This Morning Was All About Making Plans.

So I wrote this huge post about how little information there is online for trailing spouses and then I pressed something and my post disappeared. Lovely. The reason I did this little bit of research today was because I've been feeling pretty low all the time. Not only low, but embarrassed that I haven't done anything productive and that most days, I don't even get dressed.

Out of all the websites I visited, I found only one with information dealing with my problem. Most of the information is for how to set up your own business or portable career crap. That information may be useful to some trailing spouses, but not me. Why? Because I'm not allowed to work, that's why.

The most useful part of the article is the part where it basically says, 'take a shower, get dressed and go take a walk, EVERY DAY'. It's like the author is in my head. So I got dressed but I didn't take a shower because I took one yesterday and it's so freakin' dry in Beijing that if I take a shower everyday my skin will flake off and my hair will split into millions of little pieces. I already use about 20 times more moisturizer than I did in Canada and the stuff you buy here is really crappy so I have to use more of it. I found a Sephora the other day though and I plan to go back to buy some ridiculously expensive moisturizer. It's for my sanity, people.

My plans for today are:

1. Figure out what the hell the problem is with the printer (it prints in red, and only in red)
2. Go to IKEA later today to get a shoe horn for D.

I know, a trip to IKEA for just a shoe horn? The thing is, D is really tall and IKEA makes these long shoe horns that he likes and he broke the last one and so we need a new one. Plus, there's a free bus from the compound that goes today so we don't have to spend money on the taxi there and back. I figure I'll bring a book and get a coffee and read for a bit in the cafeteria there, which is always fun. And it's IKEA. By that I mean that I can't really go in there without buying less than 12 things.

Plans for tomorrow:

1. Manicure.
2. Bring some pictures to get printed so we can send them to D grandma.

General things that need to get done but not right away because it's Chinese New Year and everything will be closed for the next two weeks:

1. Get some prints that we got in Xi'an framed.
2. Send my dad his Christmas present and feel totally guilty about him getting it in February, but feel okay that my dad really doesn't care when he gets his Christmas present.
3. Send a bunch of postcards to friends back home.
4. Try to get D to organize some stuff he's had lying around in boxes since we moved into our house, in August 2007. I say try because I'll say, "Babe, can you please organize that stuff because otherwise I'll stab myself in the face." and he'll say, "Okay, I'll do it." And then he doesn't and we have the same conversation again in two weeks.