cochroaches from hell

yellllllow folks!

heres another list of stuff going on in my life over here....get ready....get set..........GO!

--COCHROACHES: there are massive amounts of cochroaches where I am living. Its a shed, with a "cottage" attached. its where we sort and grade the plums/blueberries. Anyways, i have killed so many GIGANTIC cochroaches. they are on steroids or something---maybe they just eat plums all day. I killed on the first night, woke up, and it was in a different place. The same thing happened last night. I HATE THEM. they are sick and i can't stop thinking of "Broken Down Palace" with claire danes and kate beckinsale. a cochroach gets lodged in one of their brains and they go insane. cross your fingers this does NOt happen.

--MUSIC: "fat freddy's Drop" and "Fly My Pretties" are kiwi bands and they are AWESOME. buy/download as soon as you can. great fun.

--kiwi's and others here always say "sweet as" which = fantastic or awesome and "choice" which also = awesome and fantasic or stelllllllar! can't stop saying them............

--going to pilates with jennie tomorrow and yoga on thursday....pretty excited......... i need a good stretch

---SUNDAY MARKET-----

So, Sunday the market is in Blenheim which is 15 minutes away. woke up at 7 with hannah, bob, and jennie and off we go. I was an indentured servant that day and had to work for another man, chris, who sold omlettes and crepes in this stand at the market. When we were driving there I kept thinking " please do not make me do anything w/ math ($$) or chop things" of course, right when I get there I have to chop tomatoes and apples, and then crack open 9000000 eggs AND beat them. The other 3 KIDs working there, who were literally children, 14, 15, 17 years old, were dissing my egg beating skills. DUH, i know i can't beat eggs. Then they told me i had to do cashier. One of them, the 15 year old in charge, whispered in my ear " you can get a break in a little bit " I wanted to SMACK him in the face and be like " Oh really, can i get a break? Oh master, Oh master." I AM WORKING FOR FREE! Cracking your damn eggs and counting your damn change. I'm sure I messed up there $. I am AWFUL at math. I was using my hands. I ended up ditching them cuz jennie said she needed my help, thank god. i have to do it next weekend. I might be "sick" though.

I did have the most amazing apple beignets there---ohmigod they were so good. and almond croissants. yummmmmmmmm so fresh and good.

Ok, hilarious...........let me describe some things for you....

Jennie: Ripped, 50ish woman, HUGE arm muscles, mustache to boot, masculine and gorgeous at the same time, white/grey hair, "rosie the riveteer"

Bob (jennies husband) : One of the shrimps in the little mermaid who shrivels up, small, hairy, small, hairy, like politics, small. very small. wimpy. (oh god i hope he doesn't read this).

So at the end of the market, jennie was like Oh yea, its our obligation to put back the chair and wooden tables....the tables were HUGE picnic tables, very heavy, the chair were plastic. hannah and i tried to put away the tables but they were pretty dificult. we walk by jennie and she is single handedly putting away the tables liftng them up like holk hogan. my jaw was wide open. she then realizes we can't do it so she goes " well, why don't you help bob put up the tents"

--------------Jennie puts up HUGE wooden tables while bob puts down tents..........HILARIOUS.

so perfect.

jennie and bob are also plum celebrities. she was one of the founders for the farmers market in blenheim whch is super cool. everyone wants her plums and berries. I will never be able to eat plums at home bc they taste nothing like this---they are SOOO good its unreal. juicy and fresh.

Today I picked plums from 8:30-1. We picked Elephant heart. you have to go through them and look at them pretty intensesly and THEN sift through them deciding how ripe they are. I'm getting pretty goood at it I think......they are soo good....at like 4 while I was picking them, right off the tree. We had to have this huge baskets attached to us, like we were pregnant with elephants or something........like a slave i thought....really strange feeling.

tonight there was a barbi (bbq) around the corner at a bar called Cork and Keg. it was all the farmers from the farmers market. very good/fresh food!! At the end I met this couple, Rosemary was the womens name. They have a vineyard here (there are 60 in renwick---they are like weeds) and they said they would like me to come work there in may.......they wer ein there mid 60's....he reminded me of my dad just because he had massive amounts of nose hair/eyebrow hair growing everywhere. I thought he was scottish at first. might ahve been drunk, but very funny. I think he thought my name was maureen....oh well.

forgot to say something about valentines day. The reason, you see, i fell off the horse was bc it was valentines day at home and that day is cursed for me. last year my nana died and this year i fell off the horse. next year I will stay at home and order pizza. i do miss my nana a lot. I almost picked the phone up once to call her here, but realized I couldn't. it isn't so awful though because I can still hear her voice and predict what she would say........"a friend just died, how is your hair, are you dirty...what are you eating? American idol is great....." and think it was crazy I was picking plums. Its strange that its been a year. I'm glad it doens't feel that long. Ihope it continues that way.

Anyways, on an end note, went for a run today (5 minutes +30 minute walk) lots of sheep, wineries, and mountains to look at. Workin in the morning tomorrow if I don't get eaten alive by cochroaches.....ugh. going to see slumdog millionaire this weekend STOKED!!!

xoxoxoxoloves