Shop-a-lot

It's Friday today, and we spent the whooooole day shopping. First we went to Lulu and stocked up on necessities like mayonnaise and bread. Then we went to Dragon Mart and picked up some cheap art:


That's real canvas stapled to a wood frame, for you folks at home. $21 per piece. Ahhh, Dragon Mart.

After that we rolled up to Pinky's furniture warehouse in Sharjah to check this place out (word on the street, they've got all sorts of big solid wooden far eastern furnishings for cheap.) Well, it wasn't THAT cheap, but it was pretty good. We found a pretty sweet bench for like $400 and a pretty sweet bar for about $500, but we're not too interested in spending real money on unecessary furniture at this point, so we didn't buy anything. Priorities, priorities - I told Dan we're on the Obama budget - this fiscal year we're gonna invest in new work clothes, take a trip home to America, buy some art every now and then, AND reduce the deficit. But in order to accomplish these goals, we'll have to make some sacrifices - like continuing to bomb around in the Seat, aka Dubai's cheapest car.

I'm a little concerned that thing is starting to fall apart - it doesn't always start right up, having a little trouble shifting into 5th gear, there's that minor oil leak mentioned in the last post. Luckily only one of us has to depend on it to get to work. :)