My Everyday Normal

Hello friends.  Today I thought I would take a minute to share with you a little bit of my everyday.

My first picture is of my thermostat.  This is how I control my air conditioning and heat.  Everything is in Celsius, not Fahrenheit.  The little dial on the left is the temperature.  In the middle I can turn the fan of, on low, on medium, or on high.  The switch on the far right is the light switch, which Landen has mastered quite well.
 

This next photo is of my cell phone.  I put it next to my Ipod touch so you can see the size difference.  This thing is huge...and such a pain to use!  It takes me like 5 minutes to type a text...literally!

I am the lucky winner of living on the corner of a quad-plex.  Basically what that means is I have four times the yard to mow and I have the garbage pile right outside my window.  My first month in this house I was shocked that people sit the trash on the edge of the sidewalk like that, just waiting for the the trash man to come.  So gross.

These little snails are EVERYWHERE!!!  They cover the wall of our building.  They are on the sidewalks.  They are on the playground (Landen tries to eat them).  This one is the size of a dime.  Bigger snails about the size of an egg are also in abundance.

My washer and dryer.  Nothing really significant about it.  Just wanted to point out that I have a beautiful set back home in storage.  Front loaders in sea blue.  The government supplies us with these nasties (yes, I created my own word).  Loud, no timer, and they don't even match.

Next, are my curtains.  The Japanese have it going on when it comes to curtains.  Instead of sliding them through a rod, they clip onto a gliding track.  Love them!

This is our power outlet in the bathroom.  I can't even plug my hair dryer into it.  You have to go underneath and plug up inside.

The bathtubs in Japan, or at least the ones I have seen, are huge.  This surprises me since the people are so tiny.  This is our bathtub.  When I kneel on the floor to bathe Landen the edge of the tub comes to my shoulders.
 

De-humidifiers.  We have two. They get emptied twice a day.  Each one holds several gallons of water.

Since we live on a small island that is really overcrowded, they are very adamant about recycling.  We have to recycle everything and it all has to be categorized.  I feel like a spoiled American when it comes to this task.  Yes, I think we should recycle.  But gosh, it sure isn't fun.

And to save the best for last.  Our toilet paper dispenser has a metal cover.  I am not really sure why.