Miscellaneous Info

Yes!  I just realized that even though I cannot access things like hulu, pandora, netflix, and many other ways to watch shows and listen to music from the US, I apparently can listen to radio stations on line.  Right now, I am listening to movin' 97.5 from Phoenix, and I am so excited!!  A nice break from the constant techno and euro-beat on the radios here.  Well, the current song is "party in the usa" by Miley Cyrus, so it isn't the best thing in the world, but I am not complaining!

A few more updates.  I am a little nervous that I might have pink eye.  One of my eyes is just looking a little pink or bloodshot, which is a little unusal for me.  It does seem less than yesterday, though, so I will not get too freaked out yet.  A friend here had pink eye a few weeks ago - otherwise, I doubt I would even think of it as an option since I don't think I've ever even had it!

And, here is one thing that you will NOT get a picture of!  Since it is cold here and the warm water in the shower doesn't last a super long time, I have decied not to shave my legs while I am here (at least while it is cold out).  This is pretty crazy for me since I usually shave almost every time I am in the shower.  Let's just say that other than the time I broke my ankle and my leg was in a cast for 5 weeks, this will be the first time since I started shaving my legs in the spring of 6th grade that I have not shaved for more than a couple of days.  One the good side, it appears that I have much less leg hair than I imagined or remembered.  Still, it is very, very weird!

I thought there was something else that I wanted to put up, but now I forget.  I just got back from the grocery store and produce market.  For this week, I will be making a small amount of mashed potatoes (only 3 small potatoes!) with some sour cream, fresh spinach with mushrooms and roasted red peppers, an apple and plum pie, and I will attempt to make salata vinete (baba ghanoush) which will involve roasting an eggplant.  It all sounds pretty good, so I just hope I have a change to use all the food before it goes bad.  The mushrooms are from last week and are getting questionable.  I definitely need to use them up today!!!

I realized that I never posted the pictures I took of the produce market.  These aren't great, but I kind of got in trouble when I took them, so don't expect many more!

This is how most of the stands in the market are set up.  Apparently it was different and outside just a few years ago, but EU regulations mean that it has to be indoors now.

Check out all of the grapes!  A lot of them are grown here in Romania, and the all have seeds.