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The Grass is Always Greener…

January 9, 2012

You can imagine my surprise when I spotted this in the dairy section of my nearby Real supermarket: Yep, that’s grated cheddar! Not only that, over Christmas, in the baking aisle, there was real, honest to goodness, vanilla extract (I’m still going to make my own though). Dr Pepper is now available at the same [...]

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Family Bathroom: Before and After

January 3, 2012

When we bought our house, we knew we wanted to renovate the guest bathroom. Our wish was to update all the bathrooms, but a full bathroom renovation is very expensive, and we could only afford to renovate one full bath. There is another full bath on the basement level that was not in great shape. [...]

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Living room: Before and After

August 5, 2011

It’s been awhile! In the meantime, we bought and moved into a house here in Germany. Unpacking and decorating takes a lot of time, which hasn’t left much for anything else. Figured I’d share my successes with you once I’m mostly happy with the state of things. The first room I’m mostly finished with is [...]

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I miss the Autobahn

March 22, 2011

And this isn’t about the lack of speed limits (and in case you’ve never been to Germany, there are speed limits on a large proportion of the Autobahn, so it’s not as exciting to drive as you think). A while ago, a friend asked me, what would I miss most from Germany if I moved [...]

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Making Friends in Germany

October 24, 2010

I read a Japanese proverb about friendships a little while back and it got me thinking about making friends as an expat in Germany.  It said something along the lines of, if you are a flower, you will attract butterflies.  Butterflies are there when you are beautiful and in bloom, but when you’re struggling and [...]

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Turning German?

October 8, 2010

I’ve been trying to decide what I want to do with this blog (and my life) over the last few weeks. I’ll oscillate between wanting to quit blogging (actually, I was in this state most of the time) and trying to remind myself that blogging was a big part of my life and gave me [...]

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Q&A: Reverse Culture Shock

May 28, 2010

It’s been a really stressful week here.  My symptoms have gotten worse and Oliver has been sick with a virus and conjunctivitis (pink eye).  Luckily, Oliver seems pretty much recovered today and I’m going to be induced next week, so hopefully by next Friday, I should feel better and we should have a new addition [...]

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