Author: Tess

Vacation

Summer Solstice 2010, Take 2: Melbourne

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[The view from our lunch today at Bondi Icebergs Surf Club.  It’s fine looking.]

Hello from rainy Sydney!  Okay, it’s not raining yet.  But it looks like it’s about to.  Now, don’t you wish I’d just left it at “from rainy Sydney?”

To say that our trip has been eventful so far would be a bit of an understatement.  Although we’re now comfortably settled into our house in Cremorne (in the Northern Suburbs of SYD), getting here was a bit more trying than any of us really would have liked.  For starters, we almost missed 2 out of 2 flights to get to Australia, for various irritating reasons that I won’t get into for the sake of your enjoyment and my blood pressure.  Suffice it to say that not being through the security line with 30 minutes to takeoff for an international flight was a little bit stressful.  Multiplied by THIRTY MILLION.

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Holidays, Vacation

Christmas in Oz

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…and I’m off!

I’m setting out this evening for a two and a half week long trip to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia – I can’t wait!

Since it’s Christmas (soon), please accept my sincerest apologies for the dearth of recipes and posts in general recently – life has been crazy.  I hope that everyone has such a wonderful holiday season, and I’ll be back with pictures galore (and hopefully NOT a sunburn) in 2011!  New Years’ resolution: pay more attention to my blog.  Also, vegetables.

Merry Christmas/Kwanzaa/Diwali, Happy New Year, and lots of love to you all! 🙂

Life

Tess and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Slightly Wonderful, Very Bad Day

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Sometimes, things happen in life that kind of make you lose faith in humanity.  Today was one of those days.  Working in customer support involves a lot of great interactions with customers and a lot of inane interactions with customers, but there’s always that bad egg every once in a while.  (Looking back on this sentence, I am not entirely sure that “bad egg” is a legitimate description of what I’m trying to explain – don’t care; I’m running with it.) Continue reading “Tess and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Slightly Wonderful, Very Bad Day” →

Holidays

Happy Thanksgiving!

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I feel a little redundant putting a “be thankful” post after that last incredibly sappy one, so I’ll just stick with this: this week, I am thankful for puppies.

And all of you.

Happy Thanksgiving!  🙂  I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with good food, people who are important to you, and love in general.  And if not, come to my house!