day 22 - is this home now?

November 22 is my Father's Birthday. Happy 52nd Birthday to him.

day 21 - a week behind.

i meant to post these a week ago, but then... life happened and the last week at school has been nutty. Trying to finish up documents for our December school inspection by the Ministry of education.

On that note, happy the weekend is here and I will NOT think about school for at least 24 hours.

Last weekend, went off to D22 to hear the Gar! (plus Golden Driver and a very Radiohead-esque supporting band)

Here is a picture or two from the evening and another picture of a painting made by my lovely painter bf:










and here is a funny website of failed Big Bird cakes. (sounds strange but they are really awful!)

day 20 - I was home entertaining some guests when I fell off the chair and cracked open my head. Bees flew out and they flew up their skirts and ...

have you read your daily Toothpaste for dinner?

day 19 - cause you don’t mind seeing yourself in a picture as long as you look faraway, as long as you look removed.

ok, i am one day late in China, but not in North America, so I will do :
What's Hot and What Not Wednesday. (courtesy of LoobyLu)

Hot:

these two throw pillows and how nicely they fit into the surrounding decor.



My ever expanding Chinese vocabulary. I CAN understand! when people talk. I grasp more and more of what is going on around me.

the fact that I was smart enought to bring some OTC cough syrup back from Hong Kong this summer. Now I don't have to scour Beijing for Robitussin that costs an arm and a leg.


Not:

finding out (after the fact) that the chinese medicine I am finishing for my lymph node infection is also a laxative. (Generally better to know prior to consuming)

that small orange kitten that we rescued past away this past Friday while I taught my Social Studies class in the afternoon. it was a sombre Friday


this persistant and cold early start to winter, even if it is my third winter here I still struggle to cope in the dry and windy Beijing winter

day 18 - if we can, we will, we must get out!

thanks to timezones, and although the 17th of November is long over here, it is still my Grandma's birthday in Canada.



so...HAPPY BIRTHDAY to her :)

day 17 - Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves

last night at my mandarin lesson, the teacher had asked my classmate to say something about me using the structure: hen (very) 很 + adjective

so he said i am very pretty.

then i blushed. I think it was the longest blush I have ever had, or maybe I just became a little self-concious and it seemed to last until the end of the lesson

day 16 - ni gan ma ne? (What are you doing?)

In 14 more days, once NaBloPoMo is over, I think I will turn off the notification that updates Facebook that I have updated my blog.

other computer news

i have only updated my twitter account, maybe twice since the beginning of summer, but I still get new followers.


Why is that? I don't think that they are all spam bots either.

happy early monday morning!

day 15 - half way home

a chilly, windy and sunny sunday morning: jules and I are drinking coffee and putting some of his childhood Disney puzzles together. We just finished one with Mickey, Minnie and the whole gang jammin' around a piano. Mickey is the pianist, Minnie is dancing on the piano (scandalous!), Goofy is on bass...I'm sure that you get the picture