Ok, hold on: before anyone freaks out. I booked my flight. (Breathe out!) I know, I am kind of a player to book about two weeks in advance, especially around Christmas time, but honestly, that has worked for me pretty well the last two times. I found better roundtrip deals...
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4 day-weekends are just awesome. Even though I get 3 day-weekends most weekends, 4 days are definitely better and the weekend has never felt that long in a while. Do I sound snobby or what? ;) After the great food on Thursday and some shopping yesterday, I didn’t leave the...
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Well, this was a fake turkey dinner, because it was not a turkey. It was a chicken. There was no way I was going to cook a whole freakin’ giant bird for just J and I. No way. I think for my first attempt to prepare a turkey dinner, a...
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So, Christmas is only a month, 4 weeks and 1 days, away and here I am, all excited about the opportunity to celebrate Christmas with my family. There is nothing in the world that I want to do more for the holidays… and yet, I keep coming across people – online...
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Look what I found at the store! I was so excited! If you aren’t sure what it is, I will let you guess. The woman at the cash register looked definitely a little bit confused and said she hadn’t seen this vegetable before. How the hell do you eat it?...
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… for 10 years at least, before I have to re-apply for the extension of my green card. Sigh. The two year ‘temporary’ residency mark (since immigration) was reached yesterday and I am now a resident alien (“I am alien, I am a legal alien, I am an Englishman German...
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It is this time of the year again. Christmas is only 36 days away and I wanted to remind everyone that I am doing the Christmas Card Exchange again this year. Yes, I am sending out real paper Christmas Cards by snail mail. I am not kidding. A couple of us...
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Did you hear about it on the radio? Did you read about it in the news here or here? Did you see it on the news? Go and watch the movie (click here). The Big One thrashed Southern California this morning — in a practice scenario that commenced with a...
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