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Today I met up with Musaad, my Saudi conversation partner and we talked for a long time about his sudden marriage and family problems in Arabic. I love speaking Arabic. I am better than I thought I was, I just haven't spoken it regularly for almost 3 years. Now that I am taking the class though, I...
Thanks Badak for the photo :)
Seems quite unlikely, but some of my good friends now I actually got to know while teaching yoga. Met up for lunch with two of them at The White Rabbit yesterday. The restaurant recides in an old chapel in the Dempsey area and with the high ceilings and long tables, it felt like we were dining in...
We got lucky. Our friends in Toronto - Lex'n'Ger - invited us for a fancy-pants meal last weekend. They had won the services of a professional chef for an evening, and he was offering to prepare a 7-course meal for the four of us. Junkii and I were thrilled with the invitation, and even more...
Bon Jovi's new album is out today and I am PSYCHED. Shelly and I are meeting up down in Fitchburg to go get it, together. We haven't done this in YEARS..anticipated a new album and then went and bought it together the day it came out...haven't done it since I went to Alaska....it's been that long. I...
Omgosh Blur were amazing! Best concert I’ve been to (although I missed out on the Best Damn Tour, that probably would’ve been better, just)! We were in the second row and completely squashed but it was great! Saturday we were at Livvy and Olly’s wedding which was lovely but we were sooooo...
Dan and I have been so ridiculously busy recently it’s no wonder I haven’t had time to post! Tonight we’re on our fifth night in a row of eating out! lol. We’ve had various birthday parties and trips to see all different people over summer so it’s nice that it’s all calmed down again for...
Today was amazing! I actually managed to succesfully get up in time for church without the usual major rush getting ready, we even had time to grab some breakfast on the way! Church was good, although I completely forgot it was the harvest service today so felt really bad for forgetting to bring...
Dan and I aren’t really into Halloween so we didn’t do anything this year, we decided just to relax at home which was SO nice, we’ve been so so busy lately. That wasn’t true for Snowdrop though! I made her a little costume, which she didn’t seem to mind! I only kept it on long enough to...
"Love of my life," "Husband," "Sonic soul mate" — over the years, I've called John Vanderslice a lot of things. That's why, when I saw that he was scheduled to play Sneaky Pete's in Edinburgh on Nov 5, I instantly booked a ticket. The past three times I've seen him, he's performed in crowded...
Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes Night, is essentially Great Britain's response to Halloween. That said, the two traditions couldn't be more different. On Halloween, children and adults don costumes, attend parties, and destroy the enamel on their teeth. On Guy Fawkes Night, which takes place five days...
The week before Halloween was a mad dash to finish our costumes, buy decorations for the party, decide on spooky-themed treats, and actually pull the whole thing off. Well, we did it and we've got pictures to prove that people actually showed up. In fact, quite a few people showed up and the last...
The Proust Questionnaire Tiffany introduced it to me, via Jason via Anna. (And Sam begat William and William begat..) I like these types of exercises, especially when I'm foggy and panicked generally unclear (as this Monday morning finds me). The Proust questionnaire is named for the French writer...
the only problem with having my closet now clean and organized is that i find myself wanting to sit in it. for not particular reason. i want to just go in and plop myself in the middle of the floor. just to marvel at the beauty of how being clean and organized really revitalizes me. of course, there...
My recent travels to Taipei/Kaoshiung, Haikou/Sanya and Krabi were all great fun... (lazy to upload photos) Except that I had a "slight" accident in Krabi while on an ATV! I actually fell off a cliff (my friend said I flew)... due to complacency I think... anyhow... all in all I only had abrasions...
Actual conversation we just had: Brian: You know I love you and shit Me: You love shit? Brian: And you. *insert my raised eyebrow wtf? look here* Brian: Hey you got top billing. *insert same look here again* Brian: You know you give me that look a lot when I speak. Indeed I do. Random thoughts: In...
I just bought a round trip, non-stop flight from Paris to New York for 334€, or less than $498. That is an unbelievably good deal. In September I flew through Reykjavik, on a really nice flight with Iceland Air, and thought that $515 was fantastic, but this is ten times better since I don't have...
Jongleurs Lock 17 and Radfax collectively create a great new music event From November 2009 through to January 2010, every Tuesday night at Jongleurs Lock 17, Radfax and other musicians will be raising awareness and money for the charity War Child. Entry is free to these events, but we encourage you...
there are a lot of parties, celebrations and events being piled into our already booked weekends from now until the end of the year. doug and i have one weekend this month where nothing is scheduled. nothing - for the whole weekend. and just that one weekend alone. chaeli will be staying at my...
Thumbs Down: A woman looked at our house last week and just loved it. She brought her husband to see it on Monday and he was very quiet except to say one of the bathroom's needed remodeling and they'd already done a lot of that on their current house. Our realtor is hoping the woman just needed some...
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