I'm back. Totally back. I mean. I've been back in the US since Nov 17? Or 19th? I tell you those first few days were a total jet-lag blur. Total and big huge props to people who are able to make that 15.5 hour flight from HKG to JFK and then go to a business meeting the next day.
I'll tell you what I was doing the next day. The next day I was sleeping. A lot. And trying to remember where things like the bathroom were in my own house. And for some reason the spice rack got moved. And my wife's car was close to kicking the bucket so she was driving mine. Oh. And there was probably the equivalent of a cat's-worth of fur under the TV cabinet.
Other than that everything was just as I left.
It did take me awhile to remember how to use US money. It's ALL GREEN. How in the world do you remember to use the $1 bill rather than the $10 or $100? All the same.
I also miss using the $2 coin. And the $10 coin. Those are some useful bits of currency.
The day after I slept all day, I went into work. Which was its own process trying to remember where the office was. Luckily, it's a fairly tall building and has a sign on top. So that helped. What didn't help was the continued jet lag. I had such a headache, I was exhausted... and I was DIZZY. They don't tell you that, but frequently jet lag can lead to dizziness.
Consider yourselves warned.
When I got to downtown Boston... which in an earlier life of mine I considered to be in a densely packed area of town... I couldn't help but thinking how many more buildings and people we could fit into that space. I mean. There is a LOT of wasted space down there!
Not even kidding.
It was also so funny to hear all of the American accents. I mean honestly. My favorite American accent was the customs guy at JFK who asked me how long I'd been out of the country. And y'all, he was so totally American. Like with an American attitude and in a uniform and tattoos all over his arms. He was like that guy.
"How long were you out of the country?"
"Five months."
"DAMN GIRL! Welcome home!"
Welcome home. :)
Now that the holidays are over (look how twinkly my house looked at Christmas!) and I'm back in the swing of things... I plan to continue blogging here. About communications and community and how dreadfully much I miss Hong Kong.
I adore Hong Kong.
Huge big adore.
I also have a ton of pictures and videos to keep posting from the trip... and I have to tell y'all about the AMAZING foot reflexology place I found in Boston which does a session almost as good as they do in HK.
Almost.

And check out my nativity set! I found this on my last weekend in HK at the St. John's Cathedral book store. It's just so glorious. All hand-carved, and the figurines are Asian-style. I've always wanted a nativity set and just never found one before that I felt was purchase-worthy. This one. This one totally was.