Really, now. I should update more often.
I think that perhaps this blog has found the end of it’s natural life. That isn’t to say I’m going to stop blogging. Or that Seth is going to stop bogging. It’s just that now that we’re back home, day-to-day life isn’t nearly so blogable as before. I’m thinking I’ll go back to a knitblogish format. Seth is cooking something up, too.
In the meantime, know that I’ve got a problem. It’s a serious addiction.
It’s cheese.
So, just as I got a new job, the blog went dead. Partly, I suppose, I was just overwhelmed by two jobs. At the same time, though, I think I needed to take a break - we were dealing with the finding work, transportation, an apartment, and just getting out lives put back together after Tawain.
But here I am now. With yet another new job, a new, new apartment (as opposed to the new apartment, which happened 3 months ago, that we’ve already moved out of), and even a new scooter!
I feel like there’s too much to write all at once in one big post, so I’m going to cut this one off here. I’m back, though, so you’ll be hearing more soon enough.
I had planned to post some pictures today. I even took them and everything.
So.
Has anyone seen my camera’s usb cord?
Packing, along with the requisite procrastination, is really pretty boring. Well, maybe not always. But it was today. For me. So, I’ve really got nothing today. I’m sorry. I really hate coming here and not actually posting any content. It’s boring for you. But I also hate not posting at all. I’ve gotten into a groove, and I’m actually posting regularly, and I’m afraid to miss a day for the fear that it might just spiral into a week that morphs into a month and all of a sudden, I’m just some girl with a dead blog.
So. The boring post in which I write about how I have nothing to write about. So boring. So meta.
Things I Can Do In The US That I Can’t Do In Taiwan:
Thursday night was the Parents’ Night Performace for two of our four Treehouse classes. For all the frustrations, it went really well once it started. The kids did their silly little plays and sang songs and then the managers said lots of stuff in Chinese, then told us to come up front and say a few words (um, hello? Heads up on that next time, please?), then I guess they took the parents on a tour of the new building while the kids stayed down in the stage area and got some candy.
It’s funny, really - it’s the same sort of thing as the musical programs we always put on in elementary school, but somehow, the post-performance mingling was less awkward, I think, because we don’t speak Chinese and the parents either don’t speak English or don’t feel comfortable enough to use the English they do know. So we just goofed around with the kids until everyone began to trickle out. At one point, while people were still working their way slowy to the door, Chelsea (one of my Treehouse 3 kids, who had the title role in our little play) grabed my hand and started pulling me upstairs, without giving me any hint as to where she was taking me. We went from the basement up to the second floor and then down to the first, back the area behind the office, and then returned to the stairwell, where finally she found her dad and jumped up and down a little, very pleased to have me meet him. I thought it was pretty funny.
This is Chelsea and me, just after the wordless introduction in the stairwell:
We did more of the same on Friday night for the other classes. Woo.
I don’t know - I really like the kids, but the job is such crap. For reasons I’m not ready to go into here, work/my manager managed to royally piss me off today, and I had today off! I’m not sure who I’m more pissed at, really - my manager for enforcing such needlessly frustrating rules and regulations or myself for still not having done anything to change my situation despite repeated declarations to do so. I spent so much of today in a blue funk, and I think maybe it’s because I’m avoiding the change I know needs to happen. So, yeah. I guess I’m telling you all that I need to kick my butt into high gear and get the ball rolling. And then, I’m going to step up to the plate, stand and deliver, and think outside the box.
Did I forget any pep-talk clichés in that last sentence? I don’t think so - which means the ball’s in my court now, huh?
I’m think I’m a bit burnt out currently. You can see it here on the blog - the quality of my posts has been spotty, at best. I don’t think it’s blog burnout, though. I’m pretty sure this is work-related.
We’re not working kindy next week. Maybe I’ll find the energy to post something of substance then.
Looking back:
This has been a year that I’ve done, really, some impressive things. There aren’t a lot of them, but they’re big.
Some other things I’ve done:
Looking forward:
I think the biggest thing I want to concentrate living in a way that makes me happy, even if that means unhappiness along the way. I’ve been reading The Happiness Project for a long time now, and even though I’m not ready to actually start my own Happiness Project, as she suggests, but I think it’s officially on my radar - it’s a Happiness Blueprint, perhaps? I think I’ll be writing more in the next few days about what I’m hoping/planning to do to boost and maintain the level of happy that I want.
In the meantime, you have a Happy New Year, okay?
You know the whole “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”? Yeah….sorry about the silence.
Work has been sort of sucky lately, and it’s Christmas but it doesn’t feel like Christmas, and I’m getting sick (see, that’s how you know it is a holiday, even if it doesn’t feel like it).
I had a topic in mind to write about this morning, but it’s gone. Really. I just stared at the screen for 5 minutes trying to think of what I wanted to write about. Shoot. Sorry Lindsay. Is there anything you (you being anyone reading this) want to know about me/Seth/Taiwan/work/my bellybutton? Leave a comment and I can pontificate!
Testing the embed-ability of my youtube videos. I suspect difficulty. If so, carry on. Nothing to see here.
So, it’s new and fast and shiny, but it’s also eminently unfamiliar. Once I get things down, yes, they’re easier, but until then? Uh…..all my experience with the pc is pretty much useless. Even googling “new mac” didn’t help much. I found some sites that list common mac newbie mistakes, but didn’t really tell how to avoid making those mistakes - the lists were more for the experienced to giggle and point (in a discreet, hipster sort of way, of course), I guess.
I’m trying to upload some pictures (well, succeeding now, after a tech support call to my sister), and I might make another post tonight (tomorrow, really, for me), or I might just save it for tomorrow evening’s post. Time will tell.