two years in Doha

today we complete two years here... quite an accomplishment, going by B's track record of finding jobs in a jiffy and no I haven't reminded him yet of two years gone by, lest he starts updating his CV and looking out...
somehow, i have sort of fallen in love with this place... possibly it is familiarity, but love there is between me and Doha... and this is now...today, when i was passing by Airport, trying to recollect how Doha looked like when we first landed and came out searching for the hotel coach that was supposed to be waiting for us... the first reaction was a little jerk... having come in from as beautiful a city as Muscat, we were struck by the work going on, on the roads, the city was busy preparing for the Asian Games that were to begin on December 1, 2006...
now of course, we have understood and accepted that ongoing work is what this city is all about... in fact, even the hotel where we checked in is no longer there...
and some entire roads have been redone, some flyovers broken down, some roundabouts made signal driven...
but now that i love this place (despite the hours that we spent initially commuting between Luqta and Office, the two shift of homes that we have done, the pain i underwent after having enrolled in the driving class here), i want it to continue... let R pass out from here, let her not be new girl again, let me hold on to this job (i love that too), let B's mind be settled in his present job, so that when we move, we move finally...
is that a tall order? hope not, dear B.