good- i cleaned my apartment today. It is so so nice not to have a thousand little hairs lingering all over the floor, or odd smells coming from the kitchen sink. ;)
good- i got myself a new book! It's Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, and it's so good! I am thoroughly enjoying it. I'll share my favourites throughout the rest of my stay i think.
good- my girls have all successfully ventured off to Beijing this week, and I am so glad they all got to go, and that they all have the itineraries they were hoping for. Except Jenna and her poor 21 hour train ride. :/ haha
bad/good- because all my ladies are gone, i've got the whole place to myself for EIGHT DAYS. Which is totally awesome and lonely at the same time. we shall see how this goes... ;)
bad- my bed is slowly getting worse. I'm now forced to sleep on the very edge of it if i want to avoid springs and a bar stabbing me all night. At first i thought my bed just wasn't able to handle the pluthera of my bum.. but now i'm thinking it's just a crappy mattress. So that's some good news. sorta. ;)
good- we had an amazing lightening and thunder storm last night! It didn't help my lack of sleep much, but it sure was beautiful!
bad- our city flooded again because of the storm, but it was all dried up before the morning came. :)
good- our most awesome and talented and generous graphic designer for Jacob's Scarves is working on getting all the goods out soon. I CAN'T WAIT!!
good- when i ventured out for a coke today, I stopped to say hi to Jacob, and that stinkin' little kid stole my heart again! He is the sweetest! His gramma is finally home now too, so i was all sorts of happy to see her. :)
good- I am venturing to Shenzhen tomorrow to find someone who will be willing to be my eternal scarves salesman. ;) I'm hoping i can find someone who is willing to work with the prices i am willing to pay, and who speaks English well enough that i won't have any trouble conversing with him via the inter web.
good- I am going to meet a lady there who does almost the same thing as i want to do. She's going to try and teach me the tricks of the trade, and how to set up an account at this market. I'm pretty stoked!
good- me madre sent me 100 bones as the first official donation for Jacob's Scarves. Thus meaning that when i come home tomorrow, i will have already accumulated a pluthera of Jacob's Scarves!!
good- J's wonderful grandma found a website that will let us make our own tags/labels for the scarves. neato pateeto!
bad- since friday night the only thing i have eaten is four oreo cookies, and a can of coke. It's now Sunday afternoon. I don't know what the deal is..
bad- our apartment doesn't have a rooftop, and our balcony is always covered in shade.. so the only way i can sit in the sun and read a book is to sit on the balcony wall.. since i'm terrified of heights this is a HUGE deal. but i love the feeling of the sun on my skin too much to let it stop me.
good- i got a cute skirt with birds all over it. :)
bad- my camera had a malfunction and wouldn't let me take any pictures. everything i took was coming out completely white.
good- it's fixed now, and i have a whole week to capture China and all its glory. :)
Well, that pretty much sums up the recent happenings.. and since i am sure not a single soul reads these to the very end, it doesn't matter too much how i end these. Kinda cool. because now i can say this:
i will TOTALLY be living in my underwear all week this week.
:)
