Jia's (or Zue Elderberry's --her self-appointed Slovenian name) cookbook sleeping routine has presented itself as concrete evidence that jetlag does indeed exist. With her 5 year old lack of psychic overlay, she has now, for four nights, methodically fallen asleep at 1 am, and blythely awoken at 12 noon. That would be 7 pm, and 6 am EST -- just one hour off her 8 pm to 7am U.S. clock, and just one hour off her 12 hour orphanage-set clock, that she has so ardently adhered to over the last four years.
Today, with one entire Krofi of her own, we enticed her to get up at 10 am, with hopes of an earlier bedtime tonight. I am desparate after I got so irritated last night that I told her we wouldn't "have ANY food on the table" if "mommy doesn't get her private time to trade options on her computer". It was effective, in that she thought that sounded really serious, but .... we really need to get on a regular schedule.
It snowed all night last night and there are 8 inches now, with it continuing still.
I look around at all these apartment windows and wonder what the Slovenians are doing, because all we can think of is Kafe and Krofi.
Have figured out the secret to laundry in the snow -- racks and radiators.
American ingenuity or American ignorance? You decide, because I already I know the answer.
2 comments:
Perhaps both ingenuity and ignorance...but mostly just laziness. I loved hand drying clothes in Honduras.
we have about the same amt of snow, freezing rain, winter mix on the ground ... sorry I couldn't find the comment button earlier ... this old dog was looking for the same thing I've seen on the G-Man's blog. I [try to] learn something every day.
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