Tag: holidays
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St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, 2015
Well. J and I have now experienced our first St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago. Maybe next year we’ll check out the south side parade, but for this year we just headed downtown to see the green river and catch the (surprisingly short) downtown parade. We got there around 10:30 in the morning, so maybe an…
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In Defense of Christmas decorations on November 1
I can already hear the oh-so-festive sounds of groans and moans, the snide comments and the weeping for our future. The Christmas decorations are already in stores. Truth be told, I saw Christmas trees in Macy’s back in September (which was just weird), but now that it’s November, I’m a lot less bothered. I know…
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Holiday party… in March?
Last weekend we had our very belated holiday party with J’s command. It’s a holiday party because, y’know, they missed ALL of the holidays while on deployment. Plus it was a homecoming party. It was nice, and a bunch of people who are becoming our friends came, and we had a good time. Mostly it…
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Merry Christmas!
What did you unwrap? My paper seems to be full of kitties…
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Halloween Kitties and other shenanigans
Wow, it’s been a long time since I last posted. No internet in our new residence has posed more of a restriction than I thought. So here’s the mini-update: J and I rented a place in San Diego– YAY! We went to Disneyland for 3 days for my birthday weekend (first time he’s spent my…
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Independence Day Sparkles
Happy 4th of July, from us to you. ^_^
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Thoughts on Chimpanzee (the movie, not the animal)
As this weekend was Earth Day, it was also the opening weekend for the new Disneynature movie, Chimpanzee. And as I have every year, I went with a group from the zoo to go see it. It’s always interesting to go see an animal movie w/ zoo people because we see things with that perspective. So…
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Easter Monday
I missed my post yesterday because of the holiday. And today’s will be brief. Easter was nice. There was extra music at church and I went to a pot luck with an egg hunt, which was fun. The Easter bunny doesn’t seem to be a big thing here, though, which is a little weird for…
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Field trip to the vet
I guess you could say I’ve had a productive day. Of sorts. I was up late last night for no particular reason (well, I was decorating Easter eggs pretty late, so there’s that) and noticed that Caspian’s ears felt very hot to the touch, so I called the vet. Our vet is open 24 hours a…
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Egg-stravaganza gets a little Geeky…
So, today I decided I wanted an art project and being that it’s Easter weekend, I decided to color some eggs. After a quick search online, I found some really fun egg ideas, including egg geodes (where you wash out the shells and make multicolored salt or sugar crystals inside of them), but my favorite…
Joanna Volavka 