Giving (or not) |
Every once in a while, and more often than I'd like, I hear (either among media pundits or from relatives/friends) about how generous the US is because of all the help we give everyone for no r...
Posted by Christin on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:18:00 PST |
Graduation |
Friday was graduation day (for the fourth time). I do have to say that this degree means more to me than all others so it was a very special day. My mom flew in from Utah and Jon was there with his ca...
Posted by Christin on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:51:00 PST |
On MySpace Outages |
BEVERLY HILLS, California (The Onion)-- An estimated 150 million people continued to be without social lives Tuesday as a massive system failure at MySpace.com entered its third day.
"The problem is ...
Posted by Christin on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:28:00 PST |
Country Wedding |
Last weekend was Angela's wedding. For the occasion, I got to go to Indiana via rental car. Jon and I left pretty late on Wednesday and after driving for about 5 hours we stopped in Ohio for the night...
Posted by Christin on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:24:00 PST |
So you had a bad day |
Car transmission blows up and leaves you stranded in the desert....5000 dollars
Tow truck to get your car to the repair shop...300 dollars
Crappy hotel room to stay in 2 nights while car gets diagn...
Posted by Christin on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:19:00 PST |
Why I hate (most) movies |
I used to watch a lot of movies. In Bolivia this mostly consisted of whatever happened to be on TV (and the million or more reruns of it) or at Errols (our Blockbuster). Upon arriving in the U.S. I wa...
Posted by Christin on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:24:00 PST |
Munich to Italy (and back) |
This is starting to feel like it was a long time ago but it has been my favorite part of the journey so I can't skip it.
So about 2 weeks ago - after traveling in our shoebox from Amsterdam to Munich...
Posted by Christin on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:03:00 PST |
Amsterdam to Munich |
I have been so lazy to write these but it feels like they are starting to pile up so I am getting on it.
About a week and a half ago I met up with Melissa and her Jon (who I affectionately call Jonas...
Posted by Christin on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:48:00 PST |
Ou est la Bolivie? |
Last week we went to Paris. The schedule has pretty much been work all week until Thursday and then travel on the weekends. It tends to make for rather long hours during the week so we can get enough ...
Posted by Christin on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:18:00 PST |
Carnivorous Nation |
"Belgium is a carnivorous nation," opened my travel guide. Sold! How to resist a country whose cuisine consists of steak frites (steak with fries), chocolate, and waffles. We went to Belgium for 3 day...
Posted by Christin on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:00:00 PST |
