This girl is now in her second trimester where, thankfully, she’s feeling much better these days.
The first three months passed in a blur of morning sickness and the accompanying general body malaise- aches, tightness, lethargy… While in the midst of her company’s peak period, she was racked with bouts of sheer exhaustion (the body’s working [...]
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The first third
Posted in Life in the Town House, chapters, pregnancy, the boy, tagged first trimester, pregnancy on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
cleaning house
Posted in chapters, tagged moving on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This girl finally managed to rent out her office last week.
The Company decided to move- the space was no longer working for us so we decided to put it up for rent. Or rather, find someone to take over our lease. Since we met with the Chinese seventh month where rentals and sales are traditionally [...]
sometimes its a little easier
Posted in GOoD things, Life in the Town House, adventure, chapters, emo-ments, the boy on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A friend recovering from cancer led this girl to re-read this charge in 1 Peter 3:1-7 on wives and husbands:
1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2when they [...]
a new standard
Posted in chapters, sock stuff, the boy, writings on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Warrior Princess had to go dry her eyes, The Mother-in-law and The Mother got misty eyed, The Money Lawyer decided it was his new gold standard for groom speeches… And so, by popular demand, this girl is putting in the transcript of The Boy’s wedding speech which he kept hidden from her; so she [...]
the simple affair
Posted in Life in the Town House, chapters, just me, life learnings, new things, the boy on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
They had always known they’d get there at some point; no less considering the strange situations surrounding them becoming then staying friends. They had always known that if they got together it was for the long haul; a flash in the pan styled relationship would simply be too complicated.
And at the same place they got [...]
skating on ice
Posted in adventure, chapters on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The new year has come so suddenly. Its like before this girl could take a deep breath and brace for the onslaught of the new year, its already a week in and the new year seems to have a way of sneaking up on her. Even when she thinks she’s ready for it- though its [...]
learning to let go
Posted in chapters, emo-ments, just me, life learnings, sock stuff, the sock shop on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This girl is learning to let go.
In this grand process this girl is undertaking; this streamlining of her life, she’s had to learn to let go. That sometimes its easier for her to put the ball in someone else’s court and wait for them to decide if they want to hit the ball back and [...]
sunk her teeth in
Posted in adventure, chapters, new things, projects, travel on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This girl has been battling herself over what she would like to do workwise. She’s got a few options sitting pretty on her plate waiting for her to either: start on it (these are new business projects), or agree to take it up (these are mainly consulting work). Each has their own merits, their own [...]
walking on stones
Posted in chapters, family, friends, just me, life learnings, life rules, the boy, the sock shop on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One supposes that this girl and her friends reach this stage in their lives, it becomes defined by alot of relationship changes and milestones. Its the time this girl receives far too many wedding invitations for her to actually attend (she does try her best to get to most of them, though her traveling schedule [...]
stateside work
Posted in adventure, chapters, life learnings, new things, travel on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This girl spent the day at a business conference, a global summit held by a leading NY fashion house. It was elegantly done and, much to this girl’s surprise, the day passed quickly and enjoyably with much to talk and discuss with the fellow participants and members of the host.
It was all very che che [...]
the Town House
Posted in Life in the Town House, chapters, the boy on September 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today, this girl and the boy moved into the Town House. It was done with little fanfare and hoopla, but quietly early in the morning. They had moved the mattress the Friday before so they were stranded without a place to sleep and opted to treat themselves to a weekend at a nice hotel off [...]
here lies dobby…
Posted in chapters, emo-ments, just me, life learnings on September 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As this girl settled into helping The Father with his online MBA exam, The Princess came up to her and told her she had collected Cooper’s ashes and that they had to find a time to bury it. They hid the urn from The Parents who might react badly to them wanting to dig up [...]
dealing with notions of mortality II
Posted in chapters, emo-ments, life learnings, new things, the sock shop on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its been a pensive few days for this girl with the notions of Life and Death on her mind. Its not anything new, for some reason this year, the idea of Mortality has been swirling in her head. She’s been reading the blog of a rather well known pastor called John Piper and he writes [...]
In quiet reflection: Cooper (2006-2008)
Posted in chapters, emo-ments, family, just me, life learnings on August 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Driving out to another one of her meetings, this girl gets a call from The Princess telling her their feisty, hyperactive two year old German Shepherd had become suddenly paralyzed the night before and that things didn’t look promising. “We may need to put him down,” was all she said. “Keep me posted, I’ll go [...]
and the third is flying away
Posted in adventure, chapters, emo-ments, friends on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this evening, this girl made yet another trip to the airport to see a dear friend off to what must be one of life’s greatest adventures.
The time is upon them that Smartest Friend is making her big departure to The States for what will be five long years of PhD studies at John Hopkins. [...]
