Happy New Year 兔 You!
So, I was strolling along in cyberspace the other day and what did I trip upon but my old blog! Apparently, once you put it out there, it will just exist forever on the internet no matter how long you ignore it! Well, I started reading a few old posts and I actually found myself LOLing. Not a smile-to-myself or an inside-my-own-brain chuckle, but honest-to-goodness LOL amusement. All these crazy things from my Life in Taiwan remembered. Oh my gosh! I forgot how Jay used to say "buttass!" all the time!
It made me wish whole-heartedly that I had kept this up over the past few years. (As many friends did suggest at the time...) I wish that I had my observations and musing from the last 5 years. It's all a blur to me now and it would be nice to have recollections of my experiences and feelings at the time.
The thing is, we're not in Taiwan anymore. We left Taiwan in June of 2009 and we've ended up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jason applied for his green card, we packed up, sold, or gave away all our stuff - including our beloved Mitsubishi Spacegear - and hopped on a plane with the maximum luggage allowance allowed.
We arrived in Cleveland and I had only one thought in my mind, "GET A JOB!" We arrived in the US on June 29th and I gave myself an ultimatum: get a full-time job in my field -with benefits - and start by the last day of August. My memories of that summer are: sending out resumes, doing phone interviews, doing campus interviews and lying on the bed in the guest room clutching at my abdomen and whimpering in fear of the unknown. Long story short: I got a position at a university in Pittsburgh and I started on August 26th. A full 5 days before my own deadline.
After the job was taken care of, next we needed a house. Jason's full-time job became finding us a house. Which he did. Jason found, negotiated, and sealed the deal on our lovely four-bedroom home. (lots more whimpering in fear on my part) I'm not all that enamored with home-ownership but I do like not having to shout, "Be quiet! The downstairs neighbors can hear you! Stop running!" I still yell, don't get me wrong, but that's one less thing to yell about.
Once the house was taken care of, Jason set out to find a job for himself. He found a job right away (after a grueling 2-week search) as a bilingual IT support customer service representative at a big company downtown. The only drawback is that he works nights. Although there are many benefits to working nights, too (somebody home when the kids get home etc.)
The kids enrolled in school and love the leisurely, homework-free atmosphere of the US schools. "And the girls have really big boobs, too!" Indeed. This is what we moved here for.
So, on this first, auspicious day of the Year of the Rabbit, I will attempt to resurrect this poor, neglected blog and start recording all of the craziness of our life here in our new hometown.
It made me wish whole-heartedly that I had kept this up over the past few years. (As many friends did suggest at the time...) I wish that I had my observations and musing from the last 5 years. It's all a blur to me now and it would be nice to have recollections of my experiences and feelings at the time.
The thing is, we're not in Taiwan anymore. We left Taiwan in June of 2009 and we've ended up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jason applied for his green card, we packed up, sold, or gave away all our stuff - including our beloved Mitsubishi Spacegear - and hopped on a plane with the maximum luggage allowance allowed.
We arrived in Cleveland and I had only one thought in my mind, "GET A JOB!" We arrived in the US on June 29th and I gave myself an ultimatum: get a full-time job in my field -with benefits - and start by the last day of August. My memories of that summer are: sending out resumes, doing phone interviews, doing campus interviews and lying on the bed in the guest room clutching at my abdomen and whimpering in fear of the unknown. Long story short: I got a position at a university in Pittsburgh and I started on August 26th. A full 5 days before my own deadline.
After the job was taken care of, next we needed a house. Jason's full-time job became finding us a house. Which he did. Jason found, negotiated, and sealed the deal on our lovely four-bedroom home. (lots more whimpering in fear on my part) I'm not all that enamored with home-ownership but I do like not having to shout, "Be quiet! The downstairs neighbors can hear you! Stop running!" I still yell, don't get me wrong, but that's one less thing to yell about.
Once the house was taken care of, Jason set out to find a job for himself. He found a job right away (after a grueling 2-week search) as a bilingual IT support customer service representative at a big company downtown. The only drawback is that he works nights. Although there are many benefits to working nights, too (somebody home when the kids get home etc.)
The kids enrolled in school and love the leisurely, homework-free atmosphere of the US schools. "And the girls have really big boobs, too!" Indeed. This is what we moved here for.
So, on this first, auspicious day of the Year of the Rabbit, I will attempt to resurrect this poor, neglected blog and start recording all of the craziness of our life here in our new hometown.
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