Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • _Wrecked:  When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life_ by Jeff Goins I cannot seem to pass up 99cent books. Plus, following Jeff Goins on Twitter and Facebook makes it harder to ignore opportunities to read books on sale. It’s a great marketing scheme for him and a bonus for readers like me. 😉 A short two-day read, this is an inspirational, motivational Christian-based book that encourages us to step beyond ourselves…

  • _Eon_ by Greg Bear I haven’t had as much time to read as I did early on in the holiday, but I still have been spending time each day with a book. When I was getting low on things to read, I put out a call on Facebook and got some recommendations of different novels. One of them was this one. _Eon_ is a 1991 science-fiction novel that is rather complex to follow…

  • Time is flying by ever so quickly and quite sadly…. The good news is that I submitted the first chapter of my dissertation a day ahead of schedule. It was probably the longest academic piece of writing I have ever done and to think that it’s only part of the entire project at 47 pages in totality. I’m not saying it’s up to scratch for quality, but at least it’s the first milestone…

  • Well, I’m on 21 pages out of the goal of 35 and just another 7 days left to go. If I maintain my 2 pages a day pattern, it should be no problem. Although I should probably do a bit more each day so that I can have some more flexibility, but we’ll see. For now, I’m just happy when the two pages come out! Anyway…we’ve been enjoying our days still and still…

  • OMG! 20 days left…?????  😀 I know I’m spoiled…It’s not like I’ve already been off for 20+ days, but still we’re almost down to the teens and that makes me sad…. As I start to contemplate a teeeeeennnny tiiiiiny bit about work, I have to really create some clear goals about my focus this next year. *Do NOT let others stress me out! *Focus on my classes and do the minimal amount of…

  • A bit of a summary of his novel, which I read a week or so ago. Still interesting!

  • I’ve been a bit busy with data analysis work rather than pleasure writing the past couple of days. We have been getting out to the beach for a swim in the waves. Aside from today, the weather has been beautiful; therefore, so has the water! The good news is that the bandages I have are waterproof for the most part. Today, I went without and it was okay, but it seems that my…

  • We’re back in Phuket and relieved after our trip to Hong Kong. It’s been a long time since we’ve been around fast-paced and pushy people. Plus, we happened to stay in Little India/Pakistan land, which just reminded us of what we don’t like in Abu Dhabi, so that was rather unfortunate. Therefore, we’re more than happy to be back where things are a bit more relaxed. Also, our new digs are more spacious…

  • After our fun in Macau, we realized that the weather probably wasn’t going to get much better for us and my leg wasn’t going to miraculously be great for wandering the city on our own. So, we decided to book the Big Bus Tour – Premium – since they were offering discounted prices and it gave us two days as we had until late-ish on Thursday to spend before needing to be at…

  • Leg update:  It’s healing and I’m walking almost normally, but it will still be a bit longer before it’s totally back to normal…. After spending the majority of two days in the hotel room, and realizing that we are going to have to get out despite Typhoon Vicente plowing through and my leg being what it is. So, we organized to go on an afternoon tour of Macau. The plan was to catch…

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