A new dress.... again.

So yesterday I was feeling rather tired.  This morning I wrote up my monthly report of all that went on last month... and I realized WHY I might be feeling a bit on the tired side!  A whole lot of work went on, alongside all the craziness that went on last month, too.  I don't feel quite so bad for taking it a bit easier these past few days.

However, I have realized a pattern over the past few days.  From around 8:30pm - 9:30 pm, I'm exhausted!  I sit on my little verandah, thinking about how I should be doing something, accomplishing something - tidying the house or writing some meaningful emails to people that I love, or something.  But I just feel too tired to do anything!  So I do nothing and waste an hour or so reading other people's blogs, BBC News or looking at facebook.  Then 9:30 or 10 rolls around, and I feel like it might be late enough to go to bed... so I start puttering around to get the chores done before bed (making sure there are no dirty dishes on the counter, putting the food away so the rats or roaches don't feast, putting the ice bottles in the fridge (if the electricity is off) etc., not to mention brushing my teeth, washing my feet (or my whole self!) etc.  So by 10 or 10:30, I crawl into my bed... wide awake! 

So I don't end up sleeping until around midnight.  And then the morning comes soon again.

And last night, I was woken up in the middle of the night by a pretty crazy wind storm.  We had a touch of rain, but it was mostly just a lot of wind!  So I was awake for a while, laying on my bed and wondering if one of the trees was going to come crashing down on me in my bed, and if that happened, would my mosquito net be strong enough to save me? 

Needless to say, I was still a bit tired when the morning rolled around and it was time to roll myself out of bed.  Needless to say, as well, a tree did not fall on my house last night.  And needless to say again, a cute outfit will make any day brighter.  So I pulled out my newest creation:

I got the kikoy material in Kenya a couple of trips ago, but just haven't had a good enough tailor around to get anything made from it.  But now that I've found a decent tailor again, I've been enjoying getting a few things created.  And I love this one!  The tailor really has done a good job and the outfit fits well enough, without being snug (necessary in hot, sweaty weather like this!).  And he did a good job on putting the colours of the kikoy material in the right spots.  So the rest of the day was pretty good, because I had a very cute outfit on.  Fickle in the grand scheme of things, but hey, if all it takes to keep me going through the day is a nice outfit, then I think I'm doing pretty good :)

(And I mean that in the best possible sense - I mean, apart from the fact that my very being and breath, and in fact the entire universe and the whole concept of gravity and everything else is held together in and through Christ.  Other than that minor detail, it's also nice to have a cute outfit).