8:15-Wake up and remove mosquito net from around my bed while humming ‘Danny Boy’ song stuck in my head from the Irish festival concert last night. St. Patrick’s Day is a comin’!
8:20-Eat a bowl of corn flakes with sliced banana & soy milk (some things never change).
8:47-Read and prepare for upcoming support group. Remembrance & Mourning this week means the women will share the most traumatic stories affecting their lives. Note to self: Remember Kleenex.
9:15-Tea time. Raab’s Classic, Malawian grown tea.
9:30-Move six cases of empty Carlsburg beer bottles into the pantry for refill discount. Birthday bash last weekend=successful.
9:35-Climb rickety ladder up avocado tree in backyard to harvest fruit. Why is it that the best avocados are always just out of reach?
10:00-Bleach shower and tub until they sparkle.
10:45-Hand wash clothes with warm water and detergent in large green bucket. Rinse in clean tub.
11:40-Ring wet clothes and hang to dry on line outside.
12:15-Dance around empty living room to Outkast, Atliens album while eating straight from the peanut butter jar.
12:17-Protasia joins in on the dancing.
12:48-Boil pot of water for drinking. Mimi once said a watched pot never boils so I removed a dirt termite tunnel being constructed on the cement wall as I waited. Dear hollow headed termites, don’t you eat wood?
1:30-Eat boiled green beans and carrots with onion and tomato for lunch. More peanut butter. More tea.
2:51-Watch swallows dive through the afternoon sky from my patio.
3:17-Stare at the branches of the palm trees as they sway in the breeze.
3:33-Imagine what funny animals and objects the clouds in the sky resemble. Listen to the slow relaxed beat of my heart.
4:01-Walk 2.5 miles to the store for freshly baked bread.
5:40-Iron dried clothes to rid them of the larvae the flies may have laid on them. Apply bug spray.
6:15-Consider eating cookies for dinner.
6:16- Wait for a stove burner to become available. With three burners on simultaneously the fuse box will begin to buzz as warning of impending shut off.
6:20-Use my better judgment, decide against cookies and boil rice and vegetables for dinner.
7:30-Throw kernels of corn into hot oil for popcorn and episodes of ‘The Wire’, season 1, episode 5.
9:30-Read finale of Steig Larson trilogy by the light of a small Mag Light.
9:59-Lay head on silky pillow. Sleepy time.
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