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in Culture shock, Homesick, Just for the hell of it, NJ, Places to go, USA
January 4, 2015

27 Things People From North Jersey Have To Explain To Out-Of-Towners

I love New Jersey!

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in Holiday, Inspiration, Just for the hell of it
December 20, 2014

The holidays are approaching

What’s the holidays without a little Tom Hiddleston love!

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in Culture shock, History, Hmmm..., Just for the hell of it, New South Wales, NJ, Northern Territory, Queensland, Random Stuff, South Australia, Tasmania, USA, Victoria, Western Australia, What the...?
November 27, 2014

Geography

Not one of my strong suits and definitely not these people’s either. Australians try to label the American states – I think I would do poorly as well. Americans try to label Australian states – Until I moved here I would haven’t gotten any of it! My geography teacher didn’t teach much.  Shoot, I can’t even […]

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in Culture shock, History, Hmmm..., Holiday, Just for the hell of it, What the...?
November 22, 2014

Just so you know

Fun fact: Only 22% of living Australians can trace their ancestry back to English convicts.

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in Food, Just for the hell of it
February 3, 2013

One food forever

Continuing with the “getting to know you” questions: If you could have only one food for the rest of your life and it wouldn’t affect your health in any negative way, what food would you choose? PIZZA!  Not just any pizza though, proper East Coast American pizza (New York pizza specifically)!  If I had to […]

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in Just for the hell of it
January 16, 2013

Remember

Libra’s odd spots?  Here’s another that I thought was interesting. Odd Spot #158 Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. If only Monopoly money could be used to help the deficit.

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in Inspiration, Just for the hell of it
December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas

Today is my 5th Christmas in Australia! I’m still not used to a summer Christmas. I’m used to the “it’s freezing my balls off” type of Christmas but that’s ok. Santa brought our family a basketball hoop set and we were able to play outside for an hour, laughing and enjoying being together. In NJ, […]

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in Just for the hell of it
August 15, 2010

Just because

There is a feminine hygiene product-line brand named Libra here in Australia (similar to Always in the US) and in their products they include little trivia they like to call Odd Spots. I suppose when you’re sitting on the toilet you need something to read so for the price of one sanitary product you get […]

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in Just for the hell of it
June 5, 2009

What’s with the Cadbury Ads??

They’re the weirdest but I guess they do the job because I remember them above all others! The Cadbury ads back home only had a bunny and an egg!

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in Just for the hell of it
April 22, 2009

Invitations, Announcements, and more

On my free time, I love making invitations, announcements, and other image based cards for birthdays and so forth. I’ve only done it for my own use or for family and friends. But I’ve decided to see if anyone else is interested in them. I’ve put some samples on the gallery and hope to put […]

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