January

My sister Anna just sent me a kindly suggestion that I should update my blog. I would like to let her know that I was already planning to that, so she can't really take credit for this. It's already February thank goodness since January was a little bit of a blah month. It always is, except when you are hanging out in tropical Thailand drinking fruit smoothies. We missed Thailand this year. In the absence of Thailand, this is what has filled our time in the past month.

1. Work. There's always somebody's little kids to take care of. I have finally stopped dreaming about changing diapers and tying shoes. Kevin, however, had a nightmare last night that he had to take care of all my kids. Recently it has been the season of sickness. I was quite proud to stay healthy for three weeks (it's got to be a record) until yesterday when I was one of maybe four teachers out sick. I'm feeling a good deal better today (despite a 7am staff meeting) so hopefully it's not a long lasting thing.

2. Rain. We got an abnormal amount of rain. We essentially live in the desert, but we got full weeks of rain. While I am happy to see everything greener than normal, I have developed a particular dislike for rain. When it rains, the kids have to stay inside all day and they start getting stir crazy. They have no where to release their abundant energy except on each other. Plus, I can't bike to work when it rains. I have to leave an hour early and take the bus.

3. Football: The season finally ended. :) Kevin was very disappointed with the loss of the Cowboys. I was disappointed too because if you have to watch football, at least it's better to have someone to root for. I believe this was the first Super bowl I have actually watched. I did learn much more about football this year than ever before. Like, I never realized just how many games there were.

4. Duke! Almost three years since my last college basketball game, I watched my first (and second) Duke game. It was quite a joy. The players have all changed, so I'll have to reacquaint myself with them, but they are still the same Duke.

5. China. We got all kinds of information and paperwork about returning to China that we've started working on a little. I'll talk more about that later. Kevin has gotten to cover several Chinese related stories. We are hoping to connect with a foreign student in the area (I'm not sure if they'll be Chinese or not).

6. Lost. We are still mourning the loss of The Office, whose humor and sarcasm gave us relief in many times of stress and tension. We don't ask for much out of TV. After losing our one TV show, we were particularly glad for the return of Lost and all the new mysteries it brings.

That's about all I can think of at the moment. Like I said, it wasn't a super exciting month. And now I need to leave for work, so that's all.