was that Taylor’s first appointment with the docs had been scheduled, and it was scheduled for 0900 WEDNESDAY MORNING. Meaning Taylor and I have to fly out Tuesday, meaning I have to do EVERYTHING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD on Monday, including my PT test, and holy crap I was not prepared for that at ALL.

Since then we’ve been in turbo mode, getting rid of the stuff I was going to be getting rid of over the next couple of weeks.  I’m not coming back to Germany, you guys.  I’m moving back to the states on Tuesday, and it’s weird how 16 days makes a difference.  It’s not like I’m leaving months early or anything but mentally, I had all the days compartmentalized into things to do.

Taylor is actually pretty excited to get the surgery, NOT the surgery part but the after part when she is (hopefully) fixed.  This has been a tough road for her, especially since her best friend left this morning for Japan, but she’s holding up like a champ.

Today involves laundry, packing suitcases, and packing boxes to mail back.  I should probably get on that.

Bye!

Which is why when I took Taylor to the Endocrinologist yesterday it was a little bit of a shock to be told that Taylor has hyperparathyroidism (not the shock), that the only way to ‘fix’  hyperparathyroidism is surgery (not the shock), and that said surgery needs to happen now (that’s the shock) at Walter Reed medical center in Washington D.C. (also the shock).  I mean, putting Taylor aside for just one moment to focus on me…OF COURSE!  OF COURSE she has to have surgery ASAP, and OF COURSE the way we are getting to said surgery is via medevac, and not normal transportation channels like normal people.  I’ve said it before, but: this kind of stuff always happens to me!  I can’t make up a more dramatic life! I mean, Taylor randomly gets diagnosed with a disease of a gland I’ve never even heard of and after months and months of nothing, two weeks before we are scheduled to leave BLAM!  ASAP surgery!  Medevaced out!

Now, lest you think I’m heartless and only focused on how this is affecting ME, let me just mention that Taylor, because of this, was exempted from her finals that are taking place next week.  Therefore, she is stoked.  But also relieved, and I think a little validated that she was finally diagnosed with something, because trust me, telling people you have this weird disease with its only symptom being too much calcium in your blood sort of invites blank stares of (at times) disbelief.

OH I forgot to mention that we have no idea when this is happening, just…soon.  So we are just waiting.  My work gave me the opportunity to run around and get a shitload of outprocessing done so I’m pretty good to go at this point, thanks work.

One day I will not have random events happening in my life.  I hope.

Bye!

Actually I can’t sleep because I am excited, apprehensive, and sad about moving, all at the same time.  Saying goodbye always sucks hard.  And also I have SO.MUCH.STUFF left to do–like 86 boxes to be mailed and hamsters to sell and general disposing of crap and how in the world do I ship TEN GIANT CRATES of belongings and still have so much here?  I thought I shipped it all but nooooo, I was wrong.

Anyway, this is stupid,  I’m tired and need to wake up in like three minutes or something ridiculous and also I have to pee.  So I am going.

Bye.

Step 1:  la la la, I need to hit the upstairs portion of the KMCC, oh, here are the escalators!

Step 2:  How strange!  This escalator does not seem to be moving!  Oh well, a little stair action never hurt anyone!

Step 3:  Here I go, placing my foot onto this STATIONARY DEVICE!

Step 4:  La l…WHOOOAAAAA WTF!  WHAT IS GOING ON!

Step 5: (Rapid flailing whilst trying to maintain balance)

Step 6:  Is this…motion activated?  What the hell?!  Did anyone see me?  I feel like laughing sheepishly.  Ha ha ha.

You can be assured that when it was time to utilize the down escalator, a little ORM was applied.  Seriously, though.  A sign.  I am klutzy.

Bye!

Hmm.  Actually maybe it wasn’t such a busy week.  I can’t think of anything else I did.  It FEELS like it’s been a busy week, okay?  I did ship the car though, and got a rental for the remainder of my time here.  It’s a German-spec VW Passat wagon and holy CRAP does it drive nice.  I don’t want one or anything but man it doesn’t even feel like I’m driving.  And it goes SUPER fast, like 0-900000 in one second.  ALSO, it has backup sensors, which is annoying but I’LL ADMIT helpful for me the inattentive backer-upper.

Another thing I did this week was drop my iTouch in water, and now the touch screen doesn’t work.  Everything else works, up to and definitely including the alarm, which now goes off at least every hour on the :45 mark for a LONG TIME.  Fortunately it is the the ‘Ascending’ alarm and not the

…oh ooops.  I just had one of those times when I get up to do something and forget I’m in the middle of a post.  Anyway so what I was saying is it’s a good thing it’s the ‘Ascending’ alarm and not the ‘Alarm’ alarm because it would be even MORE annoying than it is.  I’m hoping once it dries out it will work, and right now I have it in a bag of uncooked rice to absorb any moisture per the forums (all of them).  Of course these forums include posts like:

“o kno u guz i dropped my ituch n da water n da screen went wite it sux whut cn i do?  i wiped it off nd at da smetim tryn 2 switch it off…please..hw cn i turn it on n when will it work or how 2 make it worK!! please..sme1 help!!!”

So we’ll see how that goes.  FYI: writing like that is stupid.

ALSO.  We (well, John) did a little thing yesterday called closing on our mother-f’ing HOUSE.  So exciting!  I’ve been doing a lot of (online) shopping for refrigerators and washer/dryers, and for a replacement sink.  I can’t wait to move in!

Okay time to mow the lawn.  Bye!