Tag: American
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Neighbor Wars
I’m convinced the upstairs neighbors put their faces to the floor and cough down to our apartment. I’m also pretty sure they’re playing basketball and moving furniture every night at […]
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Catch and Release
I’m currently trying to look up a way to get rid of fruit flies in the house so that I won’t have to throw away my Christmas plants. Unfortunately, the […]
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Slippery course
Today I will be spending 4 hours at a slippery course. What is a slippery course, you say? It’s a requirement toward getting a Swedish drivers license. From what I […]
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New one for me
I’m looking though Singapore Airlines webpage and trying to fill in a form. I have to say, all the airlines I’ve ever used only give a choice of “Mr., Mrs., […]
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Overalls
Listening to Dexy’s Midnight Runners this morning. When is the adult blue-Jean overall coming back into fashion? It was actually popular in the mid-eighties. I owned a pair. Legwamers have […]
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Crazy hair old men
I was in a meeting today with an old man in a suit. He would have looked very sophisticated except for the wild white hair going in all different directions […]
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Voodoo bathroom
There are only 3 bathrooms at work for our floor of around 60 people so with all of the coffee drinking around here I am sometimes forced to use the […]
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No one here but us chickens
Leo has the chicken pox this week. At the moment it is my turn to be home with him a couple of days. Lucky for me, this is also the […]
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Millineum Grandma
Just checked Amazon’s “Gift Ideas for Grandma” section. They suggest the Millenium book series. I’m not really sure that’s the right choice for most of the grandmothers I know.
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TAKE IT!
One of the cultural differences I noticed when I moved to Sweden is that Swedes will never take the last of anything. If you attend a Swedish party, by the […]
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Jeeves
One of the political parties in Stockholm wants to have butlers in the subway. My idea when I read the headline was that he would follow each person around, carry […]
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Tea
I came across a box of Russian tea the other day. I thought, “Hmm…. what makes this tea Russian?” So I looked at the description which said, “tea with citrus […]
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Artic Drift
I’m reading a book right now called Artic Drift. It’s a great book but I’m starting to question whether this was the right time of year to read it. All […]
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Icicle of Doom
My son thought he heard Santa Claus this morning up on our roof. I didn’t think about it very much until I went outside and realized that there were several […]
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Butternut squash
I was at the grocery store this morning when I noticed a new display with butternut squash. After years of seeing so many American recipes using butternut squash, it was […]
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I want!
I’ve noticed that the woman at the reception desk at the swim hall always looks at me as if I’m an alien when I ask to swim. I’ve thought about […]