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ah, pumpkin pie is bliss!
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It’s Thanksgiving for us already…but I won’t go into the turkey details until we’ve actually had some. We’re gathering with some other Americans from our team to celebrate this afternoon. I am told there will even be pumpkin pie! There’s many things to be thankful for this year and the things that quickly come to…
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Last weekend we celebrated our first official weekend where absolutely NO workers came into our home! We relaxed, we drank good coffee, we pretended like it was a typical American weekend for us (i.e. for us a typical weekend means lazy), and it DID WONDERS! Seriously, I felt really refreshed; almost human again. And (drum…
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Since the eldest child usually dominates the media coverage around here, I had to include this post for Sarah: Look Who’s Walking, Too Around the time of this post was coincidentally the same time all of our real problems began. Just kidding. But we definitely found ourselves much busier locking down everything in our apartment.…
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One day last week Christa was lying on the couch with her eyes closed. She heard Anna crawling up to the couch (on all fours) making a feline sort of "mewing". (Our nickname for Anna is Kitty after all…) When Christa opened her eyes this is the face she saw looking up at her from…
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I had to include this one as my one of my favorites: Road Trip Highlights I used to call Anna "the Activist". That is explained in one of the earliest yetispeak posts. The name doesn’t really fit her anymore, but at the time it was appropriate. After having Sarah, calling Anna an Activist seems laughable.…
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You thought I was joking about starting my own Xining pizza chain aptly called Baba Zhang’s (Chinese equivalent to Papa Johns). Well, if you had your doubts, here’s some instructional photos–a graphic procedure if you will–which I am working on to include in my employee handbook. These are the first prototype Baba Zhang minis that…
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(a.k.a. binzi, pronounced bean-za) These go for about 25 cents for 6…
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The sad thing about my little operation is that almost all of these products were purchased at the Import Store!!! As I gain more culinary expertise, I hope to add more "local" toppings like yak pepperoni or mutton bits.