This week was short but exhausting. I rarely ever feel stressed by my work, but it’s been an intense week. Conflicting data and trying to make sense of it all = head explosion. I usually love working with Excel (I am a nerd), but this week, my brain hurt....
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Three years ago today, I became a U.S. citizen. Time sure went by fast. Considering the fact that I am still not officially hired as a federal employee (which was one of the main reason for me to get dual citizenship in the first place), things at my job...
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I was very shocked and saddened to hear about the horrible plane crash in the French Alps earlier this week. Emotionally, this one hit close to home, because I consider ‘Düsseldorf’ (and Köln) my home airport(s) in Germany and when I heard that there were students and their teachers...
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Can you believe it’s February already? I have no idea where January went, but since it was a little bit rough, I am looking forward to a much calmer, better month. I am planning to finish my knitted cardigan, work on some new items for our shop and get back into...
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I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving yesterday! J and I hung out at home for the most part, watched movies (+ Friends reruns!), went for an early afternoon walk and then started cooking our own little Thanksgiving feast! We roasted a hen with stuffing, made homemade mashed potatoes...
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This week was short, but felt long. I had Monday (switched my regular day off from today to Monday) and Tuesday (Veteran’s Day) off , but am working today. My sense of time is all screwed up this week. Can’t wait for the weekend to start. * * * I’m...
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I completely failed to acknowledge that my niece (and god-daughter) Greta turned 6 last week. I wanted a picture to go along with the occasion and then forgot, because I didn’t get any pictures from her actual birthday. So you get this recent one of her snuggling with their new...
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There is a huge wildfire burning in the foothills right now and even though we haven’t been impacted much by the smoke (yet) down here in the capital, I am really hoping that they’ll get this fire under control. It’s already destroyed 76,000 acres (that’s 310 km² for us metric-thinking...
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This week has really been flying by. I’ve been transitioning to some new responsibilities/tasks at work and it has kept me really busy (so much that I’ve been dreaming of Excel spreadsheets and long data files for the last couple of days! Do you experience this when you’re spending...
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We spent the weekend in SoCal – again! – for Mother’s Day, because why the hell not. It’s nice to get out of town. I found this cute idea for a Mother’s Day gift online and I totally went with it. It was just a nice, sweet little surprise for my mother-in-law....
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