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Jeraly

Jun 11 2008, 11:57 AM

QUOTE(Alex & Rachel @ Jun 10 2008, 01:10 PM)

Mm, gotta love the out-sourcing of helplines.

Man: Your boss, please.
Me: I'm afraid he's out of the office this afternoon.
Man: I CALL REGARDING BT COMPLAINT MUST SPEAK WITH YOUR BOSS.
Me: Um, I'm afraid he really is out of the office this afternoon. He is at a meeting.
Man: He is not in office?
Me: No, he is at a meeting.
Man: Get him to call me. Can I take your name?
Me: Yes, my name is Rachel.
Man: Please repeat.
Me: Rachel.
Man: I'm sorry, how do you spell Rachel.
Me: R-A-C-H-
Man: R-A-E-H-
Me: No, C-H-
Man (interrupting): R-A-E-H-C-H, how do you say name please.
Me (but you just said it!): It's Rachel and it's R-A-C-H-E-L not E-H-
Man (interrupting again): Okay bye.

Ohhh I hate that - I have nothing against people from other countries, but it annoys me when you get people who don't know what they are talking about - and rudeness is no exception in any culture imho

QUOTE(weedebz @ Jun 11 2008, 12:06 AM)

well here are some wedding pics.

http://www.stearmanphoto.com/ and go to wedding three in portfolio

Ohhhh hun - I got all teary! I wanna see the rest now!! You look beautiful!!! And so happy! And the weather is lovely!! Ohhh I can't wait to come up and visit!!

I am freaking out more now - this time next week Jeremy will be here and we won't have to be apart again!!! I can't believe it! I honestly can't believe it!! I keep flitting between freaking out and being excited and being nervous... ohhh make this rollercoaster stop!!!

English Muffin

Jun 11 2008, 11:59 AM

QUOTE(Jeraly @ Jun 11 2008, 12:57 PM)

I am freaking out more now - this time next week Jeremy will be here and we won't have to be apart again!!! I can't believe it! I honestly can't believe it!! I keep flitting between freaking out and being excited and being nervous... ohhh make this rollercoaster stop!!!

You crack me up so much Aly.

Promise me you'll never, ever change?

Jeraly

Jun 11 2008, 12:03 PM

I don't think I could if I tried!! I would like to be a little less neurotic though - I think I would feel soooo much better... but as for saying everything in my head before I even think? Nah - I don't think that will change... unless I try really hard around important people that I am not allowed to screw up in front of

ginger1981

Jun 11 2008, 12:06 PM

QUOTE(Jeraly @ Jun 11 2008, 11:57 AM)

I am freaking out more now - this time next week Jeremy will be here and we won't have to be apart again!!! I can't believe it! I honestly can't believe it!! I keep flitting between freaking out and being excited and being nervous... ohhh make this rollercoaster stop!!!

I hear ya...right now I am so tense I feel like my re-heated mac n' cheese I had for lunch is going to make a second appearance.

Ovaltine Jenkins

Jun 11 2008, 12:36 PM

Oh yay, drink something cold to cool down

You don´t wanna see the food again

When are you picking him up at the airport?

ginger1981

Jun 11 2008, 12:59 PM

QUOTE(Scott and Marta @ Jun 11 2008, 12:36 PM)

Oh yay, drink something cold to cool down

You don´t wanna see the food again

When are you picking him up at the airport?

Just checked the flight tracker and he is currently over Newfoundland.

His flight gets in a little after 5, so I'll take the 4:25 train to O'Hare and by the time I get there he should be just getting out of baggage claims. We'll then take a cab home from there where I have a laid back dinner of cheese, wine and pate waiting.

Toshtishtash

Jun 11 2008, 01:13 PM

Hi all!

Just thought i'd pop in and say hey!

We still haven't got the internet at home yet

So I can only get online either from the library or my Dad's house.

Things are going well, getting very excited about the wedding! Only 4 and a half weeks to go!

Anyway, my time is about to run out, so I will try and pop in again soon!

Hope everyone is well!!

Will hopefully (Fingers crossed) have the internet by next weekend!

rkl57

Jun 11 2008, 01:25 PM

Congrats on the weddings and reunions.

I got told off by the police today for jaywalking. Obviously, I am menace to society.

ginger1981

Jun 11 2008, 01:51 PM

QUOTE(rkl57 @ Jun 11 2008, 01:25 PM)

Congrats on the weddings and reunions.

I got told off by the police today for jaywalking. Obviously, I am menace to society.

And I thought I was bad...I had a lady comment that I started the queue for the registers at CVS pharmacy "too far up." I told her I could start the queue any place I pleased since at the time I was the only person waiting for a register.

*julez*

Jun 11 2008, 01:56 PM

QUOTE(ginger1981 @ Jun 11 2008, 02:51 PM)

QUOTE(rkl57 @ Jun 11 2008, 01:25 PM)

Congrats on the weddings and reunions.

I got told off by the police today for jaywalking. Obviously, I am menace to society.

And I thought I was bad...I had a lady comment that I started the queue for the registers at CVS pharmacy "too far up." I told her I could start the queue any place I pleased since at the time I was the only person waiting for a register.

renegades!

We'll let anybody into the UK forum these days....I think we need to be a bit more selective about membership going forward

rkl57

Jun 11 2008, 01:58 PM

Well, you know, if you start the queue just anywhere there could be anarchy.

I was going to the bus stop, which is right across the street from my house. Am I really expected to go down to the light which would make what is 20 yards away about a half mile walk?

illumine

Jun 11 2008, 02:17 PM

QUOTE(rkl57 @ Jun 11 2008, 11:25 AM)

Congrats on the weddings and reunions.

I got told off by the police today for jaywalking. Obviously, I am menace to society.

I heard the CC police are bad for all infractions - was it them?

Jeraly

Jun 11 2008, 02:23 PM

QUOTE(Toshtishtash @ Jun 11 2008, 07:13 PM)

Hi all!

Just thought i'd pop in and say hey!

We still haven't got the internet at home yet

So I can only get online either from the library or my Dad's house.

Things are going well, getting very excited about the wedding! Only 4 and a half weeks to go!

Anyway, my time is about to run out, so I will try and pop in again soon!

Hope everyone is well!!

Will hopefully (Fingers crossed) have the internet by next weekend!

Yay!! Tash!! Glad you're doing well! We expect to see lots of pics and have you back as a regular when you get the net!!

So how are things faring? I know you were really nervous about the big move - I can't believe it all - it seems like a lifetime ago that we were freaking out together! Now it's just me!! ><

rkl57

Jun 11 2008, 02:26 PM

QUOTE(illumine @ Jun 11 2008, 02:17 PM)

QUOTE(rkl57 @ Jun 11 2008, 11:25 AM)

Congrats on the weddings and reunions.

I got told off by the police today for jaywalking. Obviously, I am menace to society.

I heard the CC police are bad for all infractions - was it them?

No it was the LAPD in Venice.

CC police gave a co-worker at $80 for jaywalking!

Note to future Angelenos: don't jaywalk when the cops are around

illumine

Jun 11 2008, 02:34 PM

QUOTE(rkl57 @ Jun 11 2008, 12:26 PM)

QUOTE(illumine @ Jun 11 2008, 02:17 PM)

QUOTE(rkl57 @ Jun 11 2008, 11:25 AM)

Congrats on the weddings and reunions.

I got told off by the police today for jaywalking. Obviously, I am menace to society.

I heard the CC police are bad for all infractions - was it them?

No it was the LAPD in Venice.

CC police gave a co-worker at $80 for jaywalking!

Note to future Angelenos: don't jaywalk when the cops are around

or do any wrong in CC.

I saw a guy (in a Range Rover, no less) stop at a red light on Wilshire in Santa Monica yesterday, wait about 2 minutes, then DRIVE THROUGH IT. I waited till green (DUH) & went. He was a whole 20' in front of me.

California drivers are idiots.

Ovaltine Jenkins

Jun 11 2008, 02:54 PM

QUOTE(*julez* @ Jun 11 2008, 11:56 AM)

QUOTE(ginger1981 @ Jun 11 2008, 02:51 PM)

QUOTE(rkl57 @ Jun 11 2008, 01:25 PM)

Congrats on the weddings and reunions.

I got told off by the police today for jaywalking. Obviously, I am menace to society.

And I thought I was bad...I had a lady comment that I started the queue for the registers at CVS pharmacy "too far up." I told her I could start the queue any place I pleased since at the time I was the only person waiting for a register.

renegades!

We'll let anybody into the UK forum these days....I think we need to be a bit more selective about membership going forward

I used to like jaywalking

That changed last week when they rushed this lady into the hospital I was at. She was jaywalking cuz she considered it safer than the crosswalk. She even looked both ways. Sadly there was a car going the wrong way in one way street and he didn´t see her, she didn´t see him (she was behind a van or something) and it hit her. And the car was going reeeally slow cuz the driver already knew he was going the wrong way and was just looking for an exit or some parking lot (luckily the cars going the right way stopped cuz of him). Despite the slow speed, she still flew in the air

So try to be careful

Ovaltine Jenkins

Jun 11 2008, 02:57 PM

QUOTE(illumine @ Jun 11 2008, 12:34 PM)

California drivers are idiots.

I´d mostly shrink it to LA drivers

Jeraly

Jun 11 2008, 05:54 PM

I'll be a Cali driver...

Poiteen

Jun 11 2008, 06:10 PM

and I'll be a crappy learner cali driver

Hopefully not for long!

(and I'll be learning to drive, in that centre of driving excellence - Miami

)

illumine

Jun 11 2008, 06:13 PM

QUOTE(Jeraly @ Jun 11 2008, 03:54 PM)

I'll be a Cali driver...

PS is much different from LA, altho you have LA peeps on weekends. Weekdays it's all old people anyhow.

QUOTE(Poiteen @ Jun 11 2008, 04:10 PM)

and I'll be a crappy learner cali driver

Hopefully not for long!

(and I'll be learning to drive, in that centre of driving excellence - Miami

)

you'll blend right in!!

Miami? When is the LA eta?

Poiteen

Jun 11 2008, 06:17 PM

I wasn't sure till about 2 hours ago, but I'm making sure that I get to town for the 7th August, cos I got myself a ticket for the best way I can think of to spend my first weekend in LA!

illumine

Jun 11 2008, 06:26 PM

QUOTE(Poiteen @ Jun 11 2008, 04:17 PM)

I wasn't sure till about 2 hours ago, but I'm making sure that I get to town for the 7th August, cos I got myself a ticket for the best way I can think of to spend my first weekend in LA!

Cool! Can't wait for drinks with the girls....

Poiteen

Jun 11 2008, 06:28 PM

Yup, won't be too far behind maven. You guys can help limber me up for some power networking!

elmcitymaven

Jun 11 2008, 06:39 PM

Cool! By then, hopefully I will have a roof over my head... I'm with dev -- I can't wait for the girlie drinks!

Oh my god, I have so much to pack, but I have to go to Seoul on Sunday for a whole week. Bruce is not best pleased to be losing me for the entire week. Not just for my packing powers; he always gets paranoid when I fly. It's a 14 hour flight; I'm taking an Ambien and going to sleep. So if you don't see me around here next week, you'll know why there's radio silence from New Haven.

illumine

Jun 11 2008, 06:42 PM

QUOTE(elmcitymaven @ Jun 11 2008, 04:39 PM)

Cool! By then, hopefully I will have a roof over my head... I'm with dev -- I can't wait for the girlie drinks!

Oh my god, I have so much to pack, but I have to go to Seoul on Sunday for a whole week. Bruce is not best pleased to be losing me for the entire week. Not just for my packing powers; he always gets paranoid when I fly. It's a 14 hour flight; I'm taking an Ambien and going to sleep. So if you don't see me around here next week, you'll know why there's radio silence from New Haven.

I'm jealous!

Only one Ambien for 14 hours????

Poiteen

Jun 11 2008, 06:53 PM

I book my flights tomorrow what ever they cost. Here's the plan:

15th July, Finish work (or the 11th if i'm lucky)
18th July, Leave London for Ireland
19th July, Friends wedding in Ireland
28th July, Fly to Miami
Arrive LA 6/7 August, drinks with the girls, 7th August????

illumine

Jun 11 2008, 06:55 PM

QUOTE(Poiteen @ Jun 11 2008, 04:53 PM)

I book my flights tomorrow what ever they cost. Here's the plan:

15th July, Finish work (or the 11th if i'm lucky)
18th July, Leave London for Ireland
19th July, Friends wedding in Ireland
28th July, Fly to Miami
Arrive LA 6/7 August, drinks with the girls, 7th August????

I am out of town til Aug 10.

Poiteen

Jun 11 2008, 07:01 PM

well that's ok, cos I'll be in town for some time after that

charles!

Jun 12 2008, 07:07 AM

g'morning everyone.

*julez*

Jun 12 2008, 08:12 AM

Hola Charles!

ginger1981

Jun 12 2008, 09:38 AM

The man hath arrived. No problems going through Dublin immigration, and the plane got in on time. Cab ride was a bit interesting as the cabby started going down the wrong street after I told him how to get to my house from the airport.

Is Chicago the only city where cabbies have no idea where anything is? I think I've read it is required in many cities that you have to know the geography of the city - like the location of every street.

But anything he is settling in...I guess he already has his keyboard out and is messing about on it lol.

StillThePrettiest

Jun 12 2008, 10:12 AM

oh, SO exciting

don't we all love our geeky men

London cabbies are the BEST, bar none... they spend a couple of years doing The Knowledge, which is a fair whack of the city that they have to learn by heart... you see them zipping about on mopeds, with the maps on a perspex folder at the front; they're pretty dedicated

those in Sydney are pretty dodge though; I think anyone can be a cab driver if they want... I've given a few directions in my time

ginger1981

Jun 12 2008, 10:48 AM

QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Jun 12 2008, 10:12 AM)

oh, SO exciting

don't we all love our geeky men

London cabbies are the BEST, bar none... they spend a couple of years doing The Knowledge, which is a fair whack of the city that they have to learn by heart... you see them zipping about on mopeds, with the maps on a perspex folder at the front; they're pretty dedicated

those in Sydney are pretty dodge though; I think anyone can be a cab driver if they want... I've given a few directions in my time

Same here...I give practically every cab driver in the city directions, even though both places I've lived is just off the main drag on the Northside. Maybe the London cabbies have just spoiled me for life

illumine

Jun 12 2008, 11:25 AM

I've given cab drivers directions in every city I've lived, including NYC & London.

Sometimes they don't know the shortest way, or it's a small street or whatever.....

Jeraly

Jun 12 2008, 12:27 PM

I've given directions to bus drivers - does that count!?

elmcitymaven

Jun 12 2008, 12:45 PM

Just got home to discover a car blocking my driveway... A car that is the Mayor's! I had to call his office and tell them it needed to be moved. Great response though -- someone came and moved it within 3 minutes of me putting down the phone.

weedebz

Jun 12 2008, 02:29 PM

Glasgow cabbies are the worst. I think they purposly take longest way possible.

illumine

Jun 12 2008, 03:17 PM

Go Celtics!

charles!

Jun 13 2008, 07:41 AM

QUOTE(weedebz @ Jun 12 2008, 02:29 PM)

Glasgow cabbies are the worst. I think they purposly take longest way possible.

turkish cab drivers are no fun.

g'morning everyone

SMB x2

Jun 13 2008, 07:55 AM

Morning

NickyMcMillan

Jun 13 2008, 08:08 AM

Morning!

My first post stateside. Activating the K1 in Dublin was nice. Very friendly IO who took me to a wee room. Had to wait 15 mins whilst they got there stuff together. Could hear the woman who was going to deal with my visa, ask some guy how to deal with the K1. Then she asked me into the room, I could hear the guy who was sat at the desk behind her on the phone, giving my case details to someone stateside.

Even got a "Welcome to America" which was nice.

Hope everybody is well.

SMB x2

Jun 13 2008, 08:09 AM

I'm really warming to this Dublin idea, especially as the flight seems to be about 200 quid cheaper than going direct to Chicago.

NickyMcMillan

Jun 13 2008, 08:20 AM

The price of the flight was what made me go via Dublin. I paid £248 for the one way ticket via Edinburgh. After that I was looking at £400+

I did consider going to Chicago via JFK for the EAD. Cheapest I found was £600. Not worth it for something that's not guaranteed.

Jeraly

Jun 13 2008, 09:12 AM

JFK tends to be pretty much guaranteed but I would go for the cheaper flights and nice welcome

Poiteen

Jun 13 2008, 10:23 AM

I'm going to be flying from Shannon, I was kinda paranoid that they'd mess up processing me, but I suppose it's worth the risk. Since i'm going to be in Ireland anyway, saying goodbye to my family it's much cheaper to go from there.

illumine

Jun 13 2008, 12:21 PM

TGIF!

ginger1981

Jun 13 2008, 12:47 PM

Just about to go and get married here...the legal one at least! Got my Hamilton ($10) to give to the judge. And as I am a good employee as well as I will be a good wife, I'm also doing this over my lunch break as city hall is right down the street

Jeraly

Jun 13 2008, 12:53 PM

You're getting "married" in your lunch break?! That's hilarious! I love it!!!

ginger1981

Jun 13 2008, 01:00 PM

QUOTE(Jeraly @ Jun 13 2008, 12:53 PM)

You're getting "married" in your lunch break?! That's hilarious! I love it!!!

Honestly if I got British type holiday benefits at my work I would take the day off! However, with a trip back to Nebraska to see my family and a trip to the UK so far this year, I'm not left with much vacation time...I have 2 allotted already for the days coming up to our wedding, and then basically 1.5 days of vacation left until next year.

I really hope I don't get sick either as I don't have much sick leave!

Jeraly

Jun 13 2008, 01:09 PM

QUOTE(ginger1981 @ Jun 13 2008, 07:00 PM)

QUOTE(Jeraly @ Jun 13 2008, 12:53 PM)

You're getting "married" in your lunch break?! That's hilarious! I love it!!!

Honestly if I got British type holiday benefits at my work I would take the day off! However, with a trip back to Nebraska to see my family and a trip to the UK so far this year, I'm not left with much vacation time...I have 2 allotted already for the days coming up to our wedding, and then basically 1.5 days of vacation left until next year.

I really hope I don't get sick either as I don't have much sick leave!

Yeah - it really sucks - Jeremy gets 5 weeks paid leave a year and is able to negotiate unpaid time off as well but I don't think he is the norm