We got up early this morning and hit the road (got a new snazzy rental car yesterday so now I have to remember to look for the blue car!) and traveled to Ayr. I dropped Chris off at the Pioneer mill and then found my way to the house next to the Kalamia mill—I am doing much better at this navigation thing, thank goodness. It isn’t like it is hard to get to these places at all but when you do it alone for the first time it is a little intimidating!
While I was mopping floors and cleaning a bit a couple guys came from the mill to fix a pipe in the kitchen where they had taken a dishwasher out but never done anything with the little part where it drained so last week when I did dishes the water drained into the cupboard below…at least i realized it and held my finger over it!!! So a little duct tape is holding it just fine until they get a hose and clamp. Nice guys and I kept telling them it wasn’t a big deal at all but I guess since Chris asked about it they hopped right on it!!! What clout, huh??? Hahaha.
i went into town and found the post office and found out that the price of Australian postage going to the US went up 5 cents on the 15th so my apologies to anyone I might have sent a card or letter to with 5 cents short of postage!!! Who knew it went up?? Not me!!! So I stocked up on stamps, mailed some goodies to Aaron and headed out to shop a bit. I really like all the little shops in Ayr and I found a cool tie die place called Hippie Heaven! They had some great things and I bought a shirt–bad news is that the sizes here are different. An 8 is a 12 here so you get kind of depressed when you buy Australian clothes though I have found some that use US sizing. You just have to try stuff on and figure it out. While I was in there I asked about a place to get my hair done and she recommended a place a block away so I walked down there and made an appt. and waalaaa—-I now have a new hairdresser! She did exactly what I wanted and listened to me about how I wanted it to look natural instead of the bleachy look i got the first time round here. So this will work out great to get my hair done when we come down here because I already have the car and don’t have to make special arrangements, etc. Yea! It is a little thing but you ladies out there know what it is like to find the right person to do your hair!
So now I am just chilling out waiting for Chris to come home sometime. I shopped for my Operation Christmas Shoebox and of course I have one really really stuffed box but I imagine they will take some from it if they need to put in someone else’s. I just can’t ever limit myself!!! I guess I could do two……
Oh and if any of you have been following our satellite tv installation saga—–the guy was a no show yesterday. The company called me at 5 to see if he was there and I had gotten no call or anything. She said she would track him down and call me back. You guessed it–no call. I called when i got here this morning and the guy called me back and said they still could not find the installer but the supervisor was on the case now……whatever that means. I missed a call later so not sure if they called me back or not and this guy was very apologetic but it wasn’t his fault–no need to whinge at him!!! it will all work out but I sure would like to get it going. I checked the date we signed up and it was August 9th so I think it has been plenty of time!!!
Hope this hasn’t bored you to death!!! More tomorrow if I have an adventure!