Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • 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…

  • My little garden has been growing! It seems that the tomatoes thrive the most, followed by the herbs – especially the basil, though today I cut quite a bit of parsley. My carrots have somehow gotten the gist of growing and the leaves are growing, though I’m not sure how the carrot part is doing, but we’ll see how they go. The weather has been heating up around here, so I hope that…

  • There’s something wonderful about having a bit of a sleep-in and then getting up for a workout before the day fully begins, which includes some soaking up the rays. Then, holding a cup of coffee while sitting on the balcony surrounded by homegrown plants, a light breeze passing by and working as the temperature stays at a comfortable 27/81 degrees on a middle of March weekend morning. It is this kind of weather…

  • Started writing through tweeting…these are three of the tweets: 1. The story begins before I was born. But, I can only share where my part begins in an exotic Asian land that remains so to me even today… 2. Even though my part of the story begins in that exotic land unknown to me, blurred memories drift in and out to hint at my strange future. 3. After spending 2.5 years in my…

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