Month: April 2008

Patience in demand

With all of the things going on right now as mentioned in the protected post, I don’t think I’ll be able to treat myself to a new toy quite yet. I am a little bummed, but sometimes good little things happen when you least expect them. I had mentioned before...

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SPF: “towels”

I haven’t really had the time to participate in Kristine’s SPF since she revived it a couple of weeks ago, but today I thought I would participate, just because the theme fitted so well with one of my recent purchases [for our new place-to-be]. Kitchen towels. You really can’t have...

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Old acquaintances…

On Tuesday night, I met with Claudia and Stoyan again, as well as another old acquaintance from back when we lived in Davis. Scott used to be our neighbor at your first Davis apartment and he had also been a member of our bookclub for a while. I hadn’t seen,...

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Capricious weather

Do you remember how I was rubbing in last week that the thermometer had reached almost 90°F [=30°C] for the first time this year? Yeah, well, turns out that was just a little taste of summer. Admittedly, it is still April and we’re back to the mid-60’s where we should...

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Deja vu

I walked into the Java City Coffeeshop in my work building this morning, when I smelled something that took me right back to where I was 15 years ago. I was staying in Boston, attending a 4-weeks language summer class in Medford, at Tufts University to be precise, and the smell...

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Duh!

Please. If someone could explain Facebook to me, I would really appreciate it. I am a little overwhelmed and frankly confused by all the hugging, gift-giving, drink-giving, quizz-requesting and such. I usually only check my Facebook site if I get an email saying that I had a new message [or to...

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Weekend recap

I got my first pedicure ever (!) on Saturday. How can someone go without a pedicure for 32 years of their lives, you might ask? Well, a) you must have grown up in Germany [because pedicures for teenagers and young women are definitely a pretty new invention over there –...

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