OMG!

Im getting very nervous and my mind races whenever I think about what needs to happen.

I need to get my palet out like ASAP! Not yesterday, now....the boxes still arent completely packed!

The Garage needs to have a MASSIVE SALE...What day? I have not the slightest idea!

Dates and to do for those dates...
June 3rd

1. My last day of work
2. Moms Batchelorette party

• Where are we going? The stripper is out because my aunt decided we can not have it at her house
• AsiaSF - Gender Benders and dinner?
  
• Cooking school hosted by my sisters friends mother? (So much for a naughty night on the town...)
  

June 4th

1. Wedding prep... Nails and Threading...etc.
   

June 5th

1. Wedding....Lets hope there is no rain....

June 6th

1. What? Nothing.... Prep for the move....

June 7th

1. Drive to Sac Town to get my non- marriage cert.
2. Pack for LA?
3. Finish putting stuff together for Storage

June 8th

1. Continue putting stuff away for storage.

June 9th

1. Well, I expected to be leaving, but it looks like we will be leaving the 10th or 11th instead so...I will continue working on the house to prep it for mom....BAH!
   

June 10th

1. Finalize LA packing
   
2. Sleeping bags? Where are we camping? Staying?
3. Continue putting things away for storage ( I have A LOT OF CRAP!)

June 11th

1. LEAVE FOR LA!! YAY VACATION!!
   

June 12 - 19th

1. Disneyland (Sucking me dry for money...)
2. Seeing Aunt Carrie and Rudy Pop Pop and Grandma Barbara
   
3. Hang out with Case and Phil (Get some family info on B)
   

June 19th

1. Drive Home

June 20th -25th

1. Work with my grandparents to prepare for the 26th.
   

June 26th

1. Going away party
2. Gallery Show
3. Auction (I have to get all of this stuff ready too.... AHHHHH)
4. Plan wine tasting
5. Plan food
6. PLEASE LORD AND LADY, HELP ME....

June 27th - July 2

1. Relax? Whats that?
   
2. Get final stuff packed.
3. Hope Pallet has arrived at IS.
   

July 3rd

1. NAPA WINE TRAIN!! YAY!!!

July 4th

1. Family get together (Hopefully...I really want to see them all for one last holiday.)
   

July 5th

1. Final prep work, hopefully I have secured a car by now?
   

July 6th

1. Really final packing and hanging out with friends for the last day.

July 7th

1. Say "Ill see you soon" and board our plane for New York at 11:45 pm.

July 8th

1. Arrive in New York, LGA and get rental car
2. (Hopefully we have figured out a place to stay???)

July 9th & 10th

1. Visit with Aunt Joan, Uncle Allen and GG in Toms River

July 11th & 12th

1. Depart from Toms River for the Shore to see Dorthy and AWESOME art. =)

July 13th

1. Depart from the shore and make our trek to the airport (JFK this time)
2. Drop car off.
3. Take public transit to AirPort...
4. Take off at 8:45 for Iceland

July 14th

1. Land in Iceland at 6am
2. Take off for Schipol at 10 am
3. Land at Schipol at 12:55
4. Take train from AMS to Culomburg
   
5. Hanneke may just pick us up from AMS (Happiness!!)
   

OMG! Im going crazy. Time for some food for today.... This weekend is crazy too because I have to go to Chico to get my hair done for the wedding, but there is a court date also, and its memorial day. My sister isnt coming home til Tuesday morning. Do I stay the weekend or do I go home with my grandparents? Im thinking stay with Daryn, I need to have more moments with her. I miss her already.

Its so close...

Side note; I will be beginning a GF Blog for Holland because there arent really any Out of the US blogs for GF. =)

June 3rd. My Last Day

I have given my last day at work today. June 3rd.

June 5th my mom will be married.

June 9th We leave for LA with a pit stop in Santa Barbara

June 13th We head to Anaheim for Disneyland

June 26th We have our farewell party and I sell photos. =)

July 7th We take off at 11:45pm for New York

July 13th We take off for Amsterdam.

July 14th Bryans mop and go service opens for business. ;-)

All that ORANGE - Koninginnedag SF 2010

Tickets and The Doctor

I went to the Dietition yesterday. I wanted to find out if there was just something I was doing wrong with what I had been eating my whole life to cause me to have so many problems with my stomach. Well... Turns out I am most likely allergic to Gluten. Gluten is derived from Wheat and is in EVERYTHING. Lucky for me I have a really good friend who had been dealing with this her whole life and who has a granddaughter who is in the same position. So, sad day...no more regular poffertjes, stroopwafels, or Kroketten. =( Lucky for me also though, there are universities in Holland researching Celeic Disease, and stores there that sell GlutenVrij products.

Good - Gluten Free living is one of the healthiest diets
Bad - Health food stores are the ones that sell the majority of Gluten Free products, and they are MORE EXPENSIVE!

On a more Dutch note....
I bought my tickets last night!! YAY!!! FINALLY!!

It took forever and a day to do though and by the time 1 am rolled around, I was no longer frustrated but delerious. Orbitz decided to charge me for tickets to New York and then proceed to tell me they couldnt process my request. "Okay" I thought, " They wouldnt have charged me yet...Ill just go through CheapTickets.com"

WRONG!

I bought the tickets successfully from CheapTickets with confirmation, went to go purchase the tickets to Holland from Orbitz (giving them another chance) and my card was denied...just plain out denied.

I called my bank..."Well it seems you have insufficent funds" - I knew I transfered PLENTY of money for my combined ticket price (for both B and I mind you) of $1214. (good deal, I know, Im a thrifty shopper!) I came to find Orbitz had charged me but had no record of it. Long story short...After an hour long phone call with CitiBank and Orbitz...My funds were released and deleted from my account. I was able to buy my tickets to Holland!

Bryan and I will leave SFO at 11:45 pm on July 7th and arrive at La Guardia at 10:50 am on July 8th. We will then have a fun filled and relaxing week spending time with my east coast family, including my soon to be 95-year-old great-grandmother who just relinquished her drivers license on monday - Strong will runs in our family!

July 13th at 8:30 we will take off for Holland via Iceland and arrive at Schipol at 12:55pm. (We could have taken the flight that arrived at 9:30Pm but we figured Lora and Arie wouldnt appreciate having to come to Amsterdam (an hour away) at that hour.

I am so excited! Im sad a bit too because of all the food I was looking forward to eating BUT I know there are Pannekoeken Haus' that have GlutenVrij Pancakes! YES!

Dutch Store

This weekend we visited the dutch store in San Jose. I went to Fremont to buy a new camera (since I need a point and shoot for when we move), and decided to make the extra trek for a taste of NL.

Nope.

Epic Failure.

The store, though it held lots of Delft Blue China, Dutch food (even kroketten and herring), and Lots of cheese and candies, was nothing like that of Dutch stores or markets.

I was disappointed, and honestly saddened at the Dutch store that looked so run down. I left feeling very sorry. They couldn't have been doing too horribly, however, since they have another location 3 store fronts down....Strange...

I bought 2 packs of Stroopwaffels for $4.60 each, for a grand total of $11.20. The sales man also wanted 4.60 each for 2 bumper stickers! BAH! Ill get them when I get to the NL for cheaper. =)

I still haven't bought my tickets to NL, but I have picked up some boxes to begin packing. I'm not sure though what I should and shouldn't pack! AH!

I will be packing up various boxes of clothes, frames and Ive decided 2 of the knives my father just brought home, I can not live without being in a kitchen where I will be cooking! They cut MARVELOUSLY!

Back from Chico without a hangover....

Last night was fun. I'm glad I got to be with my sister for her 21st. I did not however enjoy the hangover I had while I was out drinking. For some reason I got a headache at 8 last night after only having a few sips of a drink around 1pm. It made the whole drinking experience less than amazing, but I still had a blast!

I ordered my sister a Blow Job...a now 21st birthday tradition..which she did completely different from my birthday blow job. She had to take the shot from between her boyfriends legs (and if he hadn't been there, it would have been from between the bartenders legs! AH!)

I got home tonight though and went straight to the post office to ship off my finger prints for the FBI background check and am on my way not...at 10:15, when I have to work in the morning, to once again look at plane tickets. I cant believe they haven't been purchased yet!

My Sisters 21st Bday

So I left for Chico this morning with my mom for my sisters 21st birthday, but before we left I went to have my final finger prints done.

I asked the lady about the original live scan fingerprints and what happens with them and she assured me that because I applied for a background check for myself, it would be sent to be. Having the live scan fingerprinting means they will know to send a criminal record to me.

Previous to the nice lady at the Foto Shop (by the way, they are still open, they just relocated) assuring me that the DOJ of Ca will be sending me my criminal record, I was going crazy trying to figure out where I needed to go to actually attain the records. I called the DOJ in Washington and the nice woman on the phone said I would need a FBI criminal record for the immigration papers. Unfortunately she did not answer the question I was asking, referred me to the number that I called to get the required documents for the live scan, which is only an automated message, and told me I needed something other than what I requested.

So, this morning, because I was off work, I made a pit stop and got my fingers dirty, dipped in ink and pressed to a card stock paper. YAY! Real finger prints!

Cool think that happened while I was at the mall too... I was shopping in Forever 21 and saw one of their lame T-shirts with writing on it and a photo, but then I realized.....

....IT WAS IN DUTCH!! Lol, I translated it with my phone and it says...Feast of Miffy. Strange and I wanted it it but for $19.80...When I'm trying to save to get to Holland... I decided to pass.

Dinner time and Drinks with my sis now! =)