Thursday, November 10, 2011

HKG255: Anti Social

while i have not yet written out all of my thoughts about the more difficult aspects of our move to hong kong, i have to give you a sneak peak...social life. i have none (and quinn has none). i am a SUPER social person. i love people. i know no strangers. if you are standing still and you are within five feet of me, i am going to try to talk to you. unless you live in hong kong. my outgoing personality does not work here. this, coupled with other drastic differences in social culture, has led to me having no social life. at all. i realized, today, that i have gone almost 30 days without having an in-person conversation longer than 3 minutes with another adult other than josh. i have not had any in-person social interaction since jeanette went home.

tonight, i got out to meet up with a friend of a friend who has lived in hong kong for several years and is planning to relocate to austin soon. this person was super friendly and outgoing, and i had a great time getting to know her and telling her all about austin. she in turn, gave me lots of insights about hong kong and took me to a fabulous restaurant for some ABSOLUTELY delicious local food. it was a nice change of pace!

other than my brief foray into some sort of existence outside the house and kids, the day was pretty normal. scratch that...it was rather awesome...the bug is finally turning a corner and feeling better. she has begun to show some scary symptoms, though...it seems that she has had scarlet fever, which is related to strep throat and has a scary list of possible complications that can come with it. we will be headed back to the doc tomorrow to request more antibiotics and advice for what to look for in the event that she develops any other complications. knock wood....so far, the rest of us are still in the clear. we are actually starting to get excited about our trip again and REALLY hoping that none of us get sick while we are traveling.

crazy kitty trying to get one of the kids' sticky toys off the ceiling with a boost from josh. he was successful :-)


video proof that the bug is feeling better (and that the kids have been locked in the house for too long. quinn ran around the park like a chicken with his head cut off...or like a ping pong ball...or like a squirrel who drank redbull (hammy in over the hedge)...it was comical but tiring as i had to remind quinn to not do x crazy thing or y crazy thing or z crazy thing over and over and over again ;-p.

1 comment:

  1. the anti-social stuff would be SOOO hard for me too. guess there is not much more time to have to deal with that, though!!

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