good weather- useful day

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yesterday wei had the day off so we went to hong cheng market in search of appliances to finish setting up the apartment. we got a rice cooker for 70 RMB (this was after a long debate- do we buy the pretty pearlescent pink one or the larger, more practical midea model? wei threatened that if i didn't hurry and make a decision, he would buy the crappiest one we saw). but aesthetics won and we came home with the pink one, as well as a pink mop, a couple random scarves, and a five-tiered shelf for my makeup/perfume/other girly stuff. all in all, a nice day for walking around and shopping- i'd say it was about 60 degrees out.

we dropped all the stuff off and then finally! went to geoby where i got my promised bike basket installed and they threw in a velcro wrap for my wires (sporty!). wei's bike ran out of power on the way home so we ended up walking the bikes and got home relatively late. we then went to wal-mart for snacks, a wicker laundry basket, can opener (wei did not really see the point of a can opener even after i told him that i have not only the standard hand-powered opener at home but also an electric one for the countertop... he thought ~40 RMB was too much for such a useless implement, so i compromised and got the 7 RMB one which you actually have to more or less saw across can lids), and a reed-type air freshener. now, the only things left on my shopping list are a dish rack and earmuffs. i feel like we accomplished a lot!

today will be rather uneventful: organize at home, hope JQ returns my camera, and hopefully talk to kevin. i'm craving cake, and wouldn't mind hopping over to holiland to get one.... but i really don't want to be the fattest girl in all of jiangxi, so i'm going to have to start watching what i eat.

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Photos

Sign in Beijing
Translation: Motion sensitive automatic faucet.

Papa John's
In Nanchang, they'll deliver, as will KFC. But not Pizza Hut.

Pretty dish...
Rice stuffed into bamboo.