i want this fo eva i swear i could spend wuteva on it
Oh man, I so miss Tropicana orange juice. The orange juice here suuuuuuuuuucks. It’s bitter and nasty. I haven’t found anything acceptable in any supermarket here yet. Of course, having 2 orange trees in my backyard means I can have fresh squeezed whenever I want. But sometimes that’s just too much work.
See December 2008? Where the line is almost at it’s lowest? That’s when we moved here, and brought all our US dollars over. Talk about good timing. If we moved back now, we would probably make a profit.
(via lillianz)
Felt my biggest earthquake yet last night. Only a 4.4, but only about 20 km away. Was notable because it lasted quite a while, at least 10 or 20 seconds. Funny thing is the earthquake paralysis that sets in. 10 o’clock at night, and I’m sitting on the couch and I had just picked up a scalding hot mug of Milo. The house starts shaking, and I just freeze, looking around, wondering if it’ll be a big one. Like a BIG one. Which is entirely possible of course. So rather than put the mug down, or start bracing myself, I just sit there. Weird.
Not sure if this a good or bad thing. My 6-year-old daughter just asked me, “Mama, why do you look like a teenager?”
p.s. I’m 34.
Obama to Name Gay Ambassador »
The Advocate has learned that President Barack Obama intends to nominate David Huebner as the ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, according to an Administration official.
Huebner is a partner in the Shanghai law office of Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton and heads the firm’s International Disputes practice and its China practice. He has also served as a mediator and arbitrator and specializes in dispute resolution.
Huebner co-chaired the board of directors of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in 1997 and has served as legal counsel for the organization for a number of years. He has also taught international business and intellectual property classes at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law.
Huebner graduated from Yale Law School and received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. Huebner is the first openly gay person to be nominated to an ambassadorship in the Obama administration. If confirmed, he will become the third gay man to hold such a post. James Hormel served as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg during the Clinton administration, and Michael Guest was appointed by President George W. Bush as U.S. ambassador to Romania.
Little New Zealand a pawn in US politics. I wonder why Samoa is lumped in with NZ. What happens to all the other small Pacific island nations?
FALL UP New England’s fall foliage met with an early snow in Franconia, N.H., on Thursday. (Photo: Jim Cole / AP via the Wall St. Journal)
Sad I’m missing leaf-peeping season. But happy it’s spring here, with a long hot summer right around the corner.
TVNZ runs two of the five main television channels here: TV One and TV2. TV2 airs Fringe on Wednesday nights, we’re about 6 months behind the US. Tonight they decided to air 2 episodes in a row. But after an hour they start the second episode, even though there’s still like 10 minutes left of the first one. So we never got to see the resolution of the first episode. Sooooo annoying.
Anyways, it’s fun watching Fringe for the Boston references. I find it highly amusing that in the first several episodes the fictional “Boston Federal Building” was depicted by aerial shots of a building which is not in Boston (probably in Vancouver, since that’s where the show’s made), but that they switched to the Hancock building (Boston’s tallest, and most recognizable skyscraper) at some point. I wonder if Bostonians complained or something?
(screencap from FringeFiles.com)
