Sunday, July 29, 2007

Stressed Out 2

I recieved an email from cousins Luka and Krzysztof. With their help it is clear what we must do to have our boxes released.
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Hi, David! It is too late for IM, but i have to write news i have for you. Krzysztof was calling to me today afternoon and he said: - he called to Warsaw and they told him - they have 14 your boxes for Marek's Paluch name and 9 boxes for mine name (Małgorzata or Luka Paluch?). They have 23 boxes and those 17 next probably will come soon if you sent them for different names or in different days. -they said also - these boxes will be waiting for your arrival with none or minimal costs of stocking them, but you should have with you any documents which say that you were living in US last year, it may be your phone bills from all last year, or for example bills of renting the flat in US, or for gas , one kind of them. It will show you really have lived in US last year. - the second is: you should have register's paper in Poland, that you live somewhere, so you should rent any flat soon and than to receive NIP number, it is the number - indyvidual TAX identificator - you are able to receive it in the office where you will be have renting flat-.........and then you will receive your boxes without paying any costs, they will transport them to Poznañ. The costs will be of course for their office's work , not very high, but not custom fee.
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It still causes us a smaller problem because just before this mess started Joan and I went through all of our old receipts for phone, elect, gas, etc and thought there was no reason to take these paid bills to Poland and we threw them all away. Now I have to contact those company's and see if we can get the old bills. The other thing is we sent ALL of the boxes at the same time so I still am not surse where the 17 boxes are.

On a bright note, the surprise for Joan went beautifully. I took her to Chicago Friday on the pretext of seeing Chicago for the last time. I told her we would have lunch at the Westin hotel. We parked the car in front of the hotel, went in and we walked through lobby (where Sherry, her friend was waiting). You should have seen the look on Joan's face when she saw her. We brought Sherry home with us and I made a reservation at our favorite restaurant for them where they had dinner Friday night while I stayed home and packed. Saturday we took Sherry to stay at another friends house and they said goodbye. It was a wonderful, surprising event for Joan.

Today, in the afternoon, we go to Krystyna's house to say goodbye to her.

Tomorrow I dismantle the computer, pack everything left into a van I rented, and take it to Karen's house. The only thing left will be the bed. Tuesday morning I will dispose of that and then we go to Karen's where we will stay until the flight on Thursday. I'll still have Internet access through computers at Karen's house.

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