Shopping!

Since we have almost completed the painting in our house, and things are actually starting to look like a real "home", we thought we'd better go to the market and pick up a few things that were lacking. One of the things that I got was a nice bit of fabric with which to make curtains. While the pickin's were slimmer than they were before I left, I found the most beautiful piece:The blue, I think, is going to match so perfectly with the blue shelf and my blue square on the wall. I really like the butterflies and the sort of flowery pattern... beautiful and feminine, yet certainly not over the top in flowery-ness. And it was only $5 for 3 meters. (Fabric is the one and only thing that is cheap here!) And the colors will go so perfectly with everything else in the house, I think. I even have a blue bed! Actually, blue is the only color the beds come in. It's a nice bed - metal frame with nylon strings for the part that you put your foam mattress on. I'll take a photo of that set up tomorrow, too.

It's so exciting to see things actually coming together into place. We even bought some silverware tonight so we can eat over there :) We spent a ton of money in the market, but, what can you do? While we really have very little stuff to fill our house, there is still a certain amount of stuff that you need in order to function. Thankfully, we were able to buy most stuff from a family that was leaving Uganda to go back to the UK a few months ago. They had quite nice taste, so we bought all their dishes and kitchen stuff - quite a deal to get it all second hand. That really saved us a lot of money, and we got much nicer stuff than we would ever be able to find around here.

And what did Zane do the whole time we've been sweating away to get our house ready?
He just sort of took over my old bed! Too bad that bedroom's going to be turned into a real office! I'm dropping the Newfie "h" off of my "hoffice" and it's going to go back to a plain old "office". There will be three of us sharing it as an office, though, so that will be different... but at least I won't get lonely!