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 [...]
Posted in Expat Antics: Life in Germany, Same Shit, Different Day on Jul 3rd, 2008 7 Comments »
Today it’s hotter than the inside of Satan’s asshole. Seriously, this has got to be the 7th level of hell or something… someone get Dante this, stat. Which brings me to the point of this post: a tip for incoming expats. Never, ever, under any circumstances, decide to rent a top-floor flat [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, Expat Antics: Life in Germany, Wanderlust on Jul 2nd, 2008 6 Comments »
Dinner with Blythe, Katie, Christina, Rainer and the very cute & extremely well-behaved Oliver last Friday night in Nürnberg was a blast. It’s still a weird concept to me- getting together with people I’ve only met over the internet. I keep expecting to one day walk into a restaurant and be confronted by [...]
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