I know, I know...I've been slacking in the posting department. Well, the family is here! I have been having so much fun with them - we've gone to Trakai castle and Vilnius and walked around Klaipeda and eaten out at wonderful places. Robert and Sara have been enjoying themselves...mostly when my friends are around and they have someone other than their siblings to talk to. Robert has enjoyed the drinking age and the local beer and the local ladies, but all in moderation of course. Sara has enjoyed the shoes and yet she's only bought one pair, and I have acquired two darling pair of boots. I will surely take pictures and post them at a later date ;)
Robert's Oakland A's hat is read as 'Ass' here and so he's getting looks from everyone cause he's wearing one of the only words some people know in English on his forehead. So funny. My family loves the food here, and we've had some amazing dishes so far. Surprisingly enough, the hotel my parents are staying at is just a 20 second walk from my front door, and it has an excellent kitchen...and it's always dead, so my friends and I will have to eat there sometimes.We've enjoyed good weather for the most part, with only a day or two of rain...the sun is slowly coming out as I'm writing this, before we head out to Nida - a small fishing village on the Spit, where we will take a ferry to and drive up 60 km to reach. The fam leaves in two days, and it's weird to think they've been here and seen so much and spent so much time with me after not seeing them for several months, which makes me think of when I'll see them next...sometime next year...which is also weird. Mom has said that she is coming in the Spring if she can, which would be great if she can make it over here with Sara or whoever...I'm stealing all of their pictures so I can properly add to my photo album so everyone may partake of the pictage :)Off for now - I'll write more later!!
Well folks, the Autumn Break is over. My days of sleeping in until forever and doing absolutely nothing productive are through. I've been reading my books and knitting and drinking lots of 3-in-1 coffee drinks...I am okay with the end though, as I am looking forward to getting back into the routine at work and interacting with people again! So many people went home, so I look forward to their return and hearing how they spent their week off.
The weather has taken a drastic turn for the 'different' and now snow is on-again-off-again the ground and in the air. It's pretty, and just cold enough to be brisk and lovely, not blustery and annoying...but those days are coming!
My family comes in less than two weeks...and I am so looking forward to it!! I have been talking about them non-stop to anyone who will listen! Also, I'm finally sending out postcards...so for those who have been wondering 'I wonder where my postcard is?' will finally get one. For those that want to send ME a postcard, I'd truly appreciate some snail mail - so write me a note (on here, email, etc) and I'll send you my address!!
Sninga!! (It's snowing!) Not amazingly hard as of yet, but it's definitely coming down as snowflakes and not sleet. It's 2.38 am as I write this, and as I am unsure if it will stick in the morning, I took a picture of the snow stuck to the cars on
my street. I kept hearing from everyone that the snow would not come until much later, but what a both pleasant and unpleasant surprise. As a creature from California, I'm unsure how my positive outlook on the cold and the snow will hold up as both things prevail for the months ahead. For now though, I'm thinking one thing: snow fight!!
Note: It did stick and it is still snowing this evening...it's beautiful and cold and makes me long for Christmas!! The picture is the current snowfall, with more photos of the snow added to my photo album on Yahoo.
This evening, after driving around for almost an hour to find an alternate route to the cemetery because the main road was blocked, 
I was able to see the Klaipeda cemetery alight with candles in honor of All Saint's Day. It was beautiful - the headstones had candles and flowers in front of them, and the moonlight was just soft enough to make it eerie to walk among the graves. It was also very, very cold - a whopping -12° C (11° F) with some snow predicted later tonight. For this reason, we were only there for a few minutes - long enough for me to snap some photos and enjoy the scenery before hopping back in the car and heading to El Dorado for pizza and
coffee.
The week off is going well. I've spent time with friends and have been enjoying the Hallmark channel on television - quality English language entertainment ;) Also, my family comes to visit me in two weeks, which is going to be so very exciting. I can't wait to show my siblings Klaipeda and have them meet my dearest friends. Also, I finally get to show my parents what I do for LCC and have them see the school and take them to the new places I've discovered, etc. A good time will be had by all, I hope. I so look forward to it!
I feel the need to write an update, even though not a lot is going on. Fall break begins tomorrow, which is exciting because I'm looking forward to a week of sleep and relaxation :) Tons of people are leaving Lithuania to go exciting places like Spain, Ukraine, the States, Latvia, Germany, etc...whilst I will be in my little flat allll by my lonesome. Chad will be around, so I've promised to help him study Lithuanian so we're both awesome in class the following week. I'm so proud of my progress with the language. As lame as it truly is in the big scheme of things, I was so proud that I was able to translate a paragraph for a student email announcement from Lithuanian into English. And, when I see movies in the theatre, I pay attention to the subtitles and am so pleased with myself as to how much I can recognize! My friends may address me in Lithuanian and I am able to understand them, though most of the time I have to answer in English because my confidence in speaking is not as high. I just have to get over it and start spouting off in Lithuanian, or I won't learn as quickly as I potentially could be...The heat is going on today! I have a radiator in every room, so I'm hoping that the heat won't cost me a fortune, but if it means not walking around my house with a blanket on my shoulders like a cape, I'm looking forward to it! My bed is amazingly warm and comfortable, so there is no problem at night, as it's waking up that is so hard to do when I know that outside the world under my covers is cold :(I need to go shopping this week as well, as I have only a handful of sweaters, and it's getting colder. Thrift store!! Also, my precious jeans I bought here last year are worn out, so I need new ones. Oh! A side not about that...Levi's is pronounced "Lehv-is' by Lithuanians, not 'Leev-eyes' like we say. The migration office lady last week giggled when she read my last name, as there are no 'w's in Lithuanian, and so they convert them to 'v's, so my name was Miss Levis and she laughed and said to her co-worker "Pavarde Levis!" and pronounced it like the jeans brand, which apparently was hilarious...
So yesterday I went to Liepaja, Latvia. I got a call from Regis and Ruta asking 'want to go to Latvia? bring your passport, we'll be there in 3 minutes' - so naturally I jumped up, grabbed my passport and threw on a coat. How could I pass up two more stamps on the pages of my passport? It took about a little over an hour to get there, we passed through customs and into Latvia...and I learned so much more about the difference between a study abroad's experience on a tour bus going to pre-determined places with money and what not and going with spontaneous Lithuanians in a car to a smaller city...After we started driving in Liepaja, we thought we'd stop for tea at a pub somewhere...then we thought 'wait, we're in a different country, how are we going to pay for stuff?' - then we th
ought 'wait, chelsea has credit cards, perfect!' - so we stopped at kind of a rip-off of Hard Rock Cafe, where we had to pay .10 Latvian cents to use the restroom (that's $0.17) and extra for ketchup for our french fries, which took forever to come. All was well though, as the fries were good. We walked around a square with a church in it for a bit taking some pictures, and got back into the car cause it was freezing.It was funny to read the signs, because some of it is familiar to me because of the similarity to Lithuanian words and so I was able to make some of them out. When we started driving home we discovered Latvians like their roads to turn right, and right only. I got to learn the meanings of the area's road signs though, so it was semi-helpful because they are different than the States' signs in visual appearance, but mean the same things. Overall, the trip was really fun because of the randomness and good company :)
Another relaxing weekend in Lithuania...but I must remark that talking to friends back home or here even, I am still confronted with "are you homesick yet?" and "why did you come back?" and I often have to think about how I feel about answering. I am not homesick because I talk to my friends and family almost every day online or via Skype, and I have friends here to make it easier to adjust. I wake up every morning and have to remember that I will not hear English when I step outside my door. On my way to the bus stop, I walk past signs in Lithuanian and people on their separate paths to work or wherever their day will take them.
I am in Lithuania...in Eastern Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean from my home country, in a distinct culture interacting with people from different countries every day. I love it here, for all the reasons I just mentioned. I have always yearned to live in Europe for some time, and my semester here last year was just not enough. If anything, it made me fall in love with the place and people I met and only made me want to come back more. It's only October, and I have lots of time left here, but I'm making sure to reflect on the time spent with friends and here in general.
On a side note, Ieva taught me how to make sushi and they turned out great! Smoked salmon, crab sticks, avacado & cucumber with sticky rice and seaweed...Mmm!
Finally! I have adorable sheets and pillows that now adorn my bed, making it more my own! The general feel of the apartment is browns/yellows/blues, so I went with a brown/cream color combo and oh do I feel so much better about looking at my bedroom. I got some other things like throw pillows and a fuzzy blanket and more candle holders and a lamp...so now the whole place is a tad more Chelsea :)I'm so pleased and feel like my apartment is more mine than ever.
Rain rain rain is setting in...with winds and darker days...autumn is on its way and winter lurks behind...Beautiful to gaze at from my window and nice to walk in for pleasure, but when walking to the bus stop for work, it somehow does not feel as cozy :)The Los Angeles Collaboration, which consists of two Azusa Pacific music professors, came to Klaipeda last week and treated the community to a free concert of piano and violin music. Alex Russell, the violin player, is Colby McLellan's cousin - so it was a funny coincidence to have him come to Lithuania while I am here. The concert was wonderful, with classical and modern pieces and many from the LCC and greater city community attended.Also noteworthy this week were several spiritual discussions with my friends. There was no arguing or fighting involved, but discussion of disagreements, opinions, and beliefs about Christianity, spirituality and the Bible. One lasted several hours and was so interesting...I even pulled out my Christian doctrine & apologetics notes from my computer to back up points. It was so refreshing to have a conversation that was unthreatening to both parties, with critical thinking points brought up on both sides and ultimately intellectually challenging. I feel as if I am being made to think about what I believe and why I believe what I do, and that they are being challenged in the same manner - positively of course. Questions are asked and opinions are varied, but I have really enjoyed these talks because I feel like everyone is comfortable enough to say what they think and ask what they want, without feeling like anyone is completely disregarding their side. For example, tonight's topic was favorite Bible verses, and regardless of how founded anyone is in the Christian faith, each person had something to contribute. I'm sure things will come up again, and I look forward to it.
Tomorrow Rasa and I go to Lithuanian Linens & Things, JYSK, and get me a comforter...I'm cold!
I officially have cards! Like, business cards with my name and title and phone number on them! I had no idea they were coming so I was pleasantly surprised when I checked my mail box this morning at LCC...I've handed several out already :)'Yes hello, I'm the Volunteer & Service Learning Coordinator. My card...'
Thank goodness it's Friday. I am looking forward to another relaxing weekend filled with sleep and rest. The weather is mellowing out, so I'm hoping to light some candles, maybe even burn some wood in my fireplace type thing and read the book I brought with me. My week was pretty run of the mill, with work and coffee and some rain showers. The week seems to have flown by though, and feels as if it were just Monday morning and yet it is Friday afternoon. And so September has run out, like sand in an hour glass...I always think hourglasses a bit paradoxal, as it looks like the sand will run out quickly from the speed of it falling and yet it takes however long it is supposed to take for the last grain of sand to fall. This is what September feels like. Like it flew by and did not fly by at the
same time... Maybe I'm being too thoughtful today? I did not have a lot to do in the way of work today, so maybe I'm looking for a mind challenge :)
That's a little hedgehog that Rasa saw near the dorm and was able to snap a photo or two of...so cute! I haven't seen one yet, but now I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for the little guys.
I must start eating breakfast, as I get hungry so early in the day and with three basic choices for lunch (Michaelsen cafeteria, IKI the grocery store and a small cafe near the school) the lunches I do end up having are far from inspiring. I get the same thing at the cafe near school if I go (chicken cutlet) and always end up buying one of a handful of combinations of food from the grocery store (peach yogurt drink, a pastry and maybe some cheese) and Michaelsen cafeteria is only okay...Also, I thought the milk tasted like string cheese when I first had it here last year, and again this year upon initial drinkage, but now I LIKE IT. And this sour milk 'kefyras' is growing on me as well. I never thought I'd actually grow to like either thing, and lo and behold - I do. Oh Lithuania, the strange things you make me like :)
Anyway, I'll try to be a more interesting person so I have more things to report, but for now life is life is life!
So here's this map thing that is supposedly supposed to track the location of the visitors to my blog...so I guess if it works, I get to see where people are reading and where they're not!
It is Tuesday afternoon, I'm finishing up at work and have nothing awfully exciting to report. Typical two work days, administrative duties are piling up and my volunteers are on the ball with reporting their hours! I had a really fun weekend, just relaxing and enjoying the 
unusually nice weather. I even got to convert a Lithuanian to a Harry Potter nerd! Go Slytherin! I did get my vacuum and some awesome speakers (both of which have been claimed if I 'don't take them home with me'), but was unable to find suitable bedding at Maxima (like Walmart) and so I have to go to a nicer place to find the size I need for my 'huge' double bed. I felt so much better after vacuuming my apartment, as there were no more families of dust bunnies living in the corners and my rugs look nice again. I have yet to make my apartment as cute as I want it to be, though - I have got to get a nice cheap vase for flowers and some picture frames for the photos I brought from home. I'm surprisingly not homesick yet, as I get to talk to my family, Travis and friends all the time, which helps as a loneliness-killer. Some friends and I decided that we will have a 'Mexican Night' at my house sometime soon over a weekend, with nachos and burritos and the like...should be fun hunting for those items at Lithuanian grocery stores, but I look forward to coordinating that and having people over. I have a Mexican cookbook, so hopefully something will turn out yummy :)
Oh, and my apartment is in the direct vicinity of the following three buildings: the wedding palace, the psychiatric hospital and a funeral parlor...so, as my Mom put it "I can get married, go nuts and die in the same day, conveniently!" Nice location, right?
I guess that's all for now folks...Tune in next time when I might have more things to say!
My community day post is late, but here it is...Wednesday was Community Day at LCC, which means we had an opening assembly (where I sat on stage with staff/faculty, so weird!) and then a Mugė which means carnival or fair in Lithuanian. It was outside on the Michaelsen lawn where there were 'booths' from each department offering various carnivalish games and information on clubs, etc. There was a staff vs student tugowar which I participated in to the best of my weakie ability, and they beat us 2 out of 3 rounds. Then due to popular demand, more burgers were served like at Serve Day! This time there were no pickles, just cucumbers and 'marinated onions' for topping - but I wasn't in charge so I was glad I didn't have to worry about food for 600 people! I was on the decoration committee, so I bought tons of balloons and ribbon and put them up so the area looked fair-like. There are some photos posted of the event in my photo album.Other than that, my week has been busy as ever - pairing up student volunteers and faculty members as assistants, placing students into orphanages to spend time with children and so on. I'm so proud to be able to be helping the LCC community and the community of Klaipeda by providing helping hands where there are needs. I am glad it is Friday though, as the weekend will be a welcome break...
Happy Birthday Dad! And Auntie Irene!
I've posted several new photos from this weekend's adventures, which consisted largely of enjoying the various cafes around Klaipeda, introducing Chad to the 12th Floor restaurant with a panoramic view of the city, participating in a leadership retreat on Saturday and enjoy friends' company.
I started to look into sheets and stuff for my bed to make it cute and homey, but apparently Lithuanians do not believe in fitted sheets, which is mildly annoying. I've got a list going of things I want for my apartment to make it more my own, so things like cute sheets and photo frames and a lamp (maybe) for my living room and a toothbrush holder and other home-ish things. I can't put anything on the walls, but there are already decent looking painting/prints on the walls that make it okay.
Work is back in full swing...I'm very busy with meetings all the time and doing things for the entire department, while trying to coordinate my volunteer program at the same time. Student Life will be hiring another student assistant to help cover the hours I won't be available to work at the desk, namely during lunch time so I can eat during the day and meet with students in the SEEDS program during that time. More updates to come, and check out the new pictures!
So the school week has begun! Students have arrived in droves, dressed to the nines for their first day of school on Monday. Guys came in full suits even! I wore a dress as part of my deal to dress up if Chad would dress up, so we represented Amerika in style. I have been attending meeting after meeting and doing loads of work. See picture of my 'office' workplace at your convenience. The "welcome" sign was my idea. 
It was so boring the first few weeks and now I'm swamped. Already students are asking me for volunteer opportunities and I haven't even met with my "student team leaders" yet (that meeting is tomorrow). I also attended my first Lithuanian language class for staff & faculty and took part in repeating things like "Mano vardas Chelsea" (my name is...) with about half a dozen older staff members, who were struggling with the š & č characters, but we all pulled through just fine. I do have a small foundation in the language, so it has been review for me so far, but I know that I will be learning proper grammar and pronunciation, which will help in conversations. Our homework is to figure out our name in Lithuanian, and mine is: Čelsė Liuis - which technically makes me a man thanks to the 's' ending of my last name. If I were an unmarried Lithuanian girl and my father's name was Liuis, my last name would be Liuisūtė and my mother's name would be Liuisienė. Complicated, right? I totally love it though and hope to be able to hold a conversation longer than 2 minutes upon completion of this class.
Also exciting in my life - I've discovered the frozen section of the grocery store. I did not have a working freezer in my fridge last year as a study abroad, so I never bought frozen stuff unless I was going to eat it right away. Well, upon shopping this evening for dinner, my companions suggested frozen crab cakes to compliment our frozen veggies...and with those two items and a rice a roni Mom sent me, our dinner was surprisingly delicious. I stupidly refused the offer of someone doing the dishes in exchange for dinner, and so now I have a sink full of dishes 'soaking' that will ultimately need doing quite quickly as I only have two plates and two bowls total. I will probably put those on my list of things to get for my little apartment - along with my badly needed vacuum. We didn't have carpet in the dorm last year, and so now these rugs are filling up with colorful bits of whatever...
It's late...so I'll finish this with a promise to update more often and that I'll be posting more pictures soon. I plan on taking my camera with me to school and snapping some photos of random goodness, so look for those soon!
LCC had their first annual "Serve Day" today, despite torrential downpours yesterday & a general uncertainty of being able to complete the planned projects - things went swimmingly. Tons of staff, faculty & student leaders participated and the projects accomplished include leveling out a field in front of the gym (through the sweat of many strapping young and not so young lads carrying wheelbarrows full of dirt back and forth across the lawn), picking up trash on the entire campus property (dozens of bags full as the property was used as a dumping ground for the apartment complex across the street when it was being built), weeding the sidewalks, painting over graffiti, replastering cracking walls and some other minor cosmetic touches. The campus looked great after everyone was done!
My job was to feed these hard working people! I was team leader and directed my group in the delicate art of cutting pickles and tomatoes, slicing 200 individually wrapped hamburger buns and making hamburger patties out of 23 kilograms of meat (50 pounds!) - The residence life staff made a huge batch of potato salad and so good ol' North American hamburgers on the bbq had a proper North American side dish and with all my worrying about not having enough food - it was just perfect. Nobody went hungry and everything was a hit. I was a proud team leader indeed. I will hopefully have pictures posted in my photo album when I am informed as to how to get them from the staff member who was responsible for photography.
I am taking pictures at my Mom's suggestion of the advertisments around Klaipeda, because A. they are in Lithuanian and therefore are interesting in that regard and B. often they depict such a different image for promoting a product than North Americans would expect or be used to. Look for those as a new folder in my photo album. To the left is something slightly similar, as one of the main squares in the city has huge paintings on display and this was one of my favorites.
Also, Rasa got off work early and we were able to catch a late supper at a darling little cafe I had never been to and I had delicious creamy vegetable soup. Mm Mm. Oh, and I bought two more pair of summer sale shoes. The shoe stores (only 500 million of them on one street) are moving in a more wintery stock of high leather boots and so I got some adorable China-red kitten heeled shoes and some brown amazingly comfortable heels that Rasa also has. I realize as I sit here writing this that most people don't care what kind of shoes I buy, but I apparently deem it important enough to share...so I guess welcome to my world! :)
Again a wonderful day in Lithuania! Rasa & Stasys came over and were my second and third official guests...then Regis was a virtual guest via webcam in Amerika. So weird to be here and talking to a Lithuanian there! Then the three of us went to meet Viktoras for coffee and dessert at 12th floor. Chad joined us for dinner at City Pub and then we all (minus Stasys) had tea at my place - and a good time was had by all. Viktoras is a riot - very funny and he asks and answers questions in Lithuanian to me, which pretty much makes me figure out the meaning or else turn to another Lithuanian with a confused look. Stasys and Rasa are of course never boring, and always make me laugh as well. How I love my friends...I've posted new pictures from our outing, located at my photo album via the link on the sidebar on the left.
Really not a lot to report other than I bought new shoes so I didn't have to wear heels everyday to work to 'dress up' - so they're practical black flats that are still cute enough to wear to work and out. I also got my Student Life official t-shirt to identify me as "officially staff" and have been meeting with people regarding volunteer projects to present to students. So far I love my job, and am really truly looking forward to working with students and maybe doing some volunteering myself.
Oh, and I totally won my bet with Stasys. He finally agreed that it was indeed a Polish word in the song and not Lithuanian. He paid for my coffee today to pay back the 10 lita as agreed upon. I did tell him he didn't have to, it was more fun to win than take his money, but he insisted. Aww, what a gentleman - true to his word.
So...today I feel that I really started working with direction and approval from my superiors. For those not in the know - my official title is "Volunteer & Service Learning Coordinator" and I am slowly trying to figure out how to develop the volunteer program into a real program with documents/guidelines/direction. Previously it was run by the Career Development Center coordinator, and it was a side job, so I hope to turn it into a streamlined, unique program for LCC. I am making contacts, compiling documents, putting together a database to keep track of student progress and now I'm in charge of the BBQ part of the first annual "Serve Day" next week. Two-hundred hamburgers for hungry volunteers of staff, faculty and student leaders helping to beautify the campus with various projects!
I went to 'The Spit' via ferry today with two lovely faculty members, and it was a fun outing. We got to the beach just as the clouds overhead were beginning to let loose what will probably be a storm tonight...and lightning flashes began as we were heading back to Klaipeda on the ferry. We had dinner at the Bat Cave - I picked my meal off of a Lithuanian language menu even! I decided to sign up for the language class being offered to the expatriates just to supplement my vocabulary, as I don't know the grammar structure of the language very well. I really want to try to learn as much as I can, so I can get around independently and use it with friends. I think it's a beautiful language and even if I can never use it in California - I can use it now!
Students start school in less than two weeks...the countdown is on! I anxiously await my friends' returns and summer stories over coffee, the start of my real job responsibilities and what the semester will bring...
So...pretty much my 'one day weekend' was not as bad as I was thinking it would be. We had a holiday weekend last week that included two days off from work, and so the official make up day was Saturday and so I went into work yesterday. Apparently, according to Lithuanian labor laws, on Fridays the work day ends an hour early so I got to go home a little early and get my pizza topping for the pizza making party at a faculty member's house. The get together was fun, and lots of staff/faculty showed up, so I met new people and got to chat further with some that I had previously been introduced to. Then I got a random text message (Lithuanians call them 'SMS' - which stands for 'Short Message System') from Giedre, asking if she could spend the night at my house. She was visiting a friend in Palanga and couldn't go home that night on the train/bus and so needed a place to sleep for the night. So, I met her and we had coffee and watched Pirates of the Caribbean and drooled over Johnny Depp. The next morning, we had more coffee and went to 'brunch' and poked around shops looking at shoes and trinkets while waiting for Rasa & Stasys to join us at a pub in Old Town. I then proceded to order, receive and partake of the best milkshake I've ever had in Klaipeda. Usually milkshakes are pretty much like frothy flavored milk and not so much ice-creamy, but this one was the more like a milkshake as I'm used to, so it was a delicious surprise. It was so fun to just enjoy the beautiful day with friends and not worry about papers being due or a project to finish (though that's something I keep forgetting I won't really have to worry about...potentially ever again...academically at least). So the day was spent walking around sunny Klaipeda and going to cafes and drinking coffee and milkshakes and 'greipfrutu sultys' (grapefruit juice) - a favorite of mine because almost all restaurants have it for cheap and I can never find it in the States.
Sitting around the table with some of the Lithuanian friends I hung out with most last semester and on my visit this spring, I felt so at ease and never an awkward pause or out of place - really as if I never was gone. It's funny how you can be away from people for an extended period of time and then see them again and pick up the friendship, conversations and daily interaction as if no time had passed from the last meeting. I experienced that when JoAnn was gone for two semesters straight and then saw her again after we had both been through so much, but our friendship picked right up from the last time we saw each other - pretty much how I feel with the Lithies so far :)
So, I have a 10 lita bet going with Stasys about a Madonna song and whether or not she says something in Lithuanian. The song is 'Sorry' and includes Madonna saying 'sorry' or 'forgive me' in different languages, and so she says it in Japanese, Spanish, Hindi, etc - and the 'Lithuanian' in question is listed as a Polish word in all the literature I can find online. I agree that it sounds like the Lithuanian phrase for 'go away, please' but it doesn't make sense to have her saying go away, when she's saying sorry in all the other languages. The battle has waged online in various forums whether or not it's Lithuanian, and it seems like the excuse that the Polish word is mispronounced is widely accepted because she uses an incorrect Dutch phrase in the song as well. I already won the war on this issue with Regis, so I predict my wallet will grow 10 lita richer one of these days...
