Moving House (Once Again)

546 days ago
	Darg... I can't get onto gmail at the moment, which is a perfect excuse to write once again a blog about my weekend (they are rarely sitdown and chill events... I gotta work on that!). Well, I have moved once again, this time it was quite possibly the closest move any person you know has made. I moved from #32 to #38, two houses away! The reason was that my old house had some really rank water. When you let it run it smelled of rotten eggs, which made both Kiky and I extremely lazy and even hesitant to take a shower. Now we have found a house with far better water, smelling only slightly of bad BO (hey, can't ask for everything). We did get a few bonuses though... the furniture in this house is much better so we decided to leave all the old furniture and refurbish our lives. Since the TV is a lot larger we decided to bite the bullet and buy a DVD player... a whole 50 buckaroos. now our living room is really quite stylish due to some new shelves and just not being in a stinky house. In addition, we are getting the back courtyard paved over. It is about 2mX6m so it isn't a job that can be done in an hour. We hired a guy to do that as well as roof it over so that we can cook and clean back there once the rainy season comes. Labor is ridiculously cheap here in Indonesia... we pay him 5 dollars a day, and beleive you me he is really happy with that (usually he gets 3 bucks or less!). I am looking forward to going home to see how he is faring. We also got our first true rainy season shower, swamping all the streets in a matter of minutes. It was over quickly, but had it kept up any longer and we would have been better off buying a boat than a motorcyle. As it was the streets were all flooded in our area for a couple hours. My plants also got slaughtered, the rain uprooting all the little guys and traumatizing them a good deal. I now have them under shelter should such a rain come again anytime soon. It also made me aware that I should let them get pretty big before putting them in the ground. All in all, a much less stressful weekend than the previous one!