Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The worst or the best moment to become a citizen?

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So, yeah... Our citizenship interview is scheduled for Thursday. I didn't really blog about this, I only mentioned it in passing in on...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

From Summer to Winter — Bedding edition ;-)

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This is one of the things I did on January first. It was/is so cold this year that even though I adore our two year old Spring & Summer ...
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Last Day/ First Day

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"Yesterday"  (meaning Tuesday, 1/16, I'm still awake, so it's still Wednesday for me) was my last day of the winter break,...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Goodbye Spring-Summer Look, Hello Fall-Winter! (Living-Room edition)

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I wrote most of this post on 10/2, but only managed to upload the photos on 11/23/17 & 1/15/18! This post is almost two months overdue!...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Family Internationalization - 2018 Update

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Eleven and a half years ago in 2006, I documented our family's "internationalization" on the blog when my brother moved to Ch...
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Retroactive Blogging or 17/71

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Written last week on 1/4 : It's not about the 77 posts, it's more about getting posts from last year out of the drafts folder and s...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

In 2018...

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... I hope no one in our family dies (first thing I wrote back in Dec. 2016 ). Thankfully nobody did in 2017, unlike 2016. I think this will...
Monday, January 01, 2018

Happy New Year!

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Yeah... I never got to post and reach my goal of 77 posts in 2017. So lame! Sigh... We left the rental house past 11 am, and since we ha...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Vacation/Family Reunion Blogging

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Since I started blogging 13 years ago, our family spent several holidays (Christmas & New Year's or at least New Year's Eve) wit...

In 2017...

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... I had two amazing trips that were only 7-8 days long: to the West Coast with my son, his teacher, and the Robotics team (May 1-8) and to...

MARVELous Movie Marathon

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First part written on 6/22/17, second part written on 1/9/18, but retroactively dated from 12/31/17.  It used to be our tradition -- after...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

8 posts to go...

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... to get to 77 (because one is already written). I'll have to post them all in the next 24h, but that won't be hard. ;-) Somet...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Really Cold Holidays in PA

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I've been writing a post about all holidays spent with my husband's family for a few days now (I have this need to look back and to ...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Greatest Fear Revised

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Back in 2011 I blogged about my greatest fear (wow, I was already living in this house and it was also December!) and then revisited that i...
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Thursday, December 14, 2017

NOOOOO!!!! Net Neutrality was Killed!!

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A small victory one day (Doug Jones wins) and large setbacks the next day. How are we going to survive this horrible administration? They ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Found!

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Last time I blogged I was upset because I couldn't find something I'd written and I found it the next day on my phone's notes. ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

When you think you wrote something...

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... and then can't find it. I thought I'd blogged it, so I looked in my archives this year (easy peasy because, hello! only 62 pos...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Headed to the Big Apple!

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We're headed to NYC later today. It's going to be the second time we stay in Manhattan. The first time was only for ONE NIGHT and ...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Highly Curated Content versus Relatively Raw & Unflitered...

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... or the Instagram/Pinterest versus the Blogger/WordPress generations. Nothing like a scattered and hastily written blog post to dispel...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Gotta Write Something! (And a Xmas Card brought to you by... Lowered Expectations!)

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OK, I have FIVE posts sitting in the draft folder right now, all my latest posts, and about 5 more in draft since June. I'm tired of t...