Well, geez…
03 August 2006; 6:30p
Okay, okay. So I’ve been lazy. I have been known for that, and the past couple of months have been a truly lazy period.
Since my last post, I have once more traveled out of the country back to Hong Kong (team meeting/workshop/get together). It was a bittersweet trip. Why? It was sale season in HK and I didn’t have money to shop! So there I was, envying my workmates, who spent hours scrounging around for bargains in the various shopping areas in HK, and coming back to the hotel with tons and tons of bags (ok, I’m exaggerating). Point is…I DID NOT go shopping, at least no real shopping. I did stop by at a Giordano on the way to the airport to buy a couple of polo shirts for myself and one for Jenny. My last shoppping gig (if you can call it that) was at the airport, where I bought Ben a die-case of George (the steam roller from the Island of Sodor). Oh well, at least now I know where to go shopping in HK if I ever get back there during sale season with money.
Then, last month, Ben turned 4 years old. Yup, my little baby is no longer a baby…but a little boy who can be, and often is, a handful. Funny how time has flown so fast these past few years. I keep thinking that before I know it, he will be all grown up, and I’ll be a shriveled old hag (har har har). He keeps telling me that when he grows up, he’ll do all the work for me. He’ll do the dishes, the laundry, the cleaning, the driving, etc., etc. I can only hope we will be together for some time to come.
Oh well, as for me, I’m nearing another birthday, so another year older in just a few days. Strange, I don’t really feel old, but I have to admit that I’ve been getting a bit more aches and pains this year, and I’m not yet officially over the hill. Whatever…I remember when I was a kid and I thought 40 years old is so old already, and now that I’m just a year away, I don’t feel that way anymore. I don’t even think 70 is that old anymore. I wonder if I’m going to have a long life? Oh well, no point wondering, right? Nobody really knows. Still, it is something to think about when I’m just sitting around.
I think I better get back to the article I’m editing. It’s a difficult one, to be sure, very technical and wordy. Te said that it’s sort of a rite of passage to edit this particular writer, and she’s write. The first time I read the article, I didn’t understand what it was about except for the beginning, and there is this very intimidating 5-page table. Geez, aren’t tables suppose to make things easier to understand??? Oh well, what am I complaining about. This is going to bring me a bit of extra cash so I might as well go at it.
