Monday, June 4, 2012

What's Up

A random assortment of some of what's been up, anyway:
  • On Friday, this happened: social movements throughout the country and across the Americas protested the 8th anniversary of the UN's military presence in Haiti. I meant to write about it, but:
  • We spent the weekend alternately dealing with Ben's food poisoning and a serious cockroach invasion. Me: spraying noxious, cancer-inducing roach repellant at the kitchen; Cockroaches: dive bombing out of cracks between our kitchen cupboards, and worst of all, out of the cupboards themselves; Me: dry heaving over the toilet; Ben (with a fever and chills): "Honey, please let me help you!" etc...  
  • Meanwhile, it's suddenly lay-naked-in-front-of-fan-and-try-not-to-move hot around here. In the space of a week, the weather has gone from hot (and humid, owing to daily downpours) to ho-oooooot (and dry, with no rain to cool things off in the afternoons).
  • Yesterday evening, Ben boarded a (delayed) AA flight to visit his family, attend a workshop and a photography festival, go backpacking with my family, and take a bit of a Haiti breather.  He'll also be getting our bicycles, currently collecting cobwebs in his parents' garage, ready for our July island-hopping bicycle tour of St Lucia, Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe. 
 Smiling for the camera, but sad to say good-bye
  • Then this morning, this happened: Luna brought me a rodent, which she cornered squeaking and squealing in various parts of the house. It's in my closet now, and I'm still trying to determine whether or not my pajamas can reasonably pass for clothes.
 Look how proud she is!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

no wonder we pray so often for the protection of our family in their various locations and we certainly will be praying for you in Benjamnin's absence! Look forward to seeing you also in a few weeks:-) much love, other Mom

nerkert said...

What a week! So sorry for the sick part - and the cockroaches. Should I order some Harris Roach tablets for you? (And why haven't we done that already: did we know about the roach problem)

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