I was sitting on the floor at a large mall in downtown Tel Aviv (probably the ugliest and dirtiest mall outside of the third world I have ever been to) using my laptop and borrowing power because my computer was almost out when some guy passes me and says something in Hebrew. I thought he was telling me to stop using the malls power or something. I ( Read more... )

This is quite possibly the strangest thing I've ever seen...but I feel oddly inspired and I wish more than anything I'd been at that conference to see this performance art piece in person. I love how everyone is so polite and seems slightly baffled.

I just went to her website and it says ( Read more... )

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( I dyed my hair brown )

I just had my wisdom teeth removed and the first thing I did afterwards was go to the corner store and buy ice cream (naturally). I love this corner store. It is small, unorganized, and run by a sweet little old man who works every shift, every day. I've never seen anyone else behind the counter. He knows me and remembers what I'm up to. He ( Read more... )

For the past few days someone has been ringing our door bell and then running away. Kevin and I assumed that it was some neighbourhood children with an excellent sense of humour until we woke up this morning with a flyer taped to the front of our house. It read as follows (including typos ( Read more... )

I took Lola out to pee last night, and one of our guests was sitting on the deck in the back. Lola ran up to him wagging her tail and did a submissive pee at his feet (like puppies do ( Read more... )

We had our first problem with a customer at our B&B last night. She arrived at midnight and despite having keys, rang our bell. She offered no apology for waking me up, explained that she couldn't get the keys to work and kind of thrust the keys in my direction. I was a little sympathetic because I too frequently have problems with unfamiliar ( Read more... )

So before we start our bed and breakfast we have to evict all our tenants. I've never dealt with tenants before, and I certainly have never evicted anyone. I didn't realize my tenants would do things like dig up all the plants in our backyard or run away when they saw me coming ( Read more... )

You might have heard that Kevin and I have become yuppies. It happened suddenly and unexpectedly.

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