Only Dogs Can Hear

Facebook Friday

What a week!  There was an epic field visit.  I was slightly annoyed given that a longer visit would have given us more opportunity to see alternative sites and to visit a Peace Corps Volunteer, but these decisions are not always mine to make.  In other news, I'm off to Nairobi for a week.  I'm very sad to be leaving K, but super happy about being in the land of Pilsner and no Diet Coke shortages...and no fuel shortages...and cheese...and plus it's Nairobi.  Yey!

Enjoy Facebook Friday!

1. Realizing that I'm having a hard time writing a relaxed wedding speech when I write very formally. It's sort of like when I did forensics in high school, and I would read all of my poetry with a British accent without meaning to. I'm just classy like that.
2. I just clicked "like" on my own FB status update. It was so imbued with self-pity that I figured I needed a little pat on the back. In retrospect, chocolate would be more effective.
3. If you repeat "Punk ass" over and over again, its remarkably similar to a douchey Club beat. In fact, throw a "Douche" in there every so often to really make Ed Hardy proud. "Punk ass. Punk ass. Punk ass. Punk ass DOUCHE! Punk ass DOUCHE! Punk ass. Punk ass. Punk ass...."
4. Kid: "Do you say Twenty-Eleven or Two Thousand and Eleven?" Me: "Usually just Two Thousand Eleven, no 'and'." Kid: "So what are you going to say in 2100? Two Thousand One Hundred???" Me: "I hate to brake it to you, but that's 89 years from now. If I'm saying anything its BOO! or BRAAAINS!"

Have a great weekend!

 

Facebook Friday

So another two weeks gone.  Can barely believe how time flies when you're sort of having fun between trips to the vet and minor heart attacks over jockeying for new job postings.  I will say that Facebook has been exciting during this period.  Hope you enjoy!

• I'm sorry, has Sookie always been that skinny? That's not okay.
• So, is it safe to trust an insurance company who has asked us on two occasions whether it was myself or my husband who had the C-section?
• This election year is going to be interesting. Dear, GOP Candidates..lets play, "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shut the Fuck Up!" Find a candidate! You are an active Blooper Reel.
• Steve Jobs resigned because of health reasons...probably got a virus
• "If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never spent the night with a mosquito.” 
• Unsettled by the stubble on the toilet seat at work.
• Just suddenly realized how glad I am that facebook didn't exist when I was into the 'bar scene'. *shudders*

I have to say I'm unsettled by the stubble on the toilet seat at his work too.  I mean, I know where he works...

Have a great weekend!

Facebook Friday

Just so you know, K arrived back from Pretoria yesterday slightly worse for the wear.  If you ever want to discuss the specifics of chemical cauterization inside the nose and sinuses, K is the guy to contact. 

Enjoy Facebook Friday!

1. Cat escapee this morning. Not a great start to the day. Who would've thought that Whiskers could drag her considerable mass up and over the fence! Both cat and fence are fine but maybe time to stop her diet.
2. I know you have a policy on not reading the comments, but these comments use the sentence "How did we get the right amount of gravity?" and also suggest that reading the Bible will cure Stephen Hawking.
3. Deep fried twix bar....BOMB!!!!
4. The best part of waking up isn't folgers in your cup. It's knowing where you are and how you got there.
5. Going to literally make hay while the sun shines this afternoon.
6. *disclaimer* Unless otherwise specified...assume I'm typing in a font Called "sarcasm". Thank you, that's all.
7. Just got served. Seems another John Jones is getting sued. Can't wait to see how much of a headache this mistake will become.
8. Our office phone has not been working for a few days, apparently because of the rain. We reported the issue at the beginning of the week and called back today to find out what is going on. We were told that nothing has been done as they couldn't contact us on our office phone.......

Have a great weekend!

Seven and a half hours

That's how long K's nose bled. No joke. What the hell?

Facebook Friday

Let's see how this goes.

1. I'm flipping between the GOP Debate and Big Brother and I've come to a conclusion: America, you shouldn't be allowed to vote for ANYTHING!
2. Last day of internship and the topic of water cooler conversation is about the city's porn and strip club establishments and the people that come in for licensing. All part of my education...
3. Tell the devil I said hey when you get back to where you're from..
4. My 4 year old saw a picture of someone clutching his head on Wall Street today and asked what was making him hurt. I told him the same things that meant I would be living in his basement eating gruel in about twenty-five years.
5. Naperville water doesn't taste as good as Denver water. Granted, there're no earwigs in Naperville water.
6. You know your 7 year old daughter is hanging out in sports camp with the boys a bit too much when she sees a man take a spill on tv and responds, "Oh man, that must have hurt his nut." I had to quickly stop my snort-like guffaw at the shock of it and tell her why that was not appropriate on so many levels.

Have a great weekend!

 

There's always a bleeder at my house

Seriously.  If it's not Honey, then it's K.  He gets up this morning and blows his nose.  And the bleeding starts.  It's so bad that he stays behind while I walk the dog.  She's all down in the mouth because she hates it when we don't all do absolutely everything together (so cute), so she keeps stopping to check behind us just in case he's trying to catch up to us somehow.  We get back and it's like a full on horror movie in the bathroom.  Blood all over the sink and toilet.  He looks like a bad vampire cliche.  After an hour of this, I finally convince him we need to go to the medical unit.  We go.  They get him all set up with the proper pinching technique and we wait for another 40 minutes or so for it to clot.  He's now been bleeding for 2 hours.  At the 3 hour mark I finally had to leave him there and come to work.  Before I abandoned him to the care of Kay and Ruth, he looked up at me with his bloody and dripping face (man that beard holds a lot of blood) and told me he didn't think he could do the shopping today.  In fact, maybe today is a sick day for K.  Lucky.

Best Malawian Name Yet

Forwarded by a friend at work:

See below for the BEST Malawian name ever.

Hi Karolyn,

Our driver, McTonic Chembe, will come pick up the letters.  I will send him now.

Thanks!

Toni

Facebook Friday

Happy Friday! And what a week...phew.  K was in the far south of the country working, just came home this afternoon.  It's so hard when he's away.  Neither of us sleeps very well apart.  And of course there's all the missing and loneliness.  Sigh.

Work was bizarre too.  There was a staff retreat, exhausting, fruitful the first day, frustrating the second.  I had kind of a bad week in terms of my work.  K and I both knew there would be good and bad moments.  But I even think he had a week where he thought, maybe there's something else we could be doing.  

We'll figure it all out.  I'm sure.

Enjoy Facebook Friday! 

1. Beth hopes she will never find myself in this position... But really...Your plane is crashing and you tape it on your phone????
2. Danielle would like everyone to know that insanity runs in my family, it practically gallops.
3. Fran crawled back into bed and is waiting to be struck by energy. Might be waiting forever.
4. Lilly thinks if you start your 1st email to me with "My husbands the one who wanted children" I won't be getting back to you any time soon. Additional emails are doing you no good.
5. Todd can't believe the shit that comes out of my mouth somedays. I'm such a class act.

Have a great weekend!

Facebook Friday

It's friday!  So happy!  It's been a really good week with lots of interesting stuff at work.  Save the 3 hours I spent with the acting head of the show here.  Just reminds me that I'm just not a 'joiner' in any way.  Nothing to be done about it.

Enjoy Facebook Friday! (no need to join anything here)

1. Mike is...uh...40...but I feel like it's the new 20...
2. Liz's doctor tells me like it's good news that I've got 5 or 6 yearsbefore I can't read with my glasses. Nothing like an optimistic optometrist.
3. Annie is wondering, do motivational posters belong in bathrooms? My vote is no.
4. Joe heard, while dropping Liam off at school, random mother to son> "Have a good day! Remember to keep your clothes on!"

Have a great weekend!

Carrot Cake

Ok, since we've been here, with the quiet and the sleepiness of this lovely city, we do things like have dinner parties.  Sounds silly right?  It's really not though.  And in keeping with the dinner party theme I'm back to baking.  Cakes, cookies (which I took to the doctor when he removed my stitches a couple of weeks ago), fruit pie things.  One of the nice benefits of the housing here is the American stove/oven with fahrenheit settings on it (makes me feel so spoiled).  So for the party last night I made a carrot cake from the cook book Recipes from America's Small Farms.  Yum.   I left out the raisins and used raw almonds instead of walnuts.  But the absolute best part was the cream cheese frosting recipe, that worked out because I actually found creme cheese here!  I want to eat that frosting 3 meals/day for the next 2 years.  Sigh.  Oh, and that cook book is awesome.