And that's the way it is on Sunday, January 11, 2015

And that's the way it is on Sunday, January 11, 2015 Does anyone remember Walter Cronkite? He used to end his newscasts with that phrase every night. Never thought I would be one of those old-timers who had to ask if folks remembered or even KNEW some of these famous people. Seems like this is happening more and more and I am moving further and further away from the younger generation. I used to be in the younger generation and thought these people were so old!!! Where did the time go? So, it IS Sunday, January 11, 2015. I have GOT to get this blog going again and try and post pictures too. Really don't want to use Facebook for blogging because it is such an invasion of privacy. Hopefully you have managed to find this and to get caught up on all our latest adventures as American expats in Germany now repats relocated to the Southern US. I am not sure what the greater transition was - returning to the States from being overseas in Germany for 6 years or moving to Georgia. Would have been a lot easier to return to our home of record (and family, friends, etc) in Maryland but the job is in Georgia. Go figure. So we have been here south of Atlanta for over four months now. I told Lewis I would give this place a year. Unfortunately, we are now four months into that and I am not feeling the love yet. I will say that I am fighting several battles that would have to be fought even if we had returned to Maryland. The first is that I am a City Girl now living in the country. We both decided that after being city or ourskirts dwellers and fighting the traffic and noise that we wanted to live somewhere quieter. The second battle is that I am unemployed and have to completely start from scratch in finding job leads, associates, friends, connections; basically build a job hunt network completely from the ground-up, where a lot of connections in Maryland are already there (including my teacher certification). The third battle is that we are in a remote area south of Atlanta that has NO public transportation! BOOOOO! Also, have to hunt down music and theatre connections and there just don't seem to be as many here. Lastly, we are Yankees living in Southern territory. No way around that, except that most people here are Yankees or northern transplants so you don't really feel like you are in the South, except for all the baptist churches - can't sneeze without passing one! The latest is that we have now received all our earthly belongs - from our time in Germany AND what we put into storage before we moved there over six years ago. Holy commoly, do we have a LOT of STUFF! Next move is to sort and purge. Like to have a garage sale to get rid of stuff that is never being moved again. Poor Lewis has been busy going through all of it while I've been in denial about actually having moved here and not willing to unpack for fear that will mean we will be stuck here forever. He convinced me that a) we need to get rid of stuff we will not move to the next place an b) get rid of stuff that "might come in handy some day." I think the majority of our load falls into that latter category. Lew is downstairs watching football while I write this. I made us a yummy Asian style chicken soup for dinner and choc ice cream bars for dessert. Downton Abbey is on later and I'm afraid I'm getting hooked on it. Tomorrow is a workday for him and possibly a workday for me, if Fayette County Public Schools calls me to Sub. Regardless, I have my little Sub "kit" packed and a gym bag to hit a 4:30 class after work.