Lets Go Kiddo

J and I just finished watching Better Call Saul and if you’ve not seen it yet, but are a fan of Breaking Bad trust us and do yourself a favor and watch it.  On Netflix.  You can thank me when you watch it and get up to speed.  The final 13 episodes release to AMC in April and July (6 ep and 7 ep split) and then August and September on Netflix…. I think.   That’s not the point, though.  The point is that we were just hanging out and talking.  J said something that really rung with me. “If I’m never going to be comfortable anywhere, I might as well be uncomfortable everywhere.  What I mean is, I’m always going to miss something, so why not experience everything.” To that, since we will always miss something somewhere, why not just experience everywhere.  We’ll always miss Wilson’s coffee or want Mike N Angleo’s Pizza.  La Brisas Tacos.  Beach or Mountain Access.  The SLO life.  A lot of things.  We will always miss o...

Quarantine is a strange thing.  This quarantine, however, was weird.  Between the sickness and feeling awful and the energy of Kiddo, being locked in place, but it’s our place, so it had a natural feeling of, “Why can’t we leave?” to it.  We did have our smiles and laughs however.  My favorite comes to you from J. So, in trying to keep the Kiddo from absolutely climbing the walls and slipping out her window to climb the side of the building and then hummingbird flap her little arms and fly away (believe me, she was so pent up and wired, she may have been able to flap arms that fast) that we started to get a little crazy and creative.  One of the things that killed an hour or two for us is watching and commenting on Kiddo jumping off the ottoman/footrest thing that we have with one of our chairs.  She would then parkour about and show us her “ Cat Ninja ” skills.   One jump, in particular, was just an amazement of kid and undies and energy and ju...

How do you fill 24 hours? What about if you can’t leave your apartment? We color and play.  Legos.  Video games and Kiddo commentary.  Make a blank fort/tent.  Watch a movie.   But….. If I watch the Lion King one more time I will lose my mind. Hey, look.  The Princess Bride and we own it and she likes stories. But, will a four year old sit thru a live action movie, especially with those themes and all that. Well, fears were alleviated when she sat, squirmed a little and then got GLUED to the TV.  She was All-In on The Princess Bride and we are so proud of her.  She asked clarifying questions.  She laughed at some of the jokes.  She sat and watched and wanted to know how it would end.  Then, she just kind of sat with it and didn’t say much, other than she wants to watch it again one day.  Kiddo, like her mumma, needs to sit with things sometimes and spend a day or two thinking about them.   The fact that s...

I’ve been sick before.  We all have.  But this is a whole new beast.  And I say that with three doses of vax and that we (likely) got the Omicron variant which is the least deadly in adult with the vax.  So, call that lucky.  I do. However….. DAMN!!!!!! I have never been sick like this before.  I mean that.  I’ve had a septic infection that needed emergency surgery and a fever of 105/106 (40.6 - 41.1 degrees for my Euro folks) and that was still in the rearview of this. I felt run down.  For about a half day.  But we were in quarantine with Kiddo, so I wrote it off to malaise and lack of doing anything.  Then the body aches started.  Those were followed by the shivering.  Then the headaches.  Things went downhill from there. I spent a day in bed.  I never spend a day in bed.  But it was a full day.  I know this.  I lived this.  But I’m only peripherally aware of that.  It was some ki...

We are Covid positive. It’s scary writing those words.  A year ago, I might have thought that meant death to one of us.  I’m feeling better, but still run down.  J is sneezing and has some congestion.  Kiddo had some fever action and body aches and is on her backend and back to eating like food grows on the walls.  A pancake, a waffle, an apple, a slice of pizza, half a PBJ, a bag of microwave popcorn, some Ritz crackers, half a cucumber, and some watermelon and pineapple bites for good measure.  Dinner is in about an hour.  I’d say she’s back to feeling fine.   But, despite our best efforts; masks whenever out of the house, hand washing upon return, minimizing touching in public, distancing, etc.  Yet, it got to us.  We are part of the Covid crowd. I’ve struggled with this in the past week.  J has told me that I can’t beat myself up because it happens, but I disagree… to an extent. Two years ago now, we started lock downs....

** Please Note- Video Issue resolved thru YouTube links.  Enjoy! ** I love words.  I always have.  In fact, as I sit here writing, music in my ears, realizing that I read all morning today while waiting on Engineering to come and check on some repairs that are needed in the condo, it dawns on me that I feel like I’ve done nothing all day.  To most people though, reading all morning wouldn’t be considered “doing nothing”.  But, if I had to give up books, TV, or music…. For me TV would go.  This love of words has passed onto the Kiddo.  I realized this the other day when we were playing and she told me she wished she could be nocturnal so she could see Bangkok at night.  She then informed me, “but I can’t because I’m a kid and that makes me diurnal.”  She’s four.  How many of you needed to look up that word or take its meaning from context?   Again, she’s four. Part of that is J and myself.  We read to her and with her. ...

I was scolded at the market today.  I was getting fruit from “the grandmas” (that is what Kiddo’s former nanny Sa called them and it works for us) and they know us and know we are trying and learning.  So, when I got fruit and held out the cash for the purchase, she looked at me and said, “Say.”  Well, I couldn’t remember what 80 was in Thai.  I got a frown and a scold.  However, I did redeem myself.  In getting my change, she held up the coin.   “SAY!”   Song Sip Baht.  (20 Baht) She handed me the coin with a smile under her mask.  “Good.” I'm good with 50, which is what the total usually comes to, but we got some extra.  Normally it's Haa Sip Baht.  Haa (Ha, like a laugh) is 5 and Sip (See-P and that's a hard P; Seeeeep) is 10.  So, 5 tens baht.  Or 50.  HAHAHA, or maybe I should say, fivefivefive. It’s nice, in a strange way, to know that someone is looking out for us and trying to help us help ourselves ...