Told ya so

I told you June is a busy month.
Happy anniversary to Kelli & Chad! Fourteen, I say, fourteen years.
Happy birthday to Mike D, my only China visitor from the US :p I hope your new car is as comfortable, and durable, as the last two.

There are a couple more, important birthdays coming later in the month, but I'll wait to congragulate them later. In case there's nothing else to post about :)
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It's Friday morning here in Suzhou and I am at work as usual. Yesterday was a long day; I woke at 5am and couldn't go back to sleep. I went to work, stayed in for lunch, but then went out for dinner (mmm, tasty beef and sauerkraut sandwich; too bad it had mustard on it :P). Back to work for some writing and a 9pm conference call. Today seems like a good day to coast, so we'll see how that goes.

I'm becoming a little more enthusiastic at work as I have a new project. It'll probably let me extend my contract by one more month, through September, so that'll be handy. Then it'll be 3 months of baby, baby, and more baby until returning to the US. Well, that and job hunting.

I admit, it's tempting to stay in Suzhou if I can find a good, well paying expat job again. When I think of all the things here and the improvements going on (Coldstone Creamery, Subway!, and I hear there is a Blue Frog coming), it feels like a possibility. Though we won't trust the local stuff *too* much. GP bought a baby magazine and found "US Baby" brand bottles and other baby stuff. She said "see, it's good, from US". I said "No, it's called US Baby so Chinese will buy it, but it's a Chinese company and the stuff is made in Shanghai". Sneaky, aren't they? We'll probably make a trip to Hong Kong in July to get a bunch of baby stuff.

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To answer John's astute (i.e., drunken) questions:

1) GP has a large, green condom on to keep the rain off. For $0.50, she wasn't concerned about how it looked. Besides, she looks good in almost anything. At least as good as you in Frogg Toggs ;)

2) To say "Denise has my money": wo de lao po you wo de qian. Lao is pronounced with "ow" like you hurt something. Qian is pronounced like chen. The sentence actually says "my wife has my money", but I assumed you meant your wife when you said Denise :) If Denise has *my* money, we'd say "wo de peng you de lao po you wo de qian". and then I'd have to explain quickly why your wife has my money.

See ya