Sometimes, You have a Cup of Tea By Your Bed.

Other times, you have a beer. I confess tonight it is the latter for me. Though, my empty tea mug from last night is still on my nightstand as well. No worries.

I am just plain weary. It has been a long two weeks and the next 1.5 will be rough as well. We are gearing up for another dark here in Macau and two weeks ago it was decided that instead of a global lamp change (giving every fixture in our inventory new lamps) we were going to be replacing LEDs.

Now, let's back track.

In October, when we were dark, you may remember I mentioned everything going to hell in a hand basket. That's because the 150 LEDs we ordered from our supplier in July were late arriving (re: two days into the dark), were not waterproof, got rained on when our rain gutters leaked, and were finally made waterproof before being reinstalled.

They died anyway because they were Rubbish. With a capital R.

We're replacing them with our own creation. Finally. But it was a last minute project, so we've only had 2 weeks to get it together. I have high hopes for this because I take a certain amount of pride in this project. It's my baby and I feel like I have nurtured it to a point where it's time to set it free and let it swim. Hopefully all those swimming lessons and floaties give these LEDs some hope because otherwise my June dark will look exactly like every dark I've been a part of since arriving here: LED-Tastic.

That being said, it's past my bedtime.

The joy in my life right now: my clean room (got rid of some more stuff this weekend), my new plants (a fuschia and a version of a mum), candles lit, and internet in our house again after it being dead for 2 days.

The little things.