Between Christmas and New Years 2008, Phillip signed up for the ‘College First’ program with the Army National Guard. That means he had to do his monthly drills starting in January, and after he graduated High School this June, he had to leave for Basic Training and AIT. We dropped him of at the hotel to leave for Basic on July 27th, and he went to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina.

Eric had been planning on flying out for the Graduation all along, I was going to stay home with the animals. My best excuse probably is that any graduation in Germany just doesn’t have the same extending significance it has here. One usually goes to one’s own graduation – if at all, and that’s it. So after Keesha died and there was only one dog to worry about, and we already had the hotel and car booked, it just struck me that what if…. What if I worked it out at work so I could work the weekend and would not have to use up vacation days I didn’t really have. And surely, there’s a way to take care of Leia without totally traumatizing her.

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The main topic last week, of course, was all the important stuff that I had in my purse and that was now who knows in whose hands. The most important thing is the Green Card. It costs $370 to replace that thing. Next would be my German Passport – and at that time, I still thought it would be pretty simple to replace that one.

We assume that the crocks did the same thing with my purse they did with Eric’s wallet – find no money and toss it out the window. So we decided to go out Saturday morning and search along the roads and highways – starting about here:
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Since I was on vacation 3 days last week, the original plan for today was to get back to work, and after dropping the last Graduation guest off at the airport, having a long spell or normal life. But life apparently isn’t always playing by the rules. So yesterday, instead of doing groceries, laundry, mopping kitchen, and hanging out at the pool, we did groceries, got mugged, dealt with the police, bought and installed new locks, did laundry, and pool. It wasn’t enough to calm my nerves – but it helped.

Today, instead of going to work, rolling up my sleeves (figure of speech – it’s summer in Texas, I’m sleeveless) and catching up, we were at the DMV right at 8, and the line was out the building and down the whole side-walk. Fun fun. All I had for ID was the card the cops gave me with our case number scribbled in pencil, and a printout of a jpg scan of my stolen Green Card I had.