And Bingo was his name-O!

13 months have past since TheEx followed her heart and took the kids to the land of Leprechauns and pots of gold.

Looking at pictures [here] i can't help but think how much the children have grown. Now Baby A can already walk and Little L chooses to speak English over German.

13 months doesn't seem all that long but somehow i've been occupied. Here is a recap of my major events since then;

• So there was our spur of the moment trip to Amsterdam where we slept in the car [here].
• Then there was our 4N5D in Ireland and we were all one big, happy family [here].
• Then J got a new job, so we moved to a service apartment because the previous tenant hadn't yet moved out [here].
• Then moved again [here] to my 3rd German city, only after 20 months of arriving [here].
• Then there was me starting German classes again after a year long break [here].
• Then my sister gave birth to a baby girl and i experienced -17˙C.
• Found out i was 9 weeks pregnant. Then an hour plus later i was operated on [here].
• Then we decided to adopt Yoshi and Luna [here].
• Signed a contract for a project that should keep me busy until September.
  
• Then i turned 30 and got myself a new iMac.
• A month after that the kitties got their bitty bits removed [here].
• And last but not least, there was In Qontrol in Amsterdam [here].

If someone, 13 months ago, would have said to me all of the above would happen in the next 13 months PLUS Them & Us would get along, i would have said, NO WAY!

To think there was a time when i was scared shitless to even go to the same supermarket as Her because i feared that she would be there and would want to cut off my head or cause a scene. And after months of hiding and pretending i was just "a friend" he finally came out with the truth and finally told her about me [here].

Back then, i really did think Jealousy could kill.

But oh how Times have changed.

Yesterday when J was on Skype with Little L, he had a brilliant idea that we could all play BINGO.

I would occasionally catch J smiling to himself as Little L would call out the numbers and as TheEx and i would yell out BINGO almost simultaneously, i couldn't help but think, Damn, i'm actually having a good time.

...

I remember during Chinese New Year back when i was kid, i would go visit my Aunties and Uncles to get my share of money stuffed in red packets and without fail there would be a group of them playing BINGO.

One Aunt would always say each time 16 was called out, "Sweet 16, never been kissed" *Followed by a kissing sound*

It would always make me laugh.

In fact it still does.

And when 88 would be called she would say, "Two fat ladies. Eighty-eight. Eight Eight".

*Sigh*

Those were some good times.