Don’t halloo till you’re out of the wood!

It was so warm in Kiel today that I didn’t have to wear a jacket! Wow, really, me, the “Frostködel” or with other words, the always freezing Cola. It’s December and it’s so warm, that it’s hard to get the Christmas feeling. Christmas this year means for me that I fly to New Mexico to start a new chapter of my life.
I work quite a lot in my sales promotion jobs this month. That’s good on one hand, because I won’t earn money the next three months at least. On the other hand I’m so busy at work and with everything else that I’m tired and wasted on my little bit of free time. I stopped my eBay (selling) life and concentrated on the only very very important to-do things. Well, in my actual condition mistakes can happen easily. Today the buyer of one of my last eBay sales called me. She expected to get a perfume but unfortunately she got a backpack. Oops. Double oops. Triple…sigh. Oh nooo!
I was very glad that this person was very nice and understanding and knowing that I’m moving to another country (I guess she read my eBay profile) She said, this mistake of mixing two package labels can happen but I shouldn’t worry, we’ll find a solution. Well, the perfume is probably in Hamburg now, while the backpack is in another federal state, in Hessen. I really mixed the labels and glued them on the wrong package. Damn! And I controlled them both before I hurried on my way to work (early in the morning…obviously too early for my brain) to the gas station (where we now can send packages with the Hermes service). It happened last Saturday. Too bad. These two packages were the ones that I had trouble with eBay a few weeks ago. eBay had technical problems and I didn’t get any bids in the last hours. Finally I got my eBay fees for these articles back. Now I must pay the postal double Ok, I hope it’s not more than 8 Euro if they both send each other the (right) packages with the same Hermes service, which is cheaper than sending it with the regular German Mail.
I cannot await leaving Germany and relax in my hon’s arms…19 days left until I fly….from these I work on 14 days (between 7 and 14 hours per day), only 5 (free) days for packing and organizing left…how should I relax?!

New poll, neue Umfrage

I have a new poll for you The old one about my blog’s language is still running, but besides that I want to change my blog name. Yep. It’s time for some changes. Just click on the link that you’ll find above the calendar (left) or click this link. As I said before for my language poll, you are welcome to write your individual opinion also in the comments here.
I count on you Please help me decide as soon as possible! I want to change the name within the next two weeks!

Oops I did it again or America please draw my lot!

This time I tell everyone, maybe it helps, maybe it’s more luck, at least I submit the application for the greencard lottery at 9:44 pm (German time) and the ’4′ is my lucky number ;-P
Last year I did the green card lottery the first time and I didn’t tell anyone because I thought it might help for better chances Obviously it didn’t.
Because I was late I did it over the ‘americandream.de’ service agency, who checked the valid application for me. They charged 50 Euro for it. Well, at that time, I really was in hectic and I didn’t know that it is generally free of charge (if applied over the official website of the lottery). From a good friend (thanks to Petra) I know that one only needs to fill out a document online, submit a photo and that’s it to take part. I did. Today. This time I don’t want to keep it for me (it’s hard to keep things like that for me anyway). ;o)
Last Thursday I went to a photographer to make a new biometric (special, how America wants it) photo.

How sad it looks, hm? Well, as you may know, it is not allowed to smile on the new biometric photos…
Today, after I came home from work at IKEA (damn, my colleague and I bake about 2500 cookies today), I scanned my new biometric photo, edited the photo into the right format, used the photo validation service at the diversity visa website (to check if the photo fulfills the strict requirements), filled out the application form and uploaded the valid photo. Ta-daah!

Please cross your fingers for me. It’s for the year 2008. Next summer I will know if I won or not.

Oops I did it again, I hope this time I’m in the lucky winners’ pot.
Normally I’m lucky in love and unlucky at cards but this time I need pure luck at both!
Otherwise, who knows where we (the travel-addicted couple, hehe) will be in 2008 ;o)

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