One Thing We Heard About Fuzhou SWI
The orphanage is good and the foster care, what Pei Xi is in, is also good, but the common practice is to move them from foster care into the orphanage in the last week they are there before their family comes to get them. Their family meaning Alison and I, also known in the adoption jargon as a "Forever Family" which I actually find to be a little redundant. I think that Pei Xi will be stressed by this. Actually, I think she'll be more stressed by this than if we just switched parents on her, from foster to us, which is what I thought would happen.

Stress Sucks
So, with my back totally messed up so that I'm popping Skelaxin like it was candy, and with Pei Xi possibly being stressed distantly in the Fuzhou Social Welfare Institute, and us not even having all the paperwork we need to travel, and whatever else comes up, I can't sleep. Not only can I not sleep very well, I'm having nightmares. Two from last night stand out.

Chocolate Milk before Pei Xi's Arrival
As some of you know, I can't eat chocolate. Well, I can if I want a brain splitting migraine which will cause me to be so incapacitated that my body will focus on me throwing up. But it prompts this reaction about an hour too late. In my dream, we were at the Lakeview Hotel in Nanchang and they were going to bring Pei Xi up in a few hours. Somehow, I lose my mind and drink a quart of very thick, very chocolatey, and very good chocolate milk (and honestly I don't know what that tastes like, but Alison will sometimes tell me when my elitist coffee tastes like chocolate a little). I realize that I need to throw up. So I go to the bathroom and try to do so, but I can't. I manage to get out about 2 oz of chocolate syrupy consistency. Water is overflowing out of the sink and the toilet onto the floor. The lights start getting too bright and the sounds of the water get deafening (these are normal symptoms). And all the while, I know that Pei Xi is going to show up any time now. And I'm dry heaving trying to get the stuff out of me before I'm good for nothing for the next day and a half.

I wake up and tell Alison and she says that's horrible. I can't get back to sleep. I keep thinking that I'd eaten chocolate. I even go check the ingredients on the almond and white chocolate ice cream bars we had after dinner. Nope, but there is a lot of coconut in them and very little Almonds. Hmm.

Note: White chocolate is obviously not real chocolate, so I can have it. White chocolate only has cocoa butter, which actually is pretty dang good, but I actually consider cinnamon, maple syrup, and coffee to taste more like chocolate than white chocolate does.

Metal Bedframe Grows Like a Vine
This one is shorter. A metal bedframe grows like a vine and one of the rods goes through my left leg in the thigh area. I'm stuck on this metal bed now. I wake up. No biggie.

Wanna Fanta, Doncha Wanna
Of the four Fanta gals which are currently polluting the airwaves and intro-bits at movies before the previews, I think the sexiest outfit of the three has to be the purple one, since it has those easy access zippers. Remember, we're talking sexy here. Now, for actual coolness, Red. Though some skin is showing, you could do anything without fear of something coming untucked, etc. Basically, it's the tactical suit.

Nina Pei Xi's baby shower is this Sunday at 2.
The new Harry Potter movie comes out this Friday.
I have everything I need to put my shocks on my Miata, except a good back.
I have everything I need to change the oil on the Focus and Miata, except a good back.

I've cut out caffeine so that maybe I can sleep tonight. Also, I feel like I'm on the verge of acid reflux.
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 6:40 PM