Posted in Deep Thoughts, Picture It on Aug 20th, 2008 9 Comments »
So this week marks the return to school for the girls, and Syd’s already decided she hates her new teacher. Not a good omen for the rest of the year.
On Monday I told her (Syd) to give it time… that maybe the new teacher was just nervous and it made her a [...]
Posted in Same Shit, Different Day on Aug 18th, 2008 8 Comments »
I think my ascension from having 5 people constantly buzzing around me, to complete and total isolation might have been a little too drastic today. I’ve been fantasizing about all the great stuff I could do once I was finally alone, but all I’ve managed so far is to read the same four chapters [...]
Posted in Same Shit, Different Day on Aug 17th, 2008 7 Comments »
Tomorrow… after the longest month of my life… my in-laws finally leave for America. Jim goes back to work and the girls start school. Tomorrow I’ll get to walk through the flat braless, drinking orange juice straight from the carton, and eating yogurette bars for breakfast if I so desire.
Better yet, [...]
Posted in Same Shit, Different Day on Jul 29th, 2008 16 Comments »
My in-laws have been here a week now and it’s been stressful. I could probably post a whole scorecard of insults, backhanded compliments, critiques and judgments, but I’m going with Jim’s ’souvenir’ from America instead. And maybe in a way it shows that Jim’s mom is just who she is, and it’s not [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, Picture It on Jul 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
Happy birthday to one of my all-time favorite people…
Posted in Same Shit, Different Day on Jul 22nd, 2008 10 Comments »
Jim’s parents will be here in two days and I’m in full-on cleaning mode. In addition to the multitude of sins I apparently possess (… divorced, older, atheist-leaning heathen with hypnotic vagina luring their sweet baby boy straight to hell), I am also reputed to be a lousy housewife. This I’ll give them, [...]
Posted in Same Shit, Different Day on Jul 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I love the word `Trebuchet´. It’s awesome. Wish I could work it into more sentences…
Posted in Critic's Corner, Deep Thoughts on Jul 15th, 2008 10 Comments »
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was [...]
Posted in Expat Antics: Life in Germany on Jul 9th, 2008 12 Comments »
What’s the difference between a ‘burg’ (as in: Hamburg, Rothenburg, Regensburg) and a ‘berg’ (Heidelberg, Nürnberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg) in town/city names? I’m guessing it’s not just some arbitrary spelling decision… there’s got to be more to it than that. Right?
And after almost 2.5 years here, this is probably some of the stuff [...]
Posted in Expat Antics: Life in Germany, Picture It, Wanderlust on Jul 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
On Saturday, the 28th of June we spent the day in Regensburg. This is significant because we almost moved there back in 2004. For us R-burg was sort of our gateway to Germany… it didn’t work out (long story) but it was the first time we took something that, to that point, had [...]
Former supermodel turned brain surgeon leaves behind successful career in America to try her hand at hausfraudom in the lovely Saxon city of Dresden, Germany.
Some days are good, some are bad... all are opportunities to learn & grow.
With my sunny disposition and can-do attitude, what could possibly go wrong?
None
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky