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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:38:45 -0800

I’m just going to enjoy this while it lasts.
Parent evening at Ignatz’s school. Usually a depressing nightmare, and it started off pretty badly – his school has...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:16:20 -0800

four and a half
One is my purple mountain bike that DrBob found for me on ebay several years ago. Both of our houses in OurTown were on a hill,...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:37:27 -0800

in which I missed all the excitement
I was nearly asleep last night – or maybe already asleep – and then halfway awakened by an almighty crash from...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:25:32 -0800

pakjesavond
Present-evening! Umm, here’s what I’ve been able to gather. Sinterklaas arrives sometime in November, everybody...
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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:29:36 -0800

Smiling through the gritted teeth, not so much, lately
Sez Amy: I should probably just figure out a way to be pleasant while in crisis mode. Actually, when we were closing the deal...
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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:44:13 -0800

sorry…
about blogless yesterday, I was having internet problems (again). Put me in a really foul mood, so if I had blogged it would...
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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:20:55 -0800

permitted!
Got my residence permit today! Actually the letter telling me to pick it up came last week, but this was the first day that I...
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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:45:24 -0800

I has a yay.
So a frequent argument DrBob and I have is that he keeps going to all these exotic places for conferences and such, and he...
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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:44:58 -0800

a geekmama’s dilemma
Another fab thing about living in the Netherlands is that I can FINALLY watch sitcoms after eight years in the TV wilderness....
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alala posted a blog entry

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:38:44 -0800

managers, makers and…
Some of you have read this before, because I linked to it on Facebook a month or two ago. It’s an essay by Paul Graham,...
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:49:19 -0800

the other thing we did yesterday…
was go to the library! There were a lot of things I didn’t like about living in the boonies. Okay, not the boonies, it...
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Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:05:54 -0800

Sinterklaas
So today was the day that Sinterklaas arrived on his from Spain, with Zwarte Piet. It’s a big deal here, you can take...
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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:22:05 -0800

hi honey…
DrBob is home from Groningen! I’m so happy to see him! He’s reading over my shoulder as I type! YAY! Song du jour...
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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:59:21 -0800

blah blah blog
You know, I thought NaBloPoMo would kick-start the writing-fu again. I thought if I just pounded something out every day,...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:48:49 -0800

Our first Sint Maarten
Well, Martinmas was adorable, all these herds of kids ringing the doorbell and launching into song the minute I opened it....
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:39:48 -0800

culture win!
Right, so I’ve written before about Halloween in Germany, and how I love the holiday but don’t think it survived...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:20:04 -0800

school and alala! hee!
So today was the first day of my intensive Dutch course, all the way on the other side of town, twenty whole minutes by...
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alala posted a blog entry

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:10:12 -0800

first soccer game…
… in Utrecht! Not the last, we hope. DrBob bought tickets for the Sniglet’s 9th birthday, and today we went to see...
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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:11:05 -0800

School and the Sniglet
It’s only fair, since we addressed Ignatz’s academic stuff yesterday. So the Sniglet is going to a Taalschool, a...
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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:37:07 -0800

School and Ignatz
Well. He’s been there a little over two months now, how’s it going? We met the class “mentor,” who is...
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alala posted a blog entry

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:44:42 -0800

moment of geek
I could play with this for days! Am I the only person here who thinks this is totally and utterly awesome? I am, aren’t...
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alala posted a blog entry

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:52:48 -0800

yes, they’re both mine.
Well there’s real truth, and then there’s bureaucratic truth. Remember for my residence permit we had to prove...
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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:45:47 -0800

movies for the kids
Ah me, I love it when the comments provide blogfodder. Amy sez: Ambivalent about Where the Wild Things Are. I’ve heard it’s...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:57:02 -0800

a thing I missed…
… living in the suburbs for eight years, was movies. Yeah, our town didn’t have a movie theater. They could have...
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alala posted a blog entry

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:06:49 -0800

Allerheiligen
Right, Halloween was yesterday and we did nothing – well, the kids and I watched “Over the Hedge” again, but...
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