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Anyone who knows me will tell you that while I love the warm spring and summer months, the dreary, cold and wet fall and winter months tend to introvert me and dampen my mood.
This morning, I rediscovered the joy and comfort of hopping out of the shower and getting dressed in front of of the [...]
It has all been same-old, same-old here, for the most part.
I have had very little to say, avoiding the computer and the telephone in my spare time where possible. When people are tearing at you all day needing this and wanting that and the administrative work piles up in addition to that which [...]
To my visitor from Texas: Ok. I have researched this dumpling issue and I am not quite sure that what you ate was really a potato dumpling. We Bavarians are a dumpling eating folk, but to my knowledge, they are usually not filled with meat. Is it really something you bought in the [...]
Due to circumstances quite beyond my control, I have just not had the time to post. When I did have time, I had no energy and nothing to say, really.
Things have just been kinda nuts – work, work and more work and then more work and….well, four weeks on a deserted island would be kinda [...]
Quiet, relaxing and peaceful. Just as it ought to be.
We celebrated Christmas Eve at my father and Hilde’s house, where we enjoyed a cold seafood buffet, good rose wine. I left at 11 p.m. as I was bone tired, and was glad that I did when I heard that my father, Hilde and my sister [...]
I am not sure if it’s because at the moment I am lacking time for anything, let alone Christmas, but somehow I wish we could just let it pass quietly.
I don’t like what Christmas has become in the last few years – consum-oriented, hectic, expensive. I cannot stand to see Christmas lights randomly thrown over [...]
I haven’t had Alaskan King Crab Legs in over 16 years. See, they are kind of difficult if not impossible to get here. I am certain that in some exclusive and expensive restaurant in some large city they might be obtainable, but I have not seen any in eons.
And I LOVE King Crab Legs. Back [...]
Thanks for all of your good wishes.
After awakening repeatedly in the middle of the night this past weekend with excruciating pain in my left knee (joint inflammation), I decided to self-medicate. Thanks to good and useful chemicals (Beofenac), my knees are now better.
However, my office chair seems to be tiring. Quite often, I will be [...]
to my “little” brother the “new” Dad!
(don’t worry, Gene – it all goes downhill from here)
But the week flew by quickly. Here a summary of the first half of my week with mom:
Friday
Mom arrived on Friday afternoon along with my aunt Moni. Mom is looking great, not at all like a grandmother and I was glad to have her here. I picked them up from the station in [...]