Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • In general, if I haven’t planned prior to traveling, I basically do whatever the mood strikes when I am actually on the trip. This makes things easier for me as I either plan or plan to be spontaneous. 😛 Since my main purpose for coming to Toronto was to visit with my friends, Shu & Q, whom I hadn’t seen since they left Abu Dhabi over a year ago, I didn’t really do…

  • Jet lag hasn’t been so bad considering the amount of flying I did, but it still exists…. Although I woke up at 5am with some dozing until about 10am, Shu and I still managed to walk from Howland through Little Italy to Queens Way to Chinatown to Kensington Market area and back home again. It was a beautiful day, which was very much welcomed after yesterday! 🙂 After a short rest, we headed…

  • My first full day in Toronto has been pretty relaxed. We had a relaxed start, but still on the early side as I’m kind of used to getting started around noon, not when it is still morning…. 😉 [shashin type=”photo” id=”4671,4672,4673,4674″ size=”small” columns=”max” order=”user” position=”center”] So, we headed down to St. Lawrence market, which is a farmer’s-like market in a renovated warehouse near/in the Financial District. There’s two kinds of markets – a…

  • Surprisingly, I am awake at a ‘normal’ time (8:00am) after taking a 12.5 direct flight AUH – JFK and then after a 4-hour layover was on a 1.5hour flight JFK – YYZ. The flight to New York from Abu Dhabi was fairly painless in the grand scheme of things. However, nearly 12 hours of two children crying/whining and the sounds here and there of others have made me really think there needs to…

  • Well, remember back when I wrote saying that I was waiting to hear back from someone I had found on Facebook about being my 2nd or first US foster mother? It was her!!! She wrote back and I have replied. It seems surreal. I actually have no memory whatsoever of this person, but from the picture I look genuinely happy as opposed to my usual canned smile or laughing smile that shows up…

  • I am wondering if this falls under ‘Adoption Journey’ or if I should be starting a new thread entitled ‘The Search’…? Anyway, I guess it all runs together in the end as MY LIFE! So, the latest – Three days ago now, I received an email from the social worker in Korea. She said that they have located the two sisters of my birth mother who are also living in the States. WTF?…

  • Well, the juice diet continues…. We are starting to figure out the best process for juicing. It’s quite a bit of work to prepare juices for all your meals. There’s a lot of washing, peeling and then juicing, plus the clean-up afterwards that is required. It’s more work than cooking a meal each night! Both of us are doing well overall and definitely feel healthier. R wants to keep going. I miss eating…

  • I just want to scream. Or I imagine telling the world what I think of it, which is generally not very positive. I’m tired of where I work and what I do. It’s a thankless job. It’s an unprofessional and disrespected position. Of course, I know some jobs could be worse, some places of work could be worse, etc. etc. It isn’t the worst that it could be. However, the reality is that…

  • I’m still alive…. The first day passed successfully. I did really want to chomp on something greasy as I passed through the cafeteria and smelled all the wonderfully fried food, but then I envisioned my hardened arteries and the pounds added to my hips and put my head down to plow back to my office for my afternoon juice! 😀 For dinner we had Gazpacho. This was strangely spicy and would have actually…

  • For the past couple of weeks, R and I have been attempting to change our eating patterns to lose some unnecessary pounds as well as to generally have a better schedule. Both of us love our food. Perhaps a little too much. Both of us have considered undergoing the lemonade/juice cleanse, but neither of us have been totally motivated to take it on. Especially since it requires of a day of staying near…

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