What happened to me?

Seriously. The length of time between this posting and the last is completely inexcusable. I can only imagine the readership I've lost because of this poor form. Not that you, Precious Reader, are looking for excuses, but let me at least note that I have been working pretty nonstop (even Saturdays, and, are you ready for this, Sundays). For those of you who knew me in my former life at a certain department of fuels, you probably don't even believe me, but I am not someone who's going to lie on my own blog. For real. Please believe, and forgive, me.

Okay, in addition to work (which I luuhhoovvve by the way), a lot has happened since I last posted. Let's start with the fact that I moved(!). The new place is, if you can imagine, even bigger. We forgot O'ball, but she found us.
In all of my non time I didn't take a great sequence of photos, but I have a random assortment so you can get a feel of my small mansion house. Let's start in the place where all the magic* happens--my bedroom. I have a few closets for the 3 outfits I brought:
*magic =sleeping
I thought I should clean up a bit before I took a picture of my room...but I didn't.
I have two new roommates I should tell you about. The first one you've seen many a time before - John Face! Here he is preparing for our language lessons (which we have in the living room).
And here's the second one - who John killed
True story. That thing was in my bathroom and I felt like I was suddenly on safari. I felt badly killing it so I gave John a yogurt container to trap it and then let it back into the wild. He took the container and then one of my shoes and, well you can imagine the rest. Obviously, there was a breakdown in communication which is a real shame for the once giant spider.

Anyway, back to the tour. The kitchen is quite large. We labeled all our food with Chichewa names in a desperate attempt to learn (which is proving to take a while).
Sorry, that's the best photo I have of the kitchen, but if you look closely, you'll also see the coffee (khafi) maker that came from Uhhhmerica.

One other new thing--in addition to working all of the time and the crib change is a small SUV sitting in the driveway. Owner = car model (pictured below).
On this note, see the title of my first blog entry.

Okay, I also have a lot of photos from a work trip and I promise a "what do I do besides travel and live in big houses and eat" posting soon. Overall though, things are going really well. Malawi is a beautiful country and the people I'm working with are inspiring (as is the work).

However, it's after 9pm now so I must sign off--get off Amy's couch and go home.