I landed on Monday night feeling positive, ready to take on this bustling city again, ready to enjoy it for everything it offers. Ready to accept Sydney as a place I will always have. But for right now?
This, this is home.....
It may sound ridiculous but it often still shocks me that I'm living in the middle of Asia. ASIA. A place so different to anywhere else. Where the rules are just different, the people are just different, the status quo just....different. And its already been 12 months. Wowsers.
I've got a lot to look forward to for the rest of 2011....
- A baby shower 'afternoon tea' this weekend for the one of the loveliest of friends I've met over here
- Purchasing of some serious baby hardware - hello pram, car seat, change table, breast bump, steriliser etc etc etc etc etc
- Cool weather, low humidity, sub-20 degree temperatures
- A great friend arriving from London on Tuesday for some long awaited gas bagging (result)
- Cluck cluck - a long, lazy ladies lunch (aka hens) for one of my oldest friends getting married in 3 weeks here in HK
- My sister, and some great friends arriving from Sydney for said wedding and staying with me
- THE WEDDING!
- My aunty, uncle and 9 year old cousin coming to stay
- More stretch marks, leaking boobs, swollen peripheries, breathlessness, back pain..... oh yay
- Setting up the nursery for our long awaited (making the above well and truly worth it) bundle of joy!
- Christmas in Honkers (no more flying for me - do whales need passports?)
It certainly makes life a lot easier to tackle when you have something to look forward, doesn't it? I know there was a period for me a few months back when I didn't, and it was bloody awful. I think they call it a 'rut'. One of my friends is in one of these at the moment - but dear special lady, you will come out of it. I promise.
What are you looking forward to at the moment?
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Hey B, I truly love the images you've posted today -
I feel like I could sit and stare at them and see some many different stories in each.
As for you, I'm so pleased that everything is progressing well and you have such wonderful things to look forward to - yay!
Happiest of happy days and a great big hug.
xx F
PS: I'm looking forward to a lovely 'catch up' phone call with one of my best Blogerista buddies in the next couple of minutes - woot!
What a lovely list of things to look forward to. I'd LOVE to live in Honkers, it's on my list.
x
just back from HK yesterday, your first photograph is almost identical to one I've just uploaded from my camera!
Asia eh. It's a bit of a whirlwind, and like you, I sometimes can't believe life has brought me here. It'll be have been two years by the time we get to go home, and there have certainly been 'ruts' along the way (the most recent just a few weeks ago - hence the last minute city break to HK!).
Have a wonderful countdown to Christmas, and to the arrival of your wee boy - you've got the most exciting thing in the world to look forward to!
Just catching up with your blog after your break - I've had a rough week. So great to hear how well you're doing and you look fab in those pictures in your previous blog post. Your bump is so tiny! I'm only 19 weeks and I feel like a whale :(
Such a fabulous list of things to look forward to and you live in such an amazing place.
I'm looking forward to Disney On Ice next weekend (yes I'm a big kid), going to Edinburgh for a 4 night break (love the Xmas markets), then it's Christmas...then we fly to Orlando for 3 weeks on the 4th January! I am, quite literally, like a pregnant Judith Chalmers ;)
x
Looking forward to going home for Christmas. It will be the first time in over a year that I've seen my family!
Oh how lovely, you are surrounded by so many fantastic people. I love HK this time of year, the evenings are long, it's fantastic.
I move all the time & embrace each new city as an adventure, a holiday & don't really mind where or how we live, as it's not my home, i'm not too attached. I grew up in Sydney (St Ives) & can't believe we're going to settle in Canberra. High school had a huge influence on this, i'm so happy but gosh you just don't know where your husband's job or . . . your children's education will take you or keep you. Love Posie
Well, your rest of 2011 sounds like it's going to be full of action and a lot of fun...my sis in law lived in HK for 15 years 2 of her 3 children were born there and when they came back to sydney last year they were all miserable, they missed home!...no one could believe it...she actually took about a year to get used to sydney again...life is just so unpredictable, isn't it? Enjoy your time there (such a special time for you with the baby arriving soon and all the rest) Have a great weekend :)
Claudia x
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