remmy goes to shanghai

so i’ve been thinking about the blog here lately….after the visit home i wanted to pick back up. i always seem to think about the blog when i have something funny that i want to tell someone.

like, for instance, did you know that in the winter when you ride around on a scooter your eyebrows get really cold? and did you know the colder your eyebrows get the more they hurt? yup…they do. they physically hurt. it’s been raining here all week and it’s so cold so with wet eyebrows they get colder than usual and dang dude…it’s painful. and yet…i was cracking up riding down the street the moment the thought occurred to me…i’m gonna go tell someone my eyebrows hurt! who says that? good stuff.

anyway, i guess i should say the true catalyst for the return to the blog was probably chris. he’s always trying to motivate me to write a book about something. he seems to have a greater belief in my ability to do this than even i do. but in any case, he kept yammering on about how cool it would be for me to write about all the cool stuff in china and just the random facts, funny stories, cultural nuances, family influences, and possibly the god factor. i have to admit the idea intrigues me but i don’t have the first idea to begin. but chris seems to think that if i just blog here more regularly then i could pull all these blogs together and somehow turn it into a book….hmmmm.

of course, almost prophetically, i get some strange comment on one of my older blogs from someone i don’t know saying only, “i’d like to see a continuation of this topic.” (or something like that….don’t think it was the word continuation but can’t grab the word from my brain that was used.) anyway…eerily reminded me of chris last night and so i figured…maybe i’ll try. you know….just try to write stuff. anything.

it’s hard to know where to start. not sure i’d even know what i’d want to say in a book. but i suppose i can put life down here and try to find my voice in it later…if i even have one. perhaps i’ll come to the end of the adventure and find there isn’t really anything i want to say at all. who knows.

up to now i’ve mostly just written funny or unusual things that i’ve noticed or done, but i’m going to try to include all kinds of material here and to be more aware.

so if anyone still reads this and has questions about china…life here…whatever…throw them my way. i find that i don’t think i have anything to say until someone asks me a question and then i realize i know a bunch of stuff about china and the culture that i never knew before but that has become almost normal for me to the point that i forget that it’s not! if that makes sense.

anyway…for tonight i think i’ll sign off. can’t say i really need more than the cold eyebrows story for tonight….it’s really just that funny…come on.