a slightly better christmas eve update...

in spain they have three holiday traditions. one is the traditional christmas, the birth of christ, which of course takes place tomorrow on the 25th of december. my family is, right now, driving to cabanillas to celebrate the standard holiday and will return on the 26th. the kids don't have school until ( Read more... )

i'm sure anyone who follows this blog knows, but i've posted some photos of tajonar to my yahoo photo album. so, you can go and look and see what i see every day. also it's easiest to view it if you push F11 on your keyboard, select "Bildershow" (slideshow) and then instead of "langsam", select "schnell" from the little dropdown in the right hand ( Read more... )

maybe tomorrow i'll post some pictures of julen and amaia in their holiday performances -- i have to say one interesting thing about being part of a family for a while is getting (or, really, having) to go to all of these school things. last night we (jfunk and i) went to amaia's holiday music concert, which was nothing if amusing. among the many ( Read more... )

wow. talk about the most interesting thing in the entire world ( Read more... )

life in spain has become fairly mundane. i hate to say it, but it's true. how can you be in a european country in a pueblo with old buildings looking out onto hills with sheep and allow life to become mundane ( Read more... )

after creating a links list (which could slowly grow if any of you have anything for me to link to, clint), i've decided that i am the only person in the entire world who does not have a blogspot blog. what's wrong with livejournal, guys? i freaking love it. so...i guess i'm the odd one out. oh well.

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it's a short day for me today. i pick up The Boy at 2:55, and given that it's 12:55 and i just woke up, i suppose i only have about two hours of a day. oh, well. last night drank wine and ate custard/mousse/something cake, playing a game called "let's take a sip of wine every time katie holmes puts her hair behind her ears" while watching dawson ( Read more... )

emails in my inbox from the friends of the columbia gorge remind me of things i've been thinking about lately but not enough to remember what i feel... this is confusing, i guess. i'll clarify. here in spain today i was looking for a tent, looking for a tent to go camping in, to go to the hills and go camping and spend time in the woods, couldn' ( Read more... )

it happened. it finally happened ( Read more... )