Mark is in Phoenix right now and I miss him bunches!  I would’ve gone, but I’ll be in Baltimore next weekend for my BFF Lauren’s graduation.  She is getting her Master’s in Social Work and I’m soooo proud of her!  So many graduations are on Fridays, and Mark and I are already missing work the Friday after next for my brother’s graduation… so, I had to forfeit the trip to Phoenix because it wasn’t in the budget or in the time-off-from-work plan.  It’s hard to ask for more time off when you’ve just been in China for a month!

Actually, I feel like we’ve been so busy since being back here that I haven’t really processed everything we experienced in China.  I’m going to make some time this weekend to at least privately write down my thoughts.  People keep asking us, “So, tell us about China!”  And we both sort of falter…because we haven’t had the time to put the stories together, to pick and choose from the many that never made it on the website, and to find the right words to accurately convey what China is like.

I think a part of it, though, is that our life is so fantastically awesome right now that we’re more in the moment than ever before.   We had a wonderful time in China, but we’re having a great time here, too, so there isn’t the need to look back and go over all of last month.  Because then we’d miss out on enjoying all of this month!

Tonight I’m meeting up with some Yelpers for a Chinese Feast at Frank Ma’s in Chamblee.  It’s a large-ish restaurant in this big Chinese shopping center area and the owner, Frank, is always zipping around the restaurant greeting and talking to all of his guests.  Mark is bummed to miss out, but he gets his mom’s amazing cooking, so it’s sort of a wash.