Didn't venture beyond the gate today except to put the rubbish out. Was nice to chill out & potter..one of my flatmates went to the laundromat to do his washing but I declined the offer to go & did mine by hand at home instead..partly to sleep in, partly to save money & partly because my other flatmate had witnessed a driveby murder occur there one time.. so reckon washing by hand is a winner.. it has been raining on & off which has been great in helping to keep the temperatures down to bearable..interesting to note that the houses here don't tend to have glass windows..but rather they have wider eaves above to deflect the rain, as well as louvres on the outside for shade & privacy, and mesh on the inside to keep the mozzies & insects out..not that I have seen any..not even a single fly..there was one cockroach in the house today which my flatmate was surprised about cause he hadn't seen one inside here before...the mesh windows & doors tend to keep things like that out.. the little lizards outside are cute though, I see them scuttling about all the time..they can move pretty quick..am yet to see an actual native frog although I can constantly hear them ..at least they are nice to listen to..seemed like all the dogs in the neighbourhood had a bark-athon this morning..people keep them as security..and when you pass by people's houses you see themvpeering through the locked gates..people tend to keep their gates locked, even when they are home..I certainly felt safer knowing no-one else could get in when I was home alone at times today..actually, I haven't been game yet to venture out without at least one of my flatmates.. they said even they wouldn't be game to venture out late at night..kinda makes you think about our luxury lifestyle back home in Motueka & other parts of NZ where we take it for granted to be able to go wherever, whenever, even on our own..on that note I'm off to bed..after 5 a.m over here..still got that body-clock to adjust for the new time-zone! Hasta luego (Until later) Un abrazo (hug) Buenos noches (goodnight) Me :-) x
Not that I ever buy this for myself in NZ but brought kiwifruit chocolate over here thinking that Puerto Ricans wouldn't know what a kiwifruit was..turns out they import them from the U.S ...weird thing is that I have eaten 3 of them this week..which is 3 more than I'd have eaten in the past 12 months!..the things have sat for weeks uneaten in the fruitbowl at home until they look so shrivelled & unedible that they get thrown out..crazy that now I have the urge to eat them simply cause they remind me of NZ! The other urge I had today was cleaning! Must be that nesting instinct..moved furniture round, swept & mopped..(can't remember the last time my place back home got so much TLC).. even weeded the garden here! .. all the while thinking of my poor garden back home I have neglected now for several months..what is with that, aye?..psychologists could have a field day analyzing the human behaviour of slacking off in your own back yard & then sprucing up someone else's..kinda reminds me of when a friend told me how my son would help fold washing when he visited at her house..I choked with laughter at the time cause my son's washing had been piled high on the armchair at home for days waiting for him to attend to it! Ahh..must be I'm missing my babies & went into mother overdrive today.. I even cooked dinner & made a pizza from scratch..(I usually hate to cook)..that's it..wow, just figured it out by myself, no other analysis needed!
Didn't venture beyond the gate today except to put the rubbish out. Was nice to chill out & potter..one of my flatmates went to the laundromat to do his washing but I declined the offer to go & did mine by hand at home instead..partly to sleep in, partly to save money & partly because my other flatmate had witnessed a driveby murder occur there one time.. so reckon washing by hand is a winner.. it has been raining on & off which has been great in helping to keep the temperatures down to bearable..interesting to note that the houses here don't tend to have glass windows..but rather they have wider eaves above to deflect the rain, as well as louvres on the outside for shade & privacy, and mesh on the inside to keep the mozzies & insects out..not that I have seen any..not even a single fly..there was one cockroach in the house today which my flatmate was surprised about cause he hadn't seen one inside here before...the mesh windows & doors tend to keep things like that out.. the little lizards outside are cute though, I see them scuttling about all the time..they can move pretty quick..am yet to see an actual native frog although I can constantly hear them ..at least they are nice to listen to..seemed like all the dogs in the neighbourhood had a bark-athon this morning..people keep them as security..and when you pass by people's houses you see themvpeering through the locked gates..people tend to keep their gates locked, even when they are home..I certainly felt safer knowing no-one else could get in when I was home alone at times today..actually, I haven't been game yet to venture out without at least one of my flatmates.. they said even they wouldn't be game to venture out late at night..kinda makes you think about our luxury lifestyle back home in Motueka & other parts of NZ where we take it for granted to be able to go wherever, whenever, even on our own..on that note I'm off to bed..after 5 a.m over here..still got that body-clock to adjust for the new time-zone! Hasta luego (Until later) Un abrazo (hug) Buenos noches (goodnight) Me :-) x
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