Weird week

I'm home fighting a cold (what else is new, the home part, not the cold) and listening to the music/vibrations coming from downstairs. It's amazing what an assholes are in the world and how unaware they are of their assholyness. If that's not a word, it is now... but let's move on...

I had a very interesting week last week to say the least. On Monday as I was coming home from the grocery store I was rear-ended. awesome. The car didn't really suffer from it, there's only a little scratch in the tire holder in the back. The car who rear-ended me had more extensive damage. It's front went under the tire holder and was bumped inwards so it was little less pretty. I called the cops and we waited for them in the pouring rain for 45 minutes. When they finally showed up they said it would be better not to file a report because it would make it bigger and then the insurance company would increase the premiums etc, so we exchanged information, he agreed to pay for the damages and we went our separate ways. But the interesting part is that he was in his 70's or 80's and had the exact same name as the lead actor in one of the Law and Order series...I won't name names but maybe it was his dad! That's what we think anyway...

On Wednesday Tiffany took the day off and we met her mom and her co-workers in the city for Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Show. It was awesome. It's one of those things that you should do once in a lifetime especially if you are living in NY/NJ area. Afterwards we went for lunch with them and when their bus left we did some window shopping. If it would have been later than 3pm we might have stayed in the city to see the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller plaza which was at 8pm but instead we came home.

While we were coming home with the subway I got a phone call about a job. I applied to become the sustainability coordinator for city of Southampton in Long Island, NY and they called me back. YAY, dontcha think? Well, she left me a voicemail, told me that it was a 1 year position with a possibility for more if I was able to secure a grant funding...told me about the cost of living in Southampton (you're probably thinking what's so special about Southampton...well, it's the HAMPTON'S...if you ever watched Sex and the City, it's the place where the rich and famous go for summer vacation and where all the houses are like mansions. Can you say expensive?) and asked me if I was still interested and if so, I could call her at her office. Well I called on Thursday am and left a voicemail...tried again on pm...then twice again on Friday. Every time got her voicemail and she has not called me back. So doesn't look like it's YAY after all. I will keep you posted if there is anything to keep you posted on.

Then on Saturday, and now this is getting interesting, we were at Tiffany's moms chiling and the topic of x-mas gifts came up. Since I have been unemployed now for 6 months and counting, I am obviously broke. I'm not eligible for unemployment in here and I'm not eligible for unemployment in Finland because...I'm not IN Finland. So I am tired of not having any money and so I was making a joke about our secret Santa gifts (me, T and T's brothers and their wives are doing secret Santa where we each picked a name and only buy a gift for that person. everybody gets a great gift and we don't have to spend on everybody) and how instead of getting the WII games I asked for I would ask for scratch offs (Ässäarpa) for 100 dollars! Then Amanda said that she was gonna buy them for everbody's stockings anyway like she does every year and I said but I don;t have a stocking and she said but yes you do! It's upstairs and she was gonna write my name on it! Judy got me my own stocking!!! I'm SO excited!!! This is huge! This is like her silent version of approval. If you have a stocking you are part of the family. I have my own stocking!!! YES!!! and when you add that to the fact that she invited me to the Christmas show this is major major news! I'm in!

So there was my week...car accident, call about a job that may or may not materialize and my own stocking! How was your week?

P.S. Carly is still too cute. She's talking a mile a minute, 90% of the time I have no idea what she's saying but she's like a little sponge. I taught her how to say Kiitos and kippis and even though she doesn't have a clue what it means, she repeats it anyway.

P.P.S Judy's cat Dusty, who originally was Tiffany's cat who she had to give to her mom because there were no pets allowed on campus (that's how old she is) is sick. Dusty's right back paw has lost it's movement for what looks like dislocation but isn't. They took her to the vet twice last week and the second Doctor said it might be a lymphnote. They took a biopsy and now we are waiting for results. Dusty was not looking good and on Friday when we saw her she looked really really bad. On Saturday she was grooming herself and eating and looking much better but with all the worries we had few months ago about sox's health and with Dusty's age we are definitely worried. Carly is walking around telling people that Dusty is sad...

so that's what's going on...later