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Happy Mother's Day! Since I don't have children of my own yet, I thought I would share with you the next best thing...my furballs (who are sort of my children anyway).
Captain Jack actually posing for me. This is a rare shot indeed.
Tigger watching the rain. She loves the balcony. (This is the only picture I have of her with me at the moment)
What a classic "can we stop now?" face!
No matter who you are a mother to or where your children are, I hope you have a fantastic Mother's Day and remember that your children do love and appreciate you and all the sacrifices that you make for them!
Recently my blogging habits have been impeded by slow internet and the fact that for some inexplicable reason, the office IT department decided to make Blogger inaccessible. (It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that it is a distraction, could it?) Anyway, I will upload more Thailand pictures this weekend with all the spare time that I am sure to have between youth activities, Mother's Day phone calls with 2 moms and a brother on a mission, and belated birthday celebrations. Yeah, there is a lot to catch up on. For now, I have had something on my mind that I just couldn't resist writing about, and that something is toilet paper. Yes, that is correct, I said toilet paper.
In January a new Postgraduate Center was opened up to students and staff on the campus where Trip is going to class. I was given a desk there and worked from the newest, hottest office at INTI for 4 months. The look and quality of the center is indescribably better than the rest of campus so I was pretty happy about sitting there. Perhaps the biggest perk was the fact that we also got to use the newest, cleanest, and now nicest bathrooms on campus (we are talking nice 4-star hotel bathrooms vs yucky public bathrooms at a train station). The only problem was that the toilet paper had not been installed yet, but that wasn't such a big deal, I thought, because they would install it soon.
Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. Still no toilet paper. Surely, a mistake had been made. I talked to my boss and he too was puzzled. After asking some questions we discovered that there were some objections to putting toilet paper in the bathroom and thus it had not been done. 'What kind of objection could possibly make sense?', you may ask. Well, let me enlighten you. Apparently, certain INTI staff feel that we cannot afford to provide toilet paper because, and I quote "when we have put toilet paper in the bathrooms in the past, the students stole it". Is it really that big of a commodity that students must resort to stealing it?! Is toilet paper really that expensive that we can't afford to lose a few rolls?!
Well, after this was made known to some key people, the problem was rectified and we were able to find a solution that met everyone's expectations...toilet paper in the stalls in locked dispensers. After nearly 4 months of waiting, hassling, and reminding, I finally got toilet paper in the stalls! For one glorious week I got to enjoy using a bathroom with all the amenities. Then I got transferred to the new corporate offices on the campus that dad works on. I have been pretty lucky since each time I move offices I upgrade a little; I really like my new office and I now have a nearly private bathroom that I share with one other personal assistant.
The only thing is...there is no toilet paper in our new bathroom!
Now that's what you call ironic.
