THE 1ST OF JUNE

Finally. FINALLY. Finally, here it is - today - the 1st of June. And a post that I procrastinated with (about) all the while the weekend was passing into oblivion. An awesome weekend. Thank you. Managed to even sneak in a rest day too. Gotta like that.

Today's photo: Just another Balikpapan scene. Ankot - are all the little buses we have here in town. Yellow, blue and green. (possible more colours too - but these are the only ones I've ever seen) For a minimal amount of rupiah, one can get around all over town in these. And most times, rather tightly fit in.

Ok, so lets get back up to speed and updated on all the goings on around here over the last few days. Let's start with those horrible things I shall refer to as cookies.

Cookies: So what should (could) have been (peanut butter chocolate chip) turned out to be - little round blobs (an indeterminate mass) of dried out cookie dough with too much butter and bits of chocolate chip and oatmeal in-between. Yuck! Honestly, no person on earth can actually ever eat these things.

So over the weekend me and the other Me secretly conspired a plan to get rid of the horrid little things. Secretly, as neither me nor the other Me have the heart to tell the housekeeper how bad these things really are. She's actually a fabulous cook, and we certainly don't want to ever discourage that. Her talent in cooking real things. So, later this afternoon - the other Me is going to take a BIG bag FULL of them to the office and find an unsuspecting waste bin to drop them in.

Happy Birthday(s): This should really have preceded cookies on my list. Happy Birthday to a couple of my favorite people. The first happy birthday wish, goes to my youngest sister (like the way I got the young part in?) - and the second goes to someone celebrating Happy Birthday #10!

Friday lunch & coffee: That replayed and extended itself into the wee hours of the evening. I shall just say great. My newest favorite thing. Udung Mayonaise. (udung = prawns = big shimp) Yum! Makes up for the horrible cookies.

Fish 1 and Fish 3: All good. No longer are they swimming circles - in the new aquarium, they prefer the formidable task of swimming laps it seems.

The situation with cats: So over the weekend 2 big Tom cats showed up at our place. Caterwauling unsterilized Toms cruising for queens. Thank god (?) for inventing the garden hose and quite possibly bad cookies.

And this just in. Some people - really - just don't have enough to occupy their time with. Check this out.

TODAY: Still dealing with the problems related to the AC! Rather ACs. Yes the problem has now escalated to more than just the original one.

..... and off to see the travel agent again. Tomorrow, I'll have more info and will fill you all in.

Good to Go!

TGIF

TGIF!

Yesterday was a very busy day! Good day yesterday. Got all the stuff done that I should have done and then some.

All is good in the Aquarium.

The other Me made it home.

And the cat came back. Guess she likes us after all.

Curiosity Thought: Who buys the fake car antennas for sale at the Hero Store and why?

TODAY: Peanut Butter Cookie Day. Perhaps? Not sure how's she's doing it but the housekeeper this morning is making peanut butter cookies - just noticed she's got the wrong recipe. Hmmmm

Meeting up with girls this morning for yummy coffees somewhere (?) and then lunch after that.

So gotta go. Happy weekend!

Good to Go!

WHAT WAS I THINKING?

Ok, this whole keeping fish as pets thing is turning into a bloody mess. What was I thinking?

So what started out as an inexpensive fish bowl and two tiny little fish - has now turned into ............ first a new replacement fish, and then yesterday, an actual aquarium to keep them in, a pump for the new said aquarium, special water for the aquarium and a jerry can to haul the special water in. A splitter wall receptacle thingy for the plug-in, and now believe it it or not, I still need an electrical extension cord to actually plug it all in. Which and of course, in Balikpapan - you can't actually buy one of them. You have to build it. Some electrical cable and two ends.

........ and, now that we have an aquarium, slightly bigger than the original fish bowl we started with - I just have this feeling, when the other Me gets back into town, we're going to end up heading out this weekend and getting more fish.

What was I thinking?

A couple other things: The cat that is (was) attached to our house, is so fed up with with all the rest of the little ones that keep hanging about. She's pretty much moved out. Found a new house to hang at for awhile - but at least she comes for a visit every now and then.

A huge fire in Balikpapan Tuesday night. In Kampung Baru Ujung. Way on the other side of town - where the houses are mostly built from wood and very, very tightly packed in. Where one house fire very quickly and easily almost immediately turns into 10. Last count I heard was 100.

TODAY: I'm busy. Busy with a whole bunch of stuff.

And here's an interesting thing, something that came in my in-box this morning.

IRONY AT ITS BEST
90 people get the Swine Flu and everybody wants to wear a mask.
Millions of people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.

Hmmmm. Thanks for reading everyone.

Good to Go!