To anyone who is turning in with the possibility of a move overseas be warned - don't rely on your pre-deployed husband to tell you what you need to bring! Let's start with the closet.
In Italian homes they have not closets therefore you receive lovely wardrobes from the Navy. They are useful and since we have a third bedroom that we don't need, I once again have a walk in closet - full of wardrobes. My poor hubby thought that the "hundreds of hangers" already in one of the wardrobes left behind by the previous tennent was sufficient. Ugh. I left behind hundreds of hangers - you know, ladies, the good ones. NOT what my husband considers useful - old wire hangers from someone's old dry cleaner. Also hundreds turned out to be about 30. Has this man never seen my wardrobe? Sometimes I think he just does not pay attention. So, I've spent about $50 buying hangers at the NEX and my unaccompanied baggage (the stuff I needed in the US until the day I left) has not even arrived yet. P.S. He had to get two more wardrobes too. Really man, pay attention!
Laundry baskets - also something of a premium here. Yes, we have five or six at home - but alas they are still at home. My husband believes that the bidet is a perfect hamper and has thusly filled his with his smelly socks. Really, I'm not kidding. Being unemployed (!!) I am now the offical laundry ho but I absolutely refuse to pick up socks from a bidet. Just aint gonna happen. Now, I'm buying hampers too.
What I miss so far? Drying my clothes in the dryer. Silly, I know but when was the last time you dried off with a towel dried outdoors? A bit scratchy. We have a dryer but it's old, gas and (again, am I complaining too much about my hubby here?) my hubby is cheap. Utilities here are rather on the expensive side so we try not to use it. Unfortunately, I still have the same bad memory I had when I left the states and I leave the laundry out overnight and then it rains, and I start all over again.
I miss my car too and it will not get here until the end of May. Sharing a car with Lenny is not the ideal and we did buy the oldest most beat up Fiat on the planet so he continually harasses me when I get over 80km and hit the potholes. Hey, I'm just seeing if I can get airborne, what's the problem?
So, there it is. Another day in Napoli.
P.S. Where are my fans? Hello? I'm feeling very pathetic here.
You sure are bossy.
ReplyDeleteWell since you strong "armed" me I will post a comment. You write just like you talk so I feel like you are still hanging with us around the firepit. I am enjoying your sense of humor.
So are You taking off a couple of days at the end of September to meet Dana and I at Oktoberfest? Oh, that's right---you don't have a job----of course you are
meeting us. -Maggie
P.s. Where are the photos on this damn thing?
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