Turning Domestic?

Possibly a wee bit. Yesterday, after coming home from my office, I sat looking at my fingernails, and had an unquenchable urge to paint them pink. So I did. Of course, I had to scrub them, pick all the dirt from underneath them, push back my cuticles and do some serious moisturizing... and finally got to the point where I could paint them pink. And they look so pretty! All day I've been admiring my pink fingernails. I'm sure no one else noticed, but somehow, they made me happy today. Goodness, they still look so pretty and are still making me happy :)

And today, I cooked two hot meals for myself! Before, one of the women who works in the guesthouse cooked lunch for us, and it was so nice to have a hot cooked meal at lunch time. Meant I didn't have to do too much shopping, and didn't have to spend any time in the middle of the day cooking and clearing up. So nice. But somehow, the system has broken down, and for a week and a half now I've had to fend for myself at lunchtime. Yesterday was Wes' birthday, so I rallied the troops and we took him out. And last week, Jackie was here, so we worked together to get lunch ready. But this week has been tough, since I'm on my own, and it's hard cooking for one at the best of times, especially around here!

But I actually managed to make myself a really nice pasta for lunch - all from scratch. I didn't even have a tin of tomato paste in the cupboard, so I cooked up fresh tomatoes, green peppers, garlic and onions and made a little veggie sauce to pour over my noodles. It was all washed down with a glass of limeade, made from freshly squeezed limes (2 of them).

Then, this evening, whilst admiring my lovely pink fingernails, I cooked up a little pot of garlic mashed potatoes. I also had a few bits of beef jerky that my parents sent along with Steve, who I met up with in Ethiopia! Mmmm... nothing like a meal of garlicky mashed tatoes and dried meat!

I'm also being a wee bit domestic in the fact that I cleared some space on my kitchen counter, filled the water filter (and even thought about cleaning it one of these days...), and filled my thermoses with hot water in preparation for my bucket bath tomorrow morning (I just know it's going to be freezing cold tomorrow morning, and much too cold for a cold shower!).

I think that's about all the domesticity this girl can deal with for one day.