I was so productive today that I wonder what has gotten into me. I went everywhere possible and got absolutely everything on my list completed. I rode my bike to Driekoningstraat and did some small-scale shopping which included a drying rack for when we want to do laundry but don't want to deal with the drying time. I worked for a bit. I cleaned house. And just when I was headed out to MediaMarkt, Leila called and asked if she could join me. So the two of us headed to the mega-media store and then we went to the other place on my list, the Sun Wah supermarket to pick up assorted varieties of ramen and coconut milk.

Back at home, Susan had just finished making a batch of home-made ice-cream of which I don't remember the last time I even HAD home-made ice-cream. Though I wanted to stay and watch the whole thing go round and round in ice and salt, I remembered that Monday is a holiday and that I must go to either Carrefours or Del Haize to do some shopping. I headed to Del Haize on bike and arrived in no-time, shopped in no-time only to stand in line with my handful of goods for nearly 20 minutes. Thankfully, however, my patience was rewarded with a big heaping bowl of ice-cream when I got home. Then I set to work again.

We've been seeing quite a bit of Heleen lately, and tonight was no exception. I like Heleen and one reason of which is because she feels comfortable enough with us to simply say, "I'm going to come by...don't know when..." and it's ok. I think she showed up around 1 something, which was no problem because I was still slaving away on the computers.

She showed up and the two of us sat around the kitchen table until 4:30 or 5 in the morning talking about an assortment of things, from friends to art to working on ourselves. Always a good time. When the sky was becoming day again, I crawled into my Eva-less bed and she fell back onto the couch, not to be seen again until mid-day.

IN THE NEWS:
Cambodia and the United Nations signed an agreement yesterday that would create the first genocide trials for former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, whose reign of terror caused an estimated 1.7 million deaths.