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Hey all! So I finally got my new computer so I've been updating everything and especially updating this blog so all of you can follow along! So there's been lots of issues since I got here. Firstly my us/uk plug adapters disappeared from my luggage so I until i bought a radio I had no way to play my cds, can't play my dvds here since they're region 1 (but now that i got my computer that's not a problem), found out to send my desktop pc would cost more than its worth (which is why i bought a new one), my loan company was being awful, the cats passport papers have become a nightmare, and so many other things I have forgotten.
So with the computer it turns out that you cannot purchase from e-bay when everything is in US (credit card, account, paypal account etc.) when you want to ship to an address outside the US. All fine and dandy except they don't tell you that till its too late and no one wants to help you and after you've already spent several hours on the phone. Well in the end it took almost a month to find out what i had to do, create a new paypal account, get my money back to my US credit card and finally use my new UK bank to pay for the items... again. In short if you ever move delete all your US account stuff and start from scratch, its just easier.
So as for the loans, WOW its taken over 2 months for them to change their policy, finally tell my school, and relay the info to me. I'm still waiting for the check to come in so I don't have to live from day to day and don't have to take out cash advances on my credit card...
Now, on to the cat papers issues. For those of you who knew me from Kohls and are good friends of mine, you know how dear and near to my heart my baby is... So although this has been a never-ending nightmare, I know it will be worth it in the end. So here's what's happened: I sent the papers to be finalized by the USDA office in Indy before I left, however the lovely evil witch there called me up and said there were problems and we'd discuss them later. that's all I heard, she never called me back. So I finally called her and she went into detail of what was wrong (which she had not noticed the first time she saw the papers, go figure). Apparently the only part of the form that specifies what format to write the date in was UK format i.e. dd/mm/yyyy, instead of how we do it in the US mm/dd/yyyy (note that my roommates were unaware we do it that way in the US and were surprised that we also don't use the 24-hr clock). So this USDA lady flipped out and i told her to send it back to my mom and i called the office here in the UK to get a straight answer. The guy was nice and said it was not a big deal, send it back to the vet and correct it. So i did, even called the vet and put a note with it. Did he do what i asked? NOT EVEN CLOSE! So I had the vet office print out a new form fill it out and send it back, mind you this was last week and she was supposed to leave today... So currently I am waiting for word from my mom that she has recived the approved forms back from the USDA office so my kitty can finally leave!
So this was all the un-fun stuff, check my later enteries to hear the good stuff!
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