Up in the Bush

Whats up in the bush?

1)My Computer

My computer is an amazing thing, - my laptop to be precise. I don’t know what my life would be like without it,  especially without internet, especially when you live in the middle of ‘the bush’ , where all your everyday –take- for granted little luxuries are..well..missing. One minute, I'm throwing myself into work(on the laptop) - plan budget reply design...then arrhh..sick of doing that lets browse facebook and google images and recreate a menu that doesn’t really need recreating but what the heck...I like doing that sort of stuff- its what I procrastinate with that still makes me feel productive!...then ahh..tired of that lets blog a little... I swear it keeps me sane, beats going down to dusty ol salelologa to do shopping at _____wholesale where the tellers are only half paying attention to me and half texting their friends or plucking their brows at the same time.On another note- yay- tuasivi now makes Bakels Quality long donuts- for those of you who don’t know bakels- award winning NZ entrepreneur of all baking doughs and goods,, world renown if you are into the baking line of business...thanks mum!!

2) answering phone calls

I just answered a call from a random department in Saleologa who are trying to get credit with one of my relies businesses, some last minute thing and I’m like..sorry no can help,, you need to speak to dat person in particular (my rely) . This youngish sounding person then goes on the “se va’ai sis...” just need you to do me a favor and help me out here...just need your ok so I can do this....I don’t know what it is with us Samoans calling random strangers “sis” like that’s gonna make everything ok cos now we are buddy buddy...and it’s quite annoying having some young sounding  dimwit guy  who wants credit...go on a ‘se sis’ spiel which is completely  out of my help range- and sort of instruct me to do  this favour- like ARE YOU NUTS...eh. Stupid. Fanks for ending my day on a ‘eh’ note....

3) Preschool

My daughters  been going to a local preschool...I've always been  excited about that and hope her Samoan improves, she’s got some words down but string a sentence together you ask?? More like- “se mum, se aua wola wola aise fai alu a ea?”.....I’m sure she will pick it up in time though....she’s got enough people around her speaking Samoan. I remember just getting it kinda sorted by yr 8- kinda meaning ‘can manage to string a sentence together’...not so sure on the exact grammar and all...I remember writing essays in Samoan at home, and my sitter would proof read it ( or at least thats what i thought she did) ...and she would crack up in fits of laughter, not that my essay was comic or had humour at all of any sort (that I knew of) and then she’d run along and show the worker next door, and take it to the shop and show someone else...seriously- I wish I had kept a few of them to read now, maybe Id get what was so pathetically funny about them, .Lucky I was a kid and couldn’t care less..I was like uh? Whatever...why are you showing everyone my essay...don’t know why you think it’s so funny? Give it back already before I tell you on my mum...

4) driving

I still hate driving in Samoa.... Savaii is admittedly less stressful then Apia. Apia has had an explosion of cars  and there are like 2 cars  for every building you see, sheds and fales included. Its seriously stressful there..esp buses and taxis. But buses and taxis are no different in Savaii. Pull out infront of you, stop short with no break lights, being overtook on a curb and then almost shoved off the road when an opposing car comes its way..dammit man. Seriously i just about lose it sometimes and feel like following these idiots home...and yelling some sense into them- what if i got into an accident becos of you!RETARD...what if my kids were in the car!EGGHEAD! what if  someone got KILLED! LOSER...and BLOODY WELL HOPE ITS YOU ON that end of the stick one day! Ars$$%*le... 

READ the freaken rode code..dangit...dont know if people in Samoa even KNOW a road code exists...but on a positive note i used to get comments from colleagues/friends in nz when i lived there that i have very good defensive  driving skills...comes from 10yrs of defensive driving lessons by default.

5)Cooking

Lately the hubby and I have been pretty lousy at it. Cooking for ourselves...and to think we run a restaurant AND have kids....we have just been soooo busy, we’ve had quite a few of our staff call in sick/go on leave lately which has meant we are pretty much doing 6am til 10pm days everyday and when it comes to the evenings to cook something for ourselves (by which time we’ve both realised we haven’t eaten all day....you’d think we’d be losing weight already- nah...doesn't work that way when you stuff yourself silly because you are Starving by the end of the day!LOL) but we’ve hit that place now where we get to 6pm and one of us looks at the other, like- so are you gonna cook something? And im thinking- dang ive been soooo busy running around ALL DAY   and now i have to cook (i know- how immature- soon the kids will be cooking us dinner the way things are going with us!lol) and hes looking at me with that...can you see how tired i am ? can you see how disheveled I look- that's how i feel ...yes...and you want me to muster up something?   then we are both like- crap..we had better get something done up for the kids we have,  and whip up a totally unhealthy fastfood fried food  poor excuse of a dinner...must not be good for my kids but you know, i figure they are growing so it isn’t THAT bad for em...and there are always heaps of veges in whatever fry up we can conjure up in 5 minutes....but yea...i can feel my arteries clogging up as i type...dammit. if only lettuce wasn’t $20 a head in Samoa.

 Yep- so thats my top 5 list of whats been a happening lately....fair to say its a pretty usual week for us here in the bushJ  keep ya all posted in my future blogs!!