So I accidentally found what I think would be the best house for us as a family, and of course we're in no position at all to actually buy it right now. BAH. A and I walked home down a small side street the other day and ta da, there was this house just sitting right there.

• A reasonable size. Most of the houses here are either really overly large ( Read more... )

and wow, look at how the time flew. Two months gone already. And STILL I do not have my stuff. I have a bit of a quibble with the moving company in that they told me they shipped groupage roughly every three weeks and instead there was a FIVE week interval this time, and of course the previous groupage left the day BEFORE they picked up our stuff ( ( Read more... )

I finally labeled a whole boatload of photos. So here you go!

My Trip to Oslo


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I laughed and I flinched. Will I ever get over the knee-jerk defensive reaction to being from Hicksville?


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