Repost from my Thai-Blogs.com entry. We finally are leaving Thailand tomorrow. Out of Suvarnabhumi, to my father’s relief. Getting up at 4 a.m. to go to Bitec check-in point for U-tapao would be torturous for the poor man. My planned 2-week vacation was extended to 19 days of bliss laced with frustration, thanks to the airport closures. However, it’s always good to be home. Things are always changing around here in the Land of Smiles. For better or worse. So here’s my best/worst list of my recent trip home. Best: Extended vacation. Worst: Brandon’s extra week of time off he...
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I turn 32 on the day Southern California is on fire and Bangkok is flooded. Is that a sign? Hahah! ETA: Brandon said, “It’s the Oak-pocalypse!” P.S. – Also Happy Birthday to KorBua, my twin sister from another life! 🙂...
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I had a dream a few nights ago that I was back in school at Mater Dei. Having heard Aurora talked about burning her hand on chemistry set back in high school at dinner time, in the dream, I ended up back in a chemistry lab. My lab partner is one of my school friends but she is for some reason in a wheel chair and for that I have to help her with her lab stuff. We were supposed to be measuring water into this beaker. She kept telling me I was doing it wrong, that was too much...
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Because of the timing of my Big Gala–and my self-inflicted funness that was Thrill the World–my time is running out before I head home for vacation. I have to miss a few of my usual traditions around this time of year because I just don’t have the time or the right frame of mind for it. Office Thanksgiving Potluck. Our biggest potluck of the year. I’m cramming the Big Gala in with my vacation, plus all of the other office holiday stuff I had to get ready before I leave, it was just impossible. Operation Jingle All the Way. Usually...
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It says here in “Death Benefits”: “The death of a parent — any parent — can set us free. It offers us our last, best chance to become our truest, deepest selves…” Does it? I woke up this morning thinking about my mom, or more like how I haven’t been thinking about my mom. I was questioning myself as to why I don’t seem to be missing her as much as I should. And then I was reminded of the reason why I wasn’t missing her. First was a documentary on TLC called “The Woman with Giant Legs” about a...
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What a night. That was probably the most intense, vivid dream I’ve ever had in a very long time. It started with the dream within a dream. I was dreaming that I was having nightmares. I kept waking up into a dream about me sleeping, and not really waking up. I don’t remember the nightmare inside the dream but it wasn’t pleasant. I finally woke up from that and drifted in to an even more bizarre dream…and quite an awesome movie plot, if I may add. Brandon and I were visiting a historical village somewhere. A bunch of seemingly inept...
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