Living in America 2011

[MmeBucket]

We were a few messages away from being closed on the other one. Hope everyone finds me here.

crazy..check
chick...check
CA....check

lawyer...phew

I say lawyer in the loosest sense of the word. She can't even proofread to make sure she's copied and pasted the right names and regularly loses documents we send her!

ooh, tad that sounds annoying & worrying. How does someone get qualified if they don't do their job properly?

i've been abducted by the crazy life of doing 2 jobs. Thankfully I appear to enjoy them both.

i've just got an email about one of my pupils - she won't be in school this week as she has dislocated her knee! Ouch!
And there's her mum asking if there's any work she needs to get done. Every time I think of it I wince.

I don't know kickass. Friends of ours got to the US Embassy with their visa application, only to find our names on one of the pages. Fortunately it wasn't spotted. How are the cupcakes dovetailing with the teaching?

cupcakes & teaching going well, but saturday markets start in may, so that could be busy.

on fri lunch i'm getting one grade to do creative presentations, giving them all cupcakes & i invited the principal - not that i'm trying to bribe my way into a permanent job there, oh no no no.

Sounds stressful. At least aliens weren't involved.

But MmeBucket - we are aliens

Yes, but I'm assuming you don't do anal probes. . . or do you?

I don't remember that question being on the green card application. Perhaps you should get in touch with USCIS and suggest it!

And no!

it's probably in the small print.

There is a lot of small print involved.

i have to admit, i never read it - i could have been admitting to anything.

I think you are basically admitting to being perfect! You must be of sound character etc and know how to bake a damn good cupcake. Oh woops, that counts me out already, though my chocolate chip cookies are very nice!

I need paperwork to prove my perfection?

Only to stay in the States!

You need paperwork for everything in the States!

DP muttered something about me being perfect the other day (after I'd done the laundry, made a cake, fixed the boiler, dug a veg patch unblocked the loo & hosted a birthday party - usual weekend stuff) and I told him, I'm not perfect but would agree to being somewhat like Mary Poppins 'practically perfect in every way'

I can't get used to having take so much paperwork just to see a HCP. It's the social security number I always forget. Plus they don't like you not having a phone number. My dentist communicates via email but the medical ones don't.

I remember struggling to get our first landline in the US because we didn't already have a phone number

I never forget my social security number - I often state it when asked for my National Insurance number and then get raised eyebrows and a rather bemused 'are you sure?'

I can't remember the damn thing at all. I think it's because when I got it SS told me not to give it out to anyone and yet everyone asks for it! i think my brain has told me not to remember it so that I check if someone really needs it.

I've not even attempted to remember it. But I do that with most things, phone number (inc. mine) peoples names ....

You're of a generation that perhaps didn't have to learn numbers as they are stored in your phone! I still remember my phone number from my teens as Dad always answered the phone by saying it! [old codger emoticon]

when i was in brownies we were taught how to answer the phone.
so i used to say
town name 54321 (yes, 5 dig numbers back then!) kickassangel speaking, how may i help you?

only, of course, it came out
towname54321kiassangspeaking howmayiyelpya? cos i just said it so fast.

Did you have to carry a 10p piece to use the telephone in an emergency too? I found my old Girl Guide first aid box with the old fashioned 10p in it 10 years or so ago!

I'm terrible with phone numbers. I can't remember anything like that - car registrations, prices... you can tell me and 30 seconds later, I'll have no recollection. Even reading weights in a recipe book requires me checking it 3 times before I actually weigh the ingredient in case I have forgotten, even if the book is right next to the scales.

I remember having to practice answering the phone. And using a phone box. DS didn't even know what a phone box was

Hi, I have just found out that certain vaccines are mandatory for schooling in CT where we are going. Anyone know if I can get the single mumps vaccine in the US please? It is no longer available in the UK and my kids have had measles and rubella so just need that one. Thank you!