Don't Worry...Be Happy....

I am being lazy in India, but it quite nice and as my lawyer friend Sandash would say "It is good to be alone".

We disagree slightly on that point and when I texted him my new phone number and he asked if I wanted to go to dinner, I was a little starved for a social life and jumped at the chance. I had been laying in the living room at the hotel listening to the rain and watching Beverly Hills 90210 on TV and wondering what to do with myself.

But I got to go to dinner! And had dosa which is kind of like a really thin bread type thing with veggies on the inside and it is golden brown and delicious, plus Sandash (being the gentlemanly sort and also not caring much about money because he is government lawyer) paid for dinner and then took me to a good place to buy DVDs to watch on my laptop at night. Indians are very into action movies so it took me forever to find 2 DVDs which were not entirely action movie collections. One of them is 15ish animated movies like Shrek and The Bee Movie and Nightmare Before Christmas and the other is Great Romances and the choices on that second one include Some National Lampoon movies and Borat....not sure how those are romances. But either way I got about 30 movies for a grand total of 700 rupees....roughly 14 dollars so that is sweet!

Which reminds me that I bought a 4 movie collection while I was in Goa that was supposed to include 1) some movie I don't care about 2) Iron Man 2 3) Sex and the City 2 and 4) Prince of Persia....Instead it has everything but Sex and the City 2 which has been replaced with about a 2.5 hour porno.....That you have to fast forward through.....Awkward. But the other 3 movies will be good haha and it cost me 80 cents...

So then we went for a walk down the bridge and some very philosophical discussions on being happy with yourself and just relaxing and how good that is for the soul. Sandash is quite the philosopher and kind of a hippie also. He also an incredibly safe man to hang around and laughs a lot which is infectious and good for the mind and body.

So I talked to my mom and dad when I got home which was so nice cuz I really miss them, then I watched 2 movies and went to bed late....slept in late...got up and finished my book and now spent some time trying to weigh the cost of some opportunities with the benefits. I will consult with my people (my daddy :-) tonight and try to make some decisions. At least India is a good place to relax! I will try to sell off my old books this afternoon, buy some more, and then take my friend Linda's Jack Russel Terrier ( Mimi) for a walk on the beach. She is gonna be quite the fatty if she just lays around the Indian house where she is staying eating rice while Linda is gone for 2 weeks, gotta keep the little one in shape. And walking...well it's good for me too :-)