What is Today, Anyway???

12-29/Dec/2009

You might have noticed how my dates are a little sporadic in the way I write them on my blog. That’s because my brain has been a little sporadic, too. Ok, ok. What I mean is in the sense of not knowing any more how to write a date correctly, because I’m surrounded by a community from around the world that has too many ways of recording a single day in history!

If, and when :), you come visit, you might notice a few other things I’m “mixing up” or changing in my everyday life. Mosquitoes are now “mozzies,” pants are sporadically starting to mean the things you wear underneath your “trousers” (the pants that kids sing "I see London, I see France..." about), jumpers refer to sweaters, and I often speak of things being “proper” instead of nice, or real. Also, flour might be brown or white – it doesn’t matter what it says on the outside of the bag; surprise! Sugar is never white (instead, it’s the same stuff that people pay more for or that you get in fancy restaurant packets for coffee. Hmm…) And making pancakes – or tacos – or spaghetti (including sauce) – or anything else we consider “quick and easy,” is now a made-from scratch process. I’m not surprised to find glass, or bugs, or wiggling worms in my food (or flour), and think it’s normal to walk up and down the street looking for real flour to bake with. I also get super-excited for things like kerosene lamps, gas burners, and candles… all of which make power-outages much less of a chore!!! Watch out, world, I’m not exactly sure what I'll be like before I get back to the States!