Same ole, same ole

Sunday night Ryan and I went to the RCF fellowship to welcome the first semester students. We met some great people that we will hopefully become better friends with over the next months. Yesterday I cooked for four hours! Cooking has become my new hobby to help me pass the time. I made tacos for our lunch. After Ryan went back to school I made lemon bread. Something I should mention...everything I cook is completely from scratch. When I was living in the U.S. and I said I made brownies, that meant I bought a box of brownies, mixed in some water, eggs and oil and vwa-lah. Here, everything starts with flour, sugar, etc. I actually squeezed the lemon juice out using fresh lemons. After I made the lemon bread, I made fudgy brownies with cream cheese icing. After I cook, I'm actually not in the mood to eat. Luckily, Ryan and his 2 friends that live below us are very happy to eat anything that is homemade.
Yesterday was maid day. The maids come on Mondays and Fridays. The maid and I appear to be best friends, however, I have never understood one word she says. Supposedly it in English, but it is not Tennessee English. I usually talk and she understands and then she responds and I just smile really big and nod. Yesterday she was pointing to the floor and talking jibberish. I just nodded and smiled and said "Oh, yes!". She left and returned a few minutes later with a big, old, dirty rug. She put it on our floor and I just smiled and said "OH! Thank you so much!" What am I going to do now? Hide it and then whip it out on Mondays and Fridays before she shows up? I don't want to hurt her feelings! She was trying to be very helpful and I sound like a big brat right now, but I just don't like having the rug in my sight.
Not too much exciting going on here. Today I typed a bunch of Ryan's notes for him. We did have an incident with a jumping spider in the kitchen today. We were jumping around and frantically trying to kill it but it was a hyper little guy. Oh, I almost forgot. We saw a moonbow the other night. That's really what it's called. It looks like a round rainbow around the moon. It was very cool. Tonight the sunset was hot pink. I had never seen the sky that color. The kitchen sink was hot pink from the reflection. I tried to take a picture, but the colors did not turn out as bright as they were in real life.