{"id":2570,"date":"2015-01-12T08:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2015-01-12T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:43:04","slug":"back-to-the-grind-1-5-7-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Grind! 1\/ 5-7 \/ 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONDAY, 1\/5\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time to get back into our \u201cBeijing\u201d schedule for a few weeks. Judy heads out early for school, getting away around 6:45 am. Later in the morning, I get out to the wet market for some vegetables and fruit.<\/p>\n

When Lillie\u2019s mom shows up to clean around 12:00, we talk to Lilly on the phone. She\u2019s at home in Central China and had a baby girl. Her mom needed to know how much to pay for the iPad I purchased for Lilly in the US. We settled on the price and then I headed out to Metro for groceries.<\/p>\n

Back home later, Lilly\u2019s mom finishes up and leaves. She does a really thorough job. I put together a vegetable soup for dinner. We\u2019re going to try to eat a little healthier this semester, more vegetables, and less peanut butter.<\/p>\n

TUESDAY, 1\/6\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of my work today is searching flights for our cruise this summer from Barcelona to Athens. Courtney, Brad, and Glenda are going with us, so coordinating all our departures\/arrivals get kinda involved, especially when I\u2019m working with a budget.<\/p>\n

After lunch, I walk to the gym in our housing compound. They have a pool, and it\u2019s time to get back to some kind of exercise schedule. \u00a0I loved swimming at the Marriott last year, but getting there and back took so long. \u00a0I needed something closer to home. \u00a0I\u2019ve been avoiding this since November, but I can\u2019t wait any longer to start. After I got started, it wasn\u2019t so bad. I swam further than I expected. Now, if I can only keep this up?<\/p>\n

WEDNESDAY, 1\/7\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lilly\u2019s mom has to come early on Wednesdays so her schedule will work with her regular clients. She arrives right on schedule at 8:00 am. I can hang around some while she works, but it\u2019s better if I try and get away some during the morning so I don\u2019t get in her away.<\/p>\n

I’m not normally out this early unless I\u2019m headed to work. I head back over to the wet market for fruits and vegetable (the soup was really good Monday night). On the way home, I stop off at a little convenience store to buy some phone cards to recharge our phones. It costs us 80rmb a month for 200 calls or texts, and 300 mbs. of data. You have to call a number, punch in the numbers off the cards and the appropriate value posts to the accounts for each phone. It\u2019s a pretty easy process, once you know how to reach the \u201cEnglish\u201d version.<\/p>\n

Judy has an assembly today. At the last minute she decided to sing a song with a ukulele accompaniment she had been working on with all her classes. She made it into a sing-a-long, and one of her students played ukulele on stage. The song was a huge hit! So much so, the principal asked them to sing it again at the end of the assembly. Ho hum. Another day, another dollar.<\/p>\n

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