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My first meme

March 21, 2007

I’ve been tagged by Blythe over at Blythe Spirit, so here goes: Name five things you love in your new country:1. Cheese and bread selection2. Public transportation – although DC’s Metro is pretty good3. Chickens in gardens – I love how people keep chickens in their gardens, it’s so cool to walk around the neighborhood [...]

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Back in the land of the Laaberer

March 2, 2007

Our mini-tour is over and after several adventures, we finally made it safely home this morning. Monday began with a trip to the hospital to get our second trimester ultrasound, where we ended up waiting two hours for our appointment because some problem was found with the woman that was seen before us. Hopefully things [...]

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ooh baby baby

January 26, 2007

I always used to wonder at why so many pregnant women feel unattractive when I always thought pregnant women were incredibly beautiful. Now I know why. I’m starting to show, which means I look fat, because I’m not sticking out far enough to clearly signal that I’m pregnant. My belly has also started to itch [...]

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Putting the Germ in Germany

September 5, 2006

Here is a link to a totally ridiculous article that was posted to Expatica.com (someone on the German-Way Yahoo Group linked to it). To summarize, the author thinks Germans are bacteria infested slobs who will infect the rest of the world. “On the contrary, it has become fashionable, even trendy to refuse to inoculate your [...]

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Confirmation

June 8, 2006

We were in Bonn last weekend for Rainer’s godson’s Confirmation (Paul is also Rainer’s nephew). Charlie had a lot of fun playing football (soccer) with Paul and his friends. Embarrassingly, Charlie thought it would be cool to grab one of the little kids and hump him. But the kid seemed to take it all in [...]

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Immigration and Terrorism

May 13, 2006

A rerun of the previous day’s Larry King Live is shown every morning here on CNN International at 11am. It’s now 1pm and I’m still angry and dismayed by last night’s show [click here for transcript]. Last night’s show involved two liberal talk show hosts debating two conservative talk show hosts about today’s hot topics. [...]

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OH THE HUMANITY!!!

November 4, 2004

Well, now that America is officially a religious state, I have some words of wisdom and some proposal for new laws… WORDS OF WISDOM Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, [...]

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