Stunned.

[kyburg]

Jim made the connection - I didn't notice it right away.

Yesterday, when we got the word?

Cliff's birthday.

I told you that there was a blue baby blanket in this year's fukubukuro bag? Not yellow, not pink, purple or green. Blue.

I left prior gig days before the 10th anniversary of Cliff's passing - when the writing on the wall could no longer be ignored. (Cliff was a big stickler for setting boundaries with employers. You didn't work overtime for no good reason, and you worked to make a living, not have a life. He would NOT have approved of what I went through last summer. Not one bit.)

But he always thought working hard was the key to everything.

I just got news that has me floored.

New boss at new gig?

He and his wife pooled their frequent flyer mile accounts and got us our tickets. All I have to buy is Xander's one-way back. Hotels and train tickets. Taxi cab fare.

STUNNED. Someone make me an icon. There are flies buzzing in and out of my slack jawed mouth right now.

The flights are even nonstops, direct.

I know how to say thanks in Chinese - Cliff taught me. So far, it's the only Chinese I know. He learned it when he was working with the Taiwanese on missle projects in the 70's and 80's.

I know when Cliff's been by. Shit happens. THIS kind of stuff. (Let alone being insanely lucky on a regular basis. Stupidly lucky.)

BUH.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Wow.

That is SO cool.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

awesome boss ;)

[relevantpink.livejournal.com]

i am so glad for you. big smiles here!

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Wow. Cliff is still looking after you it seems. I'm so thrilled for you!

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Awesome!!!

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

wow!

Maybe...maybe Xander is Cliff's new home?

or is that just too far out. I should shut up. But wow.

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

You know... that would fit somehow (speaking for myself and not for them, 'course...)

Then again, what do I know...

[unclejimbo.livejournal.com]

Hard to say, but according to Donna he did like kids. The thing I've learned about Cliff is that he lived to wig people out.

This qualifies.

Point to Mr. Stapfer, wherever you are.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Cliff was terrified of small children. Put a baby in his arms and he'd lock up completely, afraid 'he'd break it.'

But he was quite certain children were the future and if they were here, they were an investment towards that future and should not be denied anything that would make a good outcome possible.

They just didn't get interesting until oh, about 12 years of age or so.

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

Eh, some things are just groovy mysteries that even Scooby and the gang could never solve. :)

[odiedragon.livejournal.com]

That's amazing. You guys are so blessed. :)

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

That is really fantastic.

In all senses of the word. Wow.

Well, I have my own experience with miracles around adoptions. This just was meant to be at a particular time, in a particular way. Go with it.

[simgaroop.livejournal.com]

I am so happy for you! :)

Congratulations ^^

[djdig.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful! I'm so happy for you guys!

[magaliiiii.livejournal.com]

i am so lame/womanly/hormonal, b/c i just started crying. that is so amazing. yay for everyone. ahhhhhhh.

i have been telling everyone i know about your story in the past day or so. they all agree you deserve it, though ;D

[zpdiduda.livejournal.com]

I cried when I read this, too. That lame/womanly/hormonal thing must be going around.

What wonderful news!

[lupaloo.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Wonderful chain of events. :)

[dame-of-dames.livejournal.com]

How wonderful for you guys! Blessings come in strange ways, all you have to do is look for 'em.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*hugs you fiercely* Sometimes, good things happen to good people.

You are good people.

I am so happy for you. :)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I'm stunned. Just. Whoa. Stunned.

[neintales.livejournal.com]

*HUG*

I am so very happy for you. Totally.

Some friends of my parents adopted a beautiful little girl from China back in the 80's, we've lost touch but you're making me wonder how little Matina is doing now.

Not so little, obviously, but yeah.

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

Isn't it great to know there really are wonderful people in this world of ours?

I am so very happy for you.

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

Wow. What a lovely gift from your new boss...and from Cliff. *hugs*

[shannon-elaine.livejournal.com]

OMG that is so amazing!!!

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

No one deserves this more...so very happy for all of you.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. That's so amazingly wonderful. So happy for all of you!

Icons cannot express this joy.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

We're making AOD this year - 13/14th at the Cat Hill Hotel. You want?

[makeitepic.livejournal.com]

that is so awesome to hear!

[kimberlychapman.livejournal.com]

Peo's been picking up Mandarin from library videos and a relatively new show on Nickelodeon that another LJ friend recommended called Ni-Hao Ki-Lan. Ni-Hao is hello, btw. So now you know another one. You could help pass the time by grabbing yourself some kind of language instruction thingy from your library too...although granted it's easier for those spongy preschooler brains to pick it up than our old and crusty ones. :D

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

The Ki-Lan videos, I've already heard about - and I may still get them, depending on how much television I can get him to watch. All reports point to a very busy BOY who doesn't sit for very long in front of the television.

I'm really very resistant to trying to cram something as complex as Chinese into my poor head with the five other languages already stewing in there - and making a mockery of it in the process. I just don't speak it. When the kids go to school to learn it, I'll go with them.

[stronae.livejournal.com]

I'm really happy for you, then. :)

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

I am SO very happy not only that the adoption is finally happening, but the way that it is happening. What a joy, on so many different levels. What a gift. Write about this from the ground up in Xander's baby book, so that he can understand some of the good Juu-Juu that was flying about when he came home.

[moropus.livejournal.com]

That's too wonderful for words.

[amanda-nye.livejournal.com]

So awesome. I got chills again. You are loved.