Goods and Services

I woke up at 5 am again -- still not caught up from traveling, but feeling fine. Maybe I'm just becoming a morning person? bwha-ha-ha-haha! Like that could happen.

I've discovered on-line yoga. Since I've been lazy about finding a studio here, this is a boon. Not only can I do yoga for free, i can do it naked in the comfort of my own home any old time of the day or night. I may never go back to classes again.

Barry's still not feeling well so I had to entertain myself today. Went for a pedicure and ended up getting a manicure, too. My hands and feet are beautiful and feel great, and here's the best part: less than $10 including a handsome tip. I'm never going to paint my own toes again.

Cooked tonight so B could stay at home -- zucchini with tomatoes and pineapple, and it was very good. Here's the thing about cooking here, though: it's hot. Thai people often cook outside. We have a double-glazed sliding glass door between the kitchen and the rest of the apartment. I close it when I cook and it gets to be like an oven in there almost immediately. The door keeps all the heat in, and when I take the food out to the dining room it's deliciously cool.

Here's another thing about cooking in Thailand: they don't add the noxious smell to their cooking gas. They are big on personal responsibility here -- not a lot of frivolous lawsuits. If you leave the gas on you'll die, and it will be your own fault as far as the Thais are concerned. Oh, and I have to light the stove with a match every time. Very old school and a little scary.

B is making his way through the Lord of the Rings movies -- his plan is to be well before he's seen all three. Wish us both luck with that plan. Although, as I recently twittered, Viggo Mortensen. I'm just saying.