week two and three....

Getting the appliances….this toke most of our time, trying to get the good and the cheap, deciding, will we stay 2, 4, more years….what do we really need? What can wait, what I don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars and then threw it away…..how long can I stay without a couch, or TV, or shelves?

First we needed a stove, a refrigerator and a washer….i almost got the dryer but time will tell if we really need one, actually my friend told me I wouldn’t, but after so many years using it is so hard to think is no necessary….my head is a mess….

Time pass, I am getting frustrated and tired of cooking in the microwave, specially cause it takes soooo loooong, one microwave, one dish at a time….first rice, then the chicken….chicken ends up like gum….ok, this is it, I buying my stuff and I don’t care…..so I got the courage to go on my own and buy all we need….DESCONTO, my first Portuguese word, very shy, very quiet; but after i got the first one, that is all i will ask ….how much DISCONTO MOZA!!! (my second word)….at the end, I am happy with my choice and the prices were ok……after all was done, I had to wait 5 days for delivery!!!!!!!! …..and another 5 days to get the connection for the gas stove, well that needed a change from using a tank to use the building gas connection, we needed to call the stove company, didnt get an answer in 2 days, then weekend, finally we got connected on monday (the building manager help! poor thing was on the phone for 20 minutes), we will have the service by wednesday, anytime during the day, we must not leave the building..….more money, more time, I want to kick some ass….and then,  finally “I CAN COOK!”......and for some incomprehensive reason I have the desire to cook, after 12 years of marriage….i think is the sun, here is winter but the sun always comes in the morning J

Getting the furniture….this just took time to decide what to do, and again should i get something for a couple of years (cheap) or something that last (not cheap).......it it hard to say at this point, i didn’t want to spend the money but my butt got tired of sitting on the floor….again, ages to get delivery and other many to install them…now the apartment looks smaller, need to rearrange! My specialty!....

Something i didn't expect was emily telling me she loves the new place....well she like everything was new and pretty, the beds, the couch, the table, everything was just perfect she said....and she said she was happy.......she is my sweet heart....i think i am the only nut in this family....

Celebrations….there was also a nice party at the building, we were not sure what it was all about, but they have food, drinks, sweets and bounces, ball pit and games for the kids…and the best, good music….everything inside the complex, at the party house and the playground, so it was safe…I really enjoyed this night, i eat many strawberries deep in chocolate, brochettes and try the "pastel", my kids play the games and won prices ,they were happy.....but what i like it most was the celebration, the music, the laugh, the people...it remind me of my childhood, of my own country...something boom inside me with the music.....i felt peace...

week one....

Back on business!.... Got a cell phone and internet! Veeerrryyy slowwww internet but enough for now…eight days seems like little but when you can not find the place to take a bus, can not tell your family you got well, can not find out why your credit card is not working, don’t have the address of your new house, or have money but don’t know where you can find a place to get the currency……and have two little ones dragging everywhere you go for answers, when you don’t speak the language….it seems like unreal, like a mistake, close to an error….but also i feel glad I knew this life in my deep skin, I am not defeated, but I am scare….and here we are, ready for what is coming, lots of papers to fill, lots of waist hours, hopefully soon, sometime to live….

PD, I step on dog poop twice this week….i hate this place….

Looks….on US nobody care when I spoke Spanish, actually I like to speak with my husband in spanish when we have something secretly to say…..or when we didn’t want the kids to know (that didn’t last much cause the kids learn Spanish too)….here, is weird to find somebody speaking English, so when my kids talk to me, we have some heads turning in our direction….i wish I shouldn’t care but I always get all the colors of the rainbow in mi face when this happens….and my kids prefer to speak English, and men, they do speak….

First day of school….right now school is off for a month, it is fall break…..but we went to visit a school a friend recommend for my kids, a good one a must say, there is no better place a friend can recommend to you than the one her own kids go to….

Library?.....we found a book store at the mall nearby, it is around 10-12 blocks from our building…..i like the kids section so I ask the manager if it was allow to read the books, she said it was ok, but the kids need to be supervised, if unsupervised there was a bunch of old books they can  play with plus some legos beside the benches…..so one day we tried, first we read the old ones, then I got a new one with nice pictures, but it was not a good experience, maybe it was me, as always lacking some confidence, but as soon as we took the book, one employer was going around our bench….emily try to point some pictures, and I didn’t let her touch it, Emily wanted to read but the lady going around us drove me nuts and I just let Emily  see some pictures very fast and then return the book as soon as I could…so we decided  was best just to play with the legos for now…….later a found a real library on the internet, but it will take me one hour to get there, by car….i don’t have one yet…..but you will see when I get one! :)