So many bloggers have been moving their blogs or changing blog names lately that some of my links were outdated. This evening I finally fixed up the ones that needed fixing. That is about the only thing I did today.
I have been feeling kind of lousy for the last week almost, not really sick and I don't really have a cold; but I do have an awful persistent cough. I did have a slight fever for a day or so; but that passed and now all I have is that awful cough and a definite, serious lack of sleep. I am almost wondering if I have a touch of Whooping Cough. I haven't even been able to sleep in my recliner which usually works when I have a cold. So I am pretty much a useless zombie at the moment.
Roy has been cooking for himself as I haven't really had an appetite and yesterday he needed a couple of eggs so he went across the street to the little tienda to get a couple.
He came home with the eggs, laughing hard, and had a funny story to tell me. When he got to the store he looked in the usual place for the eggs and couldn't see them so started to ask the storekeeper. He went totally blank for the Spanish word for "eggs". A bit of background here. Roy is very good at playing charades in the stores to find what he wants when he is on his own, we know the store lady fairly well and she has a great sense of humour, so he resorted to charades. I guess he clucked a few times like a chicken and then mimed cracking open an egg and putting it in a pan. The lady laughed and went into the back room and returned with 2 eggs for him. I guess they were both just splitting with laughter by the time he left the store.
This same store lady has a Siamese cat that her granddaughters named "Clifford" after Clifford the Big Red Dog books. She also provides lunch for the health workers that go through the neighbourhood on the Dengue checks, etc.. One day on her white board she had a menu written, there was a variety of dishes listed and I stopped to read it. I doubled up with laughter as the menu items were all something to do with the cat. There were tacos de Clifford, Clifford a la plancha and various other items. The health workers were all laughing and getting a kick out of it. It is very seldom that you go over there and don't leave laughing. A good neighbour whose husband unfortunately, suddenly passed away a couple of months ago from a heart attack. She now does all the store keeping on her own; but her sense of humour to the public has not changed at all.
