Well……..

I should have known the whole residency thing wouldn’t be that easy. Roberto took me around to gather all the necessary additional documents on Thursday such as private medical insurance and other things I didn’t quite understand, and we had an appointment with a lady to help fill out all the pages of the forms to be submitted, including multiple copies. Then we went to the post office to file all of this and for it to be posted to Rome. When I had paid all the fees the nice lady at the post office gave me a receipt which stated the date I will receive residency. APRIL 24, 2024!!! Needless to say I was in shock. Even Roberto didn’t know what to say. Neither of us expected the date to be so far out. Of course this means no car for another FIVE MONTHS! No selling the camper, nothing! I honestly don’t know if this is just a computerized date that gets generated automatically and not necessarily the true date or what. What I do know is that it’s not going to be a Merry Christmas for me 😞

I also contacted the moving company about getting my things out of storage and shipping them to Poppy. The new estimate they’ve given me is now DOUBLE what it was when they picked everything up in May. I’m disputing the estimate but I won’t know anything more until sometime next week.

Sorry, guys, I know this post is not exactly filled with good news and joy from me. I’m struggling right now with all this crap going on but I’m really trying to remain positive. At the moment it’s awfully difficult to feel good about anything. Christmas is coming and can also be a bit of a downer. Just no glad tidings at the minute, except that the dogs and I are healthy and have each other. That’ll haveto be enough for now.