Month: April 2009

Pork Belly

On Tuesday, I went to another meeting of the German Meetup group. We had coffee at a Starbucks and best piece of information of the evening was: I was told about a German butcher shop where I can get “Bauchfleisch” (pork belly). Oh, if you could see me drooling right...

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Baseball Season is here!!

Oh my freakin’ god, did you guys see the Boston Red Sox’s Jacoby Ellsbury’s home steal in the game against the Yankees last night?? A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. Ok, now, after you let out your collective sighs (because I know some of you think that watching baseball is the most boring thing in...

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Easter Weekend

Our Easter weekend was nice and peaceful. Since we don’t get Good Friday and Easter Monday off, like you lucky people in Germany, it didn’t really feel like a holiday weekend to me. I had thought about coloring some eggs, like I did two years ago, but then J and...

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The weekend = LAZY!

You know, I am all for big weekend plans, get-aways, day-trips and so on and so forth… but sometimes you just need a weekend to do nothing. That’s exactly what I did – nothing. Ok, technically not nothing nothing. But you know, I didn’t have any commitments and no plans,...

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My favorite books

Since I am on a “book-high” right now, I want to use this post and answer one of my commentator’s question on my last post. What are your three favorite books. Let me tell you upfront: I am not at all into “crime/mystery novels” (which does not mean I don’t...

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