On Saturday, Jon and I went to Cool Patch Pumpkins. It’s the first time in a few years that we went and I had been insisting that we have to go in October. What I didn’t know was we were going to have another heatwave on the first weekend of...
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The German phrase “zwischen den Jahren” (“between the years”) refers to the days between Christmas and New Year’s Day. I am always finding myself in a weird state of mind during this time. Not bad, by any means, just weird because the old year is not quite done (but the...
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I have to admit I was not in a very celebratory mood in the days leading up to my birthday, which was on March, 10. I wish I had felt a little bit more excited about the fact that I am alive and well, and lucky to turn another year...
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The weekend before Christmas, I finally got around to baking some holiday cookies and since it’s just two people eating over here, I stuck with one of our favorite cookies: Vanillekipferl. Saturday night, we walked the ‘Fabulous 40’s’ to look at all the Christmas lights. It’s always fun to see...
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One thing I love about my job is that I am allowed to work a flex schedule (four 10-hour days and three-day weekends, booyah!) and that this also affords me the option to shift my day off around with my supervisor’s permission. So, a couple of weeks ago, I shifted...
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Last weekend, I got to spend three days with one of my oldest and dearest friends. Cathy lives in Sydney, Australia and we’ve been friends for almost 25 years. We started out as pen friends back in the day. Does anyone still remember what FB’s (“friendship books”) are? People sent...
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Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo! We did it – again! If you also participated and made it to the end – congratulations! If you tried, but didn’t quite manage to blog every day – kudos to you for trying! Life does get in the way sometimes, so don’t fret...
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Two weekends ago, J and I decided to do what we should do more often: head out to San Francisco for the day. Even though we live relatively close to the City (only 1,5 hours + BART ride), we don’t go as often as we’d like to. This time we...
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Christmas. Mmh. Christmas seems incredibly far away now. It’s been well a over a month. I feel silly writing a recap about Christmas being so far into 2013 already, but it must be done. To satisfy your curiosity (come on, I know you want to read about my Christmas vacation!)...
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This is the continued recap of our 10-day trip to the East Coast … the other parts are here, here, here, here and here. * * * On our last day in Boston (07/08), I got up quite early to explore the city a little bit on my own. I knew that J wasn’t particularly...
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