Thank you

I'd like to say thank you so much for all the well wishes for Big C.

Big C is home and doing a lot better, he's tired but he's moving about and it back at work thought still on light duty.

So now the waiting begins...waiting for the results of the colonoscopy and the endoscopy.

I hate waiting, I hate waiting on a bus, or a friend, or even the barista at Starbucks to make my drink, I hate waiting on the kettle to boil at home for a cup of tea, I just hate waiting....I know it's a virtue and all that jazz.

But at least the visit to the ER ended up being a kidney stone, though Big C is still not convinced it was. But I'll go with it.

Anyhoo, I got reacquainted with an old childhood friend while I waited at the ER.

No the friend didn't just randomly appear at the hospital but instead was recommended on facebook by a friend in common.

The friend we both have in common lives in Edinburgh and the newly acquainted friend just moved to Hong Kong.

I feel as if I have been thrust back into both of their lives and there's so much catching up to do and it's both exciting and sad.



We all went to school together from the ages of 9 -16, a Roman Catholic Secondary School for Girls, run by nuns.

I smile as I type, remembering the antics we got up to back in those days.

I remember one of them put chewing gum behind her ear because she wanted to save it for later while she ate her apple while waiting on the bus to go home. Half way through the ride she was done with apple and wanted to go back to the chewing gum only to find it completely tangled in her hair!

Wow just thinking about it makes me laugh hard belly roll laughs.


I remember the other one got bad grades on a test and her mother banned her from watching television until she brought her grades back up. But not only did her mother ban her from the the tv she literally cut off the plug to the tv but left the tv right in her room!

I can't even imagine how that must have felt to have to stare at a tv that you couldn't watch! LOL

Now we're all grown up. One bounced around from France then to Spain and now Hong Kong, the other bounced around the Maldives then to Edinburgh with quit a few stops in between.

One has two beautiful little children and the other just makes me to want to cry with the emotional roller coaster that this chapter in her life is putting her through. But I know she'll emerge stronger than ever.

And though we've all  been through so much, what I wouldn't give to just spend one day all together just laughing and crying over the days of our child hood.........