What's up with Elisabeth & George?: Birthdays and Time Adjustments

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Birthdays and Time Adjustments

It didn't work out for me to bring our image drive home with us, so I can't do the now traditional photo post for the current round of birthdays. So I hope it suffices for me to simply wish a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Pierre, Reem, Evelyn, Kerry, Hans David, and my dad! Daddy & Reem, I hope you both have a very special day today!!! Sorry some of those other wishes are so late!

Late.... speaking of late.

It's 6:45am. I've been up since 5. A huge improvement on yesterday when I was up at 3. I'm struggling to stay up past 7pm these days. The adjustment to local time is HARD. I think I would have made the switch in a day or two, and I almost did, but then there is the toddler who has no idea of what day or time it is anymore who keeps dragging me back into his world of mixed up sleep. I guess I have to give it TIME.

It's good to be back. I do miss some things from Penang already. We had a great time in Walsenburg with the fam. Now that I'm in the Denver metro, I can't wait to get all my girls together for a ladies lunch. I've missed those so much! But it will probably have to wait. George is back to Penang on Sunday, and I'm back to my parents' until he returns. But all will be returned to 'normal' very soon.

We took a peek at the house yesterday. Everything looked fine. The house looks fine. I felt the excited butterflies in my stomach at the prospect of another move and reinvention. The only problem: the back yard is a DISASTER. HUGE TALL WEEDS have taken over. How have we not had complaints from the Home Owners Association?

We also saw Teddi, Keith, baby Lyric, and Nyree yesterday. How nice! So great to reconnect with you all and it's like we got back to our friendships without missing a beat. Little Lyric has grown so much. I look forward to pressuring her and Regin into a life-long friendship. Ha! Today we're seeing Monica, Eduardo, & Stacey if it all works out. And hopefully we'll actually get to our laundry and errands. Still no plans for tonight though.

Ok, well, off to start that laundry right now. I'm at my sister's house in Golden. It's almost 7. Maybe it's late enough to open the garage door so I can go get my laundry from the car (we thought we were going to go to a laundromat yesterday.) Hopefully it won't be too much longer before the rest of the house starts to wake up and I can enjoy another lazy morning with JoAnn and family.

LOVE TO ALL!
TTFN

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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.