Laowai

Here’s Bea riding the train on Thursday. We take the train to my doctor visits. It’s a short ride and she gets a little thrill. When my doctor put the doppler thingy on my belly to listen for the heartbeat the baby seemed to kick right at it and my doctor recoiled and laughed. So the baby seems to be doing great. I’m feeling more huge every day.

 

We’ve have had quite a weekend. We’ve been preparing for the movers to come on Tuesday. So lots of sorting. Sorting through every item we own in fact. Brian and I were constantly saying to each other “what do you want to do with item x?” The other would respond vaguely “it can go”. And then the frustrated response would come: “what specifically do you mean by go?” We both did it all weekend long. Did we want the item to go into storage or to be shipped to Zurich or to be packed in our luggage for the plane ride? This is not the most fun part of moving. I have little to really complain about because I am embarking on an exciting adventure… but all this going through stuff and getting rid of stuff makes me feel heavy. 

On Saturday we took a little break and went to a concert for kids. It’s part of series put on by Northwestern staff and students. This particular concert featured a choir and the big organ at a campus church. Bea was not on her best behavior or in the best mood. But at least I got to see these great modern stained glass windows that I always admire when driving by.

Here’s Brian sorting through our books. You can tell he’s so happy that I’m capturing the moment.

At the end of the day today, we were getting a little goofy. My head was spinning. And I had probably asked Brian to lift one too many boxes. He needed to blow of some steam. I suggested he take the cordless phone that has never worked properly and smash it like they smashed the printer in Office Space. We can’t use the phone in Zurich and as I said it was just slightly better than useless. So here it is – smashed up with a hammer on top of a pile of boxes. Good therapy. If only I had captured it in video.

Here’s the clip from Office Space: