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my lil sister Hayley and my Dad left for Malaysia tonight – Dad’s coming home at the end of the month, and Hayley .. she’s moving onto London and then the rest of Europe on her own!!!! <\/p>\nmy lil sister Hayley and my Dad left for Malaysia tonight – Dad’s coming home at the end of the month, and Hayley .. she’s moving onto London and then the rest of Europe on her own!!!! <\/p>\n
i didn’t think i would cry at the gate again (your typical cliche goodbyes that I already shared with Regan when he went back to the States after his first visit here) but she started tearing up, so i started tearing up and i couldn’t get out my ‘see you laters’ before Dad bundled her through the gate. <\/p>\n
she’s hoping to stay the full 2 years (that you can get on her visa) but everyone’s betting she’ll be back in 3 months – haha! as long as she enjoys herself and does what she needs to do, i say. i want her to at least stay for the snowy christmas over there! and hopefully she’ll update the blog<\/a> i set up for her, once in a while <\/p>\n needless to say i’m bummed and i’ve already warned Regan that i’m going to eat my blues away – starting with the krispy kreme we picked up at the airport. the 56k connection has been less than 56k (more like 10k at times) so the rest of the week i’ll probably be moping around like a sad panda while buying more and more unnecessary furniture from ikea<\/a>, freedom<\/a> and anywhere else that take phone orders; then distract myself with an old 35mm slr Dad gave me on the weekend. <\/p>\n now where’s my original glazed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" my lil sister Hayley and my Dad left for Malaysia tonight – Dad’s coming home at the end of the month, and Hayley .. she’s moving onto London and then the rest of Europe on her own!!!! i didn’t think i would cry at the gate again (your typical cliche goodbyes that I already shared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anything-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}