scrawls.

scrawls

still cheaper than therapy*

10.1.06

if we move to austria

1. learn german.

2. get rid of piles of stuff. This is already happening somewhere in my head, where i look around and go no, i don't need that and picture how lovely and empty my house could be. No clutter. No random refugee junk. mmmm. i keep thinking "what's the first day we could have a garage sale?" i have a happy little dialogue in my head.

Hello, how much for the fondue set?
my friend, you are the winner. it was a wedding present, so my husband won't let me sell it, but i won't let him keep it. so, free. Here, would you also like this tall, elegant, and highly breakable glass vase?
why yes, how lovely. Allow me to give you this beer in return. What about -
No, no the golden bowl stays. Now get off my lawn.

3. learn exactly how much of an american i am. can Continentals recognize me by my shoes? do i wear enough scarves? can i fake an accent from anywhere else? pretend to be canadian? if i get a hat that says I Am An Expatriate Don't Blame Me, will people treat me okay? how poorly do americans come off, over there?

3a. learn exactly how much of an american i married. Can i get him to wear pants without holes in them and ink stains on the pockets? Maybe ones that actually fit? there is nothing so overtly american as having your pants be falling down. (hell, maybe he'll be proud of it.) Or do i stick with the whole i-love-him-just-the-way-he-is bag? Or do i hope he'll notice he can't buy baggy-ass pants if we leave the u.s., and how much nicer everyone looks because of it? Small, entirely obvious, ironically-worded suggestions may be the way to go. this, here, is not manipulation: it's, um, neurotic humor. right?

4. find a job. may be complicated by fact of not-being-an-e.u.-citoyenne. parent reaquiring citizenship could maybe possibly help with this. Apparently it would not be too hard: Persons whose Hungarian citizenship terminated through dismissal between 15 September 1947 and 2 May 1990, shall acquire Hungarian citizenship by a personal written declaration addressed to the President of the Republic of Hungary as of the date of the declaration.

5. Locate, and keep in a secure place where they won't get lost, winter hats.

6. ~~get M an appropriate winter coat.~~

7. figure out what we can do with the dogs. do we bring them? do we ... not? (eep)

scrawled @ 17:27