time passes differently when there aren't seasons.

Finally taped my pictures on the wall. Feels more like my house is mine. Its personalized and full of love and memories. And Sugar, without him I would just be talking to myself.

Yesterday I found a baby frog underneath my bed. I trapped him in a cup and took him outside. Then I found a cockroach twice the size of the baby frog hiding in my toiletries and I killed him with my flipflop. My murderous streak really has no rhyme or reason.

I have taken to spraying the ants with disinfectant because I ran out of Raid - its not nearly as effective. Did you know that ants here bite? I mean, I was well aware of that fact, but its one thing to have ants biting your feet when you are outside in their turf and another to have ants biting your hands when you reach in your purse. (They had discovered who knows what because there is no food in my purse)

Sugar yips and pretend chews food in his sleep. He also gets me out of bed at 6-7am. He puts his paws on my bed and whines until I get out of bed. At first I thought he just wanted to go outside and use the bathroom, but I have since discovered that he just is lonely and wants someone to play with. Well get ready pups, because once we have a kitten in the house I think you are going to miss your quiet alone time. Sugar was also refusing to eat rice and beans, which stunk because that is what he is getting for like 80% of his meals. I bought some dog food, buts its expensive and rice and beans are not. But I have since learned that his tastes are just finicky. Its not that he doesn't like rice and beans, he just doesn't like cold rice and beans. *Give me some blueberry pancakes bitch!* Only Mom and Dad will get that last reference, and honestly I have no idea what it is referencing, but I bet that Jordan was involved.

In other news, I have a wildly successful community meeting on Friday with 30 people in attendance. Be impressed. Did I mention I live in a town of 50? Okay, well that's misleading, cause some people were from neighboring towns, but still, you should be impressed, trust me. I am working with the woman's soccer team to help them hold more productive and respectful meetings, with the youth group to get organized and active in the community and with any other group who will invite me to their meetings. When the local government has meetings I am working with them too, but you know how that goes, well you probably don't, but its a long explanation. This week I am going to give three workshops on how to be organized when managing a project, lets hope for a good turnout.

I eat an insane amount of onion and garlic. They are the only readily available veggies in town. Sometimes I can buy cilantro, red bell peppers, tomatoes and potatoes. But I can always buy onions and garlic. And produce is CHEAP here, probably because they actually produce veggies. Favorite meal from the week was a tomato, onion, garlic omelet. It was wonderful, and I have black pepper, which I know sounds hum drum in the states, but its a rarity here, and its so wonderful.

Success of the day: doing all my weeks laundry in the morning and bringing it in completely dry 15 minutes before the downpour. Clutch. OOHHH and I just remembered I got a lunch invite for beef soup tomorrow, which sounds like free food and variety all wrapped in a beautiful package.

Loves. Wishes for another wonderful week.