Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Odds and Ends

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Nominations: My lovely blogging friend Aliki has nominated me for the Share the Love Blog Awards . I'm very touched that she thinks th...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

95 Years

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Today is my paternal grandmother's 95th birthday. She is my only remaining grandparent, so I really treasure her and feel sad that I can...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Great Weekend

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We had a most wonderful weekend. Two of our best friends from Brazil visited for full three days, and it was heavenly! These are the same fr...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Brazilian Wedding

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Last Sunday we went to a wedding of two friends from church. I've been to many weddings of Brazilian friends here in the U.S., but none ...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Celebrity Look Alikes

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*Edited to Add* - (2/5/07) This seemed fun, but the My heritage site simply pulled out the photos for some reason, so you can no longer see...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Aprehensive about (Prospective) Coming Changes

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I was away from "blogland" for two days while at my brother- and sister-in-law's house. I was able to check email, but didn...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Delicious Pineapple-Mint Juice

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This week I bought a big pineapple. We ate some of it and I saved the rest to prepare one of our favorite juices -- pineapple-mint juice. I...
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Friday, January 19, 2007

News from the Kitchen

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After last week's bitter cooking disappointment , this week was much, much better!! I cooked pinto beans on Tuesday, and instead of prep...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

This Year's Job Search and I

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Thank you so much for all your support regarding my rejection letter , I really appreciate it, more than you can know. I tried to respond t...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Blogging Milestones!

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This is my 300th post*, what about that? Well, what this really means is that I don't write often enough, since I've been blogging f...
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It's Official

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The job search is over for me. I received the "official" rejection letter yesterday. I'm not disappointed because I knew I had...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Photos from Brazil - I (Flowers)

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A while ago (last November) cloudscome asked me if I could post any photos from Brazil in the blog and it took me this long to finally gett...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Compulsive Categorizer

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I feel a bit guilty about this, but I just spent the whole day "working" on this blog. I finally updated the template and my blogr...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Good News and Miscelaneous Thoughts

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Guess what -- my husband got a campus interview!!! He was getting nervous because he hadn't heard from any other schools in the past two...
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Thanks for Delurking! Anyone Else?

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I know that the week is over, but I found a picture I like better, and decided to continue inviting any lurkers to de-lurk. Question -- how ...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

Anyone Out There? Delurk Yourself!

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I know it's the very last day of "National Blog Delurking Week," or some such thing, but maybe, just maybe I could get any lur...
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Looking at the Bright Side

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(the actual post comes after a semi-literary digression - feel free to skip it) I know I'm going to sound completely like a "Pollya...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

The "Joy" of Cooking for a 4-Year-Old

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When my ravenously hungry four (and 10 months) year-old son saw his plate today he said (in Portuguese): "Mama, when I look at my food ...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

4 Things Meme

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All right, a week or so ago Alice tagged me for a meme and because I'm tired from having written that humongous post yesterday two d...
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Sunday, January 07, 2007

The Holidays in Review

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Edited to add: New Year's Menu. These Holidays were extremely busy, but fun. As you already know, we spent Christmas and New Year's ...
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