BluesChick

can't say I've bought much lately... sold a bunch of stuff including my husbands car We are trying to scale down and decide what to put into storage and what to take with us!! Next week we will be in Florida an going to Harry Potter at Universal Studios so I suspect that I will have lots to post about then!!

Just New York City?? there is so much more. I will be in Michigan at the end of June and then back home to Memphis before heading to Shanghai on July 21. Send me the dates and where you will be and if I can swing it I'll try to come east!!

happy birthday!! love auntie Kerry

I am sure I will get used to it as we have decided to send the kids to the British International School in Shanghai and Nate will do the IGSCE next school year!

Thanks! It's always encouraging when I talk to other expats. The ones I have met in Shanghai love it there and we are looking forward to having the kids experience all they can!!

Green with envy!! That is awesome!!

that's just awful!! Zash thanks for the words of encouragement... i know it will pass but I right now it is awful

Teleporting... these 15 hour flights back from China to see family are going to be awful... of course using it to get to the bridge would be useful too

Steve.... Let me know the dates you'll be in the US and where... if it's before I move, we might be able to arrange a meet up I have one more week of work, a much needed vacation with the family, and then packing up the house for storage or shipping and going to see the folks before we move to China...then it will be learning my way around a new city.... I am hoping my husband will see his way to getting tickets for the preseason game in Hong Kong, but it may be too close to our move date.

I am really hoping it is not true....

I am completely overwhelmed at the moment... not sure it will pass until the move is done and we are in one location

I am completely overwhelmed at the moment... not sure it will pass until the move is done and we are in one location

Glad to hear you are home again I hope everything continues to progress well!! Take care

Let him know he is in my thoughts and prayers, Nicola!

Thanks Alex, I couldn't get it to load, but I'm not surprised, I can't get Facebook or YouTube either It's another thing on my list of things to figure out...

Thanks Alex! I was unable to find the match on TV here and we were out all day looking at neighborhoods, so I wasn't able to watch. Sounds like an exciting match and awesome to read about Torres's goal.

Welcome to the board Have a great time at the match next weekend.

welcome

So glad I had the forum to come read about the game since I am in Shanghai and didn't get the game. I'm going to add to my list of things to do: FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE CHELSEA GAMES ... granted it is a really, really long list right now and full of things like find a new house, find a new school ... oh and figure out what I can bring with us Sounds like it was a good game I'm sorry I missed Torres's first goal!!

Jack Daniels is a favorite around here, of course it is made in Tennessee... however it is made in a dry county!

Kieran, that is definitely an artifact of where you live. I have lived all over the US and I have to say if you live south of the Mason Dixon and East of the Mississippi then racism is worse than other places. Northern states aren't as bad (not saying you won't in counter it) but I think they've been a melting pot a lot longer than the south. I live outside of Memphis and I never thought about a person's skin color or ethnicity as anything other than interesting until I moved here. In fact, the first time my child asked me about skin color, I explained it to him saying that it was just like hair or eye color, some people have one color and others another, but we are all the same. Then I moved here! I went to a park with my daughter who was about 4 at the time and was literal scared to the bone by the interest a group of African American boys (of the same age) took in her and her blond hair and blue eyes. By the same token their chaperones told me they were amazed I didn't pack up and leave as soon as they arrived. I have also learned that "yes, ma'm" can be an insult if they say it the right way!

I hope the FA sticks to their guns and makes him sit out the ban, but give their past in action I will not hold my breath So, if Rooney acts that way for a goal celebration can you imagine what he's like after he scores in the bedroom?? (Poor Colleen!)

Hope you're birthday is wonderful!!

hell yes! LOL tonight was a bbq'd pork butt and it was awesome!

Happy Birthday, son!! Love you!! Blues Chick and her chickadee