Sorry to be so neglectful...
Actually this winter is kicking my a**. Since I got back from China I started a new union job working on an aqueduct project. It will be a good job but I have been outside all winter, and some of these days have been brutally cold. Also I have had to replace my water pump, and I had some frozen pipes on the house, so I had to replace a lot of plumbing. It has been rough back here in the States...
I would give anything to be back in China. Even if there was no heat in her house Mei was always warm in bed...
We QQ everyday, and I have discovered a way that we can text each other. Before she could not initiate contact with me - she had to wait for me to call or QQ her, and I could sense her frustration about this. Anyways, one day I realized that I can email from my phone, so that led me to experiment, and of course my phone can also receive emails, in the form of texts. So I sent a text to my QQ email and then back to my phone from QQ. Then I explained to Mei how she could do the same. She loves that she can now contact me when she wants to say hello in the morning, or even when she is just thinking about me.
I am hoping to go back in May, but only for two weeks. Meanwhile we are getting all of our documents together and I am talking with Robert about helping us with the paperwork. I am just waiting on two more documents from Mei and then I am going to send everything off to Robert - ( well, if that is what I am supposed to do.) I have to confess that I am not good with paperwork and all of these documents and all of these rules confound the H - E - double toothpicks out of me.
I feel like a very lucky guy. Mei keeps on proving herself to me. I am not even testing her on this - I just have come to accept that I got lucky and I made a good choice. I am looking forward to her being here and I am looking at the house to see how I can make it more suitable for her. One thing I am thinking about is replacing my stove with something more amenable to her cooking style.
I like the two burner cook tops that they use in China. The burners are farther back and that makes room for a wok to sit there just perfectly. Truth is that I don't ever think I have used more than two burners at the same time, so why not? Now I just have to figure out where to get one. And I want to remodel the downstairs half bath. There is room in there for a good size shower and that would give her daughter her very own bathroom.
Besides winter beating me up I am also working way too much. There is the outside job and then there is another on going project that I am doing on the side. The money is good, and I will need it for everything I need to do immigration wise. My costs are double because I have Mei and her daughter.
And of course I want to go back to China too, but at one point I realized that I had worked 26 days straight. The only saving grace is that I have not gotten sick this winter. No colds or anything like that.
Okay now I am over compensating for not having been here in a while. I hope someone can use that info about texting to their advantage. I will try not to be a stranger here. Until later....
