Must call people...really want to talk...in 5 minZZZzzzzz

The time difference!!! I tell you, it's killing me. Have you ever tried to connect with people, on a regular basis, who are living 9 hours behind you? It sucks, and I don't do it very well. GASP! I KNOW! Something I don't do very well and have the courage to broadcast it over the net for millions... hundreds... lots... four people to read!

I always have great intentions, I wake up wishing I had time to talk to people in Calif., Illinois, Ohio in the morning. But alas, I barely have time to get myself and the kids together to make it to the bus and work on time. Unfortunately there are many more days than I care to admit when we don't make either of those very important time requirements. (I mean really, who decided the day should start so damned early anyway?? Crazy. I protested but no one -besides Hawaii- listened to me.)

I think about so many people and so many things I want to tell them. All throughout the day I wish I could pick up my cell phone and ring you all. I could do that, if we had gotten the 'free calls to the USA plan' on the cell phone for an additional 25€. But the J man and myself, in our infinate wisdom, waited to get that plan on our home phone at no additional cost. We also were incrediblly zuper (because we're in Germany it's zuper not super) smart and chose not to add internet to the cell phone. Which we quickly found the error of our ways when we were looking for houses without any kind of satalite intervention at all..that's a completely seperate post, in fact I think it is somewhere near the begining of my blog! But of couse we still don't pay for internet availability on my phone. Psst...we're slow learners, and I use the term "we" loosely here!

Then the evening routine kicks in....all you out there with children know this by heart:

come home from school (and/or after school activities),
do homework and review it while making dinner,
eat, drink and be merry
then supervise bath time and dessert comsuption,
get 15 minutes of free time (if ur lucky) after cleaning up from dinner,
and then do the bedtime up down and sideways dance.

By 9pm I am thinking of calling people but I still have hope to get in a little laundry, facebook, picking up and next day prep work. By 10 or 10:30 I try to will myself to get up and go to the phone.

But, here it is, the last hurdle, the one I so rarely get over. The only phone in the house is a small corded phone, teethered 12" from the wall in a corner of the kitchen 2 feet from the nearest chair.

See????? So now you can plainly see that it's not that I don't love you.

.....it's that I don't love you enough to stand in the corner of the kitchen for 30 minutes or so at 11pm at night!

There, now don't you feel better??