Wow. Now that was interesting. I’m sitting here on the couch. It’s 7:45 pm and the phone rings. A woman from the Hanauer Anzeiger, a local newspaper in a neighboring city, is on the phone and wants to know how we enjoyed our free two-week subscription to the newspaper in August. Me: “Well, we never […]

In addition to a couple errands I had to go run today, I have the pleasure of banishing a virus from my primary computer. I say primary since we have 3 PC’s and 2 laptops running at all times around here…and it tends to get a bit confusing. But this thing snuck up on me […]

Last Saturday was an unheard of event for us. We went to 4 different stores in one day, crossing a variety of things off our shopping lists. This may not sound like much of a feat but my husband is not a shopper. He would usually rather die than go into 4 different stores in […]

“I’ve never seen you so excited about a piece of goverment mail before.” Surprisingly enough, I really was quite excited when my absentee ballot arrived yesterday in the mail. For one, this is the first time in the 7 years that we’ve lived in Germany that I actually get to vote absentee…because last time around, […]

I need to distract myself in order to not vent yet again on the stupidity of people as I try to deal with some issues for our website, so I am going to write about the super cool catalog we got yesterday in the mail with baby & kid stuff in it. Otherwise I might […]