It's been a long time since I last wrote. Our summer has been dominated by one thing...

The Deck

Anyway, we're near the end of this phase of deck building so I may be popping in here more often. Outside of that, I feel like my trip of a lifetime was eons ago. I wish I was still there. I think I miss travelling more than anything. It could be that I am tired and not tired all at the same time. My eyes are tired and really I should be going to bed but something is keeping me up. My eyes would really like it if I just shut them, however my brain isn't ready yet. Anyway just wanted to keep this short and sweet so off I go to try and lull all of me to sleepy land.

I actually worked a full week and waking up at 5-ish is not easy. Now that I think of it, I didn't mind waking up at 6 for the tours I was on. 6 seems so much nicer. Not much is going on with me. There were a few changes at work but it's all good. I hope that things are good and I will adjust fine. It always takes a bit to settle. Settle Angie, settle.

I'm back! Got home last night after a smooth flight back. It's been nice and weird being home so far. I got used to living in HK and just jumping around China that it's odd to be home. I've done nothing but laundry and unpacking so far. Thankfully I'm almost done.

While away I made a new friend. He's a great guy and we had a blast together. I'm looking forward to developing our friendship even more. In addition to making a new friend, we both met a nice couple vacationing from Spain. We exchanged contact info and hopefully J & I will be able to visit them there.

Mochi is out cold right now and I think he has the right idea except that I really don't know if I should have a nap or not. So far I've been pretty okay with the time change. I am tired but I don't know if that is more from the lack of sleep (5 hrs the night before my flight & only a few ours on the plane). I did get about 7 hours sleep last night (the most I've had in the last 6 weeks). I'm looking forward to another 7 hours tonight.

Three days! Two fingers and a thumb. I can't believe it. Wow.

Wow, I haven't post in over a month. A lot has happened since then. We've celebrated three birthdays and are celebrating a fourth today. I've landed a new job and just finished up my first week yesterday. Chinese New Year is tomorrow and we'll be celebrating next week. Shortly after that we'll be off on our big trip! These few sentences have pretty much summed up the big things that have happened. Oh wait! Nix the celebrating three birthdays, we've actually celebrated four and we are celebrating a fifth brithday today. Crazy, eh? Btw, my new job environment is awesome. I really like my new employers and my co-workers are great. This might be a little thing but to me it's a cool thing, I get to wear casual clothes to work. Jeans, tee's, runners, etc. Yay!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Ya, I know I'm a touch late but better late than never, right? It's been crazy hectic over here. We hosted Christmas dinner for my family. The turkey was awesome and so were all the other dishes to go with it. We've been going crazy these last few week either visiting with friends or family. It's starting to slow down now. We just had New Year's here with Kef and as always had a delicious meal with some fabulous wine and fun. We started off the evening with a bottle of wine while playing video games and getting dinner ready. We managed to polish that bottle of wine so we opened another and finished that by the time dinner was over, which by the way was fantastic. Just before we sat down a neighbour called and invited herself over after dinner (she asked but how could I say no ). We cleaned up just before she arrived with a bottle of sparkling wine in hand. We played the Wii and had mimosas (and other alcoholic beverages) while waiting for midnight to strike. Just before midnight we changed into our bathing suits and headed to the hot tub with another bottle of champagne (brut). Got in the tub, popped the cork (into our yard), poured the bubbly and toasted to a new year. We enjoyed the hot water, the light rain and brut. After our soak in the hottub, went back inside and continued to play more video games. We finally headed to bed about 1:30.

It was a good night.

It's what time?! I've been up for an hour and a half now. I've surfed the world wide weebl I've played the Wii and here I am blogging. I finally got all my Christmas shopping done the day before and everything wrapped yesterday. Yay! We've figured out the menu for dinner but I still have to go grocery shopping to get it done. I would've gone tonight except I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to go at this time of the night alone.

Had a fabulous dinner last night. Went to our fave Thai restaurant with a really wonderful friend (who's home from England, visiting) and her new family. It was so good to spend an evening with them. Her stepsons warmed up to us by the end of the evening (we've met one before, not the other). She was also a real sweetheart and brought us back some goodies :) She brought back my fave chocolate, Galaxy, and some lovely tea, Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Gold (loose leaf). I still have to arrange her little package home and will drop it off prior to her heading home late next week. I miss having her around. We use to go out for dinner all the time to this Thai restaurant.

If I'm still not asleep by 4, I just may get a head start on my grocery shopping for dinner.