should clarify

Thank you for your kind notes and offers to help...actually, there really is no one who can help. Anything that was ever done in any other part of Russia will be no good to us - and it appears that even following the document list that our friends, the Ninmann's, went to court with last month (in the same city) isn't a good plan.

One thing about Russia that you can count on - is to NEVER count on anything. I should know by now to now that I shouldn't get my hopes up on anything - ESPECIALLY when it comes to anything that has to do with documents and the Judge.

For some reason this reminds me of when I was getting my MBA. I had this horrible finance class, and a horrible professor who didn't speak English. I would ask a question like:

"Can you please help me through problem #2"

He would say, "Yes, thank you"

I would get a funny look on my face and say, "OK, well - it appears that we should be using the XYZ theory - but I can't find the starting point to get to the answer."

He would say, "Yes, thank you."

I would get a more irritated look on my face and say, "allrighty then, um, the answer I am getting is ABC, but I see in the key it should be XYZ, can you please walk through this with me - I am not understanding how to get to XYZ"

He would say, "Yes, thank you."

SO - assuming he understood what I was saying, I would sit there....silence....nothing....so I would follow up with "what page would I find the answer to this problem?"

He would say, "Yes, thank you."

I remember being so frustrated in that class, many times I would be up all night long in tears because there was no one who could help me. The one person whose job it was to help me - didn't understand a word I was saying.

This whole thing is kind of like that. The Judge doesn't understand that we don't have a Federal adoption law, she doesn't understand that Katherine A Friend is the same person as Kathy Friend, Katherine Ann Friend etc. I wish that I could get to the point of pity - that is what happened with the Finance prof - I felt sorry for him. I figured out other means to my answers in his class, and ended up with a B+ (still not sure how I pulled that one off).

TIMELINE
I should mention my timeline.

The documents need to be re-presented to the Judge by April 13. So - they need to be back to Irk by April 6 to be translated. Because it can take between 1-2 weeks to be delivered, we need to ship everything from here by March 23 (this will allow 2 weeks, worst case scenario). So, before things can be shipped, they need to be apostilled by the Secretary of State. Generally that will take one day to ship, and one day to process, and one day to ship out...it can be done all in one day, but that would require a 3 hour (one way) drive to Indianapolis...so - that would mean we need to ship things to the state by March 19th.

Today is March 13th...this is a weekend, not much can be done on a weekend. The 18th is completely booked with appointments....so that means I have Monday and Tuesday.

Assuming things can get shipped faster than 2 weeks (allow 1 week), then I have this full week.

I am very concerned about the police letters...I assume they want new state police criminal checks. This usually takes 7-10 days. You can't just show up and get it done...they mail it to you.

Joan - we'll need to get those stupid fingerprint cards done AGAIN - can that be done on the weekend?


DEBBIE AND JUDY - what did you do about the deed to your house? The Judge didn't accept the Quit Claim Deed to our house - did you show a deed?