I'm back. Sorry I was out of commission soo soo long. First off, Happy New Year to all. Thank you for all the emails asking if I am OK... I am great just real busy with little internet access :o) other than that things are great.
So to give a short short version of many stories I hope to expand on within the next few days I will start off by saying New Years Eve here is one great party and I would suggest coming here for the winter... yes, even in this cold cold cold.
New Years Eve itself was great. I spent it with friends at their house and then we went to Valencia (a banquet hall)... where Nune Yesayan, Hayko, Shushan Petrosyan, Suzy Markarian, Ashot Ghazaryan and a few others were singing all night. Hrand Tokhatyan was MC and he did a fabulous job. We partied until about 6 am when I came back to my friends house and the party continued till breakfast the next morning. We did this for three nights.
It does not stop there. January 13/14th is old Armenian New Year which of course is celebrated too. So I have been celebrating for half a month now... but today I celebrate something different. I CELEBRATE WATER.
For the past five days I have had no WATER at all. My waterpump burned and then my pipes froze. For the past five days we have been replacing the pump and thawing out the pipes with permanent spiral heaters which will hopefully stop me from ever being left waterless again.
Now that I have my water back I have spent the day cleaning home, entertaining friends (now that I can wash dishes, I can have friends over again) and doing laundry.
This feels great, I miss logging. I promise to start up again and not leave Lena and Ara with all the stress of being the only winter 2001/2002 loggers.
I will spend an entire log on my Karabagh trip because it is a great story with a lot of funny moments.
Happy Armenian New Year to all.
So to give a short short version of many stories I hope to expand on within the next few days I will start off by saying New Years Eve here is one great party and I would suggest coming here for the winter... yes, even in this cold cold cold.
New Years Eve itself was great. I spent it with friends at their house and then we went to Valencia (a banquet hall)... where Nune Yesayan, Hayko, Shushan Petrosyan, Suzy Markarian, Ashot Ghazaryan and a few others were singing all night. Hrand Tokhatyan was MC and he did a fabulous job. We partied until about 6 am when I came back to my friends house and the party continued till breakfast the next morning. We did this for three nights.
It does not stop there. January 13/14th is old Armenian New Year which of course is celebrated too. So I have been celebrating for half a month now... but today I celebrate something different. I CELEBRATE WATER.
For the past five days I have had no WATER at all. My waterpump burned and then my pipes froze. For the past five days we have been replacing the pump and thawing out the pipes with permanent spiral heaters which will hopefully stop me from ever being left waterless again.
Now that I have my water back I have spent the day cleaning home, entertaining friends (now that I can wash dishes, I can have friends over again) and doing laundry.
This feels great, I miss logging. I promise to start up again and not leave Lena and Ara with all the stress of being the only winter 2001/2002 loggers.
I will spend an entire log on my Karabagh trip because it is a great story with a lot of funny moments.
Happy Armenian New Year to all.
posted by Madlene at 8:32 PM
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