Husbands Make for Grumpy All-Day Sitters

Husbands make for grumpy all-day sitters
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Category: Blogging

Another up and down week here in the sandpit I call my life..

I blogged before about us gearing up to switch villas and last week, while Pedro was trying to get a contract set, some unexpected shit happened and he initially was told "No". He was told no because in some assbackwards way, even though this new villa has cheaper rent than the one we're in, it turned out being more expensive in the long run due to KRH tacking on all these rental fees.. The dumb betch who is Pedro's liason from KRH didn't tell him that they were adding all these stupid things like +100KD for furnishing the apartment and even more money to pay for the phone and internet (which we pay for here). He told her we didn't need furnishing - obviously that isn't in our current contract right? Look it up.. She's all "Oh....". Yeah bitch, Oh! I swear I don't know why people can't put two and two together these days..

So now that the rent is back to the same level we're expecting some approval this week and then hopefully I'll be able to set up house in it's entirety by the time sugarcube arrives.. I'm going to be a complete mess otherwise - once I hit that nesting phase (and it hits me pretty hard - I was a regular workhorse of my own account before Tatum came. And that was through excruciating back pain.. but Pedro couldn't move fast enough for me so I set up the crib :D).

On other notes, I went to Julie's pseudo-bachelorette party on Saturday. We ate @ the Peacock Chinese Restaurant @ the Radisson (John McCain's fav restaurant in Kuwait btw, lucky Jen got to meet him! She meets all the senators and congressmen that come through here). There were no strippers but one of Julie's arab friends offered to show up and take off his dishadasha.. That was a pass xD. I didn't really care too much for the food (it's all too cornstarchy for me but everyone else loves it there), but I made some new acquaintances.. Mommy types too so that's a start.. I've definately got to go to the next AWL meeting.. I hear they're trying to set up a playgroup this year so that would be perfect on my end.. I loved my old playgroup in VA..

Another interesting thing that happened to me was when I was out shopping @ the avenues on Saturday (Btw, Pedro took the kids for the WHOLE day AND night so I got a much needed/appreciated breather - he finally got a taste of what I have to deal with and let me tell ya, at the end of the day, he wasn't no happy camper! lol) - anyway, I was shopping and stopped to pick up some black glitter makeup to experiment with.. After stopping by the Benefit counter to see what was new I went around smelling perfumes and while testing out Britney Spear's latest some sales lady came up to me and just started a whole deep converstation with me about how sad the whole Britney situation makes her and that quickly jumped to love to men to dating and her dead fiancee.. This would have been weird just anyway, but I was just standing there kinda shocked cause this was a Kuwaiti chick who was talking to me.. I was like, "Oh muh gah, an Arab is actually talking to me! This is cool..". It happens occasionally but it just isn't common and I've never actually talked with an arab woman outside of business.. She asked me a bunch of questions, told me how beautiful I was and gave me a buncha free samples.. So that kinda made my already stellar day a little more awesome.. maybe I'll go back and ask if she wants to get some coffee.. She seemed pretty funny and she hates Kuwait so we might get along :P..

Anyway, the time is upon me to go get Tatum from nursery.. I'll return when I have something of partial interest to talk about.. Toodles!

PS - found my wallet so HUZZAH! I really did not feel like replacing all my cards and civil ID.. what a nightmare