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 […]
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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 […]
Sweet as: an Open Window
About 6 weeks ago, just one week before my birthday, I was notified that my job was being eliminated. Having worked (my tail off) for this company for 6 years, I wasn’t necessarily surprised by the announcement- it pays to watch for trends – but I still found it unsettling. Who likes to be told […]
Sweet as: Being bare
I love to collect magnets from my travels. I thank my dear friend from college for introducing me to the habit, and she’s been the (unfortunate?) recipient of some interesting hardware from all over the world. But now that they’re all packed up, wrapped up, and safely tucked into a bin for storage, it’s a […]
Sweet as: Packing and purging
Moving is hard. We say it like it’s no big deal – “Oh, we’re moving across town” or “I’m relocating to San Francisco for work.” – but it’s hard. I have a completely new understanding of just how hard it is, now that I’m wholly engrossed in the process.