Recent Posts Tagged With 'mistake'

• Weekend Summary

  Posted on Sunday November 16th, 2008 at 14:33 in family, lists, children, marriage, flying, airplane, bush, babies, smoking, Economy, expat, wtf

  I survived my first single-mom-marathon after the arrival of baby #4! Needless to say, I am very tired; hence I am tapping my inner list-freak to summarise my weekend. What put a smile on my face this weekend:Pleasantly surprised concierges - I alwa...

• The love-hate affair between Germans and their rules

  Posted on Sunday November 9th, 2008 at 18:05 in children, smoking, german, expat, Germany, apology, mistake, social policy

  When I made the decision to move to Germany, someone “warned” me that Germans are, among other things, inflexible and in love with rules (or something similar to that – it was almost six years ago, so I paraphrased it). The warning was only par...

• Gay Gay Gay

  Posted on Friday November 7th, 2008 at 06:00 in politics, conservative, TV, Liberal, Germany, us, censorship, debates, homosexuality, mistake, social policy

  Gay TV All I seem to be running into this morning is news linked to homosexuality. A new gay television channel called Timm was launched last Saturday here in Germany. It struck me as odd that Germany, a country seemingly more accommodating towards i...

• ACORN and the perils of the uninformed vote

  Posted on Tuesday November 4th, 2008 at 08:06 in politics, family, republican, conservative, bush, Democrat, obama, Liberal, Economy, election, mccain, us

  Kaffeetrinken with my in-laws always comes with the guarantee of a fun-filled discussion about politics, religion, the economy and/or ethics. (Well, perhaps not always fun-filled, but definitely interesting and passionate.) Today’s get-together did...

• Getting Punk'd by Canadians

  Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 02:41 in republican, children, jokes, bush, humour, Democrat, Canada, us, Gore, mistake, huckabee, rick mercer

  Wow - a couple of days away from the news and so much happens! As SWC correctly guessed, I found this prank very amusing. 'Ustler's Nailin Palin - Hahahahahahaha!!!!!Hmmm... A Republican being pranked by Canadians with a joke involving foreign leader...

• "No, I am not an American!"...

  Posted on Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 at 09:35 in Canada, german, expat, Germany, us, mistake, immigrant

  ...is something I am sure every Canadian in Germany has had to explain. I realise that with Canada being in North America, Canadians are, in a sense, American. Following that thought, however, would lead to the assumption that one can call everyone i...