I can’t believe it’s been a whole week since my birthday and I haven’t posted anything. I feel like I am behind on so much stuff… updating, responding to emails, returning calls. If I owe you any of that, please be patient with me. I’ve been busy with work and...
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Thank you all for thinking about me on my birthday and sending gifts, cards, emails, text messages and messages on Facebook! You all really made my birthday extra-special :) It was a really good! decision to take yesterday off. J and I were able to sleep in a little bit...
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I realized that I write and post an awful lot about food lately. It’s just that both J and I enjoy good meals and I’ve been trying out new recipes… and J’s loving it :) I received some requests for a recipe over at flickr, so over here in my...
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Sorry for the absence. I had a little trouble with WP in the last couple of days and wasn’t able to post. I could hardly think of anything else this week and was about to take a day off work to be able to research the WP forum for a...
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Since I worked last Friday, the weekend was fairly short. [In case you want to yell at me for complaining about NOT having a three-day-weekend this time, I’d like to remind you that I work 10+ hours the other days of the week, thank you very much]. J and I...
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On Tuesday evening I met with Claudia in Davis. I don’t know how many of you remember Claudia. She also studied at Düsseldorf University – just as I did – and spent an exchange semester in Davis – just as I did – , where she met her now-husband –...
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Lake Tahoe is pretty in the winter, surrounded by all the high altitude, snow-covered mountains. Especially when there are no clouds. I didn’t expect to see Lake Tahoe anytime soon, although I had contemplated, and was about to talk to J about, a possible trip up to the snow sometime...
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Damn. This week went by fast. We had a couple of interesting things going on at work and that always seems to make time go by faster. We had a meeting with the Regional Director of the USGS on Wednesday and she talked about the realignment of the leadership teams...
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