From the monthly archives:

December 2006

New Years Traditions

December 31, 2006

Oh boy, it’s only 7:30pm and Rainer’s already made me watch Dinner For One twice (click the link to watch at your own peril). I totally don’t get this German New Years tradition. The show is played (in English) round the clock on one channel or another all day, and it’s not funny at all. [...]

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Happy New Years!

December 31, 2006

I’ve actually been back in Bavaria for a few days now, and have been feeling somewhat more energetic (I can stay awake all day now!), but my new affliction is that after a few minutes of looking at a computer screen I get a headache. I felt guilty about not posting, so I thought I’d [...]

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Happy Holidays to all!

December 22, 2006

For those of you having holidays in the near future, I hope you enjoy them. We’re off to my inlaws now, where I will pray that the lit candles that are placed on the Christmas tree do not cause a fire that ends up consuming us all. I don’t know if this is a German [...]

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Christina’s pregnancy myths debunked #1

December 22, 2006

The pregnancy glow:Is caused by an increase in oil production and you only get it if you happen to start out with dry skin. If, like me, you start out with oily skin, you get to relive all the horrifying high school memories of being taunted by shouts of “hey there, pizza face”. To make [...]

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Time to hit the stores!

December 18, 2006

Surprisingly, no one is blogging about the sales tax increase that is taking place in Germany on 1 January 2007, so I thought I’d give it a brief mention. On Jan 1st, the MwSt (or sales tax) is increasing from 16% to 19% (and those Northern Virginians keep voting down an increase from 4.5% to [...]

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How it all started

December 17, 2006

First, sorry for not posting, my internet connection was down so I was without internet AND kitchen this weekend (the kitchen comes Thursday, thank god). So nothing in my pregnancy books prepared me for the overwhelming exhaustion that comes with pregnancy. (Although I have caught a couple episodes of Run’s House on MTV and see [...]

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What Christina found out on November 17th…

December 15, 2006

It seems Rainer was right about that Chinese food Unfortunately, I’m suffering from constant sickness (as opposed to morning sickness – I lost a whole kilogram in the last week), not to mention that most of the day I am too exhausted to make it out of bed (yesterday’s short IKEA trip required 18 hours [...]

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