After a friendly nudge from my old college roomie, and realizing I've not been on here in over 2 months, I'm going to attempt to blog again. With frequent power outages, trying to do Christmas baking, and my kids needing the computer for school when the power IS on, I've not been online nearly as much as usual!
We had our first Christmas party of the season yesterday. 10 3rd-year university students came over...our living room was like a museum! The girls (9 of them and 1 guy) were taking pictures of our tree with their cell phone cameras, and oohing and ahhing over my measly little decorations. I just have a little 3-D Christmas village puzzle and a few other knick-knacks on top of our entertainment center, and our Fontanini nativity set. But I guess in a land where no one decorates for Christmas, it was impressive!
In fitting with the title of my blog, we've struggled with a variety of challenges in the past couple of months, including perpetual car issues that are still not resolved, a burnt-out water heater in the kitchen, constant power outages, several afternoons where our water was turned off for unknown reasons, and almost-daily puffs of smoke and coal dust coming into our house from our lovely, rustic coal heating "system." Since electric heat has been banned for the winter, the air is filled with coal dust and smoke. Our neighbors had their electric water heaters turned off by the electric company...I'm afraid we'll be next! It's unbelieveable how the government runs itself here! Of course, none of the "bigwigs" ever have their power turned off or limited in any way!
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