Day "Off"

[NOTE:  Still flashing back!!!!]

January 16th, 2009

David's working, and this is the last day of my week off.  I was supposed to relax, sleep in, etc., but here's what I ended up doing:

1.)  Trying to find our mail box.  It may seem obvious, but it was hidden in the big square posts by our driveway.  We also got our first piece of personal mail - thanks Chandra!!!!  BTW, it's $0.94 to mail a letter and takes a little less than a week to get here.

      

No, it's not here...             It's there.  See it?

2.)  Going to the nearby wet market to attempt to buy some food for the house.  The wet market is sort of an open air market, with everything from chicken and fish to vegetables to dried goods to flowers.  After wandering around and realizing I was pretty much the only white face in the bunch, I figured I should at least buy something to start fitting in.  There are no signs by any of the vegetables, telling you what they are, so I bought a packet of spices and then tried to find whatever the vegetable was on the picture of the spice packet.  I couldn't find anything that looked like the vegetable, so I bought something that looked somewhere between broccoli and baby bok choy and figured it should be edible.  I was also going to buy some prawns to go with it, but there was a slight problem.  These prawns were BIG, and they all had the heads still on.  Now, I know how to peel and de-vein a shrimp as well as anyone, but I wasn't quite ready to start chopping the heads off things.

Figuring this was enough newness for one day, for lunch I bought bread, PB and jelly from the little 7-11 that was nearby.  That should tide me over for a while.

2.)  After I got home, the washing machine guy stopped by again to replace a switch that I think really didn't need replacing.  I think he was just trying to make me feel better about the whole the-door-just-wasn't-shut-properly situation.

3.)  Listened TO THE GOPHER MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM BEAT WISCONSIN IN OVERTIME!!!!  I love the internet.

4.)  Unpacked clothes.  Why I thought I'd need any of my fall jackets is beyond me.  Or my cowboy boots.

5.)  The curtain repair guy also stopped by to fix one of the curtains in the guest room that wouldn't close.  (Did you hear that?  Guest room.  For guests.  Like you.  Come visit.)

6.)  Two assessors stopped by to evaluate the house for taxes or something.

7.)  I tried to set up a sort of make-shift office for work on Monday.  As long as I have internet we should be good to go.

After that, I took the usual bus to visit Millie with David, and we had our usual dinner out.  A day of no rest, but there was accomplishment, which is sometimes all you can hope for.