In which I am left to my own devices (with a quick update about why I can't go back to the US just yet). What would you do with 2-3 weeks all on your own?
We spent this past weekend visiting with some friends in Lausanne, Switzerland. We (finally) got our A/C (mostly) fixed, but the heat wave continues unabated. We sure were glad to…
Kristian and I went shopping the other day and the guy helping us out said, "Hey, your French is decent, are you Belgian?" First of all, this is empirically hilarious.…
We had our first French dentist appointments last week. It was incredibly efficient. I think all three of us were in and out in less than an hour. They took…
I won't bury the lede... the heatwave broke last night! I was suffering at home when, all of a sudden, I could hear the wind pick up outside. Kristian was…
(Dustin, this totally counts as a blog off post, because I'm talking about politics) On Wednesday, I called my U.S. Congressional Representative. This was the first time in years that…
I've decided that one of my new life rules is to avoid eating any foods that have catastrophic names. That means that steak bombs... are out. Dairy Queen Blizzards... are…
Welcome to the Blog Off, round two. This time, it's double or nothing. Dustin thinks that he's getting out of digging up my backyard this Summer. But, really, he's going…
Well, errr, tell you about it. Because motivation to get out my camera, I lacks it. (Was that enough LOLcat speak for you? Too much? Too much...) Basically, I decided…
I was going to tell you about my crappy morning (let's just say that it involved a missed bus, a truck that wouldn't start and me being two hours late…
The great blog-off was not undone by illness or stories about tampons (I was waiting to bust out my first period story when I felt like bringing out the big…
Loving Emma: A Story of Reluctant Motherhood by Carol A. Ortlip is one of the few memoirs that I've read where I finished the book, put it down and then said…
Right now, Kristian is watching The Office. I am listening to Pandora with my headphones jammed tight over my head. Why? Because Michael Scott makes my insides all twitchy. Seriously.…