Month: October 2012
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Halloween
This is a message for the Swedes – HALLOWEEN IS OCTOBER 31 ! IT IS ONLY ONE DAY AND IT IS ALWAYS OCTOBER 31. When I first moved here twelve […]
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Cell phone conversations in public
I found myself embellishing my cell phone conversation yesterday for the entertainment of my fellow subway passengers. My husband and I had a discussion about Halloween and my frustration with […]
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Bad omen or very tired bird?
A strange thing happened to us this weekend. We left our apartment building and came back an hour later to find a very large, dead bird in the middle of […]
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Halloween costumes
Next week is fall break here in Stockholm – much like spring break, but in the fall…. yeah, you get it. Anyway, because so many kids are going to be […]
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UN day
Yesterday was UN day in Sweden. This is a day when we are supposed to celebrate different cultures and countries. From my experience, this is mostly only celebrated by schools. […]
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Winter Vomit Disease!
I got this email today at work: “Winter vomiting disease will soon be here, most active between November and April.” So ring the bells, lalala… it’s winter vomiting time again! […]
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German restaurant
Went to a German restaurant this past weekend with some friends. Is it possible to go to a German restaurant and not discuss WW2 at some point? It always […]
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Party in Aisle 3
This past weekend I went to a book-release party in the book department of a department store. This has to be the strangest place I’ve ever been for a party. […]
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A tip..
… Just a short entry for Friday. I had to put out coffee and sugar at work for for visiting guests today. Never put a sugar bowl in the reach […]
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Concussion junction… what’s your function?
Home (for the second time this year) with a child who has a concussion. Don’t worry, he’s fine – just needs to rest. We have a family of 4. This […]
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Falukorv – or – How can you mess up sausage?
Sausage. How can anyone mess up a sausage? This was always my belief until I moved to Sweden. How do you mess it up? Turn it into falukorv! I’m not […]
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More posts about the darkness
Unfortunately, I don’t mean the music group… It’s become even darker this week. I woke my youngest son up today who kept complaining that I was a horrible mother for […]
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Twilight zone nightclub
I stumbled upon a hidden jazz club the other night. It was great! Just a little underground place that you can see when coming out of the movie theater (which […]
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Movies
I went to the movies this week which started me thinking of the differences between movie theaters in Stockholm and Houston. So today I have a list of pros and […]
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Why can’t we be more Czech
Last winter, our family went to Prague for the Christmas market. We discovered a wonderful thing about Christmastime there – they start selling hot wine at 10 in the morning! […]
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Freebies
In Stockholm, there are always people in the morning handing out the Metro, which is a free newspaper. It’s nice to have it handed to you, as everyone is usually […]
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Eat Steak
A Swedish 12-year old asked me today if you are allowed to be a vegetarian in Texas. I told her no.
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Stereotypical kids
I just realized that this past weekend, my kids ate meatballs for lunch, danced to Abba and watched the Swedish chef on YouTube. I never noticed just how Swedish they […]
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Pop the cork, it’s time to work
One great thing about Stockholm. Every job I’ve worked at, there’s always a bottle of champagne in the fridge.
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Getting darker
It’s already getting darker outside. It’s supposed to be gradual after the autumn equinox. Just a couple of minutes a day. LIES! It jumped an hour earlier just 2 days […]