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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #75 on: August 30, 2011, 10:53:56 am »
Sounds like you are enjoying yourself so that is great , we look forward to your next installment , regards Sujuan and Robert .
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« Reply #76 on: August 30, 2011, 11:33:20 am »
I concur.  Sounds like fun.  I am enjoying the stories.

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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #77 on: September 04, 2011, 10:22:44 pm »
My apologies to everyone for not updating, I did a dumb thing. I got sick....

Good thing her mama knows a thing or two about health, still of a tickle in the chest and throat, but no longer suffering from high fever, they were considering taking me to the hospital until it finally broke. She decided to take a very non-flattering picture of me sprawled on the bed, sweating like a hog at the butcher shop. No, I'm not posting it. We did finally get some rain Saturday night, Sunday morning, helped clear the air quite abit around here, granted this being Handan and they being on the overdrive building schedule the air is getting thick again already.

I'm hoping I can convince her to go out later today, just to escape the apartment, I briefly went for a car ride Saturday night, some friend of mama's needed a ride home and mama has come to enjoy having me around for parking purposes. Yuan thinks it's funny when I wedge my legs into the driver's seat of the hamster mobile. I was pretty certain after the army had sent me to Korea some years ago I never wanted anything to do with a Kia, now I am absolutely positive I want nothing to do with a Kia, I will stick with my nice roomy (especially the leg room) Fords and Jeeps.

Well that's all for now, I'll let you know once we've done something besides me staring at the ceiling or curled into a ball.

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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #78 on: September 05, 2011, 03:14:42 am »
Lloyd , look after yourself and remember whatever a Chinese woman gives you for sickness is better to accept and take , rather than the consequences of refusing , which of course gets around to them loosing face , and then you really will get sick ha ha , we await your next up and about story , regards Sujuan and Robert . 
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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #79 on: September 05, 2011, 07:01:37 pm »
If it is a cold/flu you have get your g/f to make you up some ginger soup.....this works wonders and will have you back on your feet very soon.  Trust me I know first hand.  To think that for years us westerners shunned Chinese medicines and now we know that most of the ingredients in a tablet of ....... is made up of the same ingredients in a Chinese basket of roots and herbs.........

Now just take a spoon full of sugar with it and take your medicine..........
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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #80 on: September 05, 2011, 08:28:27 pm »
I'm glad your feeling better, now enjoy the rest of your time there.  I guess we'll have to bribe your girl to get that picture posted.  ;D

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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #81 on: September 06, 2011, 06:11:44 am »
Hey Lloyd, Good to hear your on the road to recovery, For me , wheels up in 30 hours and off to Beijing, Catch up with you very soon , John.

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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #82 on: September 07, 2011, 02:04:09 am »
So I am still recovering from the cold bug, she now has the cold bug. My fault, but I accept that fact. She is nowhere near where I was few days ago. I'm looking at cooking for her and mama again, I'm thinking a full course fajita dinner, Tejano buddy in the army taught me how. I just have to figure out the seasonings and go easy on the fire  ;D 

Yesterday we went out to SheXian, to see the lake and the scenery, yell off the walkway and listen to the echoes. One of her uncles was along, I think he tried to eat everything on the path to the bridge crossing the lake... we didn't cross the bridge, I was outnumbered on the vote. There is a temple or something up the cliff on the other side. Still not sure entirely what it was, but I know it was alot of time in mama's hamster ball, I mean car, sorry, legs are still cramped from the experience.

Now that I am functioning well, we are discussing taking a trip to Shijiazhuang, but apparently the agency is trying to tell her that we cannot get married if they don't get their's. I think it's time to take them down a peg or two, so we're going to have to go over there and handle that. Formal wedding sometime down the road, not totally decided, but we want to do it with my parents present.
She made it known that at some point in the near future, "we" are going to be responsible for mama, I was kinda expecting that and let her know I had figured that already, her being an only child kind put that one through the goalposts as a strong possibility down the road. Good side of this, Yuan and I have talked about opening up a business for her to make money, I have come to know here mama well enough that she will be there helping Yuan with the shop and business and when that grandchild comes along I know the new laolao will be right there to help with that as well.

She did make the official statement, that she has chosen me and does not care what her friends or her laolao want to make of it. She only knows she wants to spend the rest of our lives together. This amid her mahjong friends having a cow because she doesn't want to come play with them this week. She did clean them out last week in the last thirty minutes of play, which was good. Now I am evil and it's my fault. It's not her feelings, score one for me. I think I'll buy her a real nice mahjong table now, one of the automatic jobs that has two sets of tiles and all, but wood, not plastic, then her mahjong friends can really be pissy about something.

I am certain down the road there will be some sort of problem, I know my folks have been together over 45 years and I've seen more than one explosion around the house, but as Yuan and I have come to agree, it's only a problem if we quit and she knows I am not willing to quit. Ironically my great-grandfather told my mom to "stay away from that damn bum" and she didn't and against his theory they are now looking for permanent vacation home in the Indian River area of Michigan's Inland Waterway.

John, look forward to the possibility of getting together. Our place is right next to the Tsingtao beer garden, or "burn and roast" as I believe it translates, I'm thinking beer and charred animal flesh is good casual gathering place myself. I think her mama is trying to fatten me up anyway. I have had to start refusing bread because I know I'm fattening up. Of course I'm still waiting for mama to decide to celebrate with that bottle I gave her on arrival. I understand enough to know that most Chinese do not want "wine" so I gave her my best bottle of anejo rum I have. A 15 year Dominican, I'm waiting for them to realize it's actually flammable...

One pic posted below, I will resize a couple more for uploading later, I couldn't help it, Yuan taking a picture of mama playing in the flowers.

Until later,
Lloyd
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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #83 on: September 08, 2011, 01:21:35 pm »
Hahaha .. just noticed Mom and Daughter ( Yuan ) are wearing the same Shoes , just different Colours .  :o :)

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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #84 on: September 08, 2011, 11:37:22 pm »
They are more like sisters than mom and daughter, her mom totally bucks the "tiger mom" stereotype we are used to in the states.

As of now, waiting to hear from John(1964). I know we have some things to handle this weekend and John and Min are headed to that wedding tomorrow. I am betting there will be a huge number of wedding tomorrow in this town. There was a large number of wedding on the 6th as well.

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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #85 on: September 10, 2011, 02:24:53 am »
So it's raining outside today, we are stranded in the apartment. Apparently Handan is like Southern California (from what little I have seen and as told by my family members who have lived there). It is raining, therefore it is not safe to drive...

I guess we are just weird in Michigan, you only stop driving in the rain if you can't see past the hood, then you pull over and wait. Preferably somewhere you can get out of the car and watch.

Exciting news, we went shopping yesterday. I heard mama gasp at the other end of the apartment when she saw the ring. Hell, a few of her friends were chomping at the bit as soon as they saw. She was trying to keep it somewhat hidden at first. Turning her hand but... they saw. Now for the ride to Shijiazhuang,

later, it's lunchtime

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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #86 on: September 11, 2011, 12:39:25 am »
I guess that means ," congratulations " are in order for Lloyd and Yuan , from Sujuan and Robert .
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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #87 on: September 11, 2011, 04:27:30 am »
I guess you maybe right Rob......but I will wait for the official news.  I hate when I get cryptic clues wrong :'(
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« Reply #88 on: September 12, 2011, 11:56:41 pm »
I will say, it is almost official. This morning I got kicked out of bed and while I was eating breakfast, mama changed out the bed linens. Definitely a theme going on with that. We've a bit of laundry to take care of and then we are off for the day, how far we get today I don't know, but I am prepared to pay for rooms tonight in Shijiazhuang so we don't spoil mama's work on the bed if we don't get the paperwork done this afternoon.

I haven't heard from John(1964) since he was preparing to take off the other day. Yesterday I was so bloated with food and beer that I was considering going in and purging myself, but then , no mama would be all over making sure I wasn't sick.  I am guessing today is a good day for opening a business in China, We've had a few storefronts setting off firecrackers each day, but today, a few of them are going downright ballistic with the whole show about every hour.

I think it's time to get dressed anyway, only have a pair of bluejeans left to hang up. Wish us luck...

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Re: Hebei, Round 2
« Reply #89 on: September 14, 2011, 01:52:48 am »
Ok, so we hit the snag that I, some of you and others I have talked to predicted. The office in Shijiazhuang wants the notary from the Embassy in Beijing, so now I get to go to Beijing, trying to convince her that it looks good if we go together, mama wants to drive the car (oh god that's like 6hours one-way in the hamster mobile).

Right now she's taking a nap, we have to go somewhere with a printer so I can make the appointment time, but we also have to decide train or car. Biggest problem with car is that mama's friends who are willing to drive to Beijing, don't know the embassy area. My thought is ok, if mama absolutely insists we take the car to Beijing, then take us to Beijing and we can hop the subway to the stop near the embassy. Makes sense to me, but this is becoming a circus of unbelievable proportion and it's why she is taking a nap. If we drive, we're leaving Handan at 3am, oh joy. at this point, I don't care how we get there. I just want us to get there. Then on Friday we can go to Shijiazhuang on Friday.
 
Cross fingers, pray and everything else any of you can think of....

I believe we are getting pictures this afternoon, I'm not totally certain. I can't keep up anymore...
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