From the monthly archives:

January 2009

My aStore’s open for business

January 31, 2009

Something I’ve been working on for a while now, is an aStore – two actually, one through Amazon USA and one through Amazon Germany. I’ve gathered items I think might be of interest to my readers there, where you can browse and if you wish, buy, with a small percentage of the sale going to [...]

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You’ve Got Mail

January 29, 2009

I was just watching You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, from back in the 90′s and a couple things really struck me.  Dial up – remember that?  Okay, according to my web stats, a few of my readers use dial up, and when I lived in Rostock and Potsdam, that too was [...]

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Weekly Winners – 24 Jan 2009

January 24, 2009

January 18 – 24, 2009 I almost decided to skip Weekly Winner this week, since I have been feeling poorly and haven’t taken any photos, but then I remembered that I did take one, and I really wanted to post it, but it seemed a bit late in the game to give it it’s own [...]

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Video Wednesday: History

January 21, 2009

President Obama’s Inaugural Address in two parts I also encourage you to check out the new kick-ass WhiteHouse.gov website. Yesterday was an amazing day. Lately I’ve been really exhausted though and have had trouble getting much accomplished. Must be fighting off a bug, or something. Either way, there may not be a lot of blog [...]

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Weekly Winners – 18 January 2009

January 17, 2009

January 11 – 17, 2009 Vines Steps Our garden Winter Wonderland Laaber river Sleepy To see more of my photos, visit my FlickR page For more Weekly Winners visit SarcasticMom.com.

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Going back under the knife

January 16, 2009

Oliver is, that is.  We just got back from spending the over 3 hours at the hospital emergency room.  Oliver has some complications from the surgery back in December that got worse and worse as the day (today) went on. We met with the surgeon and he has scheduled Oliver for an outpatient operation tomorrow.  [...]

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AmiExpat is the Third Best European (non-UK) Blog

January 15, 2009

At least according to the people who participated in and the organizers of the 2008 Weblog Awards, where this blog was voted into 3rd place in the Best European (non UK) Blog category with 678 votes. Thanks to everyone who voted for me. It was exciting to be picked as a nominee, especially since the [...]

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