Great News!

GREAT NEWS... Brad came home tonight and told me he had brought some "friends" home.  Our three boxes shipped from his office in the states were "released from custody" and had finally arrived at his office here in Jakarta. They had been held up because of a few last minute things we'd tossed in like band-aids and "cosmetics" (of which there really weren't any because it was facial cleanser, shampoo, etc). After writing a letter to the Ministry (must have been some letter but I never saw it) along with the required fee of course (all of this was submitted on the standard government issued forms), the items were actually, finally cleared. We were told that we would mostly likely lose everything, so WHOOPIE!!!!! It looks like there might be some loss of quality of products due to storage conditions, but at least we have it.

Not to minimize the wonder of getting all these goodies, we now also have our Post-it notes, a pair of scissors, paperclips, a stapler, pens, tape, envelopes, a couple of notebooks and other assorted items to make life so much easier. Also, we had put paperwork related to the desktop computer, house sale, the relo, etc. into the boxes and all of it arrived. Brad said the original boxes looked like the gorilla from the 1970s Samsonite commercials had been the one to handle our stuff. And there was definite dampness in the boxes.

His office now feels much more "homey" as our family pictures, desk mementos, computer mouse are all in place. Although a few items were broken, we hope we can repair them (one more item for ACE).

Ah, we have a little of our "stuff."