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This might be a boring post - we spent most of the time since the last post asleep! Haha! Just warning ya...
LOL
I am enjoying this so much. Maggie and Chris are so patient with us as we examine and compare every last tiny detail of our lives. highlight this morning was Carol asking all these questions about their eggs and the ensuing discussion about free range, barn laid, and other words that may be useless when deciding what eggs to buy. Apparently brown eggs cost about twice as much as white eggs do here!
Had an AWESOME dinner last night of oven baked salmon, brown rice and vegies (corn, zucchini, squash in a cheese and stock based sauce) and it was just so divine. The salmon literally melted on my tongue, the herbs just perfect and the vegies a really lovely complement. The dog here loves raw zucchini! We sat around and chatted until about 8:30ish local time and then headed bedwards. carol managed to sleep in until a respectable one o clockish in the afternoon. I got up at around 11.
Today there is the possibility of heaps of things. There was a harvest festival at a farmer's market, but it was around 12ish when we found out about it, and we figured we wouldn't be able to make that, so we might try for it tomorrow. Otherwise there's all sorts of interesting and amazing things to check out, and hopefully we'll try and buy some more clothes while we're out. If we don't, then we don't, I refuse to stress out about it. I might be daggy but they'll be clean, so whatevs.
I have had all sorts of writing ideas, which I have let just dissipate. just the usual questions, like 'why DID we evolve to be on land when two thirds of the earth is water? Wouldnt it make more sense to remain in the sea?" and some others I have lost already. I don't worry about it though; I am more pleased with my questioning mind starting to come back and examine things and wonder 'what's the story?'
I actually kind of enjoyed the 36 hour flight/travel to get here. I could think as much as I liked, and I can buy what I needed when I needed it, and I had a sort of freedom in that I didn't have to look after any one else much. Carol and I worked together and would tuch base, but if i needed to do something, I could just do it and trust Carol to be OK. So I spent a lot of time inwards. If I wasn't asleep, I was often pretending to be, and allowing my thoughts to spiral downwards into slowness before sleep. Processing time, i guess!
I am wearing my jeans and a tshirt today, ready for anything. It's nearly 2, and I expect Carol will be out of the shower soon, and then we'll be on our way!
My hands are still peeling. I feel like I am leaving a trail behind me - hand skin, excess hair. It's disgusting but interesting at the same time, and I know that if I didn't show people my hands they wouldn't even notice. So I should probably stop doing that, right?? Anyay, my hands are starting to get better, yay! I was a tad worried about the whole finger printing thing, since all ten of my fingers skin lifted only a week or so ago... but there were no problems.
Off to find my hand cream, have fun peeps!
LOL
I am enjoying this so much. Maggie and Chris are so patient with us as we examine and compare every last tiny detail of our lives. highlight this morning was Carol asking all these questions about their eggs and the ensuing discussion about free range, barn laid, and other words that may be useless when deciding what eggs to buy. Apparently brown eggs cost about twice as much as white eggs do here!
Had an AWESOME dinner last night of oven baked salmon, brown rice and vegies (corn, zucchini, squash in a cheese and stock based sauce) and it was just so divine. The salmon literally melted on my tongue, the herbs just perfect and the vegies a really lovely complement. The dog here loves raw zucchini! We sat around and chatted until about 8:30ish local time and then headed bedwards. carol managed to sleep in until a respectable one o clockish in the afternoon. I got up at around 11.
Today there is the possibility of heaps of things. There was a harvest festival at a farmer's market, but it was around 12ish when we found out about it, and we figured we wouldn't be able to make that, so we might try for it tomorrow. Otherwise there's all sorts of interesting and amazing things to check out, and hopefully we'll try and buy some more clothes while we're out. If we don't, then we don't, I refuse to stress out about it. I might be daggy but they'll be clean, so whatevs.
I have had all sorts of writing ideas, which I have let just dissipate. just the usual questions, like 'why DID we evolve to be on land when two thirds of the earth is water? Wouldnt it make more sense to remain in the sea?" and some others I have lost already. I don't worry about it though; I am more pleased with my questioning mind starting to come back and examine things and wonder 'what's the story?'
I actually kind of enjoyed the 36 hour flight/travel to get here. I could think as much as I liked, and I can buy what I needed when I needed it, and I had a sort of freedom in that I didn't have to look after any one else much. Carol and I worked together and would tuch base, but if i needed to do something, I could just do it and trust Carol to be OK. So I spent a lot of time inwards. If I wasn't asleep, I was often pretending to be, and allowing my thoughts to spiral downwards into slowness before sleep. Processing time, i guess!
I am wearing my jeans and a tshirt today, ready for anything. It's nearly 2, and I expect Carol will be out of the shower soon, and then we'll be on our way!
My hands are still peeling. I feel like I am leaving a trail behind me - hand skin, excess hair. It's disgusting but interesting at the same time, and I know that if I didn't show people my hands they wouldn't even notice. So I should probably stop doing that, right?? Anyay, my hands are starting to get better, yay! I was a tad worried about the whole finger printing thing, since all ten of my fingers skin lifted only a week or so ago... but there were no problems.
Off to find my hand cream, have fun peeps!
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Date: 2011-10-23 12:43 am (UTC)From:This question is answered really well, and understandably, in David Attenborough's First Life series that came out in 2010. But basically, 'everything was in the sea, then a couple of creatures were like, hey, there is this completely uninhabited environment with a ton of algal food that NO ONE is eaten, and I won't get hunted by anything! I'm going to develop the ability to partially breathe oxygen from air and I'm SO THERE you guyz!' And that's how it started.
But you know, everyone follows a trendsetter. :)
So glad you're having a great time!
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Date: 2011-10-23 02:41 am (UTC)From:*LOVELOVELOVELOVE* You sound so carefree and chirpy - it is lovely to hear!