I still have a rat living with me.  The other night I heard a lot of rustling in the walls.   I looked up and he was staring down at me from a rafter with such a look of confusion – ‘What is she doing here”?  He paused for a second as we both stared at each other not sure what to do.  He ran back into the walls.

I also still have cockroaches.  I bought some bug spray at the store that I’m sure is toxic and shouldn’t be in my house, but neither should ants and cockroaches.  I also bought this plug in mosquito repellent thing that I’m not sure does any good.  So, the bug spray works great on ants and two days ago, I got to try it on a cockroach.  I was skeptical since I grew up in Florida and nothing killed them there.  I found one on my toilet seat.  I didn’t want to spray the bug spray on my toilet seat in case it is toxic enough to burn my legs off.  So I waited until he ran.  He ran for a hole in the door.  Perfect.  The bug spray has a tiny nozzle that fits in the hole in the door and now he can just die in the door, out of sight.  Oh no, it did not go down that way.  Five minutes later I heard a loud flopping sound and looked over.  In the middle of the room is the roach flopping around and creating quite the drama and he flopped across the room on his back, legs flailing everywhere.  Just before he died I heard him say – “you did this to me bitch, now you have to watch me die”.  So, the bug spray works great, but the roaches have attitude.

Yesterday I spent a good part of the day at the coffee shop trying to book my plans for vacation and eating/drinking sugar.  I should call it the sugar shop instead of the coffee shop.  I sat outside for a change because the weather was delightfully not hot!  I also tried to cook some of the food I have before I have to toss too much of it out.  I made scrambled eggs.  I haven’t had scrambled eggs since I left the US so that was a nice treat.

Last night I went to Ging’s house for dinner.  I was looking forward to seeing a Thai house from the inside to see how it compared to mine.  Not much different except that they have lived there for awhile and have a preschool daughter so it has stuff everywhere.  For a lot of houses, the kitchen is outside.  That was the case at their house.  So, that’s different than mine.  I really don’t have an outside area.  I helped her cook dinner as she told me the Thai names of everything we cooked.  I remember none of it, but I now carry a notebook with me everywhere and it’s in there.  Tip came over after dinner and took me to see her house which is a couple blocks away.  She has a little electric cart that looks like a golf cart except smaller.  She took me over in that.  And she took me around the front of the hospital and showed me where the dental offices are, there are also acupuncture offices and they have massage at the hospital too.  They both live at houses at the hospital.  I also love that they speak to their children in English as well as Thai so they will learn both.

Today, I went to the market with Ging.  Then I went to get a massage.  I went to the same lady I went to a few weeks ago.  Without exercising and sitting in these tiny plastic chairs all the time, and stress, I’m a disaster.  It was a painful 2 hours.  Still, I think it’s important and will get better as I become more comfortable living here.  Some interesting things came up.  I’ll put them in a separate blog.  It was a beautiful day so I didn’t get much done that I wanted to do because it all involved a computer and I just wanted to sit out side.  It probably didn’t get over 80 degrees today.   I found taro ice cream and since I’m in love with taro milk, I thought this might be the most exciting thing to happen all week.  No.  It wasn’t.  It was meh.  I’ll stick to the lime vanilla ice cream bars I found at 7-11 in the future.  I feel like I’m posting a lot of pictures of food in these blogs, but it’s interesting to me.  So, here are your food and flower pictures for this blog:

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