May 5, 2009

This morning saw me up with the sun (which is rising at 5:30am now) for my BNI meeting. I'm feeling rather awake Tuesday mornings now, and just that 1 early meeting a week has pushed my entire day routine each day earlier. It's good actually, but it was a hard adjustment. :) This is my busy week for network events, as lots of groups meet once a month the first week of the month. So besides today I have one tomorrow, one Thursday, and one Friday morning. It's great for business though, and I always look forward to the first of the month because I gain loads of new contacts.

Nelly's catflap has been installed in the glass door, so finally she can come and go as she likes. Very good news for her, and for us! :)

I had an interesting culture moment today- I was reading in this interesting book about the National Parks, and they mentioned one of the bathhouses in a park in the South, Alabama or something like that. They said the water temperature was "143 degrees" and I thought "Can anyone stand 143 degrees? They must cool it down some or people would get second degree burns!" And then I realized that I was thinking in Celsius! That's right- I had actually been comparing that to 200C. Wow. You know you've been living somewhere awhile when you start using new units. :)

It's hard to believe that we're coming up on 2 years here. Amazingly Cambridge feels like home for us now, and lots of things have stopped seeming strange as we've gotten used to them. But there are still moments when it just hits me, and it seems really weird that I live in the UK! We're not getting too cozy here though because we are still on track to be movin' on- we don't know where to, but Gd knows and he'll let us know when it's time to move. My vote is for Cambodia, followed closely by China. :D But as long as he has us here we're keeping our hands to the plow, telling internationals the good news about JC.

We are coming back Stateside for 3 weeks in June- a week and a half we'll be in Michigan, and the rest between Wichita and Cleveland for 2 weddings! We'll let you know exact dates as it gets closer. We're looking forward to catching up with people while we're back, and I for one am looking forward to a proper Michigan summer! :)