Surviving The First Week In The Developed World

...err not as easy as I thought it would be. First of all could not get the faces of those gorgeous haitian children out of my mind and had a yearning to get on a plane and go back. Also, felt like I had been hit by a truck, no major symptoms just very depleted, as a result I did not go back to work until Wednesday. Then did not get much work done as loads of people came in my office wanting to hear my stories - sweet really, I do work with a cool bunch of people. I staggered home after a full day on Wednesday, dragged myself back there on Thursday to be told by my trusty co-workers Cindy and Wendy "errr Angie did you know you have a head full of lice eggs!!". NOOOOOOOO was my reply, I tried so hard to avoid an infestation, even treated myself propholacticllly when I got home. So I immediately left home, spent the budget of a small nation in the drug store. Came home put mayo on my head for an hour (its supposed to help the eggs release) boiled the bed linen and towels, sprayed down the whole house with nuclear standard lice homocidal repellant, boiled my head, Elliots, Katies and Colins ( oh yes they were happy). Anyways a few days later there is no evidence of any eggs on any of us so maybe crisis averted.

Good news is my appetite finally came back so I can work on putting some of that weight back on that I lost. I thought peace was finally restored to the house and then on Friday something awful happened. Elliot passed his driving test - oh glory, there goes my peace and sanity for some time. Really I am proud of him, pleased for him, its a right of passage and he wanted it badly but as previously stated I am going to miss our little chats in the car and will worry like a fishwife until he gets to where he is supposed to be going or gets home!

Tonight we have a bunch of University students coming for dinner so I am off now to make a kick ass apple pie and a turkey tettrazzini because November in the States is Turkey Time.