Jon, his mom and I watched a documentary tonight. If anybody needs any push to not impulse shop and consume more responsibly, may I recommend “Buy now! The Shopping Conspiracy”, a Netflix documentary that just debuted on November, 20. It pulls back the curtain on some of the world’s largest...
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photo credit: @glenncarstenspeters via Unsplash I might have mentioned here or there that I am in a not-watching-many-movies-or-TV series phase in my life. It’s not that I don’t want to watch anything, but time is limited, Jon currently doesn’t have the interest or attention span to watch movies, so other...
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Christmas was hard this year. For everyone. 2020 has been a hard year. Jon and I have spent many Christmases alone and I can relate to everyone’s sadness and frustration over not being able to celebrate with family this year. Let me just tell you, the best thing to do...
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I’ve recently watched a few good movies (some of which you might already have heard, others that you might not know about at all) and I thought I’d share these with you, because I thought they were really worthwhile watching. Promised Land (with Matt Damon) – I hadn’t heard of...
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I am not a celebrity person. I don’t follow any celebrity websites, I am usually not up-to-date what is going on in Hollywood (because I frankly do not care), and I don’t subscribe to the gossip. I sometimes watch the award shows, but just for fun, not because I am...
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Wednesday night my Mom made one of my favorite German dishes, which I always ‘request’ when I come home to visit: Reibekuchen (potato pancakes). We eat Reibekuchen the kölsche (colognian) way… with dark rye bread and sugar beet syrup and/or apple sauce. OMG, so freakin’ delicious! Later, my sister, my...
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Last weekend was, in fact, not a weekend at all… if it hadn’t been for the Oscars. This has really been my only “fun activity” for the past two days. Why, you ask? Because I had to work overtime this weekend. I stayed in the office until 10 p.m. on Friday...
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