In India

Yup, you read right. I’m in India! That’s why posting has been delayed as I was told last week that I’d be spending this week at a conference in Goa. So here I am. Sat in an internet cafe with bollywood music in the background. Remembering the good curry that I had for lunch. 

Ah well, it’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it!!! 

Why oh why?

Why is it that this week, the week when the rains won’t stop and we all start to think about building arks, is the week when the fan belt decides to break on my car?

Leaving me stuck in the pouring rain. In the middle of nowhere. (Well, not quite nowhere, but near UWI – not at home, at my parent’s, at the man’s, at work, you know somewhere easy).

Leaving me without a car when everyone else in Kingston is trying to get taxis due to the rain so they have become a rare commodity.

And of course, it turns out that my car, despite being fairly common on the road, has a fan belt that is ‘tall’ and hence hard to find and hence a 1 hour job has turned into 2 carless days and still counting.

Please let it get fixed today. Please let the rains stop. I want to enjoy my heroes weekend!

Prophecy?

When I was 19, I received a phone call on my birthday from my big brother. ‘Do you have a boyfriend at the moment?’ ‘No’, I replied.

‘Well be careful. You could turn into an old spinster living in a little house surrounded by loads of cats.’

Fast forward a few years and it is my (cough cough) birthday this weekend. And last weekend, I went and got a cat for my little house which I live in on my own.

Is his prophecy starting to come true? The cat and I have a good relationship so far. He doesn’t cause mess, he doesn’t take up all the bed, he comes home for dinner every night. Maybe I’ll happily embrace the prophecy!!!

However, the man and the cat get along well so far. Maybe I can just have half the prophecy. Live in a house surrounded by cats and with a man who loves me. Who knows what the next year has in store for me!