things i would post to lxy & jergins' board if i could

ok

I'm now staying with my parents and I chased a bug out of my room and it went into their bedroom instead and it's in there whizzing about.

i am certain they are extremely surprised by this

imaginary pet

kinda struggling with estela having parents? i'd envisioned more of a pallas athena scenario

Otm

imaginary pest

It's ice raining. Bad day to learn your coat is more water resistant than waterproof..

it has been extremely hot and humid here, ice rain sounds like a sweet fresh dream.

hello from arusha tanzania

hello<3

it is even more disgustingly hot here today, i was not meant for this.

it's disgustingly cold here. can you send postcards from tanzania or are you on a safari?

i will when we get to zanzibar next week. send your address, yo!

where in the world is

lxy of the sandbox

rim of ngorongoro crater, for now. tomorrow, serengeti plain. in four days, ras nungewi zanzibar.

still time for postcards if you send your address! connectivity has been pretty good.

emailed u

got it!!

Neighborhood is exploding like crazy! Happy 2013 sandbox! The century is a teenager now :)

happy new year, sb<3

got a postcard from paris today<3

i still have the shanghai one on the refrigerator door, it's held on by an old ratbag of a troll magnet with flaming vertical orange hair and smudged chimney sweep cheeks.

hurray from zanzibar!

today we walked (trudged dispiritedly in the heat and humidity along a dusty road -- the long way because we were told there were packs of loose dogs on the short road) through town (a collection of falling-down shanties and huts with infants sitting in the dirt outside, and a bunch of shops called "shop" that had for sale fruit, potatoes, used clothing and shoes), to the tourist beach (a beautiful expanse of white sand fronting a turquoise sea, peopled with europeans in speedos and thong bikinis, zanzibari boys telling us how the beach is dangerous further down -- why? it's not clear -- and gangs of little girls in pretty dresses shouting JAMBO! and offering seashells for sale -- one of whom hit me with a piece of flotsam rope when i pleasantly declined. 

it's hard to be here. we're staying at a 5-star resort on the northern tip of unguja island, surrounded by barbed wire topped walls beyond which is squalor and poverty. so while we have all the comforts (along with the over-attentiveness that seems to imply comfort), it is difficult and unpleasant to leave, and stifling to stay. 

plus it's superfucking hot. and we just spent 7 days on safari, which was its own brand of difficulty and unpleasantness. 

we have seen a billion wild animals and some incredible scenery. tanzania is very beautiful and we've met some very nice people. but to be quite honest, i am ready to go home. but i'll be sure to send postcards before i do. 

Paris postcard arrived today <3<3<3

I miss you guys and will be very glad when you are back home.

that does not sound like the right climate or soil for you to flower in, miss lxy.

I love reading your accounts. They are so visual, i feel can see you there!

got my paris postcard today! <3

daerest lxy,
merci pour le cafe!
<3

<3, everyone, from schiphol. i did not get the tz cards mailed :(

i feel completely insane.

<3 godspeed home dear one, are you on your way? it's seems ike you've been gone for such a long time!

the only time i was in schipol my bag was pulled aside for a search. i was there with a friend who was returning to the states after several years in the peace corps in west africa, so i was carrying some of his excess stuff -- fortunately the long cylindrical item that caught security's eye was not a marital aid but a bike pump.

in the course of the search the woman noticed that i'd forgotten to mail my postcards and offered to do it for me. and she did! <3 the dutch

estela have you and f been to an abl game?

home. thank god. 30+ hours in transit is tooo long. we flew business class the last leg, which was a great surprise.

hakuna matata, everyone.

Welcome home! I hope you can just relax in your house with all your stuff, listening to quiet familiar sounds and just breathing in the air of home.

happy new year at home!

so welcome<3

mookie, we've never to an abl game but f. has very recently been reading up on it. also the dodgers/diamondbacks are supposedly going to play in sydney next year, he is more interested in that but it will no doubt be ludicrously expensive.

it's snowing!

no it isn't!

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licorice bullets!
raspberry licorice bullets!
jaffas!
giant jaffas!

maggi onion soup but no reduced cream bc mum put it in her carry-on luggage ;_;

(this is the load of food mum and dad brought over last weekend for me)

mealmates. you lucky thing!

ty for the postcard!! <3

Iceland has really cool stamps!!

I am in an airport.

:-)

Mountains! And trees!! <3

weak beer tho

lol, seriously!

Apparently they can get kegs for this place that are better than what can be sold in bottles. Didn't matter cause i had wine!