Written January 9th, 2:50 pm in my new room

January 9th, 2006 - 2:50 pm

The sun is shining, the wind has died down. I’ve been to town and picked up most of the things I was looking to buy, except a web cam which has to be ordered from the electronics shop. It’ll be in late tomorrow night so I’ll pick it up the day after when I go to open my bank account and try to find a few of the miscellaneous things that I didn’t quite spot while I was out today.

This town is absolutely gorgeous. I went early enough in the morning that there wasn’t a whole lot of people around. I exchanged my US money into NZD, and mostly did the shopping that I needed to do, rather than the browsing through all the stores. Just buying the stuff I needed was going to make quite a full day in itself, so I’ll probably do the browsing when I pick up my web cam on Wednesday.

Then I came back up to my room, unpacked the bags and tossed everything on the floor and bed and started sorting out my finances for the first time (I hate keeping track of a budget. Blech). I really need to clean this place up. I think my mindset the past few years has been that I’m not staying long enough to actually organize where I’m living, and I need to change that. But I’m longing for nothing else but a handy little Tupperware set of drawers like I used to have at my other apartments to keep all my underwear, socks, bathroom and make up sorts of things. Alas, I’ve never been able to spot those anywhere else but at bigger sorts of stores - WalMart, Canadian Tire, etc…and there sure aren’t any of those in Te Anau! But that’s ok, I have an idea as to where I might be able to get my hands on one of those…

Well anyways, after sorting out my funds and eating an instant Macaroni and Cheese thing (in one of those Mr Noodles types of Styrofoam cup where you just add boiling water), Fiona and John called me down for lunch (oops). We had spring rolls and potato wedges. I had sweet chili sauce with my spring rolls (a first for me) and it was rather good. And they put sour cream on their potato wedges, not ketchup. It was good too! Who’d’a thought it?

Anyways, then John and Fiona played some more violent Backgammon, then Katrina (Fiona’s other daughter) and Vanessa came out to the back from Katrina’s place. There was some havoc - this family really is a blast! And now they’re having a meeting to organize one of their family ministries. I was there for a while but felt the sun beating too hard on my shoulders from behind me. I’m certain I’ll be burnt on the back tonight.

So yeah, that’s about it so far. I think I’m gunna go in and ask if I can borrow that acoustic guitar they’ve told me about. I’ve had an itch to play and my guitar’s not here yet. Sad.

Ok. Ciao.