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Obviously, am still maladjusted. Its 6 am and I have been awake for about two hours now. But its ok; it just means two hours of msn-ing, skype-ing and yahoo-ing everyone back home.

Woke up to the symphonies of Gene's snoring and could not get to sleep - there was also this rain shower in the early hours, before I gave up the unequal fight to get to sleep and crawled out of bed.

The rain stopped as abruptly as it started and it was a complete dead silence after it halted. Tells you there's nothing around at 4 am in the morning.

We've moved into the new home. It's going for an obscene price a month but it comes with everything thrown in, utilities etc etc so, okay lah, considering we have a/c on 24/7 and its constantly at about 20 something deg C... think it will save us money in the long run. It's also brand new and comes furnished with the regulars - beds, couches and all. It's just obscene when u think about parting with that kind of cash a month... it just means we are really frugal about the other things in life. We actually have two bedrooms, but got pillows and linen for only one room, cos, aiyo, no point lah... unless we get visitors. Anyone coming? *hint hint*

That said; it really is a nice place. We have an attached garage, and we walk up stairs which open up to our living room. Its hard to explain what it looks like so will take vids soon and upload it into the computer and you'll see it for yourself on the blog.

Rochester is a fairly small town. The centre of town has a couple of old historical buildings but much else is quite Americana - squat and pretty little homes with driveways. Small windows are the norm here though so you don't lose so much heat in the winter - which apparently can be brutal here.

It became bright while I was typing - the light now is like 10 am back home type light.

To answer the question whether am enjoying the tai tai life, I'd have to say I haven't had a chance to yet! It's been busy! We're driving alluva the place getting bedding, groceries, houseware. Am scaring myself too - am getting excited about getting 400 threadcount sheets for US$25. (sale! quite good ah?) The pillow cases cost as much. That's why only the top pillows have cases, the other supporting ones can remain unshod (!) and uncased!

I brought towels from home (yes, yes, I know, can buy here but these were my Robinson's $50 each type towel - figured that they can do with a bit more use) also because I was anticipating we'd need a bath before actually getting to the shops and I was right. :)
We did not manage to hit the shops until the day after we arrived. We arrived at about 1 something in the pm and most of the afternoon was spent a) doing paperwork for the home b) getting to the bank and starting an a/c and c) finding out where's what and trying to get the GPS to work.

You recall that bloody rice cooker I lugged from home? It's available here. At Walmart. (About 20 mins drive away) Althooough... Gene was not convinced that the rice here would be different but it is: American long grain is NOT Thai Jasmine. I'll tell you that.

First milestone: managed to cook first dinner yesterday. Yay! :) And the leftovers, gene cooked chao fan, which is currently our breakfast.

Okay lah, super long post already. Catch u soon.