Thoughts chasing each other in my head after four days on vacation ( Read more... )

After a two week countdown, Geena and Bjorn finally arrived!!!!!!

I have scoured my guide book doing my best to assure a wonderful weekend. Despite the fact that I'm not a local and have only been here for 6 weeks.

I didn't realize that there were 2 arrival terminals at the airport. I was losing my patience waiting when they surprised me from ( Read more... )

We've arrived in Riga. My friend Sara has use of the most fabulous apartment ever (which means that we have use of the most fabulous apartment ever) and that fabulous apartment is right in the middle of downtown Riga.

But even better than a fabulous apartment and being right in the middle of everything is being here with my dear friend Sara.

Sara who ( Read more... )

I'm having dinner this evening in town with a group of friends. Which is good, very very good ( Read more... )

My dad handed out a piece of advice when I was a younger woman that I have always thought wise: Don't do business with friends. Don't buy stuff from your friends, don't sell stuff to your friends. If something goes wrong it's sticky and uncomfortable and you risk losing a friend over business ( Read more... )

I am in an LJ secret gift exchange, organized a couple of months or so ago by 
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Having untrustworthy internet has caused me to change the way I use the internet. Sometimes we have a whole uninterrupted hour or two, but most of the time it's five or ten minutes of interneting before the signal strength craps out and then it's a fight to try to get back online again ( Read more... )

I'm babysitting
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I stay tuned to a blog collection called LifeRemix. The other day one of the writers there wrote about how a person (me, for example), can do one simple thing to influence his or her (my) level of happiness in any given situation.

It's something that I already do when I think about it, but forget about when I need it the most.

Are you ready for the ( Read more... )

My friend Liz (
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