random things..

a few random things..

thing number one.
i realized last weekend just how picky i am at doing the dishes. it's ridiculous, i know. but it's true. everything must be rinsed well before i wash them otherwise they leave floaties. and i can't have any floaties in the water. you know, chunks of food or lettuce or anything. if there are floaties i remove them immediately. if there are no more suds on the top, there isn't enough soap to actually clean the dishes, so i refill the sink. maybe i'm crazy, maybe i'm OCD.. but i won't do dishes any other way. oh, and i only wash one dish at a time, so i don't put any in the water to just sit in the water and wait to be washed.

thing number two.
they sell wine in juice boxes here. like the kind with straws and everything. crazy :)

thing number three.
at the grocery store the other day, cristiana's cousin assumed that philippe and i were married. philippe is 45. it was weird. that has never happened to me before. at least not with a man so much older than me. we laughed. but i still thought it was weird.

thing number four.
this weekend is full of traveling. i'm excited :)

thing number five.
milk here is not refrigerated until it's opened. so you can buy 4 boxes (yes, it comes it boxes, too. like rice milk in the states comes in boxes.) of milk and they'll last you a couple of weeks. they won't go bad. it's pretty nice.

thing number six.
i made some really good tomatoes last night. well, i didn't make the tomatoes. but i made the oil/salt/basil mixture to dip them in. it was delicious!

thing number seven.
the wine that cristiana's parents make is potent. it's not bad, but it definitely isn't the wine that i'm used to. so i just assumed that, in general, wine in italy is stronger. but philippe bought a bottle of sicilian red wine (the best wine in italy is supposed to come from sicily) last night, and it was much better. not only much better, it was really really good. i'd highly recommend it.

i think that's enough random things for now. i need to get back to work.
but have no fear, a real update is on the way. and by "real" i mean that it will talk about the majority of my life here instead of my random thoughts :)

oh. and.
today is the halfway mark.
6 weeks left.