Tuesday August 7, 2012

Tuesday August 7/12 update

The boys woke me up this morning so I decided I had better get cracking.   Yesterday Miguel had said he wanted a collage of all the kids at the first day, with their names, so they could put it on a wall in the classroom.  I hurriedly made up a center “banner” to go with 30 photos of the opening day of English school and saved it all to a memory stick.  With this in my pocket I headed downtown to arrive shortly after 9am at the Fuji store that did my last enlargement so well and reasonably.  I was sent upstairs to see this tiny gal who took only ½ hour to whip a collage that looks great, 40cm by 50cm.  This gal sure knew her way around PhotoShop!!   I then got it framed right there for $20.50 total.

I then dragged that with me to Kiwi, by the airport, to see if that salesman truly did get me a new humidifier for the same price or not.   I figured I had about a 10% shot of coming home with a new one, but surprise, surprise, they had it there for me!!!   And, it works really well!!!   Hey, I was two for two on the day already.

I managed to get home an hour before Rosa showed up to clean house.   Rosa had no idea that she had a namesake running the marathon for Ecuador in the Olympics….   How could she not know??   I showed her the information on the computer.   Her namesake, Rosa Chacha came in 83^rd,.and she is from Ambato, Ecuador.    She couldn’t believe it that nobody had mentioned it to her.

I left Rosa to work while I dug up my November receipt for the cheap office chair that broke on me last week.  It snapped a leg off so I had to shoot it.   I hauled its carcass to Gran Aki to see if there was any warranty on it.  My day had been going pretty good so far so I was hopeful, but no soap this time.   I had to cough up another $42 for another chair, which when discounted was still more than I paid for the original.  I thought of upgrading for ½ second until I saw that the other chair had exactly the same undercarriage.

So I hauled both chairs home (I’ll find a use for the old one), dumped them off and continued to Coopera to do some grocery shopping.   I loaded up Bella’s rolling basket to the brim with beans and veggies, filet mignon, pork tenderloin and sausages.  The total there was $38.19.  Now I am almost broke again.

I have heard from my honey again that she has made it safe, but tired, to her mother’s place in Victoria.

Tonight I try cooking Ecuadorian sausage.   Bella doesn’t care for sausages so it will be an adventure for me.

That was today’s excitement.   Enjoy the photo.  Hugs to all.

Collage for the new school celebrating the opening day