So My husband and I have just returned to Hong Kong after being away five weeks. During that time he worked in New York, we went to a fantastic Persian wedding in Tennessee and then headed to London. We got to visit plenty of friends and family and the two of us did a lot during this time away. Since we arrived back to HK just in time for the weekend we thought we would do absolutely nothing - other than house stuff like cleaning, laundry and unpacking - and of course watching a James Bond Movie Marathon. Since we had so much laundry to do I jury-rigged a laundry drying area in our living room.
Usually when I do laundry I just hang it on door hangers around the house. But in Hong Kong we have to dry it with the air conditioning on - because of the humidity - and since we are in the living room this weekend I thought this would work better. Though when my husband came into the house on Friday night with this hanging over the main door - he was a little confused.
While on holiday I read a great book which I believe everyone should read called
Lets Pretend this Never Happened (a Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson (a blogger) who had a hilarious childhood that has probably scarred her for life - but entertained me for hours :-). Plus her book has a mouse in a cape on the cover! (which I think is a taxidermied mouse she mentions towards the end of her book).
Side Note - and interesting fact I discovered while writing this blog is that "jury-rigged" is a nautical term which basically means a temporary/makeshift repair (
see here - I love wikipedia :-). This word, apparently, should not be confused with "jerry-built" which is shoddy work, that isn't necessarily temporary (
see here).
