October 5, 2008

October 5, 2008:

It looks like I get a couple of more days with Gordon. They’ve delayed his trip until Friday now. I’ve decided that I would like to stay at home while he is away. As much as taking a bus to Tirau and seeing a Scottish Ball is appealing, I think that finding activities for me to do around here would be better. I’ve been driving on the roads for a week now and the only hard thing to do is remember the speed limit. The ease that I’ve found with driving has been nice. Every nice I’ll slip and turn my windshield wipers on when I meant to put my blinker on. I am starting to get lonely because of the absence of my social outlets like scrapbooking and being with friends. I’ll find something though and be back to the old Nedra.

Gordon’s parents visited on Monday and I found myself struggling with trying to accommodate them. I guess that I’ve been in my own groove around the house that a disruption, even a welcomed visit, leaves me a bit flustered. The social rules are certainly more relaxed then what I’m used to so there was a bit of bruised ego on my side. The only thing I was really upset with was that they left sugar in the sink and I found a line of ants making their way to and from the sweet stuff. A can of Raid took care of them though and I cleaned the counter before using it again.

Cooking is coming along nicely. I’ve made some progress on touching raw meat. I still can only touch ground beef and coated beef, raw chicken still makes me gag. Well, I chose a recipe that allowed the chicken to be coated and I was able to coat them using tongs and a container I had, we don’t have any plastic bags right now for shaking and baking. I’ll be looking up a couple of recipes on kraftfoods.com again to supplement what I have planned. We have at least one dish with a curry flavor, chicken and rice once a week. Like I said, Gordon is a curry fiend.

We’ve both been fighting off some spring colds that have developed. My symptoms are a bit different than his. He has a runny nose and congestion. I’ve been nauseous for the past couple of days. I think it may be my body still adjusting to the diet out here, nothing else. Gordon is off to Oktoberfest right now with his friends Scotty and Radders. I’ll be picking them up tonight more than likely since it’s raining outside right now and very windy. He would have taken me but he was afraid it might be a little too crude for me, a bunch of Air Force men drunk would be good for a single girl but not a married one.