Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Verdict

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So, now with the 1000th post out of the way, we can continue on to our regularly scheduled programming. ;-) This is one of the things I for...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Thousandth Post!!!! 20 Years Ago and a Mish Mash of Stuff

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Over 5 years of blogging. Exactly 1000 posts today. I wanted to go all celebratory, post some beautiful pictures, yada yada yada... Instead...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Here We Go Again! or Up for Grabs!

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The house is officially up for sale today (yeah, and I write at midnight, so the day just officially started). I'm so happy about that! ...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Back in a Few Hours

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I'm still up because I was talking to our houseguest , a friend from Brazil who arrived from NYC after midnight. (It was a "blogg...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Moment of Truth, Census 2010, Hispanic or Non-Hispanic?

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I've been dreading this moment for a while now and I cringe every time I fill job application forms, sometimes filling in "Hispanic...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

That Empty Feeling

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This post is totally related to that one . So this evening, after we came back home from a boys' scout style meeting in church after whi...
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Cake Baking, Basement Flooding, Boys' Sleepover...

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This was a busy and yet strangely relaxing weekend. As those who are facebook & twitter friends with me already know, on Friday night I ...

Lone(ly) Parent

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One more week of lone parenting for me... K is off to a conference in Portland, OR and will be back on Saturday morning. The only problem --...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Seeing with Mine Own Eyes

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I just thought I'd say, before way too much time has passed, that this past Monday we visited the possible place where we may be moving ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Nothing Short of Amazing (link post)

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Lest you should think the title refers to us, I decided to include that parenthetical remark there. Things are moving along here (while stil...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

A Letter for my "Favoritest" Eight-year-old

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Kelvin, my love, You already know so much of what I'm going to write here because I tell you some of these things each and every day, bu...
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When you don't have anything good to say...

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... just don't say anything at all, right? So, that was the case with me last week. I was a bit "bluesy" and sad for no good r...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Freelancing, a BIG FIRST!

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I can hardly believe it, but I just finished a translation job (two letters for a law firm) and sent them an invoice!! An invoice!! Me!! Wow...
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Looking Forward: Grocery Shopping and School Clothes

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I finally began to look at stores, the boys' school (they're going to a specific private school, one of the reasons we wanted to mov...
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Some Jumbled Thoughts on "All This"

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You know... I think that to begin with, the reality of "all this" (K basically having a job now and all) hasn't yet sunk in fo...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

It is Written (in a Frightful Hurry)

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So, you remember the verbal offer , right? After some delay on K's part (he was interviewing all of lat week after all), he sent his bud...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Looking Back and Trying to Look Forward

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We've waited for so long for this moment, the moment in which we'd have a more concrete idea of where we were going to end up and pe...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Driving in Bad Weather

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K is still driving back home from his interview and it's taking him longer again, because of the weather. It's not as bad as the for...
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Goldilocks and the Job Search

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If the previous comparison was serious, this one may be a bit silly, but I still think it works! :-) First, if you're not familiar with...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Making to the "Olympics"

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This is the first of at least two "metaphors" for K's job search that I'll post here. They may be clichéd and/or ineffecti...
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