In a completely cool mom move I just agreed to take Robbie’s best friend with us through Poland, Berlin, Paris and Spain. And by ‘agreed to take’ I mean paying for plane tickets and everything. In other words, I willing doubled the level of teen angst I’ll (no doubt) be subjected […]

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I need to go to the doctor very soon, but I’d prefer to find one with an excellent grasp of english. The last time I went it was for something straightforward- and I’m still not sure what my actual diagnosis was. I sounded like I had whooping cough and was […]

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Syd: Why do mommies wear bras?
Me: Because once upon a time there was a person… no doubt an evil, sadistic man… who thought it would be fun to torture women with an insidious device called an underwire bra.
Syd: Why’d he do that? Did he not like girls?
Me: No one really […]

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I’ve made a friend at my local gym. She’s Australian and only approached me after noticing I had an english-language magazine– figuring we at least had language in common. The best part about talking to her… her prolific use of the term “good on you” (sort of like good […]

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Thank you, everyone, for your wonderful vacation advice. I didn’t take any of it. Heh. In the end we found a great deal on a flight to Costa Del Sol and decided the cousins would just have to fend for themselves in the jungles of Paris for eleven days […]

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As you probably know by now, Jim’s cousin and his girlfriend are coming this summer and have completely fucked up our travel plans (me? bitter? never…) This is a huge deal because I really wanted to go to Spain or Greece and now I’m instead faced with a possible third trip to Paris… within […]

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One of the (many) things I’ve lamented in the past was the lack of t-shirt wearing in Deutschland. I see guys in them, but hardly ever girls. And when I do see a girl wearing one it invariably has ‘esprit’ embroidered across the front of it.
I’ve missed funky or quirky or funny or […]

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I’m still going to the gym 3 times a week and I’m still the grungiest girl there, but thankfully it finally seems to be making the tiniest bit of difference. I don’t know why my scale hated me last week and showed me up a few pounds, but as of today […]

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Why is it so damned difficult for people to properly pronounce the word nuclear?

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Two things to know about me… first, I have the attention span of a sugared up 2 year old. Second, my deutsch is really, really shitty. I swear I knew more when I first got here. Trouble is, I find german lessons tedious, boring and, well, tedious bears repeating. I’ve had […]

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