Goodbye, love

Sunday 5 August 2012

The girls' dressing room. Tonight was my last night at Rent. I'll miss it so much.

Evil Dead

Sunday 6 May 2012

Tonight Ryan and I went to go see Evil Dead: The Musical. We sat in the "splatter zone," got sprayed with blood as the zombies were killed, and got to go back and meet the cast afterward. They tried to eat my brains.

Halloween

Saturday 29 October 2011

Here we are, Dorothy and a tornado! Dorothy was quite the popular costume this year - Ryan met five or six others.

One year today

Monday 10 October 2011

I love you, my one and only!

Awesome new earrings

Wednesday 30 June 2010

Went to see the fireworks in the next town over tonight, with a group of friends. The two little girls had glow sticks, so I attached some to my earrings.

Hammam

Monday 19 April 2010

Our second hammam experience. Turkish baths may not quite compare to my awesome Taiwanese spa, but they're pretty good. This one was mixed gender, requiring swim suits, but usually they're separate and you just go in your underwear. (Though never naked, it seems. Too bad.) A hammam is a big marble room ringed by a bench with basins set into it, and full of warm stone beds. The steam works its way out through a hole at the top of the dome overhead.

First you clean yourself off with a metal bowl and the water from the basins. Then sit and relax for a bit in the hot, steamy air. (We went to one in Bursa that had wonderfully deep hot pools of spring water, too.) When you feel sufficiently softened, it's time for a full-body scrub, followed by a thorough soapy massage.

Here we are cooling down and drying off afterwards, with a cup of apple tea and some fruit.

Camel shadow

Monday 22 March 2010

The second day of our trip was spent traveling by camel, rocking across the desert visiting some more beautiful, narrow, colorful canyons. A great trip, overall. (Though I think I will stick to horses from now on - a camel's gait is rather uncomfortable.)

My last hairwash

Monday 22 February 2010

I went for my very last Taiwanese hairwash today, a sad occasion. When I told the girls it would be my last time, there was a flurry of photo-taking - me with every possible combination of hairwash ladies. This woman here was my favorite. I don't know her name, but to be fair, none of them knew mine, either. They all just called me "LaoShi" (Teacher.)

Little family portrait

Saturday 6 February 2010

Today was my parents' last day in Taiwan, so I figured I'd put up a photo of the three of us together.

Myself again and again

Friday 8 January 2010

This one looks like a Canon commercial, doesn't it?

Christmas reflection

Saturday 26 December 2009

Ryan and I reflected in a Christmas ornament.

. . . . bookshelf

Thursday 19 November 2009

Day 4: My bookshelves. A bit messy. Can you make out any of the titles?

. . . . shoes

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Day 3: My Shoes. Yep, these are all the shoes I own, and quite a few of them are ratty enough to be left behind when we leave Taiwan.

. . . . fridge

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Day 2: My Fridge. Well, Ryan's and my fridge, really. Comics, tons of recipes (I'm starting to plan for the Christmas cookie tray . . .), coupons, etc. And all held up with our cute Japanese mini dog magnets.

You can tell a lot about a woman from her . . . . . purse

Monday 16 November 2009

Okay, here is something I've been thinking about doing for a while. I was hoping to have more, but I only ended up taking four of these photos. So, for the next four days, you are going to see a little bit of me, a little piece of my life.

Day 1: My Purse. Here is everything that is in my purse. I was going to list it all, but not that I look at it, there's an awful lot of stuff there. And my purse isn't very big! So, you can just look and guess what some of it is.

A sliver of myself

Thursday 5 November 2009

I'm practicing being a bride!

Saturday 31 October 2009

Ryan and I were Frankenstein's Monster and his bride for Halloween (obviously). It was soooo cool - my hair was at least a foot tall!

My pomelo hat

Monday 26 October 2009

This is more traditionally done at Chinese New Year, but Ryan and I ate a pomelo, and I decided to cut the skin into a hat. So, here I am doing my pomelo dance in my pomelo hat.

He's lookin' at me

Thursday 1 October 2009

I wanted to capture the neat lines in Ryan's glasses, but it didn't quite come out right in the short time we had during the red light. But you know me, I can't seem to resist a self-portrait . . .

Playing tag

Friday 28 August 2009

I went outside with my kids today to teach them tag, but - and I don't know if this is a language thing or a developmental readiness thing - it didn't go over real well. Okay, no problem, I figured I'd give them 15 minutes to run around. Hmm, no we went in a few minutes later - it seems Taiwanese kids just don't like running around outside. They're conditioned from birth not to get dirty and that they can hurt themselves doing anything. (The rich kids of this overprotective generation, anyway.)