It's great to be home!

I arrived in Toronto, last Thurs. at 9:30 p.m. I have been busy shopping, visiting and not sleeping ever since. It's 5:10 a.m. now. I've been awake since 3:30 as I have been every day since I arrived. Today I managed to stay in bed until 4:45 but that was it. I am making turkey soup already today and then decided to do this since I can actually view my blog from here. We celebrated Christmas on the 22nd since Mike was here. He had to leave on the 23rd to go to a linguistics conference in Hong Kong. My family is having a large gathering on the 30th in St. Jacob's. My brothers, their spouses and children, and my family (minus Mike) will be there. It will be great to see everyone.
I've joined Facebook, finally after a number of invites from people. I'm not sure what the advantage of it is but maybe after I explore it a little more and maybe after I return from China at which time I will discontinue this blog maybe I'll think differently. I'm here until Jan. 3rd at which time I go on my first non-stop flight to Shanghai. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not. I'll let you know.