Today is election day. Also a holiday for all the children in the neighborhood- which means I had little success getting mine to stay inside and do their schoolwork today. They did a little this morning. But right now, there are about 8 children on my porch playing with Demetri’s CSI forensic entomology kit. What does a bug kit have to do with CSI? As nearly as I can tell, nothing...just hype to help make the kids want to buy the product. Anyway, my kids, and all the neighborhood kids, seem to love it! They’ve been catching insects and studying them for days now, from the time everyone gets home from school till dinnertime or dark, whichever comes first.
Okay, yeah, that was this morning. As for this evening, I don’t have anything nice to say about the election, fellow Americans, etc. Really. Nothing. So we’ll end it there. Oh, except that Olie said to me this morning, “I vote for Jesus!” High point of the day.
Xander is teething. His gums are swollen, he has a high fever, and he alternated between crying and sleeping on my lap all day. Well, this is the second day. Poor baby. No sleep, getting nothing done, all the normal stuff for teething time.
Demetri made dinner, mostly. They are going to learn how to cook if they have to live at home until they are 30. Okay, so I’ll probably kick them out before that. But they will know how to cook...and launder clothes...and clean, etc. They each have a night to make dinner again. Amazing how hard it is to get back into the groove after you’ve been traveling for a while. We’re getting there.
I’m winning the war. Every cockroach I’ve seen in the last 2 days has been dead. That puts a smile on my face. But, lest they should break through the ranks, I must not become complacent and slack off! At least it keeps the house clean.
I have been called to cub scouts. Again. For the third time- and so far, in every place I have lived in the past 4 years. I should give in and buy the uniform this time, and accept that I’ll probably be in cub scouts for the next 10 years or more.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
A Once-lazy housewife turned Neatfreak...for all the wrong reasons :(
Okay this post was written a few days ago...I will update again tonight if it kills me! Well, if it maims me?
Since last I wrote life has been full of...well, life. I shall expound. First, we moved into our house. We like it very much. The one thing I have found that is difficult to deal with (besides the other terrible thing, which will be addressed later) is that we live right off a major road and the noise is unbelievably loud at all times, but especially at night. Part of that is due to the slat-style windows which make these houses more like huts in my opinion but are great for allowing the trade winds to breeze through your entire domain. I have been assured that we will get used to the traffic and eventually be able to sleep. This is encouraging, as I have been contemplating boarding up all my windows. :) Beware, all you who are thinking of coming to visit. Bring earplugs.
But there are good things also. My favorite is having a washer and dryer in my house again. They have been missed terribly. More than an entire kitchen, or yard, or anything else I can think of that I missed. I like having a second bathroom. I like having a yard- even if it is the size of a closet. I like my neighbors, and that my kids can run around on the huge expanse of grass in front of the house. I like the friends they are making here. And I absolutely love living directly across from the church (also the stake center). My ward is great, and I adore the stake choir I am in. (There’s an orchestra yo )
Other events have included buying hundreds and hundreds of dollars of food and supplies to stock fridge, pantry, laundry room, etc; surviving our first tsunami warning (complete with the entire stake center full of people from evacuation areas) and learning about the dynamics of the homeless here (whole nother world); and encountering cockroaches for the first time in Hawaii. In my HOUSE. The new cockroach alarm is my blood curdling scream, shriek, or whooping and hollering “Kill it! ” So far I have seen seven. Four of them were alive (someone must have sprayed before we were here). I am now armed and getting ready for battle. I am reading everything I can get my hands on about roach eradication, and I have Raid, traps, cleaners, and I’m learning tons more. This event has marked a serious change in the way life goes around here. All food is put in the fridge, down to the crackers and cornmeal, unless it is in a sealed, hard container. No dishes are left in the sink overnight. The floors are swept and mopped twice a day, after breakfast and dinner. There is nothing on my counters, and they are sanitized with bleach water morning and night. All pots, pans, silverware, cooking utensils, plates, etc. are in sealed containers. Yes, I hate cockroaches that much. Plus one of the sighted creatures was in my silverware drawer, and I just about gagged. Then I washed everything, and made a note to buy waayyyy more of those new tupperware sets at Costco. It’s been keeping me rather busy.
In other news, the baby has picked climbing the stairs as his entertainment of choice, Demetri started cub scouts again, and we have tried four different times to buy a car. You know, sometimes craigslist can be creepy instead of helpful. And it’s annoying to have long conversations with someone who never intended to actually meet with you and show you their car. We have internet :), and decent reception at our house, unlike in California.
Since last I wrote life has been full of...well, life. I shall expound. First, we moved into our house. We like it very much. The one thing I have found that is difficult to deal with (besides the other terrible thing, which will be addressed later) is that we live right off a major road and the noise is unbelievably loud at all times, but especially at night. Part of that is due to the slat-style windows which make these houses more like huts in my opinion but are great for allowing the trade winds to breeze through your entire domain. I have been assured that we will get used to the traffic and eventually be able to sleep. This is encouraging, as I have been contemplating boarding up all my windows. :) Beware, all you who are thinking of coming to visit. Bring earplugs.
But there are good things also. My favorite is having a washer and dryer in my house again. They have been missed terribly. More than an entire kitchen, or yard, or anything else I can think of that I missed. I like having a second bathroom. I like having a yard- even if it is the size of a closet. I like my neighbors, and that my kids can run around on the huge expanse of grass in front of the house. I like the friends they are making here. And I absolutely love living directly across from the church (also the stake center). My ward is great, and I adore the stake choir I am in. (There’s an orchestra yo )
Other events have included buying hundreds and hundreds of dollars of food and supplies to stock fridge, pantry, laundry room, etc; surviving our first tsunami warning (complete with the entire stake center full of people from evacuation areas) and learning about the dynamics of the homeless here (whole nother world); and encountering cockroaches for the first time in Hawaii. In my HOUSE. The new cockroach alarm is my blood curdling scream, shriek, or whooping and hollering “Kill it! ” So far I have seen seven. Four of them were alive (someone must have sprayed before we were here). I am now armed and getting ready for battle. I am reading everything I can get my hands on about roach eradication, and I have Raid, traps, cleaners, and I’m learning tons more. This event has marked a serious change in the way life goes around here. All food is put in the fridge, down to the crackers and cornmeal, unless it is in a sealed, hard container. No dishes are left in the sink overnight. The floors are swept and mopped twice a day, after breakfast and dinner. There is nothing on my counters, and they are sanitized with bleach water morning and night. All pots, pans, silverware, cooking utensils, plates, etc. are in sealed containers. Yes, I hate cockroaches that much. Plus one of the sighted creatures was in my silverware drawer, and I just about gagged. Then I washed everything, and made a note to buy waayyyy more of those new tupperware sets at Costco. It’s been keeping me rather busy.
In other news, the baby has picked climbing the stairs as his entertainment of choice, Demetri started cub scouts again, and we have tried four different times to buy a car. You know, sometimes craigslist can be creepy instead of helpful. And it’s annoying to have long conversations with someone who never intended to actually meet with you and show you their car. We have internet :), and decent reception at our house, unlike in California.
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