Home Alone

Thank you to the lovely company that allowed us to have a long weekend for my first weekend in KSA, we shopped for food, household items and just generally browsed, So far Al Khobar and Dammam appear quite flat which is fine for me, because it actually means I can get my bearings easily, well as long as the weather is such that the view is not obstructed by mist/fog or haze, the lovely water tower that sits on the edge of The Corniche can be seen from our compound when it's clear, which gives me a great idea of where I am in the countryside, My Beloved on the other hand probably hasn't noticed that it can be seen from home, and is still using waze to get from A to B, not sure it is looking after him so well as he was on the way to his work, and whilst daydreaming he missed his turning on the motorway, and waze told him in 94km you can U turn, so my beloved decided completely out of character to go off road and find another route back, which turned out to be far less than 94km, maybe my off road don't care if I'm lost nature is rubbing off on him.

I have now joined the facebook group for our compound and Whatsapp keeps me up to date with the ladies and what is going on, I have the bus timetable thanks to an email from Pamela and on Monday I took my first solo adventure into KSA, admittedly it was just to Lulu's one of the large supermarkets, but it's a start.  

So in Lulu's I found lots of nice Abaya's and after traipsing back and forth between the Abaya section and the changing room I made the decision to buy two rather big black numbers, well there is no way you could call them a little black number... I have been informed that most of the shops don't have changing rooms which means you have to purchase and take home any items of clothing you buy, which must be why when I went to the ladies room in Dhahran Mall there were whole rows of ladies cubicles for trying on clothes, now I wish I could remember what the sign said as at the time I thought to myself that must be the sit down toilets!!!! but no it was the changing rooms, quite a clever idea as so far I have noticed the shops display signs which say 3 days for returns, and some sales are only one day for returns offft.

My Beloved has left me, not even a week and he has flown out leaving the hound and I alone and in charge of the house, I don't even get to keep the car, as we all know I can't drive it outside the compound, and I can't see Stitch enjoying cruising the compound half as much as running the paths, even if I did crank the music up for him with a little track blasting WHO LET THE DOGS OUT, WOOF!!!!! So Stitch and I have been walking 
around our little compound getting acquainted with everyone we meet, the gentleman at the shop the other evening said 'wow he sits outside and waits for you??',  'of course he does' I informed him (but only because he is tied to the post), he would only have to sniff eau de cat and he would be goneeeeeeeee.

So I have been trying to sort out my VPN over the last few days, and talk about frustrating, I have internet drops, password issues and DSN what the hell is that all about, so now I have emailed said VPN provider and told them to please help little old me, as I haven't had a decent boost of Netflix for quite some time, I await their response.........