After a hectic weekend last weekend attending parties I decided this weekend I'd just chill out. That's if you can chill out in Abu Dhabi. With the weather much more pleasant, in the mid to high 30's, it is still very hot and humid so the evening lifestyle wins out. Each morning at school during our outside assembly we are all sweating and fanning ourselves. The girls have to jig around to the 'Hokey Tokey' in the heat so by mid afternoon the rooms are pretty smelly! Roll on even cooler weather.
Friday mornings I tend to catch up with skyping those at home then plan to write my blog. That doesn't always happen as I seem to spend so much time talking lately so the blog gets shifted to Saturday. I haven't yet caught up with the change in daylight saving so miss some of you at times. I spend time each weekend doing my planning for school as we don't have enough time during our busy schedule to get this done.
Life is settling into what I'd call a normal pattern with more life around the place since the teenager started school. I woke up to a body on the couch this morning and nearly have to make an appointment to see my son. That is what it should be like but it wasn't while he wasn't in school as he didn't have any way of making friends his own age. I've yet to make some close friends of my own and miss having the ability to pop around to someone's place for tea or a wine especially on Friday evenings. Skyping friends in Blenheim today makes me miss them a lot.
Still, the thought of the next holiday keeps me going. We have Eid coming up on our Labour weekend but won't go far as have some expensive trips coming up in the next six months so need to save. I don't have the disposable income now that I'm paying for schooling so probably won't get a car in the short term and will have to save for the trips instead of just going on a whim. Bugger!
I'm excited because I've just bought an oven. Finally! I've been hanging out for one but didn't want to buy gas as it's 600 AED to get it connected then another monthly account. I was about to go to town today to buy a new one when I checked online and found an electric ceramic top stove for 350 AED. In our building no less so no cost for transport and removal. I raced up and bought it immediately for 300 AED ($100 NZ), sent the two teenagers up to drag it back down 30 stories and the man has just been and installed the power for me. So for 400 AED I have an oven, instead of around 2000 AED for a new ceramic top one. On went my apron from home and I became a domestic goddess again for the time it took to clean it. It comes with a rotissere cooker as well. Next I'll need to be buying more pots and cooking utensils.
So today has been a good day. To top it off when I got back downstairs from buying the oven, my Turkish Carpet had arrived. So now it has pride of place in the lounge as you walk into the apartment. It is so luxurious and soft to walk on. I love it to bits and it comes with it's own authenticity certificate. My next purchase will be a sofa bed for the visitors to sleep on but that can wait till payday. These two purchases sum up the lifestyle here, budget secondhand goods and extravagant unnecessary purchases.
Friday mornings I tend to catch up with skyping those at home then plan to write my blog. That doesn't always happen as I seem to spend so much time talking lately so the blog gets shifted to Saturday. I haven't yet caught up with the change in daylight saving so miss some of you at times. I spend time each weekend doing my planning for school as we don't have enough time during our busy schedule to get this done.
Life is settling into what I'd call a normal pattern with more life around the place since the teenager started school. I woke up to a body on the couch this morning and nearly have to make an appointment to see my son. That is what it should be like but it wasn't while he wasn't in school as he didn't have any way of making friends his own age. I've yet to make some close friends of my own and miss having the ability to pop around to someone's place for tea or a wine especially on Friday evenings. Skyping friends in Blenheim today makes me miss them a lot.
Still, the thought of the next holiday keeps me going. We have Eid coming up on our Labour weekend but won't go far as have some expensive trips coming up in the next six months so need to save. I don't have the disposable income now that I'm paying for schooling so probably won't get a car in the short term and will have to save for the trips instead of just going on a whim. Bugger!
I'm excited because I've just bought an oven. Finally! I've been hanging out for one but didn't want to buy gas as it's 600 AED to get it connected then another monthly account. I was about to go to town today to buy a new one when I checked online and found an electric ceramic top stove for 350 AED. In our building no less so no cost for transport and removal. I raced up and bought it immediately for 300 AED ($100 NZ), sent the two teenagers up to drag it back down 30 stories and the man has just been and installed the power for me. So for 400 AED I have an oven, instead of around 2000 AED for a new ceramic top one. On went my apron from home and I became a domestic goddess again for the time it took to clean it. It comes with a rotissere cooker as well. Next I'll need to be buying more pots and cooking utensils.
So today has been a good day. To top it off when I got back downstairs from buying the oven, my Turkish Carpet had arrived. So now it has pride of place in the lounge as you walk into the apartment. It is so luxurious and soft to walk on. I love it to bits and it comes with it's own authenticity certificate. My next purchase will be a sofa bed for the visitors to sleep on but that can wait till payday. These two purchases sum up the lifestyle here, budget secondhand goods and extravagant unnecessary purchases.
Shortly I'll head into town as I have some mail to pick up at the Post Office. Then I'll head to the Mall for a spot of shopping and maybe buy something to cook tonight. Then later a swim or walk. Last night I went for another walk around the island. I do miss the walking we did at home and the ability to just walk out your door and carry on. But you have to adapt and having a fully equipped, under utilised gym downstairs is just as good. All it takes is for me to use it...
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