Small Achievements

So this weekend Jason is away and I've been trying to take care of a few little things. Just some small things like finding a dry cleaner to come to the apartment...and replacing the hanging rails that collapsed in the closet...finding a lock-pick to break into the bedroom dresser we lost the key for in transit...and getting the water guy to bring us a replacement water bottle. I mean, how hard can all of this be?

It all sounds SO simple but let me tell you, it is definitely not. So with a little bit of help from the receptionist at work and the lady who cleans our house (and does NOT speak english) we have water and a dry cleaner (who will hopefully return with our sofa covers and most of Jason's shirts).

So off I go to the nearest corner shop and several drawings on scrap paper later i manage to find the pieces to make new closet rails (although between the hardware guy and I they were 10cm too long). He also had a key-cutting machine so i managed to convey enough to get him to come back to the apartment with me, showed him the problem locks and thirty minutes later he shows back up with his friend the lock-pick. Et voila!!

It's going to take a lot of these baby steps...