Hmmmm.....

Or things that go hmmm, or things that are hmmm....

I've been trying to post a blog for about five days and, strangely, the actual compose blog thing here was not working for me!  I had to send off to the help desk.  No idea if it worked exactly just know now it is back. So, let's get to it, shall we?

Monkeys.  Monkeys have been a VERY big part of this blog...they are funny, captivating and down right photogenic, really!  So, suffice to say when we spied this one, who is the same one I spied strolling across the backyard recently, we had to photog!

Just FYI that IS a banana he is holding!  Sorry!  I just take the pics, I don't pose subjects!

But here is the really weird thing about this poor monkey!  Unlike all of the other monkey subjects, who had friends and family, and we could just make fun all day long about monkey see, monkey do!  This poor fellow has NO ONE!  He is all alone!  And, he is getting more and more accustomed to being in and around our house, whether in a tree outside the kitchen, strolling across the backyard, or sitting on the fence (or roof), he is clearly wanting some company!  I feel so sorry for him!!!!  Not sorry enough to invite him for dinner, but still...how sad!  :(  Poor baby.  Here is what I thought an interesting picture...him with a background of the Le Meridien hotel!

Ah, so making new friends but keeping the old.  NOT exactly!  These guys are headed to their new (forever) home on Sunday.

Scooter/Scout - live long, be fruitful because goodness knows you certainly spend a lot of time trying!

The fish are also out of here Sunday...to the same house, different pond.  I am praying everyday that the pump holds out so they live until Sunday.  We have had issue after issue and this morning when I woke up and went downstairs...OMG.  Fish, seriously, at the top of the water sucking in air!  Like, GLUB, GLUB, GLUB (is that a good enough description of a fish sucking in air so as not to die???  IDK, but they were surely mouth wide open and gasping for breath!)  I super quick ran to the dang pump, which was again not working, and flipped this switch and loosened that valve and suddenly!  Kaboom, it shot water (and Oxygen!) into the pond....along with about a foot of dirt and crap.  Yeah, the whole who cleans the pond thing is a complete other story that isn't all that interesting!  Just dang people won't show up and pond is DIRTY....FILTHY DIRTY.  But, as long as they can breathe...the turtles and the fish don't care!  Well, and as long as we feed them at 6 PM sharp!  The nice family taking them even knows about the feeding time and is going to try to do the same!  They have young kids who are super excited about the turtles and the fish so, all in all, good move for them.

Yesterday DES went to have his "....leaving on a jet plane..." haircut.  I swear everyone always comments he is SO fat!  Only with all that cocker spaniel hair I love so much!  I got him a much cooler 'do for the plane ride and he looks so handsome and sveulte.  

 He will get one more groom before leaving...this was just to set the "style".  When I told the girls he was going home the one girl who has groomed him for two years got tears in her eyes and bent down to hug his neck!  They have been so, so good to him!  Treated him so well.  Look, mom!  I am skinny!

I know baby, you are so handsome!

Speaking of new friends...I FINALLY was able to take my friend, Shell, newly arrived to live in KL, out to see "my" places.  I had SO much fun...I think WE had so much fun.  I forgot, for some time now, how nice it is to have a friend who speaks my language (well, she speaks Cajun, but still!  :))  right here in my same country!  (I do have friends, in Singapore and Perth who fill this bill but just not here in KL.)  Man, we talked about a ton of different things but I could have just closed my eyes and been in the US listening to her lovely, melodic, voice.  She is definitely her own person but yet her voice and "ism's" reminded me so much of a dear friend I've known for years from New Orleans.  It was so soothing...and I just WISH she had been here sooner or I wasn't leaving so soon!  Shell, I had an awesome day!  It was a day I have sort of dreamed of having since I moved here!  Like, I could actually be like all the other expats I see with their friends, instead of by myself with my iPad!  I was kind of disappointed that my normal waiters at my normal haunts weren't there today because I sort of just wanted to go - "hey!  I've got a friend!"  I'm not really just this sad, lonely, expat woman with her iPad!

So in summation, the monkey has no friends or family...the turtles found their forever family...Desi is beloved by everyone...and I finally have a friend and have to leave.  BUT, I go home to my friends and family and hopefully I leave my (new) good friend with some knowledge of where to go and things to do to keep you sane while....

Living in a Foreign Language, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Love, spajunkie

 

Comments

[Shell]

I just love you! I had so much fun I told my husband I don't need to go home-- but he knew better. Really truly honestly, I didn't want to go anymore after I got home. He noticed the change in me too! I had such a good time and even took him there three times since. Anyway, I have some sad news so I better just call you to tell you. I'm happy, but sad at the same time because I am leaving you :( and the time I could be spending with you. I just had such a good time. I have only met three women in my entire life that I felt so comfortable and like I could be myself around...you are one of them. Now you are stuck with me and my Cajun slash ghetto slash whatever the hell New Orleans is made of lol for life.

Love you! Thank you so much!

[Danice Oliver]

I so cant believe you are leaving me!It was such a short honeymoon!Lol.Okay, go, have fun!But, please come back!Otherwise what will I do with all my red beans??? Love you girl!

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