A little but big thing.....

LOL...with the subject, you might wonder what the hack I am talking about.. Well, I will tell you about it later. For now let talked about what I have done today..

I was in bed for most of the day..hahaha...it was cold outside and I didn't have anything else to do beside talking to my husband on the IM.

But I got the an email from mama saying if we could go eat sometimes today. So I called back them back. First we would make it for tomorrow, but then Eddie called back and said we would go eat today.. Sounded like a plan to me..hehe.. Oh, we were going to eat at the chinese buffet we liked..again..LOL


I was hungry on the way to the restuarant..and it seemed like the road was farter than usual..LOL.. we got to the restaurant and.....IT WAS CRAB LEGS NIGHT!!!! Yep, I was excited about that as you can see from my tone..haha.. We had fun getting the meat out of the crab legs. I tought mama how to do it also and she seemed to have fun and enjoyed it.. It was so good and the legs were big...make me drool again just to think about that...LOL


Ok, now back to the subject, the little but big thing.. It means an small object that has more value way more than its size. On the way home after we left from eating, Mama had me tried on two of her rings. They fit me well. Mama asked which one I liked the most. I told her which one..and then she said " Then it's yours honey"


It was undescribable feeling when she said it and gave the ring to me. It means a lot to me more than I can say. She gave it to me from her heart and wanted me to have it. Anything from the heart,even it's small , but to me it's always going to be big and priceless.. I would like to thank Mama. She is very kind to me..Thank you Mama

Winnsboro Park

19 Nov
I stayed home today and nothing much to do. The gang came to lunch and I cook Pad Cee Ew for them.
My husband was busy with the company situation that really pissed me off every time I thought about it.

Anyway, after the gang left , I talked to my husband a bit and then he had to go to bed. Then I made some spicy noodle mixed salad for myself. It was really good..LOL..
After that I went to the park not far from our house. I took the bike there. I meant to do down there for a while but hadn’t had time to do that. But today, I made it and got to take some pictures there.

My buddy



Walk way down to the park





Spring

Flower in the cold


Up in the sky



Trees in the park



Leaves and red berry ( I didn’t know what it was)




Ducks







The sun was about to go down to the horizon and it was getting cold. Yep, then I knew it was time to go home..LOL.. I managed to stop by at the front of my neighbor’s house and took the pictures of the leaves on their trees.








I got into the house and headed to the hot bath.. LOL.. I didn’t want to think about the water and the gas bill and also the power bill of this month…LOL

Dinner with Alex and Jeannie

18 Nov
It sounded like I wouldn’t have much thing to do today…but it wasn’t like that..LOL.. I talked to my husband in the morning as the same we did every day.
At the lunch time, the gang came and picked me up to have lunch at the same Italian restaurant in town. Before I left the house, Alex and Jeannie called to check if I was free to have dinner with them tonight or tomorrow. I told him I was available. So they would come and pick me up for dinner tonight.

It was really cold today and it was windy too…brrrrrrrrr.. After lunch , I went to the bank with endell to add my name in my husband account. We had to wait there for like a hour to talk to the member service. The branch manager had to come out and help because he knew that I wasn’t in a good mood..LOL. We talked to him and found out that Wendell couldn’t add me in the account. We had to wait for my husband to come home and do that. It was 5 things that POA couldn’t do and one of it was dding people in the account… I was really temped to withdraw all the money we had from that bank to put in the new bank…LOL.. Oh well, I could wait..

After we left the bank , I ask Wendell to take me to Walmart to get some food. I got some food and some stuff I wanted and then we headed home. We got to the house and I was going to take the dumpster back to the garage. Alex and Jeannie just pulled in the drive way. It was nice to see them. I took them in the house and gave them the tour of the house. They had fun..LOL… Not long after that Wendell had to go back home and Alex , Jeannie and I got into the car to go for dinner in town.


They were going to take me to Texas Road house..LOL.. but I told them I couldn’t go there…LOL.. then we went to O’Charlie’s instead. The food was good. I had salmon. But I couldn’t eat it all and had to get a box to take home.. seemed it was usual thing for me..LOL..

It was nice to get to know them and I hoped they liked me as well. I liked them and they were very nice and kind to me. Thank you very much .

The Furniture Week!!!!

15 nov
It was another busy day today. I had the schedule to go to Room To go store in Village of Sandhill. Before we got there, we decided to stop and eat some lunch. Yep, we went to another Chinese buffet place. It was alright but wasn’t that great. After we ate, we went to the Sandhill. OMG!, it was huge! It was more like a village where the outlets was lined up like the house. I thought it was the biggest mall I had ever seen. It took sometimes to drove around the mall area.

Finally, we got to Room To Go store. I took three hours in that store, just to look and sit on every sofa thy had in the store…LOL.. Well, I also got the info package and price of the furniture that would look good for our house. The sales person told me that my husband could get the online credit and we could come back with the credit number and order all the furniture we wanted..that sounded really good to me..LOL…!!!!

After we left the furniture store and I asked Eddie to take me to the Asia store to get some stuff. We spent sometimes to get the stuff there and the owner of the store came back and told us the shop would close soon…LOL.. Well, I got enough stuff and I just went to checkout. There wasn’t much fresh vegetable though. We left the store and headed to the house..LOL.. Mama and Eddie droped me off and went home. And yes, I hopped in the bed and slept and woke up to talk to my husband later on..hehe..


16 nov
It was another furniture day again!!! Mama and Eddie got here in the late morning. I was trying to get the credit online done as well as my husband. But it didn’t work no matter what zip code we put into the box on their website. I made a call to that lady we met yesterday and she was our sale person. She said to me to put different zip code in, I told her I did. She told me she would call him back after she got to work and talked to her manager. Ok, we waited. Between that we talked if we could make a deal by putting some down payment to all the order today and the rest we would put it on credit later.


It was a while and no one called us back. Mama called back and got her on the phone. She said she was talking to her manager about it. Mama said if she could work it out, I would want to order all the furniture. She asked us to give her 30 minutes..LOL..


I cooked lunch for mama and Eddie between waiting again. I made some stir fried beef with chilies paste and some Tom Yum chicken. It was spicy for them but they said it was good..LOL..
Then the lady from the store called back and said the website was broken but I could go there and put down some money for the order …wait a minute..put down money for the order that meant I wouldn’t get anything to order???....Funny… That was it for Room To Go.


After we left the house to go to Harbison area, we found one store but it wasn’t my taste and it was just so expensive. We drove around and found another Room To Go store..LOL…and we decided to gave a shot.


Guess what? It was totally different in this store. The sale lady was very nice and helpful. She even helped me to apply for the credit and got $2,500 credit for myself..plus $2000 cash, I would have some furniture order today. Oh, she told me the website was fine! So my husband could get the credit online and I could come back and get the rest of the stuff tomorrow with no problem…


As she was about to order one package for me, we run in a problem that I needed green cash for the order not the cash check with my husband name on it.. Oh man… she told me to take it easy and to come back tomorrow everything was saved into my name. So it shouldn’t be any problem.. Ok, tomorrow was fine!


Left the store, we went to find something to eat. I wanted the BBQ so we decided to go to Maurice’s I was still full from lunch actually. So I couldn’t eat much and ended up taking home for most of the stuff I ordered.


Eddie and mama drove me home and dropped me of and then they headed back home.

17 Nov
It was busy since early day today. About what? The credit online stuff that was.. We tried to put all the zip codes in SC just to pop the application up but it didn’t work. It was enough then I had to call someone. I found out that NC and SC hadn’t be in the credit online service yet. Why bother to put the link in there then??
So I tried to put NY zip code into it…and guess what? The application form popped up right away…LOL.. I filled in the application with my husband info…but then it didn’t approve and said my husband needed to contact them back…Ok, he did that and not long after that we got approve a good bit of credit..hehe…I was thinking, would it be anything easy???


After I got the info from my husband, Eddie drove me to the store again before that we stopped by at the bank and got some cash. We got to the store and found that lady again, she was quite happy to see us back..LOL…we worked some trick and everything went well and…my furniture would get to the house next week…woooohooooooo!!!!

Got the ordered done, then we went to find something to eat. My husband told me to take Wddie to Outback and for me to get blooming onion and some steake…LOL.. the restaurant hadn’t opened yet so we walked a few step to Peir1 where I promised my husband to go check it out. I was surprised and loved that store already as the first step there. They really had some good stuff. I was talking to my husband on the phone and also made the list in my head what I would come back for..LOL I hung up with my husband but still walked around the store until the time the restaurant opened.


At the restaurant I ordered 7 Oz. of Victoria’s Crowned Filet with Blue cheese on top. Oh the blooming onion was the first thing I ordered..LOL.. The blooming onion was very good. I ate like half of it..LOL..and then the soup. I was almost full at this point so I could only eat a bit of steak and had to take half of the blooming onion and the steak home.


We were pretty stuff and headed home after that. I had to keep chatting to Eddie ..LOL.. I was afraid he might fell asleep driving..LOL.. Eddie went back home after dropped me at the house.. I did the same thing as usual.. hopped in the bed and woke up to talk to my husband later on at night…

Pictures from the house....

Nov 14
It had been 10 days since I moved in this house. Eddie came out and help with the house and driving me around. It was a very kind of him. He also left some of the tools he had at the house for me in case I wanted to do something. I did what I could so he wouldn’t have to work too hard..
A lot of stuff had finished and it was raining. I told Eddie that we both needed days off..LOL.. so it looked like things was slowly down a bit…and I got sometimes to take pictures around the house…
Pecan from the back yard.
The tree from the back of the neighbor ‘s house

The tree from the back of the house

The flower on the drive way

The leaf on the mailbox




Lately, I had been cooking lunch for our friends to thank them for the help and also to practice cook. So when my husband got home , I could cook some good dishes for him…

Update for the week....

It is going to be the 4th weeks since I stepped in US. The first couple weeks was a bit hard for me because of the jetlag, didn’t know what time or when it was..lol..pretty messed up with the time. I shouldn’t have had this problem since I always slept during the day and woke up all most of the night. I guessed my body hadn’t been able to adjust to the new times yet. I was lucky enough that I didn’t get sick…

23 Oct
After the first day, I got to SC. It had been on going mission I had to get done everyday. I didn’t have time to feel lonely, that put it that way. The first morning, Gina came to Wendell’s house and picked me up to go do some stuff.. Guess what?? I got car sick!!!! It was just unbelievable, I was on the planes more than twenty fours hours and didn’t even feel sick….but sat in the car for 10 minutes made me wanted to throw up…that was just wrong…LOL.. We had to stop at where Wendell’s work…Gina gave me some ginger ale and I felt a little bit after that. And it became the MUST have drink when I was in a car for the first couple weeks, just like a baby with a bottle of milk…it was funny..LOL
Each day passing by, I had many things to do but all it was about our house….


26 Oct
The third day in the States, I got to meet my little cute boy, our son, Kenny. I was so happy because finally we met after many years talking on the phone and the computer.
Kenny grew up a lot and was a very smart kid. I thought soon he would be taller than me..LOL.. When I first saw him, I couldn’t help to think of anything. I jumped to him and hug him so tight. I hope I didn’t scare him..LOL.. I was just soo excited I knew that…



After meeting at the gas station we decided to go to a Thai Restaurant to have lunch but unbelievable it was closed on Sunday and same as a Mexican Restaueant we went t o next. Then we just ended up going to Applebee’s.. LOL…

We took Kenny to a mall for the Halloween shopping after lunch. I wanted him to have all he wanted. A while bank ago, we told him we were going to get him a new MP3 player since the old one stopped working . I got him a good one for him. I hoped he would love it. And I hoped Kenny didn’t think that I tried to buy him thing for him to like me. I never had that thought in my head. I just love Kenny and I like to spoil him too.. hehe.. There was no other kid that could be any sweeter than Kenny. He was such a sweetheart.

After the mall, we went to his mother’s house. I was sooo surprised,he had prepared a jar of flowers for me. Yes he knew I liked flower already…and that was the first flower I got in the US…Thank you sweetheart.

We sat down and talked a bit but then I got to go back to Wendell’s. I wish we had more time to spend with Kenny this time. I felt so bad I couldn’t drive to meet him often. I couldn’t do anything and didn’t know where is where. It was just overwhelm feeling….Arhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

29 Oct
Anne and Eddie came to see me at Wendell today. And then we went to see the house and I showed them around a bit. Of course, after that we went to a Chinese buffet in Columbia. I ate a lot and felt like I wanted to roll out of that place…LOL


30 Oct
I came to the house today as usual. My husband told me to try the fireplace…Yea, why nobody thought of that before??? The fireplace was great.. and it was fun and yes, it was warm!!!

There was an excitement happened at the house today. In the afternoon, there was an old man drove an old Catalac car and pulled into my front yard. That was rude. He came and talked to Mike and claimed that our house was his…LOL….funny grandpa.. I was a little bit stressed but not too bad. He asked Mike many question and left to talk to my realtor about how she got our house to sale to us. The thing was he owned too many house in the town and he had remembering problem. ..LOL… Mike told me, he drove around the neighborhood all the time. One day he saw a house that he really liked , he called his assistance to buy that house for him. It turned out that house was his already..LOL..


I stayed overnight at the our house for the first time this night. It was cold but it was warm in my heart and happy that I could stay in my own house. I slept in the sleeping bag but I wouldn’t complain about it. It was indescribable feeling. I was just so happy I knew that. Wish my husband was there with me.

31 oct
I GOT THE HVAC UNIT AND IT WOULDN’T BE COLD IN THE HOUSE ANYMORE!!!!!!


3 Nov
Finally , the day I had been waiting for my whole life came… it was the day I moved in my house for good!!!!!!
We got everything from our room from Wendell’s house by the help of Eddie, Wendell and one of his friends. It was shower a bit but I didn’t care.. I wanted to move in our house..
It was another tired day but it was full of the happiness for me…


4 Nov
It was my refrigerator and water heater installation day today. The old water heater that the pumper said it would work fine but it turned out it was not. I had to boil water for taking bath since I moved in.. LOL..it reminded me of my childhood when it got cold and we had to boil water and made it warm to take a bath.
Ok, I started the day by calling Home Depot and ordered the water heater unit. They had a special promotion to install it in one day. The fridge became a big issue. My husband had to call and ask Robert for some help to take me to Home Depot and get one. I made a call first and see if they had one we wanted in the store. When I got to the store and went to the appliance section, a staff was there and I started to ask her about the fridge that I talked to someone on the phone about. She was like “ Are you the woman on the phone with ten thousand questions?”…haha..yes, that would be me..
We got the fridge and loaded it on Robert’s trailer. He was very carver to think about the trailer and brought it with him. When I got to the house, ye ye ye, I got the hot water!!!!
Well, as we tried to move the fridge to the kitchen, we had to take its doors out and also the hallway door!!! Never be easy..LOL..Finally, we had it where we wanted…yeyeye…then I could store the food in the fridge!!!!

Travel to HOME!!!!

Here I am.. Sorry for being away from the blog for a while. Well, first of all I am in USA now. Too fast on the action huh..lol.. All of that because the situation we had in Thailand and my husband didn’t feel like I should be close to the border at all and I had a home to come. So yep, we brought the ticket and 9 days later, I landed into US. Some of the stuff we had I left it at my mother’s place.


While I was in Udon, I was so happy that I got a chance to be with my cute little nephew. He was about 4 months and he was the cutest thing in the world to me. I had only few days to get to know him but it was great. He always in a good mood….except when he was waken up in the middle of the night by his crazy aunt ,just to play with him..LOL




After being at my mother’s place for a few days, I had to leave. I booked the business class because all the weight of the luggage I had, it better get the business seat and pay a little for the overweight luggage. To get the economy seat and pay for overweigh bags was the same price as get the business seat and pay for the overweigh bags anyway.


My mother, my brother and his wife with the nephew along with my little cousins and a few relatives came to the airport to send me ( and of course kids loved to see the planes) I was so afraid I was going to cry so I made a quick good bye to them. I saw they already had the tears in their eyes..LOL.. When I was on the plane, of course I had a little drop from my eyes but it wasn’t too bad.


I landed to BKK domestic airport and then took a cap straight to the international airport. I got to the airport and had a few hour the check In time and talked to my husband until then. After checked in, I went through the custom and had my passport checked and then tried to find the gate….and….Oh my god!!! It was a long distance walk to the gate!!! I was so thristy..draged the carry on luggage which full of electronic stuff, x-box, computer Hard drives, cameras ect.. and I had a computer bag and a camera bag and a purse!!! It was heavy but I could do it!!!


Oh, I forgot to say.. I booked the ticket through Expedia and it was Delta Airline who operated the ticket but they were alliance with Korean Air.


Ok, back to after I found the gate.. I talked to my husband. Actually, we were talking since I got off the passport control. A marathon call..but we missed each other very much…hehe


Then it was time to board, I got all my stuff on the plane and found my seat.. woo hoo..it was four seat and two seat of them were empty…yep, I could make a little bed there!!!! I got on my seat and fell right to sleep not long after that. I could feel a little shaking when the plane took off.. I was tired..LOL..


Well, it was not much after that..just waking up, eating and drinking (juice). Five and the half hours past, the plane was approaching to Seul, South Korea. I only had 30 minutes to get to the gate before the next plane leave!!!!! Yes, I was in so hurry. Finally, I made it and got a little time to catch my breat. Then it was boarding time again..LOL … It looked like the weather wasn’t too good that day so the plane was delayed for a while with the passengers on the plane. After the plane took off,again it wasn’t much thing to do beside eat, drink, sleep, drink, watch movie, sleep..over and over again…LOL


13 hours later, I was still watching The Iron Man but the plane was landed in Atlanta Airport. Then as usual we all had to go through the immigration. I went to the citizen and the resident line…and when it was about my turn to get to the immigration booth, an lady officer told me I had to go to “visitor” line.. I was like “No, I have the resident visa” then she told me they would process the visa from the visitor line.. I was about to say something more but had to just do what she said..LOL


I was waitng for along time on the visitor line, most of people on that place were gone..LOL..the thing was a lady before me looked like she had some problem so it took a long time to get thing straight with her. Then it was me, I gave the officer my passport and the package from the embassy.


He wrote the number on the package and said my visa would be process down stair and told me to go get my luggage and follow the line downstair.. Ok, I went down stair and got my luggage. Yep, I was the supper womon, through out the trip I had been pull my luggage from the machine and put them in the cart..not light bags you know..LOL..
I got my luggage and then went to one exit (Declare exit). There was an officer there and he put my document into a plastic file and told me to pull my cart follow “the blue dots”. Then I got to another immigration working booth..I gave them the file and they told me to wait. Not long after that he called and asked me a few question and had me sign a paperwork and told me to sit and wait..LOL..


A few minutes later, he called my name and then explain a few things about remove my card condition in another two years…and also told me if I wanted the SSN new card quick I could go to the local office where I residence. Then they let me go without having to scan my luggage..woohoo!.. if I had known I would brought my stuff..LOL


After getting out of the immigration area, I turned right and went to load my luggage for the connecting flight. Then I gotta find my gate….and the airport was huge. I got on a train and went to gate D and tried to find D27. I got off the train and kept walking ….then realized I was about to get to E…”Ok, it doesn’t sound right” I thought.. So I walked back and found the escalator to D’s gate that I missed..LOL


I found my gate and sat there for a few hours. Surprisingly, I didn’t feel sleepy at all. I thought it was because I was so excited to get home. Ok, then it was the boarding time again (how many boarding times I had had???..LOL..) It was a small plane, all the passenger had to walk down the stairs to get to the plane outside…..thennnnnn……..OMG!!!! it was freeeeeeezinggggg!!! I had to hurry to get on the plane quick!!! I got to my seat and I thought I would just nap or relax a bit before I got to Columbia. But I didn’t have much luck , the lady next to me kept running her mouth and talked to the guy on the seat next to her.


The plane landed to Columbia, I was all excited. I went to get my luggage and tried to find my friends. Hmmm..no sign of them downstairs.. I pulled the cart outside and asked someone there if any other place where people came to pick up people from the airport. Then they said it was upstiar. Weird airport, two meeting points..LOL.. Ok, I pulled the cart and tried to find the way to upstair..I kept pulling it to one section and passed the offices area and found the elevator…buutttt…It didn’t work!!! So I pulled the cart back out to the luggage claim area and asked a gentlemen where the working elevator was..LOL..He leaded me to it and finally I was back to upstair……buuuuttt…still no sign of my friends….Ok, I was started to be little panic.. no coin to make a call either…hmmmm..


Then a few second later, there was a lady and I was very familiar with her….Yesssssss… that was Gina..and then Mike and then Wendell.. …They just got there.. LOL.. They told me my husband called them every ten minutes asking “my wife is there yet??”..



After that they took me to the car. As the car was running on the road, I was confused, thinking we were the wrong side of the road..LOL.. They took me straight to see the house ( that was very nice of them, thank you so much).


When I saw our house the first time…I was so happy.. “This is the house, this is the home!!!” I would like my husband to be there with me so much. I would love to share that moment with him. It was indescribable happiness. As I was walking though the house and walked around the house, it was like I was walking in the heaven. I was wishing to move in that day if I could!!! The house was so beautiful and was so nice when I first saw it. It was like the dream house and somehow I felt like I knew this house before…and I love our house…our first real home…


After I was satisfied with seeing the house..LOL…they took me to Wendell’s house. My husband had a room there and I stayed there for a few days. Then we went to buy some steak to cook for dinner at Mike and Gina’s house. First day in The State, I had steak, not bad huh.. I couldn’t keep my eyes open after the food..LOL.. so Wendell and l left Mike and Gina’s house to Wendell’s.. I crashed after that but still woke up and talked to my husband..



End of the day with a long travel…… New life episode has just begun…..

Update...

Lets update a bit what happened after the previously update. I mean to update the blog every 7-10 days. Everything here is about the same but it has been raining a lot lately. I mean every day and havy rain.

Also, it ‘s the vegetarian festival in Thailand. It starts from 28 Sep-7 Oct. Yep, I decided to join this year. I haven’t done this before and I would like to give it a try. One thing I can tell you is that I am hungry very often..LOL..

I managed to finish the first cross stitch project ..Yay! LOL..just take look at it and see if it looks like anything…LOL..
Here it is.. this picture I hadn’t washed it yet. So you can still see the scale and it looks dirty…LOL

Nope, I haven’t given up after the first one yet. I already started the second project….and it’s 4 times bigger than the first one..what was I thinking!!! .LOL… It didn’t look this big when I put it in the program..LOL.. But I know I will finish it , just gonna take sometimes…

About the new car, my husband’s friend picked it up from the seller from us and now it’s already in the garage. He said the car run pretty good almost like a brand new car, good buying.. It only needs a new light bulb in the cargo compartment.
Also, I’ve just made the last payment for the jeep. Yay!!…Two cars are paid off now…no more payment..Yay!!
LOL..they only wait for us to go back and drive them!!

My husband hasn’t had a mission lately, waiting for the company to find the contracts…LOL.. I like it because it’s like a little time off from the crazy town, crazy road, crazy people. And it gives him sometimes to get good sleep and more time to talk to me..which makes me happy..

Oh, I have some homework to get done too. I need to find the way to get the bike there. I have read some of the regulation but not quite get it all, it looks a bit complicated. I hope to get someone to ship it there and get all the paperwork straight for me. I would love to have this bike over there. Also, there are some other stuff I have to ship there too..I have the list..LOL



Before I finish update this one, I would like to say something about things around here lately…LOL…yep complaining if you will call it another way..LOL.
Fist is about the F16’s that keep practicing and flying around…you can’t really imagine the sound! Oh well, not anyone’s fault. I chose to live around here , I will have to get use to it. Second is the Amplifier and speaker store, located 100-200 meters away from the apartment, they really played loud music. It was ok if they just test the Amp and the speakers for their customer. But just play loud music in the evening? Not acceptable!!!. Third is about the smell. I didn’t have this problem until the room opposite me moved in.. OMG..it’s the smell of AC and cigarette together and plus the smell of something like garbage… Sometimes I have to hold my breath to walk through the hallway.. I am ok if it’s not too much. But it’s this bad. Just imagine, I can smell that in my room..what it is going to be like in that room?? I thought that might be like a tobacco factory!!

LOL…long complaining huh..

Ok, that’s all for today..not many excitement huh..LOL

B-Day present.............

Let’s update what happened in the past week. There was not much as usual. It was flood in many provinces, politic chaos still going on, and bad economic affect. Listening and watching those thing could make me stress sometimes..lol..

Sep 19th was another special day for me and my husband. Yes, I got another year older. I reach 17 year old..LOL.. I didn’t do anything special. Before started Sep 19th, I went down to 7-11 and got a cup cake.. Yes, that was my b-day cake. Then I came back to the apartment, stick the candle in my cup cake, made wishes and blew the candles.. The cake was good..lol.. The next morning, I went to the temple, made some merit. Then I bought some fishes (cat fishes and eels) and let them go in the river, gave lives and freedom to them. After that I went to the mall and got many stuff to cook for myself. Of course, I stuffed myself pretty good with all the food I cook. In late afternoon, my family called to wish me a happy birthday. My husband? He did that before everyone.

Many of you might think that I had a very lonely b-day. No, I didn’t even have those feeling at all. It’s true. Even people I love and love couldn’t be there on my b-day but I know they love me ,miss me and wish me the best every day. Many people expect the b-day presents when their b-day arrive. But my thought is , when your heart full of love, the things you will make a wish for on your b-day is nothing more than you wish for your love ones safety and happiness. I feel like that, I really do. Even I don’t have any object presents on my b-day, but I already have the most wonderful all time present that suit for every special day.

Oh….don’t get me wrong.. I did get a super surprise special b-day present from my husband…take a look at it..

Yes, my husband bought me A CAR!!!! Acually, we did look at cars before but I didn’t know he would get one this fast..LOL… It’s Nissan Xterra 2003. It’s in great condition. I love it. I don’t even know what to say when he said “ It’s all yours honey, Happy Birthday!!!” I loooooove my husband soo muchhhhh…..everyday!!
But don’t laugh if I am going to say………………..I don’t know how to drive yet…LOL… It’s going to be interesting to see myself learning how to drive…LOL… but now , I just keep dreaming about driving my car…

My husband got to go to work in Zakho last week. It was good that he had the net up there. Talking about the internet, three days ago I was soooo mad. The internet was dead from the evening till the next morning. I was like “Great, net dead on the day my husband don’t have much thing to do!!!” Well, they fixed it in the morning.. I called them the first minutes their office opened….LOL
My husband is still working hard. We both misss home so much and ready to go home….But we need to get to our goal….so we can wait!!!!

That’s all for now. I am going back to Battle Stars Galactica…. We love this TV shows……

P.S the cross stitch is almost done!!!!

Home......

Lately, my mind doesn’t quite with myself…why? Because it’s with home…I am homesick..lol… why don’t I go back them you might ask. I just can’t go yet but hopefully soon though. Which home? The home in US. Why am I homesick so much? This house is the house I can proudly say it’s “our house” The home that is actually home. No rent no landlord. The home that I can screw the wall and hang the picture and don ‘t need to pay for that. I am not afraid to live in the house that still doesn’t have anything set up yet. I have lived in one room studio house before. What else I have to be afraid of. Only a house and my loved one, and together we will make our home as home. To be able to do stuff in our own place our own land without any worry would be so nice. They might call this feeling “secure’? I know there will be tons of work waiting for me. I strongly believe it’s going to be great. It might be tired but it’s going to be good tired, worth for hard work. And more than anything I will be able to be with me love. I would love to thank my husband so much for this feel.

We still don’t have the travel date yet. We are waiting for the work to be sort out. I know my husband feel the same way. I know he wants to go home. He hasn’t seen Kenny for about a year now. Thanks to the little Kenny that understands his father very well. I can’t stop compliment Kenny because he really is a good kid. He really understands things well. But I know he is still a kid. He can understanding things easy, doesn’t mean he won’t need the farther love. Kenny is handling it pretty well. That has to thank to good people around him as well


OK ,let’s talk about my cross stitch abit before I head out for some food…LOL. I have done almost half of it. It comes out very nice…LOL..Well, for me though. But last couple days, I haven’t done any table of it. I did it a bit, then my husband called. After that my mind and though would be with him and home.. I put it the cross stitch for a while..LOL… I haven’t been lazy yet. I will get it done…that’s my mission.


My stomach is screaming now…need to get something to feed it…LOL

New hobby and an excitment.....

As I didn’t have much things to do for a while, it made me think that I needed to do something at least to kill time and calm down my excitement to go home . I was sitting and thinking about what I would like to do… Then I read the board and had come across to where they talked about cross stitch. Yes , I would try to do some cross stitch. Well, I didn’t feel like having the easy or same pattern as other. So I searched on the net and found the program to converse the picture into the cross stitch pattern. I made like 5 patterns. And then I had to choose which one I wanted to start first. The program was really good, it told me which color code I need for my cross stitch. I was so excited and couldn’t go to sleep till 5 in the morning…lol..

The next morning, I went to the shop that sold some of these stuff. The owner took me to the cross stitch section. Oh my god, they didn’t have some of the exactly color I wanted. I had to use me talent (..LOL.) and compared the color by my own. I don’t know how the picture gonna come out from this color..LOL.. but we shall see soon. Right now, I have stitched some and the colors come out not too bad…we will see..

30th Aug, there was some excitement happened in this apartment. I was doing my cross stitch and watching TV. Suddenly, somewhere somehow the fire alarm was going off! I was so panic and didn’t know what to do. I put a sweater on and then ran into the bedroom gapped the passport and the visa package first. Then I picked my purse and the cell phone, unplugged everything, put the shoes on and locked the door. After that I ran to the stair, this was within 3 minutes..LOL.. I ran from the seven floor to the first floor very quick and on the way people came out and asked what was going on. “ I don’t know but better be out of here” Yep, I didn’t think I was going to stay there and found out. I saw some people came out of the apartment but some were still there. Why? I would want to ask but I better stayed quiet. LOL..

The security guard was running around busy. Not long, the apartment manager got to the site. They went up to the 6th floor and looked but it was nothing. And then she came down and told us that everything was ok. She said someone just made a joke by pulling the fire alarm. Well, that was not so funny, you think. They didn’t know who did that yet. My hands were still shaking after I came up to my apartment. So I needed some support. I sent an sms to my beloved husband…

He was on a mission and didn’t get the text (until the next day) But something had to tell him or he could feel my feeling. He called me not long after that. I told him what happened. And he asked if I was ok , I told him I was fine. I was laughing at myself about gapping the visa before everything..LOL.. how could I lose that when I had waited for it for a long time! That was it for the excitement.


My husband is still working hard and busy. He has been steady busy since he moved to the new place. Not much time to rest before the mission like before. Why is it so much work? Because of some lazy people there don’t do their job well. And now my husband is there and can take care of stuff well and get things done excellent. Even though, he is so busy but he still calls, gives me text, or chat with me whenever he can. I am very happy about that. We just miss each other so much. It’s better now he gives me the mission schedule before he is going for one. So I will be able to know where and what he is doing. Sometimes, I feel down though when I see he works hard but I couldn’t help anything. I would like to help him some , so he could have less work and have more time to rest. Talking about this makes me want us to go home real bad!

Well, I think that’s it for today. I will have to go back to my cross stitching as I haven’t started any yet today.

See ya!

Flying day and my aunt and uncle....

Today is really the flying day. The air force base was having the practice early morning. Well, my early morning…LOL… F 16 jet was taking off, landing, flying around over and over again. I couldn’t complain all about that much though because it was my choice I chosen to live around here. I had to admit it…lol… When it’s peach, keep practice to be ready for unexpected situation, right?

Well, let’s update what has been going on lately. Let’s see, my husband is back from the mission. He did an excellent job and the clients and the boss were happy. He got good compliments from them. (I wish it could change into a big raise..haha.. ) Well, after getting back, he still has to prepare for the next mission. At the end of each day, he will be so tired. I wish there is something I can do over here to make he feels a bit better after a long tiring day. I would love to be there and give him hugsss. I just miss him so much. I know being his wife, a lot of patience needs…LOL…( from his work though)

On Monday, I had to talk Aunt Ann and Uncle Michael. I told them about the visa and were so excited about it. Aunt Ann said I always could go home in NY while waiting for Chris’s work to get done. Uncle Michael supported that idea and he thought it would be good for Aunt Ann and my self to have each other as a company. I told them both that I would think about it and had to talk to my husband about it also. Of course, my husband didn’t have any problem with that if I would like it. Well, I don’t know and haven’t decided anything on that yet as I still have something to do here.

Also, Aunt Ann told me she went for the physical check up last week. She told me she would let me know the result. I am worried about her though. I know she doesn’t want me to feel like that. But I know she is a very strong woman. I know she will be fine.


Talking about my aunt and uncle, they are my real family. I have known them for many years now. Whatever happens, they are the ones that I could run to. They always give me good advice, take good care of me and also the ones who could stop my super stubborn behavior..lol.. I am so happy when I see them happy.

in a few months they will be married for 40 years. Yes you hear me right.. 40 years is a long time. They got married when they were in early 20’s. They told me once that one of the most important things for marriage life is “Understanding and accept who he really is”

Ok, let’s update about today before I forget..lol.. After I woke up, I went to Tessco Lotus (went further than any day huh..lol..) I got some fish balls, streamed red snapper and some fruits. Yummy!!! But again, I couldn’t eat them all. After finished my breakfast, here I am, sitting here watching TV and waiting for my husband to be online.

Well, I think that’s all for today. I just want to update a bit just to keep the laziness away…..

See ya!

Just another day............

24 August 2008


Today is just another day. I don’t have much thing to do as usual. After I woke up for a while, my husband called me. I was so happy to hear from him.


After that I managed to go to the fresh market near the apartment and got some thing to cook for myself. Seemed very active? LOL Then I cleaned the house and washed the clothes. It always feels good to see the house clean and in order.


In the afternoon, my Bubbeelze called me again and told me what was going on in the mission. I don’t feel so relieve though because the town he is passing is not a very good place. But then again, where is the safe place over there?


I would like to have a good tracking system to give it to my husband, so I will know where he is and what zone he is in. Hmmm..Maybe it’s not a good idea? I might drive myself even crazier? LOL


As I said before, my husband is the team leader for this mission. I am proud of him so much. I know he will do good job being the leader. Of course, I still don’t like him being the boss there. If he gets to be the boss in the US, I would set a huge party to celebrate for him.


Later on in the evening, I sat and watched the Olympic Closing ceremony. They did a great job on it. After that for awhile, my cute young man was online. I hadn’t talked to him for a long time. I immediately IM’ed him the minutes I saw him online!


Who is this cute young man? He is Kenny, our son. I have known him for about 4 years now. But believe it or not, we haven’t met in person yet. I hope soon we can though.


Kenny is a very smart kid. He can learn thing so fast. The only thing though, he doesn’t eat meat so he is just a little bit skinny. I wish I could go to see him now!

Hmm…for now I think I am going to go watch TV and waiting for my Bubbeelze to call. It’s kind of late, I don’t know if he will call though. Seeing my husband works so hard, I just wish I won the lottery. I won, he wouldn’t have to work over there anymore!!!

See ya!

Talk talk talk.......

It’s another lonely day for me today. It’s cloudy and about to rain. It would be good for a snuggling day. My bubbeelze is not online today. He has a very important mission to get done. I miss him so much. Yesterday we didn’t have time to talk much. He had a very busy long day and he was assigned to be the team leader for this mission.
I don’t know maybe you might think I am weird that I don’t like my husband to be in the higher position or the boss over there. If in US, I wouldn’t say much. But it’s a lot different being the boss in US and the Middle East.

You would think people who work there are the experts and know what they are doing. Well, a lot of them are the experts who know the procedures and all the paper works like my husband. But tons of them are not like that. There are still the whining and lost kinds of workers who think they know everything but they don’t. These people are on my nerve because they cause my husband more works that he shouldn’t have to do! Of course, more stresses and headaches come from that but still get paid the same. Being the boss sometimes means more money but it is not the whole lot and not worth for a lot of things. Importantly, we value the time for each other as priceless. Talking about those weakers wants me to poke them in the heads to wake them up and be the man! I can’t wait for my husband to go back to Zakao. I just miss him soooooooooooo much!!!!


Ok, enough of that…lol… Well, yesterday I ate some tamarind, mango, and sliced young galingale mixed with hot and spicy Thai sauce. That was soooooo gooood. But well, I had to pay the price later on. I kept going to the bathroom from the night till the morning and continue to this afternoon. Don’t feel pity for me huh..lol..
After I went to get the vaccine shots, I feel not normal recently. I think my body hasn’t adjusted to them quite well yet. I hope it won’t take so long. I feel sick so easy and I don’t like it.
One more thing, I have been complaining about gaining more weight. But again I haven’t stopped eating snacks yet. I can’t hide them and just can’t resist them…lol… Ok, I will try harder to be in the routines again starting this coming up Monday. I need to do it to gain my confident back!

That’s about it for today. I am going to lay on the couch and watch the sport games.. lol…. But before that I would like to say it one more time…… I misssssssssss my husband ssssssssssssooooooo muchhhhhhhhh!!!!

Later…

Start the blog again, see what will happen :)

I have been reading other people blogs for a long long time and had thought about having one as my own (again). I know it took me so long. The laziness played the big role in it ? …well, yes some of that and the feeling afraid of something might happen like after I started to write the previous blogs or diary. Am I too super specious? LOL

Now , I feel like “what the heck, I just want to write” Maybe my next generation will get to read about me also ( if the lazy won’t get me too much..LOL)

So where should I begin to write? Hmmm.. I couldn’t write about me since I could remember things you know..lol…

Ok, then let’s begin from today, the present time.. sounds good? I have been married to the most wonderful person for more than a year now. Thank you to my Bubbeelze.We have been through up and down in life and have a long story of life together. But you know all of that makes me truly understand and know what true love is. No matter what the future holds, I just know I don’t want to live without him anymore. He is my everything and I can’t say enough how much I love him and how much he mean to me

I am still in Thailand and haven’t gone anywhere further than Lao…lol… My Bubbeelze is still working and playing with the guns in the middle east. We see each other when he finishes the work rotation. But we talk to each other everyday in anyway we can. A day won’t pass by easily for me if I don’t hear from him.

I am staying home and nothing much today. I spend each day talking to my husband or waiting for my husband. But I also take care of our financial matter. Yes, I was about to pass out every time seeing the stocks went down. My husband always says “ It’s going to come back honey” to make me feel better. I know he was stressed to see it went down also…lol…
My Bubbeelze is a good writer. He likes to write, read and collect the good quotes. I like to read what he wrote on his journal over and over again. But for the past few months, he has been busy with work and no time to just sit for a long time to update it. Most of the time when he Is not at work, he talks to me and then sleep.





Well, I am proudly to present my husband’s journal http://bubbeelze.livejournal.com/

I think that’s all for today. P.S I have this blog into two version, Thai and English.
See ya!