I seriously enjoy Christmas shopping. I don’t know how many people can say that, but I do. I like picking out gifts for people, wrapping them, writing Christmas Cards… the whole shebang. Since I am leaving for Germany in 7 (!) days, I tried to do most of my Christmas shopping...
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Damn, I forgot to put out my boot last night. Do you think that might be the reason why there was no candy and chocolate this morning? I really have fond memories of the Nikolaus tradition in Germany. My sister and I would always put our boots in front of...
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I am currently working on my new theme. I am not quite satisfied with it yet, but thoughts and ideas are very welcome. :)… Read more
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it’s only 20 more days until Christmas Eve! How insane! Can you believe it? I have to say, the year went by really quickly… although, if I think about how many people I haven’t seen in such a long (!) time, it doesn’t seem so quick anymore. Weird time feeling....
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Relieved and also a tiny bit sad, I am writing my last post for NaBloPoMo this year. I can’t believe how fast this month flew by… and Christmas is almost here! It has definitely been fun again to blog 30 days in a row… without any creative breaks in between....
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This is actually going to refer to the actual meaning of the word “sick”, not as in “you’re a sick person for behaving like that” or something ;) We watched “SiCKO”, the latest Michael Moore-documentary, a little while ago. I missed to see it at the movie theaters and wanted...
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… always wanted to live in CA, I believe. Earthquakes have strangely fascinated me since my first geography class in 5th grade, so I chose Geography as my Leistungskurs in 12th grade and later went on to University to study Geography. By lucky coincidence, and I say that with still...
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This is the official term of my legal status in the US. Sounds lovely, huh? It always makes me think of little green men [or women] and X-Files :) Due to the Thanksgiving-weekend-with-Kim-excitement, I totally forgot that November, 22nd marked the first anniversary of my immigrating to the US and...
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