I stopped into the play centre today to drop off D's enrollment paperwork. He was standing watching the kids as they sang their songs with the teacher and he did not want to leave! I think he is excited. Too bad he doesn't start until the first Monday in May.
He says he wants to "go sing songs about words in a chair". He's got it all figured out.

There's a big sign posted in the grocery that says since the volcano eruption has shut down all the airports in the UK we should expect to see a reduction in chilled foods available in the store. Crazy.

And I learned something helpful today--when you order deli meat or cheese you order it by the slice. Who knew? It's all priced by the pound which I find odd. I assumed it would be in kilograms. So if you say half a pound you can tell the poor lady gets a little nervous and she will keep showing it to you to make sure it's the amount you want. Or she'll totally hide it from you and give you twice as much as you asked for simply because she has no idea how much a half a pound is. So today I happened to hear the person in front of me in line order 10 slices of whatever. YES! Of course. By the slice. Good to know. It's funny too because last week B got some ham and he said it was the strangest thing because he ordered a half pound and he said the guy kept saying numbers to him. Like 12, 15, 20... and he was so confused. Slices!!

I really miss having a dishwasher. A lot. I feel like I am doing dishes constantly. And we have to be careful not to put things away when they are still damp or else it will make the entire cabinet smell musty. So I go through tons of dish towels to get everything dry enough to put it away. And the used towels don't dry even when you hang them up so once a towel gets damp at all, it's done. By the end of every day I have a load of dish towels to put in my washer/dryer that absolutely cannot sit overnight. The have to get washed! With really hot water. My washing machine uses Celsius to measure water temp and it tells me 60 degrees is my hottest choice which is 140F. I think in the US it's like illegal or child abuse to have your water heater set over about 120-125. Oh not here in China. They don't really consider safety too much... But that is for another post at another time. Right now we are talking about boiling my dish towels. So anyway between the laundry and the dishes it's a good thing I don't have a day job. Because that is my day job.