While I still like Friday the best (the weekend has barely started and it’s so full of promise and fun and sleeping and skeeball and cocktails and movies and reading and shopping and la la la), I think Wednesdays are pretty great. 1) The grocery store ad changes on Wednesday mornings. What will be on…
Author: laineyd
American style shopping…
I forgot to tell you…while in Berlin, I went to the grocery store with our friend’s wife. While we were there she pointed out to me the “foreign” section of the store and the half a shelf of “American” food. They did an excellent job of pegging us, BTW. Here is what we Americans eat:…
European Tour: the part that takes place in Europe!
So anyway, eventually we got to Berlin. Gene’s best friend met us in baggage claim. We arrived around 10 AM and we stayed awake as long as possible…by which I mean we were passed the eff out by approximately 3 pm. Yes, that’s the wrong thing to do but I suck at time changes. And…
European Tour: more yammering
As I mentioned awhile ago, the trip from Cheesecake City to Berlin had two layovers: Thirty-three minutes in Ohio and an hour in Paris. A rep from Delta told me “No stopping, no shopping” for the Ohio layover. The flight to Ohio actually got there a little early -YAY!- although I did not stop or…
European Tour: the pre-aftermath
So anyway. Our trip to Germany. We were invited to visit all the way back at Christmas 2009, and we’d planned to go over the summer, but as I remarked, it is fraking expensive to go in the summer. Plus, I had the old job bankruptcy problem and then the new job and blah blah…
Vacation: Briefly, w/ bullet points
Walked in the door about an hour ago. Been awake mostly since midnight Cheesecake City time. Hella tired. Got frisked in by airport security/TSA in Cheesecake City Airport n’ Bait Shop, and airports in Cincinnati and Berlin. Honestly, I may have been frisked in Paris as well but it was around 6 AM Paris time,…
European Tour ’10
On the way home from our trip to Germany. Had a great time, will write more later.
Pretty please?
Can we just stop using the word “lurve” and the acronym “KWIM”? And the phrase “method to my (your/their/our) madness”? When I’m the queen of everything, those words and phrases are gone. Also, teenagers will be taught the proper use of the word “proverbial”* and if they can’t get it right by the time they…
First, we take Cincinnati…
then we take Berlin! (OK, actually, first we take Cincinnati, then we take Paris, THEN we take Berlin). Am I the only one who thinks it is hilarious that there’s a flight from Cincinnati to PARIS? Every time I think of it I imagine the scene in The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy walks out…
Happy National Payroll Week!
(or, as they now call it at my former employer “National Hug a Donkey Week”) (D, are you laughing???) So, it’s National Payroll Week and my new employer takes it seriously. (This is the craziest company…everyone works until at least 6 every night, a full lunch hour is rarely enjoyed, and they often play just…