looking forward.

I am looking forward to a few things when I come home for Christmas:

• Christmas lights
• sushi & Chinese
• a warm, non-moldy, non-leaking, clean bedroom with zero bugs
• carpet
• a car
• high speed wireless internet
• church
• friends & family (obviously)
• various restaurants (Panera, UNO's, Jimmy John's, Subway, Bazbeaux's, Skyline, even McDonald's)
• Mom's homemade pizza
• my puppies
• Target

shower.

Our shower broke this week.

Let me explain. That is not to say that we don't have running water. We do. When I say broke, I mean there's no hot water. People here think we're crazy for taking hot showers. They say cold showers are healthier, but we say screw that. We grew up on hot showers, and cold showers are chilling to the bone.

Our shower is heated by a little electric device. The water runs through it and is heated automatically. Sounds kind of dangerous, huh? We've never been shocked in our shower, but we have been shocked by a similar setup in a hotel. Anyway, no water heater here. Upside: unlimited hot water. Downside: if the electricity goes out (which happens often enough) or the little device breaks, there's no hot water.

So ours broke this week. We were without it for only a couple days. No tragedy, right? Except if you haven't showered in the days leading up to the breakdown of the shower head, a couple more days could be detrimental to the olfactory senses of those around you. So I resorted to this: a cold shower accompanied by a pot of water previously heated on the stove.

Así es la vida, my friends.

rubik's cube & toilets.

Fausto solved the Rubik's Cube last week. I bought him a bag of marbles as a reward today.

My bedroom walls are moldy. I'm sick as a result.

Turns out four girls sharing one bathroom with zero plungers in a foreign land with foreign foods is not a good combination.

I really wish I could watch the Yankees in the World Series tonight.

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