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I’m home from being home. When I was leaving for California, I told everyone I was going home, yet when I was on my way back to Switzerland, I again told everyone I was going home. I guess I now have two “homes” and I’m perfectly ok with that. As I mentioned before, I had a pretty […]
Happy Giants Halloween!
Baseball playoffs and Halloween work out perfectly when the Giants are in the World Series. Orange October for everyone! San Francisco has Giants fever and what a better way to celebrate Halloween than with a World Series Champs Parade? I can’t think of any.
Wine & Canvas & Groupons
I have a love-hate relationship with Groupons (note that I refer to ‘groupons’ as the term for daily deal sites just as I would say ‘kleenex’ to describe tissues- you with me?). When they first became popular, I was unemployed and was buying them like it was my job. My reasoning was that I needed […]
Zero Zero {Thursday Night Dinners}
Boy have I been trying to go to this restaurant for a long time now! Finally, the Thursday night dinner crew made it to Zero Zero, but on a Friday night. It was a nice day outside and I had and hour to kill, so I walked the three miles from work to the restaurant. […]
Smitten with Sushi {Thursday Night Dinners}
The past two Thursday nights I have had sushi for dinner, and the past two following Fridays, we have had sushi in the office for lunch. This Thursday, I got smart and did NOT eat sushi so I could be excited for sushi Friday. Even though I love sushi, two days in a row, two weeks in a […]
Wow! Hat! Chapeau! {Thursday Night Dinners}
At one point in time, our Thursday night dinners actually happened close to every Thursday night. But now, they occur more like once a month. Thursdays aren’t nearly as fun when we don’t get to go to dinner, but we found a way to make up for it. Whenever we haven’t been in a while, […]
