my dominican experience for the day

so i just spent about 45 minutes raking through our trash pit - a big hole in the ground where we dump all our trash (it gets burned every few months). i lost a piece to our Kitchen Aid - a handy-dandy do it all mixing, grating, whipping device that housemoms adore. just my luck that i lost the small piece that plugs all the gadgets in. this finger size piece was missing friday, and saturday i realized that i had accidently thrown it into our trash can, but by that time it had begun pouring rain and continued until today. so all decked out in my hot pink, knee high rain boots and an a-frame tank top (it seemed an appropriate time to dress trashy) with a rake in hand i sifted through days of trash, mud and magots. thankfully the cat-size rats only come out at night. after the bathroom trash almost made me lose my lunch a few times i figured i could afford buying a new piece. so, Virginia, if you're reading this, i'm sorry, but you will have a shiny new plug-in piece when you come back.