Monday, August 17, 2009

In our new home!!

Sorry this has taken so long but here we are!! We didn't get our internet set up until last night and now I can't find my camera to put some pictures on. Anyway, we are still unpacking but tonight Geoff helped me get the kitchen done so that is good. It is so hard to do things when you are looking for everything in a box. Plus we have to go grocery shopping everyday for supper since we don't have anything in our fridge and the girls don't last more than 20 minutes at the store. There is just so much to do and I think that they are tired of always running around with us to get it done.

Like for instance today. We went to get a state ID card because we need it in order to get a gas account. Luckily right now our apartment manager has the gas account in his name and will keep it that way until we get set up, so we have hot water. We go to the DMV but we can't get a state ID card unless we have a social security number or get declined for an SSN. So we drive to Idaho Falls to ask to be declined an SSN which thankfully only took 30 min to drive there and then 30 min to wait and they printed it up right away. Then we go back to the DMV and Geoff gets a ID card. We phone the Gas company to set up our account by using the managers phone in the office because we don't have a phone set up yet. Now they tell Geoff that he can't have an account unless we have a phone number. RRRRRR...then when we do have a phone number he needs to fax in all the information, with a fax that we don't have, and phone them to tell them that we faxed it and then we can have a gas account!! So frustrating.

So tomorrow we will get a cell phone so that we can get a gas account in our name and then hopefully figure out how to get money into the bank that we would like to go with that will give us a debit card but no credit card because we don't have an SSN. Good times!! Although the bank does seem really nice and we would have a no fee account. Plus more unpacking for tomorrow. not looking forward to that either.

1 Comments:

At 9:33 AM, Blogger brinestone said...

Wow! It sounds complicated to move to another country. Good luck with everything, and hopefully we can see you sometime.

 

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