Thanksgiving

So there. Thanksgiving is around the corner. Life is good and the mornings are very cold! I have to work this weekend, just a little bit, even though my family has the weekend off. I still get Thursday off! And I don't mind working. I'm so glad that this is how I feel about work.
On the other hand, I sometimes detect 1 ounce of selfishness in me. I come from work very tired and I don't care if I eat and if it is very late, I don't even at, so my level of empathy for the people who still have a normal schedule is very low. But I try and remind myself of the people that are around me. It's so easy to be unpleasant when you are self-sufficient and exhausted at the same time.
Conrad cleaned his desk the other day, by his own initiative and drive. and it looks lovely and he maintains it for so much longer when he does it himself.
I am teaching all kind of classes at work, and I am keeping up the good work. I am at a moment right now when I just want to enjoy what I do.. and can't think of all the awesome things I might do later on. My dream is to go work in Europe for a month, and the best place would be Romania, either Bucuresti, or Cluj, for Apple. Mentoring or exchange experience... and this is quite possible in the next few years. I just need to let the right people know about my interest, at the right time. I already told a few key people about my skills an my desire for exchange experience.
We also want kids at some point. There are so many new things lining up in the somewhat near future. And I am too good at leaving everything into God's ands. Right now I don't have the reason and drive to stress about why we haven't gotten pregnant yet. I choose to believe that, the same way God has taken care of us to the smallest details in these past 4 years, he will take care of the big things as well. And I still don't have health insurance, because it is too darn expensive and there are so many changes in the system, it's not even funny. We trust in God, that he will provide and He will gift us with children at the right time.

On a different note, I am looking forward to having Dan and Andreia and my parents visit us in February. They haven't made it yet to the Embassy even. But the plan is to go to the embassy and get visas for February. That would be lovely indeed.
And I look forward to the time off I'll get when they'll be here, and we'll visit so many cool places, and the ocean, and other quaint cities along the coast. We'll go shopping, we'll cook together, we'll have coffee in the morning and go for walks. It seems like a dream!

In an hour I have to be at work... the laundry is in the dryer, I'll eat some late breakfast and off I go. I can't wait for the long weekend with my family in California. Yahoo! :) I feel so blessed! So many reasons to be thankful!