Had dinner with My New Big Fat Jewish-Swedish-Russian Family today. It looks like e-bay has taken over the stork's traditional role. Or else there wouldn't be so many jokes about buying babies on the Internet ( Read more... )

...And since I can't sleep, I'll write about the second promised topic.
( I really don't like it when people who are supposed to be my friends and know me well tell me that they think that I just grabbed the first best available guy when I start going steady with someone after two years of happily being single )

Two minutes before mine and Stangel's dinner was ready (we just had to add basil and garlic to our tomato dip), the neighbours rang on my door and told us that there was a fire on the tenth floor (I live on the eighth), so we'd better go outside. Second fire since last winter, the last time it was the flat next to the one that was on fire now, if I ( Read more... )