January 24th, 2008
My husband sent me the following video clip from CNN:Damaging din in Egypt It explains a lot about why I find going downtownsuch a draining experience and why he's so tiredafter work every night. (Permission to lounge onthe couch granted, dear.) Fortunately we don't livedowntown - it's bad enough where we are. Butwatching the video will give you some perspectiveon the crazy driving and why I have lived here fornearly two years now without a car, quite happily. I have mentioned a time or two before that welive in a fourth floor walk-up. It occurred tome yesterday that by American standards weactually live on the FIFTH floor. What is calledthe ground floor everywhere else in the world isthe first floor in America, the first floor hereis the second floor in America, etc. It doesn'talter the fact that there are still 75some odd steps from street level to my home,but saying it is on the fifth floor makes itsound worse. The weekend in Egypt is Friday - Saturday andwe have a busy one planned. Tonight we are havingdinner guests. Menu:Hungarian Mushroom Soup, salad, and spice cake.It's a first for me on the cake, fingers crossedit comes out. (I used some of the less-nice goldenraisins in it!) Going out on a date with my husbandto a new restaurant on Friday night and meetingsome friends for lunch after soccer practiceon Saturday. In the virtual world, please join me onSaturday when I'll be a guestblogger at Killer Fiction. How about you? Any plans?
