The Cheesecake is Rich

Hmm. While I was on vacation, I had: Two table massages, one with a body scrub One reflexology foot rub One upper body chair massage One back only chair massage One FISH PEDICURE I should really have tried to pamper myself a little! (ha!) Anyway, the two table massages were at the hotel and were [...]

Well! For this, I am going to liberally steal for an email I sent to D, my friend from work who was doing my job while I was getting massages and sleeping. She specifically asked about the food in KL, which is why a lot of this is about that: In some ways, I feel [...]

(BTW it is not even 50 degrees here in Cheesecake City, so I’d love just a little of those hot Malaysian days to keep my toes warm. Plus, wearing socks is not as exciting as I’d remembered) So, Langkawi Island. Langkawi is an island (really?) off the west coast of Peninisular Malaysia. The flight from [...]

(I’d better make this quick, I just took more cough syrup, mmm) Anyway, the last time I wrote about the trip I ended with the Saturday of the first weekend. Sunday 11/9: Swam in the pool with Gene. Malaysia is not a big tourist destination for Americans. One of the craziest things about the trip [...]

We are now home, back in Cheesecake City. Loved Malaysia, loved it. Loved the wacky currency, loved the insane cabbies, loved the easy access to chicken satay. Fugging THRILLED to be back in the states! More tomorrow!

Holy Hell, how did it become the second Wednesday of my two week vacation in Kuala Lumpur?? How is it possibly that it is already noon? And that tomorrow’s my last full day here? Our flight to Langkawi leaves Friday at 8:30 AM so I’m not counting Friday as a KL day. There’s so much [...]

I suspect I’ve used that blog post title before, which is why I’m glad the permalinks are now by post number and not title because otherwise hilarity would ensue. Anyway… so, Gene was sick starting Thursday night. He even missed work all day on Friday. I know! Escandalo! We had dinner at the Mediterranean restaurant [...]

I once wrote a scene where the main character has just hit the jackpot and is reclining in luxury. One morning, she wakes up, pads out to the kitchen and sits down. She stretches and thinks “What do I have to do today?” and she realizes, happily, the answer is “Nothing.” That is pretty much [...]

(BTW, I have called these posts “A Look Back” although I’m only one week into this and I’m still sitting in the hotel in KL). So, approximately 800 hours after we left Cheesecake City, we finally make it to our layover in Frankfort, Germany. We knew that our layover on the way to KL was [...]

So the story begins a week ago, back at the house in Cheesecake City. It’s 5:30 at night, the bags are packed (I’d even put White Dog in my carryon). It’s Halloween but since our ride to the airport was to pick us up at 6 I hadn’t bought any candy. We never have any [...]