Averil: Great General or the Greatest General?

          Le General does more before 10:00 a.m. than most people do all day! 

          Check out how she puts the laundry up to dry behind the house first thing in the morning:

          Then Le General went and kicked some booty in town.  First she went to the bank and finally, after 4 weeks, she has secured the coveted "Carte Bleu!"  Not only that, but she filled out the necessary paperwork (several stacks, in triplicate of course) to get another carte bleu so that both of us can have our own debit card!  We should have the second carte bleu in just a week or two!  But for now, we can maybe get our cell phones!

          Not only that, but Le General found out that our wire transfer was completed properly.  This means that we can get the money out of the bank to go buy the car that we put the deposit on 2 weeks ago.  Le General also arranged for the auto purchase contract to be faxed to the big bank branch in Carpentras since it is prohibited to withdraw a significant amount without proving to the bank why you want the money.  Duh, of course!  How can you withdraw your own money without proving that you have a good reason to do so? 

          Then she went to the doctor's office to get the doctor to sign another form so that Asha could be approved to play soccer, since the previous form only included dancing and horsing.

          And she went to the post office to get the appropriate postage for a letter!  You see, the post office closes between the hours of 12 and 2 and when she went yesterday there was a line for both regular people and business people and she waited in the regular people line and then the business people line person called her over and then he said if she only wants stamps she should go to the machine, but there was a long line at the machine, and the bank was closing soon and now she had lost her place in the other line and . . . well, never mind.

          And she went to the mayor's office and paid 2 euros to get a lunch ticket for the kids tomorrow since they are not signed up for canteen and without a ticket you can't get into the canteen and they are serving mussels and fries with tomato salad and provincial compote!

          Yup, Le General does it all!