new, improved format (for me, anyway)

I haven't blogged in quite a while, and I realized that's because I set the bar pretty high with my early posts-pictures, detailed descriptions of outings, etc. I now understand that I need to k.i.s.e. (keep it simple estupido). From now on (or until I decided to become even lazier), my blogs will contain phrases (or maybe even sentences, if I'm feeling spry that day) as updates, and, so it's not endless ranting about this god-foresaken place with no chocolate chips, I will include a couple of complaints AND a couple of positives (well, at least one).


So here goes-here is my lame attempt at catching up about what's going on here:
Updates:

Vivi has eleven teeth, including 3 molars. She also has separation anxiety, which means she wakes up SCREAMING at night. My cold, dark heart gives her a pat, then goes back to bed. She goes back to sleep in about 15 minutes

Stuartt passed and I failed the driving test, which means I have to retake it next week. I was given a bank of 275 "English" questions to study. Some of them are psychology about how young people feel about themselves. It's no wonder Chileans drive like shit.

I quit my Spanish lessons, because I dreaded them every single time and they weren't really helping. I'm learning a lot more by talking to the nana and looking up words I don't know.

Complaints:
People who work as grocery checkers here are ASSHOLES. Seriously, when I say, in Spanish, that I understand when people speak slowly, then you don't speak slowly, it's not okay to make fun of me in Spanish to the person standing behind me in line. I know enough to understand that you're an ASSHOLE. This has happened to me more than once, in more than one place. So it's not just me.

Dogs bark here ALL THE TIME. I am going to poison every last one of them, I swear. And their owners, for good measure.

Positives:
The bread is good.
Wine is cheap.
Our baby is cuter than all the Chilean babies.

That's all for now. As they say here, "tien buen," which probably means "have a nice day."