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What does this mean?

My good news was hampered by a small salary offer associated with it.

Then it is being furthered hampered by the bleak interview of my hubby.

He sounds totally depressed about the rural-ness of the area where we may move to.

I don't know what to think any more.

A thrilling time is in your immediate future.

And finally it's in.

"XYZ will be making you a job offer some time next week."

A good news indeed. THE good news that I have been waiting for.

It has been hectic and too stressful lately to motivate myself to write my bliary. Now that I am back in the States (in DC) away from kids, I can start writing again. I also had stopped checking fortune cookies, too, as soon as I realized that I was getting same messages for multiple number of times. They seem to have finished replenishing their fortune reserve as well.

A thrilling time will most likely a very emotionally draining time. It also tends to be accompanied by confusion, too. We will need to make difficult choices, face oppositions, cause pains... Are we ready? I believe I am. Are we making the right choice? Well, we'll never know until we do make the choice.

Good news also come in a bundle. Just to complicate my life, or to test me. All of a sudden, I am invited to participate in a start-up energy related science research group. Just when I am about to give up on research all together. This could be a simple coincidence, or perhaps this is a normal, everyday situation but the occurrence of multiple good and bad news at once is particularly more noticeable when we have to choose between great news and the consequences that will follow are too big. Making no sense? Thought so.

Traveling more often is important for your health and happiness.

Yes, and I will.

Now and then, here and there, remorseful moments invade the spirit of every parents. Today, I am regretting the lack of connection between my daughter and myself. Children (often) behave in an unacceptable manner. We remind them that they are wrong and why, correct them or punish them if necessary. But when they repeat a particular type of wrong behavior over and over, there's a subliminal, hidden message directly thrown at us. A message that they are not even aware of.

She cannot phrase it. She doesn't understand why she snaps. It's beyond her control now. But is it beyond mine? She is 7 years old and she is too young for me to give up. She is telling me somthing important. She wants me and she needs me in a way that I am not delivering. There is an aspect in her relationship with her mother that needs to be identified as a problem. Proper solutions and a mutual acceptance are needed, IMMEDIATELY.

So I am taking my daughter on a short trip. Forget daddy and the baby for just 2-3 days. We are off to.... I don't know. the Disney Land? Asterix Land?
Somewhere nice and quiet. London. That's it. I am taking her to London.

I do not expect this trip to fix us. But I have a feeling that we need a time together and it will give us just what we need. I miss my daughter and I have a feeling that she's been missing me a lot longer than I suspect.

Pick a path with heart

I'd like to do just that. But I don't see many paths to choose from.

Seeking, I do.

I do not see new ones opening up for me.

Had an interview today. I do not believe it went well. It was quite different from interview styles, if we can use such a word to classify job interviews, that I am used to. Very impersonal. Almost artificial. As if they are looking to fill a hole with a lid and it didn't matter to them which material the lid is made from, nor the color or the weight. There was no feeling of 'good match' as the interview was winding down. Questions asked were far more common and general that I had expected to answer to.

No good news for me from them.

May life throw you a pleasant curve

Lately, I am getting once-already-seen fortunes. I must have used them all up.

Well, I knew this all along.

They mean nothing and even less if you open them too often.

*A new rule*

I will open one fortune cookie every 15 days. What's the sense in this new rule? NONE.

Just trying to extend the little pleasure of cookie opening. Mean while, I hope they will come up with new fortunes.

Excitement and intrigue follow you closely wherever you go! AGAIN?

But I am not going anywhere.
I came to work this morning. I will go home this evening.
I will repeat the same tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow and the day after that, until Friday.
Then I will take my kids to the Saturday language school on Saturday, then will stay home to babysit.
A lunch with friends on Sunday.

Try me. Excite me. Intrigue me.

Plan for many pleasures ahead

Boy, how I wish I could.