16 March 2015
What's been happening in our house?
Here are some random thoughts on life right now…in no particular order.
My sweet little Ava at TJMex (Mexican restaurant in AoCheng, Tianjin). Ava *always* gets guacamole and chips. It's her favorite!
Well, I'm in the middle of my first online course in the Master's in Project Management degree. It's going oh-kay. I definitely struggle a little bit more with it being strictly online and in a completely different time zone. Asking questions and waiting to get the answers takes longer than expected. I hope I'm doing the right thing. The good thing is I feel like my brain is back in business.
Hmmm…
For that matter, I'm stalling – I have homework I need to be doing right now. I'll get it done, I promise! (after I drink another cup of coffee and go for a jog on the treadmill….yes, after that is completed I PROMISE I'll be a good girl and get my homework completed)
;-)
(wink, wink)
The girls have a new favorite movie : Big Hero 6. Annika also loves the Pirates of the Caribbean series and Avatar. Ava claims she loves the Pirates movies as well. (Me? Not so much.)
Me? I'm feeling nostalgic. I go through this feeling of nostalgia every year…right now I'm watching "Murder, She Wrote". Yep. Guilty pleasures! Mark and I area also enjoying watching "Psych". It's really funny!
We're listening to a Scottish band called Chvrches. It's pronounced "churches". I'm also constantly listening to nature sounds. Yes, I have an entire, very long, album that is full of nature sounds – I especially love listening to thunderstorms and birds twittering away.
Mark is busy building Still 2.0. It looks like a Dalek from Doctor Who! All I know is that it's got a gorgeous, shiny copper look. I love the copper!
Annika and Mark also busy with the forge – Annika is working on creating a handle for a dagger that Mark created and Mark is working on a new kitchen knife.
I'm working on sewing quilts – one for Ava and the other for Annika. Piece-by-piece they're slowly coming together. I've had to abandon the Ikea sewing machine (it failed too many times) in favor of returning to my old Singer sewing machine that requires a power converter.
I'm busy working on two upcoming trips. Both will be short, extended-weekend, trips. We'll be heading to Zhangjiajie to hopefully see some gorgeous mountains and to Singapore. And I'll get to check off two places on my must-see-in-Asia bucket list! Woo Hoo!!!!
A few recent photos:
"Shut up and take my money"…HUH??? Rather a bizarre billboard:
An interesting display of Starbucks mugs from all over the world at a Starbucks in Beijing…near the Beijing Grand Hyatt (which, by the way, has one of the nicest indoor pools I've seen in Asia!)
I'm loving the world map and the mug display in the Starbucks (plus, they offered fresh baked goods…the only coffee shop I've seen here in Asia that offers this!):
Gorgeous bouquet of flowers I bought for myself from the local flower market (all for under $20!):
Spring is definitely in the air! It's warming up and it's lighter out later and later.
My herb garden. The Thai basil is trying to take over the world! The mint sadly didn't want to properly germinate.
Chinese New Year window decorations… I love the shadows it creates on the curtains:
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Enough stalling….time to get back to my homework!