all shopped out

I'm hoping I'm all shopped out, but not before the bank phoned asking if my card had been stolen by a Ted Baker fanatic! You know you've shopped too much when you can't carry a single thing more.
Went grocery shopping - had no idea till now that there are Halal and non-Halal aisles at the supermarket. The microwave at work is Halal only too. Impending visitors (parents) are shaming me into putting something in the fridge besides beer and apples. There are now some persimmons and cans of soft drink as well. I still have no desire to cook.
Went hashing on the weekend. Tried to ignore lots of rustling in the undergrowth but towards the end a python popped out!!! Even the locals were scared Some people will never go out on a hash without a stick.
Had the best professional massage of my life for A$10 and can't wait to go back. Spent Sunday PM at the Tivoli Villas pool with friends who live there. All the taxi drivers know the place because it's where the famous alleged act of sodomy occurred (former deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim spent quite some time in jail after a fairly suspect court case in 1999) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim

We had a power failure at 11pm last night. I wasn't too worried because it was kinda time to switch off The Chaser anyway, but when the P.A. came on and they told me a couple of times not to panic ("The situation is ...under investigation..."), I started to wonder if I should panic. Distracted myself by busily sewing buttons onto a shirt with DENTAL FLOSS using my headtorch - can't wait for my boxes to get here! When the power came back on 10 minutes later, they felt the need to get back on the P.A. and announce that a couple of times (I thought the noisy air cons might have been a bit self-explanatory).

There was some sort of public holiday yesterday and the traffic went bonkers. It's times like that I am extra glad I live 10 mins walk from work. It took my new cubicle neighbour 1h35mins to drive 1km!