Hi Everyone --

Doug spent another 10 hours yesterday working on the computer and it finally seems like it's working properly. It's much faster and not so bogged down and everything seems to work now. We'll keep watching it to make sure it's really better.

This has been a tough week for me -- I've been sick all week. It started with a migrane headache for Sun, Mon, and Tues. Then on Wednesday I felt better, went for a walk, went out with the girls for lunch and it hit me -- the food just didn't seem very appetizing and I wasn't willing to risk the consequences of eating it right then. By that evening I was throwing up and had diahrea and was extremely miserable. That has lasted 3 days and I'm finally now feeling better. Still a little barfy and still very weak, but on the mend.

Doug has had some bug too that he just can't seem to shake. He says that nothing tastes good. I think he is losing weight too.

We had church by ourselves today -- everyone else was either out of town or sick. We got a call last night from one of the members in Mumbai advising us that there was no church there today because of a protest of some kind and that everyone was advised to stay inside. It was the Muslims protesting or a visity government official or something. We're planning to go to Mumbai next weekend for some fun. We'll stay with the members there and get in some good visiting and go to a nice place for dinner. The missionaries will be coming from Bangalore to teach the people who are ready to be taught. There are 11 or 12 that want to be baptized. We're bringing a husband and wife from Pune. It is also rumored that the mission president will be there too.

Since we haven't done much around here, I'm including a cute thing someone wrote about living in India. We haven't experienced all these things, but 27 out of 28 isn't bad.


You know you've been In India Too Long When....

1. You tell your kids to think of the ants in the honey as "sprinkles" and to just keep eating.
2. The guards are as much a part of your landscape as the coconut trees.
3. You automatically wait for your driver to carry your bags.
4. You get out of India and your kids complain that they have to carry their own bags, and where is the driver?
5. You panic if you don't have your water bottle, hand sanitizer, and toilet tissue with you.
6. Your maid brings a cousin's child to work because said cousin is in the hospital, and you immediately sit the kid down and do a lice check.
7. You give up on swimsuits. Everyone else goes in fully clothed.
8. Your kids hear "wash your feet!" as often as they hear "wash your hands!"
9. You no longer think of dogs as fuzzy, warm pets; and "cow" is just another term for "roadblock".
10. You consider hunger strikes, blocking traffic, and rock-throwing viable alternatives to lawsuits. In fact, if the repairman pushes you any further, you may show him how you won that pitching contest.
11. You are more interested in the wide, clean, livestock-free roads in a western movie than you are in the exciting car chase.
12. Your head involuntarily wobbles when you are talking.
13. Shah Rukh Khan is beginning to look attractive.
14. Indian music no longer sounds so screechy.
15. If the meal doesn't leave an after burn, you think that something's wrong with the food.
16. You repeat yourself, over and over and over, and find that instead of using the correct verb tense, you are always choosing the present perfect.
17. Instead of saying "The dog ate my homework", your kids say "The maid put my homework somewhere."
18. You find yourself addressing your husband as "sir". Worse yet, your driver has the first spot on speed dial....."sir" is second.
19. You block out an entire day to get __________, since you know that you will have to go to at least 5 stores to get the correct type.
20. When you are at a hotel, you take three showers a day just to savor the unlimited hot water.
21. Lines? Waiting your turn? What planet are you from?
22. You judge a restaurant's food on whether or not it made you sick.
23. The repairman says "I will be there at 1 o'clock", and you actually hear him say "I will be there when I get there."
24. You don't believe anything they say.
25. You tell beggars and touts that they are wasting their time because you live here, and they leave you alone.
26. You ask the shop owner for your driver's commission.
27. You can tell the difference between the wedding music and the funeral music.
28. Pet food in pharmacies seems to make sense.

Have a great day! We'd love to hear from any of you that are reading this and enjoy it!
Love, Lucinda

P.S. We added some pictures from our family to our blogsite under "family back home."