Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The question does the carpet match the drapes was originated in my flat

I just left the office. I had a late start today too.  I can actually sleep late at my new place because there aren't five girls stomping around all morning. I wasn't very productive today.  That's not all that different from most days.  I returned a billion emails and read a few chapter on MS DOS.  Yes, DOS.  My experiment's computer program is in DOS format because it can actually track an accurate time.  Apparently in regular computer programming the computer knows what time it is because it resets itself or something.

Anyhow, so here I sit, in front of my laptop, in my new flat with a cup of coffee.  In the town centre there is only a small version of a store called Tesco.  Tesco is a grocery store, and yet surprising it is really hard to find ground coffee.  Tea: check! Chocolate drink mixture: check! Coffee "granules:" check! Only two choices of ground coffee: boooo.  I also picked up my "coffee whitener."  That would be coffee-mate. I have been complaining about the strength of coffee over here.  There isn't a whole lot of caffeine.  And considering I'm a coffeine addict, I end up buying a thousand cups of coffee a day.  Bye Bye bank account.  I picked up one bag for home and one bag for the office. 
Justiss and I took her car to the store the other night. She only just got approved to drive over here. She did really well; I do not think I can drive over here.  Roundabouts are so confusing.  Especially in this town.  St. Andrews is so small, yet there are so  many cars spinning around those things.



Here a few snaps of my VERY orange living room. Orange walls to match the orange carpet. Orange drapes to match it all. I guess there isn't HGTV over here. 

The living room is on the same side of the flat as the kitchen so the same parking lot is in view.  But I snapped another one while the sun was going down.  I like it because it shows the chimneys.
I was told that the sun will start setting around 2:30 pm come November.  It is interesting that Scotland is basically on the same level of Alaska, so things like mostly night time occurs, yet we hardly get any snow.                                                                      
                                                           

This post is photo happy, but the only room I have yet to capture is my bedroom (disaster area).  If my only problem in this house is how to fill all the drawers I'll claim it as a victory.  So for now here is the very blue bathroom.

In the bottom photo of the bathroom, you can see a glass divider.  It is supposed to act as a shower curtain/wall/stupidest invention ever made.  It reaches less than half way down the tub and water splashing off my head goes all over the floor.  I always hate purchasing things in a rental that should already be there, but I am on the hunt for an 'L' shaped shower rod.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I could be wrong, but maybe those folks don't shower or bathe as often as Americans. At least that is what I have heard and read. Send your mailing address to my email. I will sebd some Texas Coffee from HEB to you. It is called Cafe Ole' and it is delicious, smooth and most of all strong. Love, Uncle Alan

Anonymous said...

sebd? Shoulda said send. Uncle Alan again.

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