Life With Janaa

Twas the night after Veteran's Day and all through the house, not a creature was stirring....except for the big sewer rats down on the street that I've been told to ignore while I'm walking around Bangkok....and me!  It's only 9pm and about 20 minutes ago Rachel and Janaa both crashed.  I'll be joining them soon enough.  It's Tuesday?  Feels like all the days are the same.  No real schedule.  No real consistency....wait, yes the one thing that is consistent is the running.  Go here...go there...and so on.  There are basically three steps to this process when you're over here: 

1. Approval from the Thailand Department of Social Development and Welfare (Adoption Board)
2. Approval from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly the INS) - part of the US Dept. of Homeland Security
3. Approval from the US Embassy Consulate - part of the US State Dept - here in Bangkok

We finally passed through step number 2.  I will write more about this later...We have our interview with the embassy tomorrow at 10am, that's 10pm eastern for most of you reading this.  We're shooting for the visa to probably be issued Thurs, and leave Thailand on Friday.  Lord willing, that's what should happen.  I don't know if I've said it or not, but I want to say a special thanks to everyone that has prayed, sent a kind word, whatever it is, many of you have been a great support to us through this...some of you from the very beginning.  To quote a lyric from the The Fray - "Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same"  I don't think they were thinking of adoption when they wrote this...but it sure fits our last two years. 

We switched hotels yesterday....I think I mentioned that....I really can't remember.  Anyway...We love this new place...it's definitely the place we wish we had been last week....spacious.....one bedroom apartment...for those of you that remember my apartment I lived in Clemmons, this room is bigger than that.  Having Internet all the time has been the best thing.  I took for granted not being able to just get on whenever I wanted.

I got the ATM thing figured out.  So we have cash again....we had it, just couldn't get to it.

Hmmmmm...anything else?  I know why the people (for the most part are so thin).  They eat rice and noodles all the time and walk everywhere.......I can't wait to weigh myself when I get home....maybe I lost some weight?.....probably not. 

Am I rambling?  Maybe I should go to bed.