I am back in Welland for the next two weeks. Arrived last night after spending two days with my Auntie Sue in Kitchener for the family reunion camporeee held this past weekend.

I missed the Saturday festivities as I didn't arrive until well after midnight. My flight from Shanghai to Vancouver had been delayed by 2 hours, and so my connecting flight ( Read more... )

Is there some higher force at work here? Is there truly a deity hovering over my head, snickering and snapping his fingers to make my life miserable just when it looks like things are going well ( Read more... )

blithesea  is my new hero.

She braved the Kitchen of Evil. Fighting off untold horrors, she made her way through the Maze of Horrific Dishes, and found the Sunken Sink of Trash-lantis.  She valiantly fought off the denizens of the Crawling Cupboards and scoured them all, armed with a scrub brush in one hand, and a jar of bleach in the other. While she fought ( Read more... )

I have had a migraine for 3 days straight. 11 hour days are not helping ( Read more... )

6:00 - wake up.

6:30 - wake up for real.

6:35 - ask Ru if she wants to get up. Ru yawns and buries herself under the blankets. Okay then.

6:40 - stumble to bathroom. Put foot down directly into pile of used kitty litter. Thank you kitties who litter.

6:50 - finish sweeping and windex-ing the floor and hobble back to room with one sock on and one sock ( Read more... )

Out the door at 7am on Wednesday because there's a workshop in Jinshan, and home by 7pm because of the workshop in Puxi. *grumble*

Out the door at 7am on Thursday because I was suckered into doing teacher training at Nan Ma Tou, home by 7:30pm because of workshop in Puxi (another one). *grumblegrumble*

Out the door by 7:50am on Friday because I have ( Read more... )

In my poorly disguised French, I translate that as, I am 'le grande suckeur ( Read more... )

Symptoms:

1. She spends an absurd amount of time wandering around her apartment at 7am wondering why she's up so early - only to remember she's going to Nanhui at 7:30 and needs to hustle her ass or she's gonna be late. She winds up being 15 minutes late anyway.

2. After getting to the Fanghua stop on Line 7, she can't remember which exit she's ( Read more... )