Family

Home again today. Well at my villa anyway. Villa again today just doesn't have the same ring to it really. Tomorrow I'm going to the doctor (yes, it's finally time to admit that I'm not well and perhaps it's not just my allergies playing up). Nothing to worry about though, I think the pasta that I had for dinner last night may have been older than I remember. I should really watch that. It smelled okay though!

As Dad mentioned on his blog talk is really cheap. I had a grand ol' conversation with my folks at home while tucked up on the couch nursing my cold the other day. It cost me a total of $2.40 for the quick call home to get them online before our free 90 minute conversation. I love Skype for that reason alone!

When I was living in Ballarat I remember being tucked up in bed feeling like the world was ending all because I had the flu.(Did I mention that I don't cope well when I'm sick? I hate being sick). There's something more trying about being sick when you're not at home. I think it's mainly because you don't have all your comfort foods at your immediate disposal. Right now I'm feeling frustrated because I really want to be at work but instead I'm back on the couch not eating anything and being hungry. I realise there's a simple solution to the whole hunger problem but I assure you it's not that easy which is why I'm home in the first place.

Anyhow, whinging aside. Gene looked after me in the early afternoon before trundling off to work his night shift. This was after he called his Dad and had a chat with him on Skype and before we called Nick C for a quick catch up. In the true spirit of good timing he was catching up with Suze who I worked with at M2006 as well as the Comedy Festival this year! It was really good to speak to him today (or tonight in his case) because it feels like ages since we've spoken! I guess today's been about calling family and touching base. Gene & I called my parents as well to wish them a safe journey as they're about to embark on a 25 day tour of China tracing Marco Polo's journey. Sounds amazing!

Speaking to our families was a wonderful thing today. It certainly made me feel a bit better knowing that they were all safe and well.

I'm always amused by the way that I keep in touch with people better while I'm overseas than I do when I'm in the same city as them. It's almost like being at home when you speak to people back there! Family members are particularly good at "normal" conversation when you're overseas. There's nothing quite like hearing about the neighbours or the dogs when you're a quarter of the way around the planet!

It's almost 16:00 now and I've been awake for all of 4 hours but I think it's time to head back to bed for a cat-nap. I'm getting good at sleeping right now. The other night we had a bit of a party at the villa and I managed to sleep through it all. I meant to have a nap and get up and be social, figuring that the noise from the party would wake me up, apparently it was not to be!

Well, I should at the very least go and make my bed before I consider sleeping. I got some new bed sheets today for the handsome price of AU$27. I wish linen was that cheap back at home! I made sure that I didn't choose white sheets (there's something about white bedsheets that screams 'hotel') and they're cotton so they should be nice and cool. Pictures are likely to follow. I've been meaning to take more photos of Doha but have yet to work out where I can take photos. Want to make sure that I'm not going to get arrested for accidentally taking a photo of a strategic structure.

To bed!