turning over the stone

[started writing this as i got up, then got distracted] 

it's bad enough i just woke up from a horrible nightmare in which i went into impossible debt borrowing from the mafia and was still unable to take care of the things that brought me to borrow in the first place, but i messed up my neck while dreaming it. i can't look left and i need to drive tonight.

that nightmare is definitely a reflection of reality, in one month (tomorrow we'll have been here a month!) we've amassed way more debt than we did in many months when moving to cape town and are precariously close to maxing out our credit cards... at least the job i'm starting soon pays well enough to start reducing that debt, that's something i didn't have for years after moving to cape town...

i finally got in touch with the licensing bureau yesterday and learned that i can drive temporarily on my south african license, and this evening we'll be using car2go for the first time. i'm trying not to think about how much money this would have saved us over the course of the past few weeks :p

over the weekend - we had a generally quiet and relaxed shabbat - we met (and approved of) the babysitter and i put on my rollerblades and did a circuit for the first time since we arrived. i was out of breath when i got to habima, but otherwise it was good and i'm mostly impressed by all the new bike paths.

[resumed] 

we had a fun time meeting up with my old neighbor yesterday (even if mr smear was bored), and sammy called to catch up in the evening which was great! 

also great: we received a phone call from the municipality this morning, and mr smear is going to school after the holidays!! 

mr cat has finished the latest page of the graphic novel, our couch has arrived, our mattress is on the way, i'm slightly nervous about driving this evening. back to work.