Cold Showers - 7 May 2009

We (well my gatita) got up really early as we were expecting engineers to come and fix the boiler.

Since yesterday we exhausted the hot water in the boiler as it broke down since a power cut two days ago.

My gatita prepared a full English breakfast stacked up in a sandwich which was a good morning surprise. After that I went straight back to bed for a quick after breakfast nap.

The house owner came by and she was not able to fix it so she called up the engineer and we were to expect them at 11am.

The simple pleasures in life (such as hot water) sometimes kick you in the butt eh! You take things for granted.

We both rested until bang at 11am and were caught off guard by the cleaner so it was a mad rush to find the pyjamas jejeje. A funny moment! She informed us that the boiler engineers would be arriving at 1pm instead due to techincal problems, so a nice hot shower had to wait till then.

Anyways after everything was sorted at around 2pm I cleaned up and we headed out for lunch and claimed the 2nd part of the money that Darren sent over.

It’s good we split the collection in 2 days as experience of sending some money over to my gatita has proven it’s the best move without being asked too many questions. There was an older lady trying to take out monies sent to her from USA and the western union agency refused to give her the money until she proved what it was for, who had sent it, when would she spend it. The old lady was not happy with the interogation but how was she to know that for large amounts Western Union collectors become extremely suspicious.

After that, we went to the shopping mall called Santa Fe, and we were able to find a nice dress for the wedding. I attempted using the card again and it went through. Not the first go as the attendant asked us if it was a current account credit card and that failed so she processed the card as a credit card account (visa) and it went through. This of course is very good news as I can pay for things (it seems) and keep my cash in hand to pay for things when a card is not accepted or fails.