Wow, yet again an extended period of time between entries. Work is busy, life is good and the weather is absolutely perfect! How else could it get any better?
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It has been two months since I have written a post. Life has been treating me well. We spent Christmas and New Year’s in the States, my first Christmas home in 5 years, and had a great time. The weather was screwy, kind of like Shenzhen right now. Almost a month into a new year and is hard to believe it is 2008. There are many things that have been occupying my time, all of which I should be blogging about… We will be headed to Pei Lin’s hometown for Chinese New Year and we are excited about our trip. It will have been a year since Pei Lin saw his folks and since then he has had two trips to the US and met mine twice! Right now the weather is unusually cold not only in Shenzhen but all over China. Travelers headed home for CNY have been stranded all over the country, hopefully we won’t have any problems next week.
Am going to try and blog a little each day…Look for my life list in the coming days.
I was never one for birthday wishes or new year’s resolutions, unless I wrote them down and made them a goal. I just looked at my blog entry from my birthday last year and this is what I wrote one year ago today. I am giving myself freedom. Freedom from worry - going to try and stop worrying about the future, worrying about love and worrying what the future holds. Freedom to be happy and enjoy life - concentrate on the positives rather then the negatives. Freedom to let go - be grateful for the memories that were created but not live in them and let go of the past. Freedom to love - my heart is fragile but there is someone who is deserving of all the love I can offer.
WOW. The last year has been incredible. Life is clicking on all its cylinders and I finally know what true love and happiness are supposed to feel like. Sure there are areas in my life that can still be improved upon, but I am an optimist! My birthday goal this year is to keep the momentum going and make a great thing even better.
Thanks my partner, my friends and my family for loving me for who I am, caring for me and for walking with me on this journey we call life.
For as long as I can remember my sideburns have always been a little uneven. Regardless of whether I had my hair cut or trimmed at a shop or did it on my own it seems as though one side is always just a little shorter then the other. Then when trying to even them up the longer one becomes the short one, so the original shorter one needs to be trimmed up some more and then becomes the shorter one again. A vicious cycle that often led to no or very short sideburns.
I have tried to let my sideburns grow longer, I don’t quite have Elvis style porkchops but they are stylish in their own right. This seems to magnify the uneven dilemma which led me to ponder what is uneven? According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, uneven besides meaning not even also can be defined as: varying from the straight or parallel ; and not uniform.
Well that kind of defines me! I would rather be uneven then unbalanced any day…
The phrases Stop and smell the roses, Take it easy, Don’t work too hard are all ones I have said to someone or have had someone say to me. It is nice to take it easy once in awhile, but if I had to choose I would rather be busy. Not busy with just work but busy with life. At a couple of different points in my life I spent too much time drinking and not enough time living; I have spent too much time working and not enough time with my friends or partner; I have spent too much time traveling for work and not enough time establishing any roots; I have spent too much time doing unproductive and unhealthy things. I often wondered where the days and weeks went while I was busy but busy doing much of nothing. I realized today that I hadn’t thought about my blog or our new website in weeks. Why? Because I have been busy living and enjoying life. No need to bore with details but life is good, this year awesome and we still have half a year to go!
Often when leaving a restaurant, hopping out of a taxi or walking out of shop I hear Man Zou which in English translates to Walk Slow and means much the same as take it easy. Yet another example of no matter how different our cultures may be the are just as similar. Whatever your plans this weekend or rest of the month, remember to walk slow and stop and smell the roses because life is too short and full of too many opportunities to create memories to wonder where the time went.
