Well, it’s my birthday (week) again and I thought it would be fun to reflect on my 38th year by sharing some moments and things that made the past year great. The year itself wasn’t really anything spectacular, meaning that there were no big changes (more a lot of unknowns)...
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Goodness, it’s March again already. Can you believe it? I am not complaining really, because I like March for a couple of reasons. One, it’s my birthday month (hooray!) and two, March brings along the beginning of spring. Well, to be honest, it has felt like spring around our parts...
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My birthday was earlier last week and I had planned ahead and worked some extra hours in advance so that I was able to take Monday off. It was a beautiful day and I started out with some coffee and birthday cake (cherry crumble cake – yum!). As you know,...
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Today my sweet niece Greta turns five years old. FIVE YEARS. WHAAAT? I mean. How is that even possible? She was just a baby. I talked to her earlier on the phone and it was like talking to a “grown up” person. She thanked me for her birthday gift (my...
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Yesterday was my birthday. It was nice that my birthday fell on a weekend for a few different reasons, because a) I didn’t have to go to work, b) I was (theoretically) able to sleep in (but due to DST, I was up at 8 a.m. (which was technically 7...
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{Photo Credit: domitilla ferrari via Compfight cc} Today is my dear friend Kim‘s birthday. It seem impossible that a whole year has gone by again… and even more impossible is the fact that I haven’t seen her for more than 12 months. When I was home over Christmas, we were supposed...
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For J’s 30th birthday – which was last Thursday – I had planned a fun weekend away. J had no idea where we were going – I just put him in the car on Saturday morning and off we went. First, we headed to the coast where I had planned...
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Today my great-aunt turns 90 years old. She’s not very fond of having her photo taken lately (this one was taken last Christmas) and she’d be completely shocked if she knew that her photo was on the Internet, so it’s probably a good thing that she doesn’t have a computer,...
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