Just another day in Greece. I stayed at home today and had someone come over to the house from the Embassy to measure for curtins. He told me he would be back in 1 month to put them up. I wanted to ask him if the reason it would take so long was because he was making the fabric himself before he had to sew them. Since my mom has made a few curtains I know about how long it should take and we are talking about tab sheers here no fancy valances or anything.

We were also having trouble with our security system so we had someone else come over and fix that. I cleaned house and read pretty exciting.

Last night we went to a new grocery store. The same one we attempted to go to on Sunday but it was closed. It was much better than the previous one we went to and had a pretty large selection. I was finally able to find some ground beef and it was 20.00 euro a kilo (2.2 pounds). Can you believe than for ground beef?

Yesterday I had a huge disappointment. I went over to our sponsors house and I decided to get online and catch up on all of my shows since I have missed the last 3 episodes of most of them. Well evidently the FCC has made it illegal for the networks to allow you to watch any of their shows which are posted online if you are outside of the US. How about that for a bunch of crap. I am living in Athens paying US Federal Taxes as well as State Taxes in Virginia (still can't figure that one out) and I can't watch American TV shows online. The same thing happened to David when he was listening to the UT game on Saturday on the radio over the Internet. About 5 minutes after he turned the game on they cut him off because we are outside of the US. At least they allow you to request access if you are an American stationed overseas (still waiting on an email back I am sure). Once we get Internet in 2 months we will have the Slingbox and we can just DVR all of our shows at David and Judy's and watch them online but until then I am paying $1.99 an episode to download them off of iTunes. And it takes about 3-4 hours to download a single show. Good thing I have plenty of time on my hands.

Tomorrow I am planning on hitting the Embassy in the morning when David goes in and then heading out to do some shopping on my own. We just got a Management Directive (the State Department issues these for everything) from the Embassy indicating that we have to ship our packages by December 11 in order to make sure that they arrive by Christmas. This means I need to get a jump on my Christmas shopping early. So Fuchs family that means we need to draw names soon. I have also programed a conversion calculator in my phone so I can find out how much I am really paying when I buy things over here. I will have a full report tomorrow.

Hope you are all well.

Love from Athens....