Dongyue Temple

Today I can actually say that I was productive for once. Let's see, I did the following:
-three loads of laundry
-cleaned my bathroom
-cleaned my kitchen (-the floors in my apartment ugh I hate doing the floors)
-went to a temple
-read some Kundera in a Starbucks for about an hour
-window-shopped
-bought some vegetables, a humidifier, and a rice cooker
-made myself delicious Tom Yum soup (spicy Thai soup) for dinner
-updated my classroom blog
-uploaded photos
-changed my sheets
sigh...I'm tired just thinking about it. My sleep patterns have been a little wacky lately. I fell asleep Friday night around 8pm and slept until 2am, missing the opportunity to go to the bar. Saturday night I fell asleep at 10pm and slept til 4am, then was awake til 6:30 and slept til 8:30am. I have also caught up on so much trashy TV it is ridiculous (no wonder my eyesight is failing!!). There's something about being away from home with no regular crappy TV that makes me crave pop TV (ex. Grey's, Gossip Girl, all of Desperate Housewives, 90210--my heart jumped a little when I heard the theme song again!, How I met your Mother, Bones, House, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, Big Love...)

Anyhoo, today I went to a Daoist temple that is literally a five-minute walk from my apartment. It is an oasis amongst the chaos of the city!! It only cost 10kwai to get in (about $1.50 and was WAYYYY worth it!). Hope you enjoy the pics. Being at temples alone is much better for me as I'm not wondering where my companion has wandered off to and am forced to shut my trap and just take it all in. This was a much-needed, calm and sunny Sunday. Now if only I could create a calm and sunny Cindy...