July Wrap Up

July was kind of a tough month.  And by that, I mean the first two weeks were the worst since I moved out here.  I went absolutely mental and ended up breaking out in hives due to stress.

The lovely four bedroom apartment I had lived in since I moved here two years ago was sold, so Sean and I had to apartment hunt, which was pure, unadulterated torture in Macau, and then move, which was probably even worse because it's about one thousand degrees outside and moving in that is so not fun. Even if it is only six blocks from your old apartment. That being said, the new apartment is decent and I think we're settling in. I have a Chinese kitchen now, which is not so great, but I'll deal and then overcompensate when I come home and buy my own home.  In typical American fashion.

Then Erin moved home.  Holy moly do I miss my wife.  It's very very lonely in Macau when your bestie leaves and all of the sudden you're the only one on days again and no one can play because they work nights and your standing dinner date is all of the sudden... not standing anymore. I felt very pathetic and lonely for a solid couple weeks, but work keeps me busy and I don't feel quite so sorry for myself right now, but...  You know, still kinda.

The morning Erin left, I got hives. Totally charming. Thankfully, they are mostly gone and I need to remember I am prone to breaking out in hives in times of high stress.  Note to self.

The Olympics are on, so that's a huge distraction, somehow I end up with fully packed weekends even if I plan to have a weekend in, and we're slowly but surely settling into the new apartment.

We had a typhoon.  That was great. Lots of freak out over what equates to roughly a Category 1 hurricane.  I was less than impressed, but there was some good gusts of wind and lots of rain.  I don't know, I'm probably jaded after living through some pretty intense storms in LA.  I mean, I vividly remember standing outside in our front yard in the eye of Andrew and being amazed at the wall of clouds and how calm that center of the storm was.  And then that bitch Katrina that was certainly a watershed event in my life and the life of the Gulf Coast as a whole.  Eh well, it was something different, for sure.