USA

we are back in the land of the free!!!  god bless america!


reasons we are glad to be back:
Being able to eat american food and not white rice for every meal 
the invention of the FORK! i hate chopsticks!
sitting on a toilet instead of squatting over a hole in the ground
having cell phone service
the luxury of toilet paper in every bathroom
having air that isn't hazardous
being able to speak english and actually have people understand us

reasons we will miss china:

the marriott's daily buffet breakfast

bargaining with chinese at fake markets 

having chinese people think we are celebrities

our hilarious tour guide lisa

seeing amazing sites every single day

the luxury of hanging out with my hubby 24/7

for now we are getting back into the routine of work and school, with a little added grocery shopping and loads and loads of laundry.  boo.  but be expecting an overload of china pics in the future!

guilty...

...of hitting up mcdonald's in the middle of the night because i was craving a cheeseburger.  i don't care what people say, mcdonald's is GOOD.

...of getting more than a little anxiety when i think of the TWELVE HOUR flight to china. over the OCEAN. seriously considering some xanax. does anybody know how i can get me some of that?

...of thinking that "leech therapy" was kind of fun (FYI leech therapy is for your patient when he cuts off his thumb and gets it reattached, and they need you as the nurse to do the very important job of putting a leech on his thumb to suck the blood through and make sure his thumb starts working again).

...of eating jen's homemade cookies for breakfast after my nightshift. pretty sure it was like eating heaven.

...of kissing dash on the lips.  every day.  dawson hates this but i do it anyway.

...of seeing skinny, pretty girls with amazing clothes and being very depressed about my hair, my face, my body, my clothes, etc. i know, i'm totally debbie downer. Thankfully i have a sweet husband who lets me know he loves me and cheers me up (even though my poor wardrobe is partly his fault because of the budget he puts me on).

...of not getting my hair cut or colored for the past 5 months.  maybe this and my mcdonald's fetish is part of my aforementioned problem. oh yeah, and the whole cookies for breakfast thing.  oops.

...of deciding that MAYBE we can think about having a baby in 2015, instead of 2016.  but that's a big maybe.

...of loving downton abbey.  hands down the best show on television right now.

...of still not making any new year's resolutions.  but i bet i will have time to think of them on the TWELVE HOUR flight to china.

...of being sad that dawson is back in school and can't hang out with me as much, but VERY happy that it is his last semester of college ever!

...of watching pitch perfect 4 times in one week. lesbi-honest, i wish i could hang out with fat amy.