Living in Europe

OK, til all thoughts get sucked out of my brain I may repeat things. Maybe even after.

I love living in Europe. I miss my kids and granddaughter of course. More, I miss helping Nick out when he needs a place to live and all his roommates have gone back to live with their mommies. He says he wouldn't want to live at home, but what kid wouldn't at least like the safety net of being able to move back in for a bit, especially the way things are in the states these days. No jobs, everything costs a fortune. Grrr.... THAT is the one and only thing I hate about living in Europe. I can send money, but nothing beats stopping by the house, eating dinner, grabbing some food from the fridge, leaving laundry, etc. Nick doesn't have that. For that I get really sad. What else can I say.


I have tried to get him to come with his girlfriend for the summer. Work PT with the army, travel around the rest of the time, just CANNOT get him to do this.. *sigh*

His girlfriend's mother has been really amazing through all of this. I really need to send her a letter or something, thanking her for keeping him from hitting the ground too hard.

I just wish the dang kid would stay at a job.. I don't know, is it like that for all 21 year olds? I mean, I know the answer is no, but is it tough out there for kids trying to make it? I mean, you hear about people in their 30s going back to live with their parents because it's just too damn expensive. Ok, off that subject for now....
doing slow, deep breathing to calm down)

I still really think I have the best of both worlds, living in Europe and working for the army. Well, other than the fact that I get paid in $$ and I have to pay rent in euros. it now takes about $1.55 to = 1 euro. it was like $1.29, maybe less when I first came to Europe. Doesn't sound like a lot but rent is costing us something like $250 a month more because of the euro.

But we can shop off post and find many things MUCH cheap than the commissary, then shop the commissary for things we can't get on the economy.

Ok, I am still way too sick, going to bed right in the middle of this wonderfully boring conversation.. Next time I will talk about something much more exciting, my trip to Spain I took a couple of weekends ago. :-) Later...