my kitchen smells a little smokey

Saturday I was cooking beans to go alongside the tastey corn bread muffins I just baked. While they were cooking I was in the bedroom skyping with E and Ray ray...they are so adorable! Anyways I started to smell smoke so I hurried to the kitchen to find very black beans in a very black pot...They were WAY beyond burnt - that stinkin' Mouse!

What have we become???...

There is a mouse in our house, and for some reason on this particular week of all weeks I do not care so much...I actually am using the little guy for my benefit - he will be my scape goat for the next month!
Example (imaginary) scenarios: (and a small glimpse into the strange workings of my brain)
Z: "Hey honey where is the cash that was in my pocket?"
Me: "I don't know, maybe the mouse took it"
...or...
Z: "Man! why are my pants all wrinkly?"
Me: "Hmmm, the mouse must have walked all over them"
...or...
Z: "Who left their dirty dish in the sink?"
Me: "geeze, Lazy Mouse!"
I'll let you know if the 'mouse' excuses work.

here's another glimpse of what Curry Land is doing to us...
Today Z and I were going to language class, like any normal day...jumped on the bike and zipped through traffic. Unlike any normal day Z ran a red light... I was shocked and exclaim, "You just ran that light!" Z's response "What are you talking about, there isn't a light at that intersection." Later I proved that there indeed was a light.
So this week we have become Rodent loving red light runners

Super Bug

Recently Curry Land has been in the news...a couple of Brittish doctors found a 'Super' bacteria in the hospitals here that is resistant to antibiotics. Some of my Curry Land friends have told me that the Brittish doctors made the whole thing up...I will let you decide for yourself - the photo below is taken from a hospital where we live...this is the room they use for surgeries.

New dish

Tonight we were served "Leg"...I think it was the leg of a goat (???) and like most animal legs there was not much meat on it...the 'leg' was cooked for 6 hours in a pressure cooker...nothing was left out - bone, ligaments, cartilage and marrow
...ah, the wonders of a pressure cooker; what seems impossible to sink ones teeth into becomes edible. Whether or not one should be eating bone, ligaments, cartilage, or marrow is very debatable - but then again I am almost positive that you can find most of these 'leg' parts in American hot dogs.

the Greenery

We are home and all the rain has contributed to green, lush trees and grass...such a beautiful sight to see.
Unfortunately there was also green mold growing on the walls and decorative baskets inside our bedroom...

it smells like Curry Land

We just landed from our flight...we were warmly welcomed to a new international terminal - it was very clean and bright but it did not have that "new car" smell...shall I say that other smells were overwhelming the new terminal aroma :) We will make the taxi journey in the morning. It is midnight and I should be sleeping but instead I am pondering what awaits me at our house. A friend gave us fore warning that it has been raining a lot...remember my blog post about the field that became a lake overnight...so while we have been gone it has been raining here for a MONTH! So tonight I will mentally prepare for the worst, hope for the best...and then let you know the strange, hilarious, or crazy outcome. And if there is not a strange, hilarious, or crazy outcome then HALLELUJAH!

nomad days...

hasta lueago nomad days...today we are starting the journey to our Curry Land #1 home. The journey home involves a 9 hour overnight bus, a 6 hour international flight, and then a 3 hour taxi... Teleportation would be nice.

WORK

Yesterday and today Z and I hunkered down at a coffee shop to accomplish WORK... While Z is intently focused on work... I procrastinate and...

• people watch
• get up every twenty minutes for either bathroom or water breaks
• and my favorite, Doodle

Here are my latest works:

I designed our Christmas card for this year

I wonder if there are any career prospects in professional doodling...

perspective

I took this picture outside a Buddhist temple. It is an artists rendering of hell.

update

we are still traveling around Curry Land #2 like nomads.

• we have visited four different cities,
• taken three overnight buses,
• eaten a plethora of international cuisines,
• and shopped until Z has forbid me from spending money.

Z sweeps me off my feet :)