Saturday, December 31, 2016

Happy 2017!

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(with my nephew N!)

Pending things from 2016 to talk about:

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- I still need to write more about my unhappiness with work. - I'm planning to blog about curly hair products & style. - My obse...

In 2017...

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... I hope nobody else dies in our family or of our friends. ;-( I'm looking forward to perhaps spending some time in July and in Dece...

2016 Maker: Tie-Dye Edition

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I made about 20 tied-dyed t-shirts in Brazil for me, my mom, my sons, nephews (6) and friends' kids. Some of the children helped and mad...

2016: Three Weddings & A Funeral... plus one graduation & a 90th birthday party

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Same events as the previous post , different title, just to be cute, and because it's really true :-( and also because I need to write a...

Crazy 2016: Joyous Celebration + Unspeakable Loss & Sadness + Devastating Political/Historical Turn

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Note: the next post will have pretty much the same content, but the title will be different. Sigh...   This was a crazy year. The first h...

2016 Maker: Wedding Edition

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My dear friend J got married in June and I helped by making tons of very "Pinterest-y"things I'd never made before to decorat...

2016: The Sightseeing Year

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It cannot compare to 2015 ( pyramids?, Petra? or Zermatt, Mont-Blanc, Junfrau ; not to mention Berlin & other places), but it was pr...
Friday, December 30, 2016

How to Look Forward to 2017? or How Death Changes Everything

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When I started this post back in August, my father-in-law's death had been only 24 days earlier. The pain is duller now, especially sinc...
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The sad day I ruined my brand new favorite pants :-(

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I ruined my favorite pair of pants yesterday. It's a pretty new pair, Pilcro brand that I bought on sale at Anthropologie last October a...

2016's Final Blogging Stretch

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Last year I had to write 19 posts on Dec. 31st to reach my goal of 215 posts in 2015. The goal is considerably lower this year (116 posts), ...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Leaving at 2 am... (and Christmas not at home)

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I should be sleeping right now, I really should. We had to wait for a packaged to be delivered by UPS to leave for Montreal, so we're le...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

This makes me SOOOO happy:

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Another one taken just now with more vivid colors: This suitcase is just so "me"!!! I bought it the night before we traveled...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

From Sunday (our 22nd anniversary): Done Grading! And going…

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... to a one-night getaway for our anniversary! It's great that the boys are old enough to stay by themselves! I never got around to...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

On deciding to get chemical help

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I decided to go with the blunt title. There is no other way around it. And I just realized I had also been blunt in a post title from two y...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Collateral Damage: How having a high schooler ruined my laundering & my husband's morning sleep! :-(

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edited to add photos! yay! As weird as it may seem, doing laundry is one of my favorite household chores and, frankly, one of my various n...
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Monday, December 05, 2016

Done!

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I am done teaching for the semester! Two exams and grading to go and that's it! It feels great not to have several last days!
Friday, December 02, 2016

Pledging Allegiance? Bearing Arms? Conflicted feelings about (not) joining the Divided States of America

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I have always had qualms about becoming a citizen anyway, always . As a self described accidental immigrant* who spent years proudly sayin...
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