Lucky Week

Clogged toilet #2 is finally unclogged! Over two weeks after clogging it, Therese and I finally broke down and, at great cost to our personal self-esteems, asked our landlady to help us. Not only did she find a plumber to unclog it for us (a mysterious stick was blocking the pipe--I wonder whose fault that was...), but she gave us about ten pounds of oranges from her son's farm. One particular mutant orange is pictured at left. It must have been a good luck charm.

Under the auspices of the magical mutant orange, much good has come into this world: Obama was elected president. A suitor finally found Wayne becoming enough to pay the freaking dowry--$3500--and take my bastard child away from me. (Wayne was my car). Therese and I received two packages on the same day! We now have in our possession: three bags of nuts, two pounds of couscous, two jars of molasses, Tasty Bite times four, six times Ghiradelli chocolate bars (the nine-inchers, no less), herb seeds, and more! Alas, the tahini didn't make it--greasy tahini mess decorated both of our packages, which had been too close together during shipping. Sorry to whomever else had a greasy mess of a package because of my tahini. Know that its loss pained me more than a simple splotch of grease on your silly package could possibly have pained you.

Enjoy the pictures! Therese went nuts and made all kinds of festive election-party paraphanalia--it made for a much more entertaining evening. The other folks are teachers at Mayatan, as well.