Today an ATM machine stopped me dead in my tracks. How sad is that? I thought I’d swing by and pull out a little weekend cash before Jim made it home from work… sounds simple enough, right? Wrong. Because instead of being quick & easy-breezy, it turned into a 25 minute […]

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Today I attended my first yoga class in dresden… it felt great to be back at it again, I’d really gotten stiff & sore over the past 6 weeks. Plus, there’s nothing like winning friends & influencing people while in the downward facing dog position. It was english-speaking so I actually understood most […]

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My neighbors have now seen me naked. Lovely. I’d just gotten out of the shower… we’re using the bathroom by the front door right now because the other has morphed into a temporary storage room. All was well at first… I spent lots of time post shower drying my hair and […]

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No way around it, those fuckers at Ikea are evil. I should have known something was up when I read the founder was a former nazi sympathizer. In the showroom shrankenstein looked deceptively simple. I liked the zenness of it, plus I have a deep love of the color gray… so, take […]

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One of the sites I’ve lately visited posed this question:
***can you sum up your life-philosophy in 5 statements ?***
I’m tired, sore and distracted, but this is what I came up with relatively quickly:
- one man’s deviant is another’s vanilla.
- try anything twice, except incest and folk dancing.
- what goes around, comes around.
- give a man […]

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We started the day in relative peace and order…

And then the movers arrived.

After that all hell broke loose…

***Oh***

***My***

***God***

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I am learning to roll with the bureaucratic red tape of moving internationally and curb my strong desire for instant gratification. The past four days are a perfect example of that. We were due to have our household goods delivered last Thursday, but thanks to a snafu at customs they’re being delivered today […]

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The past weekend has been equal parts exhausting and expensive. We found out Friday afternoon that our stuff will be delivered this Thursday (two days and counting!!), so it suddenly became very necessary to prepare our flat. Sunday and monday were spent painting the bedrooms even though the flat had a fresh coat […]

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This is how saxon’s tell someone it’s 11:25. Seriously.
On a completely unrelated note… does anyone know how to make pancakes from scratch? Sadly they don’t sell the pre-made microwavable ones here. Or, for that matter, anything boxed that says ‘hey idiot, add water & pour in pan’. I’m so out […]

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I have somehow become the owner of a Skoda Octavia. I’m still not sure exactly how this happened, only that Jim came home from work yesterday and said “we bought a car today!”. Seems one of his co-workers is transferring to the middle east and is anxious to jettison the skoda he purchased […]

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