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Exile

March 22, 2006 on 9:20 pm | In Life In General | No Comments

I’ve been having a slow week.  I’m still waiting to get the paperwork for my job, but my husband keeps telling me to be patient because the health service moves slow.  And since they have to do a background check and check references from another country, I guess I can understand the holdup.

I intended to stay home and mope all day.  I’ve been doing that a lot because I’m bored and I just want to start my new job already.  But then at 2:30 in the afternoon my moping plans were foiled.  There was a knock at the door.  It was a delivery guy with a big box of stuff I ordered from CafePress.  I ordered a bunch of copies of my cookbook to sell or give to my friends and family here.  I was not expecting it so soon, since as far as cafepress told me, my order had just shipped 2 days ago.  But that wasn’t the real problem.  The real problem was that the delivery guy said that I owed 13 pounds in customs fees.  Poopie!  I only had 11 pounds in my wallet, and it was all in change.  He said he could come back tomorrow.

So I had to go out.  I took a bus to the Penicuik town center and then got some cash from one of the cash machines there.  Then I checked out the charity shops to see if they had any books that looked good (I found 4 at the cancer research shop, where the books are only 75p).  Then I went to farmfoods and got some frozen food things.  Then I went to the pet shop and bought bedding and food for the guinea pigs.  Then I came home.

I cooked some of the frozen things for dinner and then the husband and I fed the guinea pigs.  And now I am exiled to the bedroom upstairs.  My husband exiled me because I have slight gas.  In his words, "It smells like something died in there!"  So I’m messing around on the internet and then I’m going to read one of my books.  There’s nothing good on tv tonight anyway.

Alana

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