A New Love Interest

First of all I want to start by telling all of you about a couple of giveaways. Unfortunately..I am unable to post the pretty pics of all the super-nifty things you can win, but I'll provide the links.

Up first: My friend and former travel buddy Sara is giving away Pink Sugar perfume. It sounds heavenly! Head on over and enter.

Next up is Life of the Wife and you have choices of what you want on her giveaway. One option is a year subscription to the Crossfit Journal and your other option is a sweet Dior makeup giveaway.

On to my favorite newlywed...Misadventures of a Newlywed. She's giving away the cutest Lily Pulitzer stationary and you even have your choice between two.

Last but certainly not least is Make Mine a Mojito, she's giving away some fab looking brownies for Valentine's Day.

Whew...now that's a ton of giveaways!

In other news, I went to the electric company to get that switched over into Sean and I's name.

I've never been so nervous in my life.

See, our translator, who Sean and I have ridden with two times before, is a nice lady. Today though since she has me and another guy turning off his electricity, she had to run to the bank with him while I was in the electric office with the guy who works there.

Alone.

And I don't speak the language.

She told me as she was leaving, "Oh he knows a few words of English, you'll be in very capable hands."

Thank god he and I were able to communicate.

It was scary folks! My mission here is obvious. I MUST learn Italian and quickly!

Oh and by the way while I was waiting I saw a ton of people wearing denim. That made me feel better about jeans I was sporting.

Ok..so I still look like an American. It was quite obvious by the way everyone was looking at me in the electric office that I wasn't fooling them. I was hoping they were just looking at my super-cute red coat from Forever 21, but I doubt that was it. I plan on getting some pieces to blend in, but I haven't made it to the mall yet and there's only so much I can pull off with the limited clothing options in my suitcase.

Speaking of that, I'm tired of being reduced to a small number of options. Living out of a suitcase for almost two months really blows.

In other news, I think I'm in love.

With the Smart Cars. I mean how cute is this?



Everytime I see one of them I tell Sean that I want one. I do! I just don't want to spend the money to get one. I can just picture myself on a Tuscan road in my sporty little yellow Smart Car.

A girl can dream right?

Ciao!

Something New

Well, I'm sorry to say that my craptastic hair has returned. However, this time it's due to the crummy weather and not any appliances that I shorted out.

It has rained or snowed here all weekend long. I actually welcome the snow over rain, because the rain is steady, cold and completely bone soaking. Not pleasant I assure you.

This morning Sean and I had our lease signing over at housing bright and early. It took nearly two hours to complete all of it. The housing lady said mainly because the apartment we picked is brand-new, which requires a little bit more of paperwork.

It was quite a scene in the office. Picture Sean and I, who don't speak much Italian, unless you count my mastery of the Italian numerals from 1-10, the alphabet and the all important, "I'd like a table for two" among other things. Not exactly a mastery of the Italian language. Then picture our landlord, who as far as I know doesn't speak a lick of English. It was quite interesting.

Our government furniture and appliances are being delievered Friday and hopefully our household goods and unaccompanied baggage will be along soon. I actually went to Transportation the other day to inquire about them, but all the lady could tell me was that they were delayed. It was hard not to be sarcastic, I mean really? They're late? I never would have guessed. I guess they were scheduled to arrive the 26 of January. I'm hoping they aren't too late. I kind of want to get my stuff.

I'm busy all this week trying to get the utilities set up for our apartment. Tomorrow is the electric company, Wednesday is the house inspection, Thursday is the gas company. Don't worry about the language barrier though, they are kind enough to send a translator with you to help out with the process. Thank God!

I have some big news! Sean and I got a laptop. I must confess I am very behind in technology. This is our first laptop, but I'm so excited. It's a Toshiba and quite honestly it's just awesome. I can't get a good wireless signal in our hotel though,so I'm still having to visit the library to check the Internet, but it's nice to finally have a laptop!

Oh...and I'm happy to say that Sean has stopped with the muffin-top nickname. I guess telling him that the blogging world thought he was a jackass for calling me that helped immensely. He even cooked me dinner Friday night and took me bowling. Don't even ask about bowling. I honestly don't have that many gutterballs, maybe 3 and yet I still can't break 100.

Hope your Monday is great!