Things...

Everything has been great with me and Vivi so far. She currently doesn't have a job but has sent out dozens of emails to employers and is waiting for replies.

We go to the local fresh food market three times a week to buy food, it's great and it's really, really cheap. We buy enough food for 3 dinners and it's about 35 RMB, roughly $5. She's a great cook and I eat at least 4 servings of vegetables every night and just a little meat and of course fruit later in the evening, great. They have a better variety of green vegetables and a vegetable that is lotus root, amazing. I've got Vivi hooked on peanut butter and jelly, especially peanut butter. Vivi's been eating so well that she now has to unbutton her pants after some meals, it's really cute.

I clean the dishes some nights and help with chores around the house but she still does more than I do and won't let me help as much as I offer, honestly. I know what my Mom and my sisters are thinking, but it's true.

We've been living on a tight budget because we have just enough cash to get through the next 5 weeks, until I get paid at the end of March. Why the end of March? Because my February paycheck will go to the rent, utilities and management fees. They require 2 month's deposit and I only had enough for 1 month's rent and 1 month's deposit so this month we have to pay that again. I thought it might be a little difficult but it looks like we'll easily get by and have extra money to spend on some nicer things for the apartment, make it more like home.