T-10 days

We got the rv buttoned up and it's ready for its long winter sleep, and are now in a residential hotel.  Living in the RV was very enjoyable even with the teeny living space.  Now that I have access to fast internet, here's the long awaited pictures of our wee trailer.  I adored living in it, and if it wasn't for having 3 storage units filled with furniture, books, pictures, dishes and mementos that we can't bear to part with we'd be happy to live in one full time.  I never really understood the allure before, but I sure do now.  Living as a turtle does, carrying one's house along on life's journey is a wonderful thing indeed.

We fly out of here for Hawaii on the 29th, for 2 days in the sun. Then on October 1st, we zoom into the unknown world of tackling a foreign country, one where we don't speak the language!  We have a phrase book on my phone, and have a few well practiced phrases.  Please, thank you, yes, so sorry, hello, good day and good bye.  We can order brown tea, " chiro ocha kudasai", so if I do indeed get brave enough to eat out we have my allergy cards printed out and ready to go.  While traveling on trains and subways holds no fears for me, the buses scare me to pieces.  When we were their before I would just write the kanji for the street or town on my hand and used that to navigate, but buses seem trickier one must know the bus route and when to transfer....sigh   But hopefully we will quickly get that sorted as we need to ride a bus from our house into Kyoto.  Luckily the Japanese are very organized with their mass transit and the buses, trains and subways all share the same station, so moving between transit modes is easy.

  There seems to be so much to do between now and then, and yet not much left to do.  As the days creep closer to T-day, [travel day] I'm beginning to feel a mite anxious and worried about the entire trip.

After spending hours trying out blog names for our travel blog, all the "good" ones were taken.  But then just as I was getting tired of that game an idea popped into my head and it wasn't taken!  w00t!

Here is our new blog addy, it is still blank at this time, I need to sit down and write the first post.

http://wanderingsourdoughs.blogspot.com/

Ok, and now we come to the tricky part of my post.  I'd love for y'all to travel Japan with us, and would love hearing your comments, however....  Anyone who reads my blog knows I'm closeted and don't see that changing anytime soon.  We are giving the blog addy to the kids and that's where my worry begins.  If they follow the commenters back they will find out who I am, and truly am not wanting to deal with that.  I'll leave anonymous commenting available, and thats really the only way I can see how to keep my secret identity safe and allow my friends here to comment.

Stolen!

Read this over at ravager619.wordpress.com, who stole it from Anne Marie, who stole it from......

1. ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?  Well, sorta kinda?  If we had of had a daughter, TH wanted her middle name to be Renee, but a daughter wasn't in our cards, thankfully.  When I changed my name I decided to pick Renee to be my middle name.

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?   Last week, when 2nd son told us he didn't want us to move, and wanted us to buy the property down the street from him so we could be close.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Yeah, its spiky and sloppy and totally me.

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Pastrami!

5. DO YOU HAVE ANY KIDS? Yep, 4.

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS?  Well why wouldn't I be?  We like to do the same things!

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM?  It's hard for me to not be sarcastic.

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?   Yep!

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?   F**k NO!

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?  Before the celiac diagnosis Captain Crunch.  Yes really!  I no longer eat cereal, unless rice krispie treats count?

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?  No.

12. DO YOU THINK YOU’RE STRONG?  Physically? No.  Emotionally, hellz yeah.

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?   Strawberry, but it has to be actually made with strawberries.

4. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?  It depends, sometimes it's their shoes, for others it could be their hair, or face or their demeanor.

5. RED OR PINK?   I'd rather not wear either, but if need be, red.

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF?  My wrong gender.

17. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW?   Black with teal socks.

18. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?  Black bean and corn salad, bbq ribs and potatoes.

19. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?   I'm not at the moment, as TH is reading.

20. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?  Orange

21. FAVORITE SMELL?  Babies!

22. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO?  TH

23. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH?  NFL

24. HAIR COLOR THAT’S REAL?  My hair started going grey at 23, and I've been coloring it ever since.  I have zero idea what color it is under the dye.

25. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?  No.

26. FAVORITE FOOD?  Toast!

27. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?  Never EVER scary movies!  EVER!!!

28. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?  Star Trek Beyond.  And loved every single moment!

29. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?  Black

30. SUMMER OR WINTER?  Summer!!!

31. HUGS OR KISSES?  Both!

32. FAVORITE SWEET FOOD?  Carmel popcorn!!!

33. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?  "Assault with a Deadly Lie: A Nick Hoffman Novel of Suspense"  by Lev Raphael


34. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?  Mouse pad??

35. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST?  A few episodes of Darkwing Duck

36. FAVORITE SOUND?  Its a toss up between wind ruffling leaves with birds singing.....or a finely tuned muscle car.

37. ROLLING STONES or BEATLES?  Beatles!!! 

38. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE TRAVELED?  Antigua

39. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?  Connecting with children, but especially babies.

40. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?  Indianapolis Indiana

Indecision

This summer has been fantastic!  We are about 1/2 mile from one of our sons.  We live between his work and his home, and he has dropped by quite often on his way home from work!!!  We see the grand son, and have watched him many times.  The son with the evil being wife has come around and we go over and visit with him and girls while she's at work.  And the other Alaskan son has had us over for dinner and have gone camping with TH andwe have just hung out together.

I'm having so much fun the idea of moving back to Arizona has lost its shine. 

However,  it was 39 this morning, fall is here and winter wont be far behind.

All my fabulous friends live in Arizona. 

Volunteering at the library has really made me feel useful again, and every day is a delight to go to "work".

It gets DARK in the winter.  Think winter twilight for the day "light".  If it's a clear day, there will often be an hour of sunny sunshine.  But by December and January, that is only a memory...

Sigh. 

TH has left it up to me if we move or stay.  The only thing he has to say on the subject is how much healthier I am in Arizona.

Damn, damn, damn.  I nver do get the easy decisions to make, do I?