Gone on a Lucky Country

Hi Mimi. I've been reading through your blog tonight and I have to say, so much of it was familiar. I felt many of your emotions when we were moving here 6 years ago.

Thanks for the memories!

x
Bindie from YDU.

i'm sure you noticed that i converted my spelling which provides endless amusement for the yankee contingent, but hey, when in rome, eh? good luck with the move! how exciting!

@ Bindie - Thanks for reading! It's nice to see so many YDUers on here. Hopefully things will even out a bit - I seem to be up and down a lot :)

@ the american - exactly! Joe got the day off tomorrow so I am no longer worried about the move! Now he can carry heavy things and argue with delivery men!

At work today as part of our training we were learning about how to update customers' account info and we went in to change a phone number and they were like "and this is what you push if the customer wants a silent number" and I had no idea what it was either. It doesn't make sense to me still about why it would be called silent, unless because they figure if it's unlisted no one ever really rings them and thus the phone is silent? My home number here isn't unlisted but I'd consider it to be a silent number ;)

Giggling here, over the comments about our silent numbers! Some Aussies actually do refer to them as unlisted numbers, which does sound more logical. My number is unlisted, because I was a bit afraid my ex would harass us with nasty calls if he ever found out where we lived! But I'm sure having an unlisted number has saved us from all the nuisance calls that other people seem to get from companies wanting to sell their products, so our phone is blessedly 'silent' compared to many!

I think it's called "silent" because Telstra is keeping it quiet! We're going beyond silent when we move. We're going "naked!"

@ LilD - laughing so hard at your story! I agree - it doesn't make a whole lot of sense as far as the name goes; but I think it's so cute!

@ Gina - In the States we have a "national do not call registry". You can register your number and then you are legally protected from any calls from telemarketers or salespeople. It's very nice! Sounds like you had a really really good reason to have a silent number. I wish Joe's ex didn't have our contact info!! ;D

@ Bindie - That's a fabulous deal! We looked into that and I'm not really sure why we went with a Telstra bundle; but Joe is in charge of all that techie stuff so that's what we got!

Meeems,
I've always loved those British spellings. For example, when one spells gray as "grey", it's a much more dewy, mysterious, and suggestive "colour" :)

Love you.

T.

Hmm - I always thought that it was supposed to be spelled grey. Maybe I am a bit more Brit than Polish? :D