Rollercoasters make me sick

I'm back from hiatus not the hernia kind....the kind where life is too busy to sit down and blog. Plus, as was pointed out to me the other day, blogging seems more fun and more of an outlet when you are looking for someone to talk to. If you have someone beside you to tell your funny story to - then you forget later that you had something you wanted to get off your chest.

So, the one paragraph recap of the last month - Christmas with the boys, mad dash to K-town for some winter clothes for Ray, the MOST amazing birthday ever in the history of the world in Vegas with good friends. New Years....who knows....I was too hung over to really remember. Hahahaha. Back to Canada, quick dash to K-town to visit our own bed for a few nights and make sure our house is where we left it, back to Toronto for family time, down to Gaspe for some much needed mothering and chillaxing. Wonderful dinner in Toronto before heading out for 2 days on the planes and in the airports and now here I am - back in Thailand.

First off I went for a walk to the market - had to make sure everything was where I left it in town. It is amazing how much construction has been done in just 3 months! Got some ginger and limes to make tea for Ray as he is sick (side note - limes are a poor substitute for lemons, when in doubt - just make plain ginger tea). We had supper at our favourite place and found it is changing hands at the end of the month :( I hope the food stays as good.

This morning my internal clock was busted so I woke up early to play mindless online games. Made Ray a big breakfast and then walked him to work and on to the beach to make sure that was where I left it too. It was so nice to splash my toes in the waves and watch the crabs on their morning errands across the sand.

Today was also Lunch With The Ladies. It gets capitals cause its a major weekly event. Lots to catch up - one new baby to snuggle and news of another one on the way. Everyone had exciting vacations and travels while I was away, and more planned coming up soon. And then....I got full of envy so I had to go home.

Envy is a horrible thing. I can understand why it is a deadly sin. It's certainly not one of the fun sins anyway. Excuse me while I whine here for a second - but its hard to be the new girl, and the youngest, and the only one unmarried (which also means they all get houses cause couples don't have to live in the engineers apartments), and I'm one of only two that don't have babies.....blah....all things I want, and I know its not the right time yet, but some days it is hard to sit surrounded by the life you are hoping to have. And then of course there is the dark cloud of "transfer" hanging over my head these days - wherein we don't know if/when/where Ray will be transferred this year.....so I don't know if we are going to be a step closer to real life, or still just visitors sometimes.

Maybe it is the settling-in-blues - the time where you are happy to be away and doing different things, but missing your "people" and your familiar places.

I miss you all
Love
Pamela