We're moving...

except we haven't been planning on moving so it is all kind of last minute. Yesterday was a really strange day... our landlord came over (that hasn't happened in months!) and he brought people with him who were house hunting...they liked the house and want to buy it from our landlord. We didn't even know he was looking to sell the house...so ergo, we have to move.
Today was a strange day too. R told us that on Wednesday she is going back to the city she is from and will not be coming back to work for our landlord or for us...mainly she wants to leave her job with our landlord...but, she LOVES us, she was crying while she told us and we will dearly miss her too.
So very soon I will be in a new house and will not have R by my side...I foresee some dark days ahead...or at least really grimy dirty days because houses here are icky at first and take a lot of work to make them livable, and of course no R to help get rid of dirt and grime.

From my man :)

PROTECTOR

A couple of weeks ago there was a special holiday between brothers and sisters...sisters would give their brothers bracelets like the ones pictured below, these bracelets are supposed to protect the wearer, and in return the wearer protects the giver.

Z is my Protector so I decided to give him one...

This bracelet screams 'if you mess with my lady I will break your face!'...you think anyone will want a round house kick to the face while Z is wearing this bad boy? Don' think so.

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.