Foraje puturi

Dacă acceptaţi banii, nu mai puneţi întrebări.
Sir Joseph împături cecul şi-1 puse în bu-zunar.
—    Păcat ! Dar banii sînt bani... Cît vă datorez, domnule Poirot ?
—    Nu-mi datoraţi prea mult. A fost, aşa cum am spus, un caz lipsit de importanţă. Făcu o pauză, apoi adăugă : Pînă acum, aproape toate cazurile pe care le-am anchetat au fost crime.
—    Trebuie să fi fost interesant — spuse Sir Joseph.
—    Uneori. Destul de curios, îmi amintiţi de foraje puturi unul dintre primele mele cazuri, în Bel-gia, cu mulţi ani în urmă... Protagonistul vâ semăna foarte mult din punct de vedere fi-zic. Era un bogat fabricant de săpun. Şi-a otrăvit soţia ca să se însoare cu secretara. Da, asemănarea este remarcabilă.
Sir Joseph scoase un sunet slab, iar buzele îi deveniră vinete. Culoarea îi fugi din obraji. Se lăsă să alunece în fotoliu privind cu ochi holbaţi la Poirot. Apoi cu mîna tremurînd se scotoci în buzunar. Scoase cecul şi-1 făcu bu-căţele.
—    Gata, s-a terminat ! Consideraţi această sumă foraje puturi apa onorariul dumneavoastră !
—    Oh, dar pretenţiile mele n-ar fi fost atît de ridicate.
—    Nu-i nimic, păstraţi-i !
—    îi voi folosi în scopuri de binefacere.
—    Fă ce naiba vrei cu ei !
Poirot se aplecă uşor spre Sir Joseph :
—    Cred că, în situaţia dumneavoastră, ar trebui să fiţi mult mai atent.
Sir Joseph spuse cu voce aproape neauzită :
—    Nu vă faceţi griji ! Voi fi foarte atent.
Hercule Poirot plecă. Pe cînd cobora   scările, îşi spuse : „Am avut deci dreptate".
Lady Hoggin ii spuse soţului :
—    Ciudat, tonicul ăsta are cu totul alt gust, nu mai este aşa de amar. Ce s-o fi în-tîmplat ?
—    Farmaciştii, — mormăi Sir Joseph — sînt foarte neglijenţi. Prepară un lucru de fie-care dată altfel...
—    Asta 'să fie... — zise întrebătoare foraje Lady Hoggin.
—    Sigur că da, ce altcova ar putea fi ?
—    A mai aflat ceva despre   Shan   Tung ?
—    Da, mi-a adus banii înapoi.
—    Cine a fost ?
—    N-a spus. Foarte închis tipul. Nu-ţi face griji

Random

I don't know where to begin. Maybe just a random summary of things, then I'll come back with details in future posts.

1. Costa.Rica was awesome. I highly recommend it. I'll post more on it later with photos.

2. Work has been extremely busy since I returned. I'm scrambling to catch up with all the blogs I read. I'm thinking about you all.

3. We are enjoying our ballroom dance lessons. We've learned the Foxtrot, (missed the week of the Jitterbug), the Rhumba, and the Waltz. We're not bad either!

4. We joined a gym and signed up for personal training. I'm trying to bulk up a bit and hubby wants to slim down. Mostly we just want to be healthy and fit and create some long lasting healthy habits. We're enjoying it all so far.

5. I filled out and sent in the information sheet to an adoption agency we're interested in. I have a friend who adopted and she's going to bring me information on another agency. She encouraged us to check out several, that we'll be dealing with them for a long time, so we'd better like them. Just like an RE. Hopefully we can rule some out early, then go to a few orientations and decide who to use. I'm ready to get started.

6. As much as I'm excited about the possibility of adoption in the somewhat near future, I still get sad. I should have known better than to think I was "cured." You may or may not remember that we had baby furniture that my brother and SIL gave us before we even started trying. We put it in a closet and it sat there for years. A friend of mine who is financially unstable got pregnant, so we loaned the furniture to them. I recently asked her to send some more pictures of her baby. I adore this friend, but haven't met her son yet, so she sent me a link to her my.space page. As I watched the slide show of photos, there is her beautiful smiling son laying on MY changing table or in MY crib. I'm happy to have helped her out and I know that one day those will be in my house with my baby in them, but it was a little too much. It made me sad, as all of you can understand. As I told my hubby about this experience, I saw a lot of empathy in his eyes and it was so comforting to see it.

7. The hubby and I are otherwise happy and doing well. We are happy and getting along and on the same page about adoption. I feel lucky.