Random Though It May Be...

And now for the 'Fried Rice' segment of this blog... where a medley of random leftovers are fried together to a surprisingly pleasing pallet for your enjoyment.

Okay, or just call it random, that'll do.

A construction crew hard at work. What you don't see is the 10 foot hole within that thin aluminum railing. In the states, they might shut down this entire intersection to bring in the big machinery. But here there are about 6-8 workers and roughly 10 tons of elbow grease that goes into all the shoveling of concrete here. Amazing, shall we say? These people do not faint at the sight of hard work!


And the evidence of the kids being completely spoiled by the local Ayis... just in case I forget why the transition back to the US would be a hard one for them.

Yes, that's my almost 5 year-0ld being cradled by a 50 year-0ld woman.

This is me stepping back behind the glass of the butcher section of the local grocery store to tell them which part of the cow I need for a Sunday roast. At 30 US bucks a pop, you bet I'm a micro-manager on this one.

I love it when they go along with my posing. This guy needs to go to Hollywood already.

Okay, stop zooming in on the photos here, you snoopy girl you! LOL! This is the best part of this random post... Our dossier (the international portion of our adoption) is complete, and the following are the documents that went out for translation for the Chinese government.

And can I just say there is nothing weirder than seeing your life written on paper through someone else's perspective. For those of you not familiar with the process, you meet with your case worker every week for many weeks, and she conducts 2 hour interviews with you and just pulls it all out of you in a very strategic way. Dang they're good. These skilled ladies, at least the two we worked with, were like family to us. I made crab wontons with one and baked cookies with another. We cracked jokes, and shared family stories. Maybe it was all part of their plans (wah wah wah)... lol. I seriously had plans to play tennis and go garage sailing with one, and the other, sheesh, what I'd give to be at the wedding to the most sweetest guy she met out here in China! And I've even seen her interior design work, amazing. These ladies really are like sisters to me. The opposite of what you'd expect.

So we got our official "wait time", for those of you interested. We now have only 19 months until we receive pictures from the orphanage and info about the bundle of joy (or bundles :)).

On another note... someone please tell me why this man can sleep anywhere, anytime, no matter what. Simple man, Mr. Chen was in the car waiting for Tim to grab a fax in the building while I was in the back seat. Within 1 minute (not exaggerating), dude was out cold. I couldn't even shake the car hard enough to get him to stop snoring. I'm talking the kind of snoring that prohibits any other thoughts you'd like to maintain on the inside.

The kind of snoring that wakes you at 2 AM, and makes you pull your 'earthquake roll over' in bed to wake the dude up. Don't tell me you haven't done that either. You know what I'm saying. Your spouse is snoring, you can't sleep, so you roll over, and bounce as hard as you can in the process so that he wakes and says "what was that?!" and you pretend like you can't hear him b/c you are still sleeping. But really you're thinking "that just bought me 20 more minutes of solitude".

Anyway, props to ya Mr. Chen. It's only us insomniacs that despise this attribute, in somber admiration.