DIY, I DON’T THINK SO! Saturday, September 16, 2006

Saturday equals football with the missionaries. Just a friendly reminder this is “GOALLLLLLL!!!” football, not “touchdown” football. J Anyway, I went to Moore Park to play, but I was the only girl. This is usually not a problem, but I have never really played football, and did not want to look any worse than the American elder playing. I just observed and talked with one lady that was there whose husband was playing. After the game I went for a jog, since I did not get any exercise playing football. It was really nice, because it was about 12:30 and it was not hot and miserable outside. I would venture to say that it is about the same temperature throughout most of the day. Moore Park is really huge. It has basketball courts, football fields, a couple playgrounds, lawn bowling, a cricket field, and who knows what else. It is about 4 miles around the park and I only saw half of it. Next week I think I will play.

I went to Town Centre today to return an alarm clock. Amazingly enough I did not find anything I wanted to exchange it for, shocking! “Whilst” in town, I wanted to buy another set of bath towels. I went to all the major stores to look for the sales, which I found, but it still was a fortune. To get a set of towels that were not paper thin would have cost me $24. The cheapest that I could find overall, disregarding quality; was $16 for a set. I need to start working so I can spend 1 Pound as a British Pound and not as $2 American.

Speaking of shopping, remember that great deal I got on the 3 drawer chest? In retrospect, it wasn’t. Do It Yourself projects really suck sometimes. I was not thinking when I bought this “project”. It only cost $30 (regularly $100), which is a great deal compared to the other shelving that was going to cost me $40 (can you say penny pincher?). BUT, it is really hard to hammer nails or drive screws if you don’t have a hammer or screwdriver. Hard to believe, but it’s true. So I had to buy some screwdrivers, which surprisingly cost me…$10. Now you must remember, not only is my “great deal” insignificant, but I also was able to spend my Saturday night putting together this lovely piece of crap, I mean dresser. It was pretty much all down hill after I figured out that I needed to buy a screwdriver, followed by a few screws flying when I opened the bag (smallest ones of course), then a piece of particle board breaking (luckily it was still useable…I hope it was), and finally using the end of the screwdriver as a hammer (rounded objects just don’t work as well as flat ones). And just think, I could have connected some metal polls and been done, what was I thinking? Also, I had IKEA d.i.y. crap to assemble as well. The lamp was super easy, but the little make-up box has 44 nails to hammer; I think I’ll wait until I find a friend with a hammer. Overall, the dresser is nice and looks better than the metal shelving, but it was not worth the time.



Today two new girls moved in to the house. Narges is from Ireland is doing her undergrad in Forensic Science. Her dad is with her and he is not too impressed with the condition of the house. Side note: today I put my finger through the window sill, not a good sign. Susanna also moved in today and she is from Germany. I am really happy that everyone is from somewhere different because it makes life a little more interesting with all the different cultures under one roof, but also because it will help me with my travels.

I wish I had more to talk about, but d.i.y. projects took up all of my fun time.