Okay. So.......
It's fricken BOILING hot over here with record temps in the 90s and 100% humidity. I specifically was looking forward to living in perpetual AC here when we moved. It wouldn't be so bad, except they don't have AC anywhere here. In cars, in homes. They don't even have fans because normally, it isn't an issue. Hubby's Mom dug a fan out if storage for us (ABSOLUTE ANGEL) and as I was walking down to our place with it, two people asked if I had a spare one for them
They're a hot commodity here.
That was just the beginning of today.
The village we live in is small. There is no Target or Walmart or anything but the basics, so in order to get anything you need to travel to either Nenaugh or Limerick. We need our Irish cell phones and a TV and some paint and stuff so we borrowed my MIL's car and headed off in to the boiling day to Nenaugh. We made sure we had our passports and ID and money to get our phones. We get to the place and they require a bill from a utility in our name with our address. We don't have one yet. I have a receipt from "Mr. Binman" who is our trash collection, but no bill. Hubby has his name on the electric and gas, but they're so new that he doesn't have a bill yet for them. So, we figure... He has an Irish bank account. We'll just go down the street and ask them to print up a statement with his name and address on it. We wait our turn, it's an online account and they can't print those up. She directs us to the local library where we can use the computer and printer to print one up. A mile away walking in the heat, we get there. You need a library card to use the computers. I go through the half hour process of getting a card and we finally log on. Bank account has no statements available (too new). We try logging in to Ebert utility to see if we can get ANYTHING with our name and address on it. Verification codes, hoops, jumping through them.....
After an hour, we come up empty. We go back to the cell phone place with just a receipt from "Mr. Binman" and it's not accepted. We finally give up after two hours and just eat at Supermac's. We did stop for a TV on the way back, but after 3 hours out in the heat and traveling to Nenaugh, all we have to show for it is a library card and TV.
EVERYONE wants a utility bill with your name and address on it. I got "Mr.Binman" for immigration. Hopefully they'll accept that. But if everyone needs this, how do you get anything?
I'm miles away from having a bank account here. The only reason he got one was because he's a citizen. That'll be a whole other fiasco when I go to open one.
Meanwhile, I'M FUCKING MELTING IN IRELAND OF ALL PLACES. WHERE IS MY NATURAL AC!!!!
/rant