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We moved!


 It has been awhile since my last entry, because We Moved!

We are now in our log term apartment.  We are getting settled slowly but I wasn't able to write and entry for a bout a week because we had no internet for the first six days in our apartment.

I am old enough to remember the days before internet was our life line.  But we had a lot stacked against us, International move, global pandemic, cord cutter family.  It was a lot.

France/Paris gets a bad wrap but the almost celebration of bureaucracy and inefficiency matches the stereotype.  It took 4 appointments and six days to get our internet working and the thing we were waiting on the most...the post office.  Yep, they mailed us our router.  All the technology available today and we were waiting on the Pony Express.



So now starts my life in cardboard.  21 boxes of personal possessions.  And every appliance and piece of furniture is the box inside the box.  

My goal is 2 boxes unpacked each day.  It keeps things going forward while I don't get stuck in the drudgery.


I'm continuing to make friends, reaching out to people and mostly meeting up for walks.  I toured Monteparnase last week with a group from the PTA.  The street art was amazing.




Scott and I also got the opportunity to participate in the boy's school's PTA Virtual Pub Quiz night and had a ball.  It was really funny.  The restaurant the school partnered with wasn't really prepared for the 250 orders in a single night so most parents had started the Pub part of the night on an empty stomach.  And since the school is K-12, it was very funny to see all the different levels of parenting that was or wasn't going on.

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