What's up with Elisabeth & George?: Penang -- Week 16 -- Not the Mail I Was Expecting

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Penang -- Week 16 -- Not the Mail I Was Expecting

Week 16
FRIDAY, June 27th
We got our first real shipment of mail from the States this week! I was thinking I was going to open the package, see mail for me and say, "Yay! I exist!" But there was only mail for George. My parents receive most of our mail from the States, and they send it on to our Agilent address who, in turn, sends it on to us. I contacted my parents to make sure there wasn't some of my mail that got lost in the shuffle, and nope, I haven't received anything! Whuh? It was after a few phone calls to them and the post office that everything got figured out. See, George filled out a change-of-address for the family, but because we each have different last names, we have to fill out three separate forms. If not, all mail gets returned to sender after 10 days of not being picked up. So for three months all my mail has been returned to sender and I didn't know it! Who knows what I've missed! I am most upset about some magazine subscriptions. I was so excited to get a shipment of Dominos, Luckys, and Cookies, you have no idea. Now what?

Something that was in the mail was a nice little surprise: A $3000 bill from Regin's surgery. Effin great! So much for traveling!

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How we're doing right now.

April 6th, 2009
Oh man, moving back home has been quite a transition! For Regin especially. It has taken him three months to return to being fully, or almost fully, potty trained. But we're home and happy to be with friends and in an environment where things are easier.

But of course, not everything is easier. George's first day back to work he learned that the company was exiting the business and he and all the other people that work on that product (including all those people he trained in Penang) were told to look for other jobs.

His last day was March 31st. No time for that cozy little 'sabbatical' though; after he finished his last day of work, his family called and told us they are coming (from Florida) for a visit on the 10th! This would be no big deal (other than being terribly exciting) if we were fully moved back in, but of course, until now, we've had VERY little motivation to fully unpack! So now we're preparing the house at warp speed!

You know, I do miss Penang. Hard to say what I miss exactly, because I know it's more than our friends there, but I feel a certain pang. And all the time we were there, other than missing family, friends, easy living, and snow, I never once actually missed 'Colorado.'

When we got back to Colorado, I expected to have a new and complete love for the place. I do appreciate some things a lot more, especially visual things. I see beauty where I didn't before. But it hasn't been the feeling of home that I expected, and I still have some of the same issues with the place. But what I do love IMMENSELY and will always love IMMENSELY is the people we have here. And it's been absolutely amazing to see how Regin has picked right back up where he left off with his loved ones here. There's no doubt in my mind that he somehow remembers them.