So, for all my sch scoffing at the constant reminders everywhere about 'when to switch your clocks back'...I now cant remember if it was meant to be last night or tonight or tomorrow night! eh...woke up and the TV station had it switched back, turned on the laptop and don't know HOW it knows this but a message popped up reminding me that SAMOA's daylight savings ends tomorrow meaning i switch clocks back tomorrow..and no one can tell me so far, not the hubby or the workers if it has actually changed! so we are all operating on, 'I-dont-know-the time' time, which is nothing new here in Samoa, ok, lets just say Savaii then he he!!
I was telling the hubby recently that half our issues with workers who are real casual about NOT being prompt to work, is that they dont have a watch or a phone...so they dont really have any idea of the time. They catch the bus to work, get to the front gate stop at da shop in the front, faikakala to the shopkeeper, stroll down the front drive, stop and chat to the neighbors and then arrive thinking its only been 5 minutes since they left their houses to a fuming me, who has been expecting this person over an hour ago and is ready to FIRE everyone..but whats the point? it would mean just that..fire EVERYONE coz everyone does it! oh the joys of living where i live... What I need to do is get someone to bring me over a box of $5dollar watches for all da workers!!
So this morning we were woken with a phone call indicating someone in da village needed da hubby to bring his behind over with our car to do da village shopping for da village meeting. so thats fine, hubby disappears, heres me thinking for an hour! then the power goes off..uma cashpower..so im texting everyone if anyone of 3 adults living in our house bought any cards in advance,No..so next is I dont have a car to go buy some and the shop that sells is quite a distance away...trying to text da hubby where hes at ..no relpy, later discover he is now AT da meeting and part of da meeting so there goes the whole morning for sure, thanks for letting me know!! Thanks also to cash power for imposing your cashpower regime on us, and then not making the cashpower cards available to every village, theres like 1 shop in a 10km or more radius here that sells em and when they are out and da EPC office downtown is closed, ia, well kafi your afi outside with some fafies coz no one is coming to your rescue mate. I heard that DIGICEL offered them an easy solution that would let us purchase power with digicel cards, ae airena se fia rub shoulders epc to the idea, so fanks for making life easier now, suppose less available cards means less power for all meaning less work for your generators, thats gotta be good when they are always encouraging everyone to save power!chuhoo..se malo EPC.
Anyways, so now i have to resort to walking to da shop some distance away -OMG lol! not really but the 3yo is hangin off my dress going mummy me come!! mummy me come! so we walk, and I get ambushed by the village women, who tell me dat Im down for supplying da kau i'as for da 'fafaga' of da fai-aogas next saturday here for suegas..I THINK, thats what she said..not entirely sure thats 100% accurate but sounded something like that. I suppose if I were a fisherman that would be a good deal ...anyhow, those particular saoga-meas annoy me a tad...when its feeding teachers for no real special occasion even...like, ok...bring your lunch with you? and if there are 4 teachers and 20 village women each bringing some form of food, dang thats a whole feast there!! i just dont get these people coming up with decisions like this and than not actually being able to afford to carry them out...I would know because i get the stream of "please can I aikalafu $50" (er, you mean HAVE- big difference, if you dont ever intend to repay me- than its HAVE and not aikalafu) eh...I have concluded that these are the cause of my small gnag of grey hairs now popping up mysteriously!! lol..so i am gonna try not to worry over these things as there are bigger things going on in the world!
I'm in limbo at da moment with what I am doing in the near future. The opportunity to do part time work again at the Hospital is there and Im seriously considering it to change the scenery and get the braincells working a bit:) Sometimes I look at myself and ask if this is where I saw myself at 30? (cos you know, Im not yet 30 but its just round the corner!!) and I can honestly say- no. Although I dont know where exactly I saw myself, just not exactly where I am at today. I thought I would have done more for myself, but I guess I only have myself to blame (quoting good old Dr Phills- " you are a product of the decisions YOU make for yourself!") thanks Dr Phil, although Blame sounds pessimistic and I hafta say Im certainly not pessimistic or dissappointed, I guess at times its more like Im just baffled haha! Ua ke'i a le keige Apia e ala ifo lesi kaeao ga ua nofo i Savaii ha ha!
ok, so thats enough philosophizing for the day...was very happy with the evictees of American Idol last night, I know who I want off next but will just hafta wait for next week. In the meantime Im gearing up for a bake-a-thon for easter in Savaii..and then a really busy MAy though I might be at the hospital by then so- haha, someone else can do the work im currently doing...or wait a minute..boo hoo it might be me after work at da hospital! oh well im SUPERMUM sometimes..when I feel like it...
Ok, gonna sign off for now- ciao and fa laia
