Happy Birthday Mom B!!! We love you very much and wish we were able to spend the day with you (especially since you are in FL). We hope you have a great day.
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Alright, now to back up a few days, we experienced a very interesting New Years Eve here in the Philippines this year. One of the biggest things that they do to celebrate the day is set off fireworks, so it was a very loud and colorful evening. JoAnn loved watching all the explosions and would yell, "Look, firetruck!" It was really cute. Anyway, at one point we had some neighbors who were a little too close to the building for my comfort setting off some of the loudest firecrackers I have ever heard, but thankfully JoAnn slept through the whole thing. I couldn't believe it. The other thing that made our night a little more interesting was the partial power outage. Something happened around 8:30 or 9 that all of the sudden made everything in our house turn off except for our TV. I immediately assumed we blew a fuse and had Daniel checking the fuse box when we noticed our fans started turning again, but very slowly. We got a little suspicious and asked around the building and pretty much everyone was in the same situation as we were, which made me a little relieved to know it wasn't just us. So for an hour or two we had enough power to weakly run a fan and the TV, but not much more. Then once again everything went out except for our TV. After midnight hit and we still didn't have a fan we tried to plug the fan into the same outlet that our TV was plugged into and it still wouldn't turn on. After which we plugged the TV back in and evidently we never should have unplugged it because it no longer would work. That left us with absolutely no electronic device that would work in our house until sometime around 2:45 AM when they were able to fix the problem and things went back to normal. It was very strange. I have never experienced a power outage like it before. Once again, I was very thankful that JoAnn didn't even wake up. So, it was a little bit of a rough start to 2010, but by the time I went to bed and woke up things we looking much better. On New Years Day we got together with some friends and had a yummy American style BBQ for lunch. It was great.
That is where the "looking up" part ended. Last night I found one of these in my hair...
That's right, I have lice! I was brushing my hair last night before I went to bed when I noticed the bug crawling around on my comb. I sat there for a minute completely grosed out and a little in shock, until I decided it was too late in the day to do anything about it right then, but first thing this morning I tore apart the house and started some major cleaning. I also found a neighbor who was kind enough to share some left over Nix to help us get rid of them. Lice is pretty much a way of life for a lot of Filipinos, but I can't handle the thought that I have bugs crawling around on my head. It is just another reminder of how much I admire the fact that they can go through stuff like this and not complain. I have a lot to learn from them when it comes to not complaining. I will say I am slightly thankful for the much needed motivation to clean my our place since I was wanting to do it before the baby comes, which is getting so close. Anyway, I'm off to throw in another load of laundry and wash my hair.
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