Ok, I get it. We’re in California. For the most part, in California, excluding the Sierra Nevada, temperatures will rarely drop under 32°F/0°C. It’s not freezing. But nevertheless, it can get pretty damn cold during the winter months. Why the heck are Californian houses so poorly insulated and why in...
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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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Yes, I know I haven’t mentioned it in a while, but J and I are still working on watching all seasons of the X-Files. We took a little break, but we’ve officially started Season 8 now. When the X-Files movie came out last summer, we were really tempted to  go...
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This post is inspired by Sizzle because she got me thinking about something that has been on my mind a bit lately: Is my way of thinking really so completely different from other people’s thinking? Is there something that we call “common sense” or are people’s rules and values and ways...
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No, I am not quite yet jumping on the bandwagon of the mysterious “snowball effect” that has rippled through the blogosphere. I can’t quite commit to the 365 days right now, but I definitely find grace in the small things in life on a daily basis. I just talked about...
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On Saturday, I went to the Bay Area to visit Susi. The visit came as a prerequisite for her putting me on her Costco Account as a co-member, which I have to say is awfully nice of her (Thanks again, sweetie! :)), but was also very much anticipated as I was in dire need of...
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I feel a little gloomy these days. After the recap of my Germany trip, I feel like there is not much left worth writing about. Oh. Besides our new administration, of course. That was definitely worth mentioning. Other than that: I think I have a case of the mondays vacation-is-over-back-to-works. Who...
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Monday morning, I woke up to something I had already accepted to not see (in the Rhineland) during my stay in Germany. Snow! Lots of it. Like 8 inches. I felt like a little kid, starring out of the window in awe at the beautiful white blanket that had been...
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