OMG you guys, thank you so, so much for all the sweet birthday cards, emails, facebook-messages and calls for my birthday yesterday! I don’t know what to say. It meant a lot to me that so many people thought of me yesterday, especially since my sister (first and foremost) and...
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… my sister called me and told me she was pregnant. Positively and 100% pregnant. It had been such an eagerly awaited news and I wasn’t anything but extraordinarily and overly happy for her! Now it’s exactly one year after the exciting news and there is this 4-month-old bundle of joy in...
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OMG. My LITTLE cousin is turning 18 today! Basti and I two summers ago at the Grand Canyon I cannot believe it. I still remember when I was 15, holding him when he was just a little baby. Now he’s officially coming of age. I really, really hate that I...
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Ok, this is hard to admit, but I probably have not worked out on a regular basis in at least 6 months and I feel awful about it. I went to the gym on Sunday. Finally. I thought it would never happen again, even though I’d been craving the after-workout...
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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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As mentioned many, many times on this blog, say it with me, I am NOT really a coffee drinker. I just like a little coffee flavor in my milk :) However, I am very particular about that “little flavor”. You probably think that with all the milk in the coffee, I won’t...
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