One of my all-time favorite pasttimes is walking through a grocery store in a foreign country. I picked up the habit ages ago – probably when I was living in Spain when I was 19 – and I’ve gone into a grocery store or food shop in every country I’ve ever visited. Most of the […]
Month: January 2017
Sweet as: The Move
Why hire one mover, when you can have two? This is certainly not an advertisement for any particular mover – that’s not my goal. Rather, I just love the image of two separate moving companies arriving at the same time to pick up two different sets of personal belongings. It was a bit of choreography […]
Sweet as: the Journey
I’m a little out of order on my posts, and for that I apologize. I owe you one on moving day and everything that went with it – it was chaotic but fabulous! In the meantime, I’m on the road and thought I’d jot down some thoughts. I “borrowed” that image and quote from a […]
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Sweet as: Luggage Upgrade!
One of the big things stressing me out right now is how I’m going to get all of my clothes to New Zealand. I thought I was ahead of the game by segregating my closet into three categories: Take now (hey, hey – it’s summer down under!) Round 2 (come back for these *loved* winter items) […]
Sweet as: Kayla
I’ve never had to say goodbye to a pet before. Well, I guess we did bury a parakeet when I was 11-ish (poor thing had a teeny tiny brain tumor and couldn’t stand upright on his perch anymore). But today feels monumentally worse. I adopted Kayla exactly 11 years ago yesterday. I found the original […]
Sweet as: the Countdown
S**t just got real. Not that it wasn’t real a week ago, or a month ago. But now I have a one-way airline ticket to Queenstown, New Zealand (which, on a side note, costs a fortune), and that makes it very very real. I’m actually moving. So the countdown has officially begun! There’s no procrastinating […]
Dining: the art of donuts
I’m not a big fan of donuts, really. I never was, even though I have a devoted sweet tooth. Something about frying the dough turned me off, even though I could be drawn in by just about anything else that contained sugar. That is, until recently. In the winter of 2015, the Salty Donut had […]