Saturday...

Its a beautiful fall Saturday, and I'm in the office... Well, it's actually not as bad as it sounds. I'm in the office at about noon since I don't have internet at home. I end up coming into the office for at least a little bit every day to check email, read the news, catch up with a few people, etc. (Obviously in this case update the blog).

So you may be wondering what the average Saturday looks like for me? Well... I spent the morning doing... well nothing of earth shattering importance at home. I slept in until about 8:30, had breakfast, cafinated myself (French Coffe Press = a little bit of wonderfulness) cleaned a little bit, played the piano for about 45 minutes, packed some stuff up to drop off at one of the recycling depots around town, and then headed off to the office (doing some errands along the way). So its not like I'm completely wasting my time now.

I'll be in the office for a little bit yet, but eventually I'll leave to go shopping... I don't have a car, so I'll end up hitting up the three different grociery stores on smaller shopping trips (Easier to carry everything that way... plus I like one store's produce better than the others, one store's brands of drinks better than the others, and one store's dry and frozen goods better than the others... If I can't carry it all at one time anyways why not make 3 smaller trips... plus its great exercise). This afternoon will be spent cooking --- odd as that sounds. I'm having people over on Monday for pizza night, so I'll be home making italian sausage and pasta sauce (looking forward to that... one of the fringe benefits of pizza night is that it gives me an excuse to make a huge batch of pasta sauce... which is in the end a lot cheaper than buying it premade... and I like the end result better anyways).

Then I also need to do some cleaning around the appartment. I did tne first half of it already this week, but its time to clean out my bathroom and bedroom again. No big deal, just needs to be done before it gets bad. I'm also doing "Fall cleaning" which means rather than shaking out or vaccuming all the rugs, I'm in the process of washing them all... which takes a little bit longer than I would like (I have no dryer so they have to air dry, and I don't really have enough space to dry them all at once... plus for some reason things are taking FOREVER to dry in my appartment... clothes takes about 2 days. Not sure why).

Then tonight... Tonight I'll probably curl up on the couch with a nice cup of tea (either Roibus, fruit, or herbal tea... not looking for any extra caffeene) Read a book or watch a movie... or maybe do both.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is... Yeah... Its a normal life over here. Oddly enough as broken into it as I feel right now its kind of wierd to be contemplating going home in a couple of months. I can't believe its only 2 months and some change away. It feels like just yesterday that I got here. I'm really not looking forward to reverse culture shock. Although it will be nice to see everybody again.


**** Update****
Boy genius just realized that today is a holiday... ooops. Should've done my shopping yesterday. No groceries until Monday now. I've actually got plenty of food to last the weekend (not worried about that in the least) Just uh... pasta sauce and meatballs on Monday are going to be a little interesting... whooops. Oh well if after 6 years in food service I can't swing it... Seriously this is where the hobby pays off... :-)