dead machines, books and my wonderful husband

i am back. and seem to have machines malfunctioning all around me.
then again, maybe it is ross's fault and not mine....but i doubt it.
i lost my phone before we left. when we got home the server was dead, which eliminated the possibility of calling the mexican restaurant we went to the night i lost it to see if it was there (they are not in the phone book we have). ross had to go to work (and the computer parts store to get a new power supply) so i was going to go drive over to the restaurant....but my car battery was dead.
i DID manage to get a whole lot of laundry and knitting done instead.
then ross's dad showed up and showed me where ross keeps the battery charger (i didn't know we had one). we tried to charge the car but it didn't work. when ross got home it turned out that ralph hadn't been reading the thing right and so we charged it again. then ross had to go back to the guthrie.
i fell asleep. when i woke up i went to check on the car and discovered it was gone.
turns out ross was driving it.
i went to bed for real and when i got up this morning my phone was fully charged on the counter. ross had gone to the restaurant (who said they didn't have it) and then torn his car apart and found it. good stuff.
so i'm back in connection with the world ! yeah!
i am still jet-lagged and not functioning quite properly. and i have a sore throat....the price of hours and hours in recycled air with tons of people. i took an airborne this AM and am hoping it will fend off nasty sinus issues.
it is good to be home.
i missed my monsters. and my friends.

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it's official.
i have a fever. yuck.
my battery is dead again (ross left the lights on when he drove it last night) so i walked to the butcher for some chicken. now i make soup.

today has been nice. very cozy on the couch with lots of startrek next-gen and ross. and knitting.

germany was fabulous. i wound up getting a lot of time for just ross and i away from everyone else and that was a big relief. i love scott and heidi and the girls dearly, but i really wanted some alone-time with the honey too and we were interested primarily in checking out all the amazing museums and interesting food that berlin has - not the zoo and mcdonalds and pizza that pleased the girls - you might as well be in the US! we did have dinner together our second to last night there and i went to the sea-life center with heidi and the girls.
ross also bought me an AMAZING outfit. i still can't believe he did it. i told him to get me out of the store before i spent money and instead he started encouraging me to try things on. we spent WAY too much on it, but boy do i feel pampered! i never thought i was impressed by gifts. i'm a little troubled by how happy it made me. i squealed like a little girl the whole rest of the evening.
we went to the pergamon museum, the egyptian museum and the bode museum. we went up to the top of the east german tv tower and had lunch in the revolving restaurant. we also spent a day in potsdam checking out the summer palace of one of the many willhelm friedrich's - can't remember which. they wouldn't let us take pictures there, but i'll be adding pictures of the rest to the website.
LOVELY!


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