Today I bought my first pair of birkenstocks and I’ve gotta say… I’m loving them. They look like this, only the strap is a matching beige instead of ugly white.

Who’d have thought… a corduroy shoe! It just doesn’t get any better. I loved them so much I wore them home, and I’m […]

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After spending a little over a month jumping through bureaucratic hoops we have finally managed to reduce our car insurance premiums from a whopping 242,29 EUR/month to a far more palatable 67,96 EUR/month.
A word of warning to future expats… if you don’t bring a certified statement from your insurance company ***clearly*** stating what your past […]

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After staying up until 5:30 this morning watching The West Wing with rapt attention… I’m now 110% sure I want to have Josh Lyman’s babies. Even more disturbing… Jim’s such a fan, I think he might want to, too.

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The past two weeks have been a blur of almost endless to-do lists & busy work. I can remember not long after we arrived in Dresden wishing for something… anything to do to keep busy and keep my mind off the monumental changes we’d just been through. Well doesn’t it figure that around […]

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Today Robbie formed her first band. It doesn’t seem to matter that no one actually knows how to play an instrument… or sing. Nope, it’s all about photo shoots, writing their own lyrics and impressing a boy named Johannes.
Since (thankfully) they didn’t rehearse here today, when she got home I asked her for […]

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When did men start wearing capri pants? We went for a long walk yesterday and just about every man we passed was wearing girly capri pants. When did this happen? Is it happening in the U.S. too, or is it just a european thing? I guess I’m used to men wearing […]

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I’m convinced Jim regrets buying the Octavia. I can’t help wondering what took him so long, but that’s not important right now. So instead of admitting he made a mistake, he’s compensating by tricking out our skoda as much as humanly possible. In the four months we’ve had it he’s upgraded the […]

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It seems for every word/phrase I learn, there are at least a hundred bazillion I still don’t know. Case in point, today I went to join a fitness club not too far away from the flat. And while I’m pretty sure this will be something I do roughly 12-15 times before it goes […]

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We’re finally home again after an unexpected hotel stay. It all started when Jim insisted we call an electrician because he was certain we had some oddball wiring problem. I don’t remember the specifics of it… something about things still having electrical current to them even when switches are turned off… blah blah… […]

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This weekend was Dresden’s most notorious fest. The one people warned us to avoid late at night as it’s tradition to get drunk, start small fires & pick fights. Right. We were good campers, did as we were told, and packed it in around 11:00, but I still managed to see plenty […]

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