Confessions of a Wandering Gypsy Princess

One thing you can count on soon however is the next Journizer, despite me being here and not there, our editor emailed me to remind me that the sooner we (as in the German and I) get the translation done, the sooner the next episode can come out. So look for it! He [...]

I have friends in Amsterdam who may say that the Dutch Masters are the best. But in the end I think anywhere at all in Europe (at least within the EU) is awesome. At my old university they offered a geology course in Portugal, and it came in at around 5000 dollars. [...]

Very (as in VERY) last minute I grabbed a spot on a Portugal excursion with the soils people at my university. We drove down through France and Spain, covering over 500 kms a day (with stops for both touristy and academic reasons) and now we are at our ultimate destination where we will stay [...]

The sad part about the carnival is that even though it is mad fun, I dont think I will ever do it again. It is like they say about Mt. Fuji, the wise man climbs it once, the fool climbs it twice. I think Carnival is a little like that, or maybe Im [...]

It seemed like most of the people had problems staying upright:

The white blob is some Irish girl we met who thought it was a brilliant idea to run as fast as she could and slide.
This is what Carnival is.
Somehow I doubt that even she wanted to get social security disability after this weekend she will [...]

So we met up with Janine at her place in Düsseldorf, and proceeded to enjoy chicken fingers, french fries and gravy WITH dressing! (Oh how I love Janine, she went out of her way to make us feel like home – as in Newfoundland cooking home. But then toss in all the [...]

In the beginning we decided to get dressed up. I however am use to thinking of Halloween in October, and so I had no costume to be had. The German thought it would be brilliant to dress up as a pregnant woman and acted the part well enough that if it was not [...]

My darling German dressed up as a pregnant woman for carnival (for those who do not know, Cologne Carnival is, as Janine had described it, “just like Halloween only on acid” or the one time of year the Germans let go and just go mad. And I mean MAD!) And the German took [...]

But instead of my whining about weight loss (or for that matter weight gain, it really depends on my mood) I share with you one of the wonders of being able to stand up to pee! This weekend we attended the Cologne Carnival, and look what I found in the boys bathroom! [...]

.. the bad and the ugly.  I love the Journizer videos, what I dont love however is being reminded how chunky I let myself get.    And with all my talk about diets that work, the only one that ever did work was going to Taekwondo and actually exercising! But I find now that [...]

Hurray, at long last the latest episode of our trip to Turkey is out! Our editor moved, and then changed computers, and then it was Christmas, and now episode 8 is here! But that means he is back, and he is already pushing for the translation of episode 9, which is about half [...]

And trying to upload some of the photos that was the madness of Cologne Carnival. After missing out on what was suppose to be an awesome weekend to do something as prudent as prepare for an exam, I decided to take Janine up on her offer to visit last weekend instead, and celebrate my [...]

Torn between staying here and finishing my masters, or running away and checking out San Jose homes for sale, buying one, and I dont know,… doing something that involves not a lot of work.
Im just cranky that I need to stay home this weekend, miss out on 2 parties (ok, in [...]

I am just participating in a little normal hiding from the world while I try to get through the next week. I am not even taking phone calls on cellular phones, (although I do accept texts) because between work and my economics exam next Tuesday, I am not so sure where I am suppose [...]