And there were a few little things today which made me smile a grand smile:
The electricity was on this morning when I got up! I could make coffee using my fancy schmancy electric little espresso pot, which was bequeathed to me last month by a visiting linguist. Gotta love those visiting linguists sometimes! (Not that I don't love the bodum which was also bequeathed to me, but, a girl needs options once in a while, doesn't she?)
And, I took a shower with the lights on! And, just because I could, I dug out a hairdryer and actually blow-dried my hair before going to the office this morning. Just because I could. The electricity stayed on, so when I came back from the corner at lunch time, all hot and sweaty from the walk to the corner to buy a shwarma, I could sit under the fan and cool off :) The man who sells shwarmas is getting quite familiar with me - at least once a week, I wander down to the corner for one of the best versions of Jb "fast food". For a mere $2, you get a hamburger bun, stuffed with meat and tomatoes, topped with a sort of sticky "ketchup" and mayonnaise. Delicious. Once in a while you get a little bone shard in the meat, and I normally only get them for lunch, when they are selling too many for the flies to settle for too long on the meat... We're not talking home quality shwarma, but, hey, this is Jb, and I will take any kind of "fast food" that someone will make for me!
On that note, another wonderful thing was that I got invited to a neighbour's house for dinner! Yum! She's Chinese, so we had amazing stir-fried veggies with shredded chicken and amazing garlic, ginger and onion sauce. Amazing. Normally, I'm not a fan of a lot of ginger, but this sauce - amazing. It's always great to see what other people come up with to cook with the same kinds of available ingredients here.
And last, but not least... my shower is no longer dripping! After 8 months of a dripping shower head, and a bathroom that never, ever dried out (neither the shower nor the surrounding floor, next to the toilet). The shower drip was fixed yesterday, and, wow. Amazing. So not only did I have a shower with the light on, I showered in a dry, clean bathroom! And since the floor was actually dry, I could use a shower mat when I stepped out of the shower, which meant that the bottoms of my feet also actually got dry.
And the best part of the shower fixing... It was fixed up by this guy:
Yup, our new handy-guy here on the compound is the spitting image of Red Green. I kid you not - he even SOUNDS like Red Green. I heard his voice outside my office the other day... and I swore someone was watching Red Green. So, I think we're going to have a good time with maintenance on the compound for the next few months!
The electricity was on this morning when I got up! I could make coffee using my fancy schmancy electric little espresso pot, which was bequeathed to me last month by a visiting linguist. Gotta love those visiting linguists sometimes! (Not that I don't love the bodum which was also bequeathed to me, but, a girl needs options once in a while, doesn't she?)
And, I took a shower with the lights on! And, just because I could, I dug out a hairdryer and actually blow-dried my hair before going to the office this morning. Just because I could. The electricity stayed on, so when I came back from the corner at lunch time, all hot and sweaty from the walk to the corner to buy a shwarma, I could sit under the fan and cool off :) The man who sells shwarmas is getting quite familiar with me - at least once a week, I wander down to the corner for one of the best versions of Jb "fast food". For a mere $2, you get a hamburger bun, stuffed with meat and tomatoes, topped with a sort of sticky "ketchup" and mayonnaise. Delicious. Once in a while you get a little bone shard in the meat, and I normally only get them for lunch, when they are selling too many for the flies to settle for too long on the meat... We're not talking home quality shwarma, but, hey, this is Jb, and I will take any kind of "fast food" that someone will make for me!
On that note, another wonderful thing was that I got invited to a neighbour's house for dinner! Yum! She's Chinese, so we had amazing stir-fried veggies with shredded chicken and amazing garlic, ginger and onion sauce. Amazing. Normally, I'm not a fan of a lot of ginger, but this sauce - amazing. It's always great to see what other people come up with to cook with the same kinds of available ingredients here.
And last, but not least... my shower is no longer dripping! After 8 months of a dripping shower head, and a bathroom that never, ever dried out (neither the shower nor the surrounding floor, next to the toilet). The shower drip was fixed yesterday, and, wow. Amazing. So not only did I have a shower with the light on, I showered in a dry, clean bathroom! And since the floor was actually dry, I could use a shower mat when I stepped out of the shower, which meant that the bottoms of my feet also actually got dry.
And the best part of the shower fixing... It was fixed up by this guy:
Yup, our new handy-guy here on the compound is the spitting image of Red Green. I kid you not - he even SOUNDS like Red Green. I heard his voice outside my office the other day... and I swore someone was watching Red Green. So, I think we're going to have a good time with maintenance on the compound for the next few months!
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