Chinese Haircut

I got my haircut Tuesday. Big risk. I waited a few days to put this out here so that I would know if it was a nightmare result or a success. It took me most of last week to find a place that spoke some English and didn't cost me too much. One of the first places I stopped had about 10 girls and guys standing around, but not one paying customer. And no English speakers, so they called someone on a cell phone who talked to me. I decided to keep looking. I found a place very close and was happy to find that I had to make an appointment. I took that as a good sign! His name was Tony. He was Chinese, maybe 23-25. He spoke decent English, enough to find I out I wanted it the "same" and "fringed" over my ears. After he played with my dry hair, he sent me to the shampoo boy. I seriously had a head massage to die for. I had two different shampoos and some final thing like conditioner that I probably didn't need, but who cares? The massage was great!!! I think I practically fell asleep it was so relaxing. I went back to the chair and then Tony and his two assistants (yes, he had two who appeared to be in training) started in. Now, forgive me here for all the detail, but I know that mom will want to know (she did hair for more than 40 years, which is weird because it means she had to start when she was 10!) the gory details! He did a lot of parting of my hair. And he apparently knows martial arts as he constantly worked the comb and sometimes the scissors around like a weapon. he could twirl the comb around his fingers in a full circle two or three times between cuttings. It was mesmerizing. After going through and cutting the first time, he went back and trimmed again. Then he told me "I dry your hair before I finish cutting. I was having a hard time imagining there was any more hair to cut! So he dried my hair. He took about 10 minutes which wasn't necessary for drying, but he was using a comb and combing it smooth. As he smoothed it, I think he was studying the way my hair grew. I know that sounds weird, but it makes sense to do that while you are blowing it as you can tell what way it is growing. After he totally smoothed and analyzed my hair, he went back at with the scissors. This time he spend a lot of time thinning it out with little side cuts with the scissors. Again, he had to cover my whole head. Then he went back around my ears and my neckline. Then some "product" which seemed like pomade, and voila! I was finished almost exactly ONE HOUR later. I have never had a haircut that lasted long. He did do a nice job though. I think the right term for his behaviour was meticulous. But I still find that the Chinese processes for getting a task done are not always the most efficient, but their processes seem to be more adaptable than ours. He really took some time to be one with my hair. It was a little flat when I left so I was worried, but it has washed up OK. Trust me, I have had a lot worse! Hey Mom, remember that damn pageboy cut when I was 13!

First Day with Ayi

Well, our Ayi started today. Tom would probably say that I let it stress me out a little. And he is probably right. Who would have thought that a small-town girl from Indiana would someday be hiring someone to clean, cook, and babysit for our house full-time WHILE I wasn't working? Certainly not my mother. But I would have made mom proud as I worked alongside her for most of the day. I worked on scrubbing the baseboards which were gross. She kept telling me, "I do tomorrow" but what else was I going to do today? Anyway, she did a great job. Still can't pronounce her name right, but she has Natalie's down pat. Mainly she worked today on the main floor, though she did get the floors and all stairs vacuumed and mopped. It made me a lot more humble to have my hands in dirty water too, though to be honest, I probably would have taken nap after 4 hours! I had to go the full 6 today! Tomorrow I will probably not clean all day. I am adjusting better than I thought. Well, I am tired, better go hit the hay!

Bad day…got beat up by a 13 year old

Well, it’s Sunday. I have been planning today's activity for several months and I decided to finally go ahead and take the plunge. What is it? I decided to get a Chinese foot massage.

Actually what prompted me to do so was that my toenails need cut. During a foot massage some places trim the toenails as part of the service.

There is a new – credible – massage joint that opened up just down the road from us. The prices seemed pretty good for this area. Their prices beat the clubhouse spa here at Vizcaya.

I stopped by the massage joint today. I locked my bicycle to the light pole and walked in. The lady at the desk spoke decent English and I informed her that I wanted a foot massage. She led me to a foot locker. I took off my shoes and socks and placed on a pair of sandals. I followed her into this little room. Now –this is where the communication started to break down. She left and then she came back in. She asked me if I wanted a boy or a girl. I said it didn’t matter to me. Actually she had no idea what I said – that must be the border of decent English. Then she said the boy was blind. Blind massage therapists are the best so I knew he would be the best but I thought I didn’t want a blind guy cutting my toenails with sharp instruments. As a result, I replied that I wanted the girl.

Next they brought me in hot tea and some sort of soup. I didn’t eat the soup because I thought what if it wasn’t soup and it was something I was supposed to soak my fingers in.

The girl (massage therapist) came in next. Her English was very limited. She looked to be in Junior High School. She was very cute but that is where the attraction stopped because for the next 60 minutes she kicked the crap out of me.

There were funny things that happened. She first came in with a pail of hot water with weeds, peppers, and junk floating in it. I started to soak my feet in it. She then asked me something or told me something. I didn’t understand her. We both looked lost and she left the room. She came back in – turned on the music (which was the soundtrack to the Titanic). She started to give me an upper back, neck, and head massage. After a few minutes of that I figured out she was trying to ask me to take my shirt off earlier. Since I didn’t remove my shirt she did the massage over my shirt. Despite that she found every sore muscle that I had. While getting my head massaged I realized something funny. Since she didn’t understand me, what if she acted out what she wanted me to do. I laughed to myself because what if she started to unbutton her top to demonstrate what she wanted me to do? What if she started to unbutton my shirt to demonstrate what I wanted to do? I probably would have thought that the massage was turning into the VIP treatment or something.

Well the foot massage was great. I guarantee you that she removed some blood and scar tissue that have been inside my feet since my high school football days. She hit this one spot on my Achilles that was tender. Immediately a thought of an old injury came into my head. It was the exact same spot that I had a deep tissue injury in 1982. Twenty-five years later and long forgotten, it resurfaced – very odd.

Well the entire thing took 60 minutes. I received a head massage, neck massage, shoulder massage, and a foot massage, a cup of tea, and a bowl of soup. It cost me 45 RMB which is equivalent to $5.75. I plan on going back and get a full body massage. I am sure that would lead to some funny stories as well.

Footnote – they did not trim my toenails

Natalie and Shelly Bicycling in Shanghai

Tom bought a "city bike" a week or so ago and that has really allowed Natalie and I to get out and see some of the city. She rides in a carrier on the back. You can see her in the picture here that she enjoys the fresh air, well maybe not so fresh air! On our side of the Haungpu river, everything is pretty new, so they have taken care to add bike lanes on most of the major roads and even on the side roads. While it will be nicer once we both have helmets, it really is pretty safe as long as you pay attention. The thing you have to worry about the most is your bike being stolen after you lock it up. We always have that few moments of dread after you leave the store or restaurant wondering if your bike will still be there. I am usually really careful about trying to put it near where a security dude might be patrolling, but it is still a crap shoot. Most people have at least one bike stolen a year.

Today was our longest ride yet, probably about 10k, all the way to Century Park and the Technology and Science Museum. We took quite a roundabout way to it, riding north through some of the more typical Chinese residential areas which are definitely different from what you see on the new streets by our home. There are little stores selling everything you could possibly want. I saw a small store that looked like it was only selling long pipes, some of them maybe scrap. The whole storefront was only about 10x10 so they had the longer pipes rigged up through the top of roof to enable the security door to be pulled down and cover the exposed doors. I find it amazing how adaptive the Chinese are. The other day I saw a guy filling a bunch of bottles with water he had somehow figured out how to get out of a fire hydrant. He had an old cart and probably had 30-40 big bottles to fill. Funny. Anyway, I digress. So we rode to Thumb Plaza and had lunch. I was trying to find a place to get take-away and then we were going to take it to Century Park and eat it. But the restaurant I picked out really didn't have a good take-away service. It was a nice Italian place though. So Natalie has spaghetti with marinara sauce (surprise!) and I had pasta with a white wine and clam sauce. The clams were in the shells and very fresh. After lunch, we rode on to the Century Park Plaza. This is an area where lots of people fly kites. We stopped and snapped a quick picture and then rode on back home. The weather is starting to warm up, so we hope to get out even more!

Domestic Help on the way

We successfully hired an Ayi! Her name is Zhang Cai Zhen. Don't worry, I can't pronounce her name either. She gave us a shorter name to call her, but I think that is even harder! Regardless, the search is over. She came to the house this morning and she and I struggled to communicate for almost 45 minutes. I was trying to explain how many hours we expected her to work. She wanted paid by the week, but we were quoting her a salary price by the month. Then I tried to explain babysitting. I had to get the Chinese dictionary out to find the word for her to read. Then she saw it and said "Oh, no problem" and made a sign for eating! Ah, the beauty of the "gesture" language used to get along here. And she actually speaks quite a bit of English for which we are going to pay for as she is a bit more expensive. But the cost is whole other thing that Tom and I agreed we would not post. Let's just say that hiring a full-time help costs less than my birthday dinner out with the girls! She is going to work 30 hours a week and then will also stay late if Tom and I go out in the evenings. She has worked for families for quite a few years. The family she was working for went back to the US this week. They also had a four-year old boy that she took care of. She has a son who is 22 and works outside of Shanghai. I was able to talk to another lady who liver here in Vizcaya who uses Cia Zhen for just one day a week, and she could not have been more complimentary. She said that she is a wonderful Ayi, very honest and dependable. I will post more when I know more and maybe some picture. Tom just asked me if I was going to get a job to pay for this. What a schmuck. Anyway, I will now be able to leave the house and shortly maybe even leave by myself! More to come next week after she starts.

Natalie's Rough Week

We are still searching for an Ayi. I have been interviewing and following leads for most of this week. We know we don't want anyone to live with us and you have to watch out for Filipino's who will need papers or will need visa's approved. We have a Chinese lady we like, but we are not sure we need full time right now. Anyway, that is how that is progressing.

Poor Natalie! Monday and Tuesday were a little rough for her physically! I better be careful how I put this or my mother will have her removed from my care due to child abuse! I have been trying to work out and decided this week that Monday/Wednesday/Friday at 10:30 would work best. Natalie can stay in the Children's play area in the clubhouse and play and watch TV. They give you a small watchband and then the ladies there will keep an eye on them until you return. There are Chinese girls and ladies working there, so English not so good. Monday when I got back at 11:30 to get Natalie, she was watching TV, which didn't surprise me at all. Then she came walking over to me and grabbed my leg and hugged it really hard, burying her head into my thigh. She said "I have something to tell you, but I will tell you outside". I thanked the lady who came over and got my watch thing, and then we stepped outside. Natalie told me as we walked to the bike that she had fallen down off of the rope climber and hurt her back! She said she had cried as she couldn't breathe. Wow. Poor thing. She said she never wanted for me to leave her alone again! YIKES!!! She laid down after lunch and I think she probably did bruise her back a little, though I couldn't see anything. I later got out of her that she had climbed up to the top of this thing and couldn't get down, so she jumped. Not sure it could have been more than 4 feet, but if you know Natalie, then you know that grace is NOT her middle name. Just like her mom. The rest of the day she also complained every time she had to ride in the child carrier on the bike. She kept yelling at me to NOT hit the bumps. Right. Finally, we just went back home and I gave up trying to get anything done. So that was Monday. On Tuesday, we rode our bike up to the JinQiao Green Sports & Leisure Center where there is the Carrefour, restaurants, etc. There is a big store there, B&Q, which is like a Home Depot. After walking through, Natalie and I headed to the Carrefour to do our daily grocery shopping. As we were walking, I tripped on a concrete step that was sort of stuck out in the middle of the street. Very common, I am sure there was no purpose for it. Unfortunately I was holding Natalie's hand and when I fell, instead of letting her go, I pulled her with me. So we both ended up sprawled on the road. Natalie skinned her hand up and cried. I just felt like a fool. The good thing is that Shanghai is just like New York or other big cities, everyone ignored us. We got up, brushed off, and the promise of chocolate quieted Natalie after a bit. THEN, we stopped later at a German Bakery to get some fresh baked bread (definitely one of the perks!) and as I picked her up and out of the seat on the bike, she fell when I went to put her down! That accident cost me two chocolate truffles from inside the bakery! Today, Wednesday, we are going to try another bike ride. Wonder if this one will have any exciting events!

Lookin' for Help Here in Shanghai

Almost 11 days have gone by since our last post! It has either been really busy or really boring. First things first, as you can see in the title, we (OK, really I) have decided that we have to hire some help to keep this house clean. Plus, we really need to find someone who can watch Natalie for an hour or two here and there. So late last week I started the search for an Ayi, which literally translated means "auntie" but is used to refer to domestic help here. This search has introduced the first amount of stress I have had since I got here. We had a cleaning service that came every two weeks, but never anything close to someone coming every day and doing all of our cleaning, laundry, etc. That loss of privacy is the most concerning aspect of this engagement. Many people here hire live-in Ayi's who live in the "Ayi-room" usually in the basement. THAT is definitely not in our future! There are generally Filipino and Chinese Ayi's available. those from the Philippines are typically looking for a live-in situation since it save them money. Chinese on the other hand will typically still live at their own home and have more flexible hours. Of course being the anal person I am, I wrote out a two page document on our expectations on how to clean. Tom was laughing at me, but I believe that some people feel they have trouble with the Chinese cleaning well, but I firmly believe that you just have to take the time to show them what our expectation is. In reality, our western view of how and what to clean is far different from the Chinese. Why would they have the same view of how to go about it when they don't have the same energy as a nation put into the cleaning of our homes, clothes, etc. I said in an earlier blog that I believed that our cleaning products are far superior to the Chinese brands. maybe that is because millions of women spent their youth watching "soap operas" and generally learning that CLEAN IS GOOD. Think about how many different brands of floor cleaners you have to chose from when you go to the grocery. Cleaning your home definitely falls higher in Maslow's Need Hierarchy as opposed to home and food! Anyway, I guess that is how I am justifying hiring help to meet one of my needs that is clearly a higher level than they normally prioritize their needs at. This level of philosophical self justification would make Nietzsche proud. Anyway, more to come on this topic!

Tom had a NCAA game pool this year, but the only participants were Tom, me, and Natalie! Natalie picked all of hers by color of the team. The crazy thing was that she was in first place until Purdue got beat in their 2nd game against Kansas! She picked Purdue to go all the way, which was better than Tom or I picked them. We are able to hear the games on the NCAA March Madness site. Not quite as nice as seeing the game on TV, but it works out OK. We also were able to hear the Women on Yahoo Sports. So being able to hear the games has softened the mileage between China and the U.S. though there is just nothing you can do about the 12 hour time difference. Tom was up this morning (Monday) at 3:45 a.m. listening to the Purdue game. Too bad on that one, at least Purdue gave them a good fight.

We had to buy a new vacuum this weekend. The one that was here when we moved in was not working correctly. So, we went to a Friendship department store in Hong Qiao to find a more 'western' option than was available at Carrefour. By 'western' that usually means Philips. Occasionally you see other home appliance brands such as T-Fal and KitchenAid but not that often and usually just one style. We ended up spending $350 on a vacuum! Geesh. And it doesn't even really have a rolling head on the front, just a brush that you have to push. I am not sure we should have spent as much, but oh well. It works! The store was running a special where they gave you back coupons depending on how much you spent. It took the sales girl, whose English was limited, 5 minutes to find somehow to explain how much the vacuum was really going to cost once we got our coupons back. She gave us a receipt for the vacuum which we took to the central cashier (one on each floor). We made our payment there and then she gave us a receipt to take to the coupon counter, which was one floor down. At this point, we did not have our vacuum in our possession. But, we figured there was some process we needed to go through to pick it up, so we were not too worried yet. I went down to the coupon table and they wrote down numbers into a ledger and counted out coupons worth 400 RMB (about $50). Then I had to sign my name next to the amount in the ledger. They gave me a receipt for the coupons which I took back to the cashier. She then gave us the receipt for the vacuum. But, we still didn't have the vacuum. We quickly asked her where to go, and she looked puzzled and pointed us back to the sales area where we picked out the vacuum. So, I took the receipt back and another girl took the receipt and placed it in a box. She pointed down the hall and went back to her station. I was starting to walk where she pointed when I finally saw the original sales girl coming down the aisle lugging a box. Our vacuum. She gave us a receipt and that was that. Except that now we had 400 RMB in coupons that needed to be used up. Natalie got a toy, Tom bought some power converters. We still have a 100 RMB Coupon, and we are not sure if it was only good that day or what. So I guess really the vacuum was only $300, that doesn't make me feel better. Besides, if I get my way, I won't be using it anyway! Weird....

Tom's Redneck Pants Alterations

Most of you have heard that Tom has lost weight, but you probably haven't had a chance to see what he had done to "fix" his dress pants which are now way too big. I'd like to believe that this was just a temporary fix, but he really doesn't see the problem with them! When he came home today from work, I made him pull his sweater and low and behold, there were his pants with self-made pleats! Just like any Kentucky redneck would do! Don't get me wrong, I am proud of Tom who has lost 20-25 lbs. But, really...

First Full Week: Cleaning, Sleeping and Cooking

It is hard to believe that a week has gone by already. I was sitting this morning and thinking about how much our lives have changed in the past two months. This last week, for me at least, was the first time our new life really hit home. Up until I got here in Shanghai, I was so busy with the relocation details, it just felt like work! Everyone has asked me how I feel now that I am here, and until this morning, it was hard to define anything as very different. But now I know why Tom and I felt this was such a good opportunity for us. I feel like a totally different person in a lot of ways. Most of my daily life is now spent doing things I have never really had to have as a priority. And that feels very refreshing to me. Most of you know that a part of what drove us to this opportunity decision was to help keep me from burning out on my own career. Both Tom and I are driven by our careers, but I sometimes have a harder time separating the job from family. And with Natalie now, that seemed even harder to balance. So for everyone who is interested, after the first week at least, I truly feel this change is going to meet, and possibly exceed my expectations for what we wanted to accomplish as a family.

OK, enough about feelings! What I have really been spending my time doing is CLEANING and SLEEPING. Neither one is a past favorite of mine, but it does seem to be all I do. I also realized that this house is huge. I have only been to the top floor three times in the week I have been here. I noticed on the first day that Natalie's white socks were totally black by the end of the evening. Tom said you have to wear slippers or that is what happens. So, I started by scrubbing (with a brush, on my hands and knees, thank you very much) the kitchen and entry tiles. When you wake up at 2:00 am you have lots of extra time! Natalie was up too, so I figured what the hell, and I gave her a scrub brush too! So together we scrubbed dirt that seemed to have been here since the place was built. On a side note, this place was vacant quite a while, so that explains some of the accumulated dust. Observation #1: Cleaning supplies are not the same quality in China! I found this out pretty quickly trying to clean the floors with the bottle of Mr. Muscle Floor Cleaner. I wish I had a packed a bottle of Mr. Clean (hmmmm... think that Mr. Muscle was an imitation????). As I was on my knees scrubbing around the hand-made island that I love, I realized that they had built and stained the island in the kitchen and there was stain from that effort left all around the tile! Instead of wiping it up, they left it and it permanently colored the floor. That is so typical of some of the workmanship. I believe a lot has to with how fast some of this housing for expatriates (foreigners living and working in Shanghai) is having to go up. I saw in the local paper yesterday that Shanghai is planning on attracting another 20,000 expats over the next five years. Over the next few days, I ended up scrubbing the tile floors of the main rooms we use. But, I still have two bathrooms and the patios to get to. Besides the tile, we have lots of beautiful wooden floors. But let me explain about the dust here, it is everywhere and you cannot keep up! I swear, I can dust and by the end of the day, I see dust. So to be honest, I have been having Natalie use the big duster! She thinks she is helping (well, she is a little) and it keeps her busy. After the floors I have to move on to the baths, counters, drawers, etc. Whew. I know it sounds crazy, but I have always enjoyed that kind of cleaning. the deep cleaning I mean. What I hate is the dusting and toilet cleaning! Guess I better learn to like it or hire an Ayi - that is someone to help! I can see why people hire someone to help them with this stuff.

Besides cleaning, I have been sleeping. At the beginning of the week, I was waking up at 1am, then 2am, now 5am. Hopefully I will get to 7am soon! But, this past Tuesday I took a nap and it was one of those wonderful naps that you wake up and feel totally refreshed! That is when I started to sleeping to 5. Natalie was also waking up at 1 and 2! But now she is taking 4 hour naps and sleeping till 7am. So, I will say she has adjusted!

I went to the grocery story by myself on Wednesday night. So far, our trips to the grocery have resulted in interesting finds! I cannot find any tofu, but found cheddar cheese (that cost $4.50 for half a pound). There are hundreds of soy sauces. I tried to buy some vinegar, and I realized there are as many styles of that as there are soy sauces. China has many different regional cooking styles, just like the US. In Shanghai, the style usually includes lots of fresh seafood. You see a lot of pork but not a lot of chicken. Well, you do see a lot of chicken feet and pickled eggs. I was able to buy chicken breast, but haven't cooked it yet. A part of my goal here is to learn how to cook real Chinese. My plan is to take a class, but in the interim, I am really excited about experimenting with what I find at the market and can cook so that Natalie will at least try it. I plan on writing down some of the recipes and maybe will share with other intrepid expatriates who are hesitant to try to cook. I made my first "meal" on Monday. The pork I bought to prepare, which I think was pork loin, was delicious. I don't have much of a pantry, but that is what is makes it fun. I simply cut into strips and marinated in soy, garlic, and sesame oil. Then quickly stir-fried in a little olive oil. Oh, I forgot to add that the oil situation is interesting. Mostly corn oil is used in the cooking here, and it is sold in huge gallon containers. I opted to go the more healthy olive oil route and had to pay $10 for 16 oz. of a run-of-the-mill brand. And that was all I did. I had cilantro, but wasn't sure how to clean it, so I left it out. I served with plain "sticky rice" (it was actually pearl rice). Both Tom and Natalie liked so I take that as a win. You certainly can eat a lot healthier here. Last night I ventured into the soup realm with pork dumplings in a chicken soup. I added frozen mixed veggies. Again, simple, but pretty filling. Natalie wouldn't eat the dumplings, she said they tasted like spinach! Right. She eats rice and I usually make her a side of half a peanut butter sandwich which she can have AFTER she tries the new stuff. We stick to bananas and oranges for fruit right now. The bananas are imported, but cheap, and the oranges which are Chinese, are actually sweeter than home. They are much riper and juicier. You cannot find berries though. Well, you can buy some sad looking strawberries, but that's it. No frozen fruit either.

Well, I guess that pretty much sums up the first week. Today we are going to get our paperwork for our residence permits. Then we are going to go buy a bike with a child seat on it. Walking the 1/2 mile to the stores is healthy, but Nat's little legs get pretty tired by the time we head back. I have posted a picture of her this morning. I will post more about our other aspects of life later!

Made it to China!

All of us are in China now. Natalie and I had a great flight, considering it is 14 1/2 hours! Natalie didn't sleep until 8 hours into the flight. But she watched the Disney channel and played her L-Max (Leapster). (I highly recommend the L-Max as it is really good at keeping kids busy and I think she is learning from it too!) After she fell asleep, she slept hard until about 45 minutes before landing. I had a hard time waking her up at all! The only bad thing that happened was on the flight from Tampa to Chicago. Natalie spilled a cup of apple juice on her lap. Totally soaked her pants, shirt, and seat! We had to crowd into the bathroom and take her shirt off and put on her sweatshirt. We didn't change her pants as I wanted to save the spare in case something happened that wouldn't just dry! But, that was the worst thing. It was nice to fly in business class, the food and wine were good. Probably not worth the extra $6k, but since we weren't paying...

So we are here now and the first three days have been spent getting rested and getting acclimated to the new country. The compound we live in is really nice. But it is funny that for the first couple of days, I felt invisible. The few people I did see here inside the compound didn't even make eye contact! Surprising as most of them were Americans. You would think that in an area where you are a minority, making contact would be a priority! But then yesterday a few people said "hi". (Natalie was disappointed to discover that were actually NOT invisible!). Natalie has already been swimming! It is heated and she loves it. The only problem is that she was under the impression that was HER clubhouse. She seriously thought that when told her she would HAVE a clubhouse, that it would just be for her! She has argued with us since she got her trying to convince us that we have to tell the other kids that they have to leave her pool area. For an hour on Friday she lectured me on how the pool was closed to swimming lessons and how I needed to tell the other kids that they can't use it until she tells them she can! Other than that, she is adjusting just fine.

We walked (yes, walked) to the supermarket, Carrefour, and picked up some things. Tom had just a few things in the fridge, it was pretty bare. Natalie is not enjoying all of the walking, just a sign of how little we do that in the U.S. It was quite an experience. You have to decide what to buy based on the pictures on the packages. I don't have any of my kitchen items yet (they are in the sea and air shipments) so we just bought simple things like noodles and dumplings. We didn't have any other experiences like Tom had before, though the lines were really slow. We only spent about 430RMB or $45. Pretty cheap for how much we bought. Today we are going out to IKEA and the SuperBrands Mall to pick up a few things for the house.

We will post some pictures on the website once we have a chance to get our home organized. That may take a while! But my goal is to do it next week.