Mom, I think you must have thrown my new jeans in the dryer when I was there. Seriously, I have to blame someone that my jeans are tighter now than when I left Indo. And NO, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the fact that we ate every 2 hours whether we were hungry or not.
Speaking of food, I just returned from a hair appointment in Jakarta (it's nice to get out of town now and then!) and was very, very pleasantly surprised by the amount of goods in stock on the shelves. When we first arrived in Indonesia, there was a good amount of choices of a few things, like 2 or 3 types of mayonnaise, 2 types of ketchup, stuff like that. After a while, when the elections were brewing, food stayed on the docks (variety of reasons) and we had very little choice, if there was even the item at all, on the shelves. Today, I found things that I brought from home because I haven't seen them here ever, or at least not in the last year. A few of the items that I found that I got excited about were (price included): corn meal ($4.30 for Red Mills bag); Lay's Salt and Vinegar chips ($5/bag); whole flax seed ($3/250 g); Trident gum (variety of flavours even, $1.40/package); reasonably fresh bagels ($.80/each); Cranberry Almond Crunch ($6-7/box); microwave popcorn ($2/pouch) and lots more that I can't remember. Quite often we pay 1/4 to double the amount that we'd pay at home, but the cost of living here is pretty reasonable, especially things like movies and eating out, so food at home can be a little higher. So, if I keep finding new items from home, these jeans will NEVER fit and we have no dryer to blame!!!
Thanks for reading.
1 comment:
Uhm I miss you and kinda do wish you were pine-ing so that I could rest assured you would be o that plane back to Canada ASAP !
Yes, I am selfish admittedly .... I have no problem with that!
I do however want you back soon my friend , just as I would like to be back on the Island permanent too ! Gods time not mine :)
Love you ....
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