The Cheesecake is Rich

so, Gene calls me this afternoon. “How would you feel if I got a 70% raise, tax free? 21 days off a year?” “Drug dealing?” “No.” “Pimping?” No. His employer is searching for someone to take a position…in KABUL. As in Af-fugging-ghanistan. As in a war zone – Mission Accomplished, my ass. “But we’re not [...]

For dinner tonight I’m eating a frozen meal. It is “Lemongrass Coconut Chicken” by Kashi and it smells exactly like I remember Malaysia smelling. (Yes, I’m back on that topic). Oh, the smell makes me want to go back, so badly. It must just be my mood right now but… it makes me want to [...]

So, Gene’s out of town. And he just told me that he may have to go back to Kuala Lumpur sometime. Why, oh, WHY can he not get sent to freaking London? I WANT to go to Europe, absolutely NO ONE wants to go to KL just for fun. (Well, OK, I do… but I [...]

So, we went to a chili cookoff but didn’t eat chili and spent 3 hours Saturday waiting for the cops (which is why we didn’t get to eat chili). (And how was YOUR weekend?) Anyway. So, we dropped the dogs off and headed out of town to go to a chili cookoff in a small [...]

So, I have two BIG fun weekends coming up. Next weekend, Gene and I are visiting a small town about 2 hours east of here for a chili cookoff. No, I don’t know why, but we have Marriott points to burn and our trip to FL was cancelled (stupid unraise) so we also have wanderlust [...]

So, I’m going to Indianapolis for my birthday. Yea!!! Now “all” I have to do is book a flight. Somehow, doing this is harder than I imagined. My travel dates are air tight and can’t budge, plus Gene may be out of town when I go so I have to figure out how to get [...]

So, if you haven’t read CNN.com lately, go freaking read some news stories about what the fuck is going on in Thailand and India. OMG OMG OMG. One of the Americans who went to KL with us is in Thailand right now on vacation. Gene said that one of his co-workers has heard from her [...]

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 [...]