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No time to blog right now. (Obviously, right?) I'm on Facebook though, so if you're interested in keeping in touch via FB, leave a comment or drop me a line. Or, look me up: Christine Coleman Al-Qattan. I've just outed myself, so long anonymity.

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I wasn't even aware he took this picture until I uploaded it to the laptop. They had a bunch of different signs with cities around the U.S./world and the distance to each from Oak's Bluff in Martha's Vineyard. He has obviously inherited his mama's italophile gene because he chose Milan.P.S. The other day my son looked at me and said, "Sei la piu bella del mondo." I was shocked. I mean, I know he

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In pictures.

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I'm sitting out on our deck, trying to enjoy the cool weather, courtesy of Canadian wind blowing south; trying to soak it all up before we head back to our hot/dusty home. With the exception of a few humid weeks, this summer has been fantastic weather-wise. For the past few weeks, it's been more like fall than summer, which will make leaving even tougher.My children are with grandma and papa (

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We made our annual pilgrimage to Salem over the weekend and as usual, we took some interesting pictures. Here's my favorite:I forgot to ask his name, but his red-tailed boa is named "Stone". As you can see, they're very close. After he was done showing us how he could put the snake in his mouth, the snake wrapped himself around the guy's neck. The guy was super friendly and offered to let my

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I got this list from a beauty forum. List the products you currently use. I'll start and then you copy/paste in your own blog or in the comment section. Ready?Skin CARE line/product--Oil of Olay Regenerist, 24.7 (Have only been using this for a few weeks now for blotchiness but the verdict is still out.), RoC, Ponds.Foundation/cover up--Revlon's Beyond Natural foundation. Awesome stuff. It comes

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And I'm already missing Kuwait.Off the top of my head, here are some things I'll miss (besides people, natch) from Kuwait:Hot and fresh Iranian bread, straight out of the clay oven for a whopping 20 fils. For those of you in the States, that's about 7 cents. One can never go hungry here.Warm and fresh pita bread.Pulling up to a bacala, beeping my horn and having friendly Iranians bring what I

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Counting down the weeks to our summer getaway. Life has been super crazy recently, or "off the chart" as Tom Cruise would say during an Oprah interview. (God, what a waste of time watching that interview was. It was so boring it put me to sleep.)Anyway, this year I've picked "Shine" by the late and great Luther Vandross for this year's Summer Anthem.more about "Summer Anthem, 2008", posted with

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A few nights ago, I saw something scurrying in our front yard and like an IDIOT, ran after it, asked my husband to run after it with me, thinking it was a small lizard or something but come to find out it was a scorpion. A beige one. A long one. I ordered its execution and it was carried out by my fearless husband.Here it is, after being smacked hard with a shoe, three times, just to make sure it

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And I found it here: List Of The Day: Great Olan Mills photos.

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We had a bunch of Korean workers renting the house next to ours and they were lovely because they were hardly home and when they were home, they were really quiet.Recently, the house has been rented by a (*roll of eyes*) lovely (*sarcastic tone ends here*) family with around eight children? Ten children? I can't count them all. Until recently, they had chickens who would come into my hosh (tiled

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I brought three pets to Kuwait but that was ten years ago and I was moving here permanently. I'm sure the rules have changed since then. Intlxptr has something on her blog about it though, so she would be the person to ask.I believe the people at Bitzer's blog brought a dog as well.I remember some paperwork from my husband's side (Kuwait) but don't remember doing anything special on my side (U.S.

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Awesome stuff.

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My daughter has been sick for the past week. Her voice is hoarse. Over breakfast, my daughter was talking about something and my son said, "Your voice isn't nice. You need antennas." You know, to become clear like a radio station in the car. My daughter is three and still in diapers. We were sitting in the living room and I was explaining to her how she was a big girl now and she shouldn't be in

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I bought it because I liked the rope handles. I had no idea the original bag by Anya Hindmarch is hugely popular in the UK and US. The originals are selling for hundreds of dollars/pounds on e-bay.As for me, I use plastic bags and use them to line my small trash bins. The only exception is when I shop at Carrefour, and then I use their bags that they sell for like 200fils each. It's a really,

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Last summer, a cousin of mine gave me a bag filled with samples from high-end cosmetic companies. One of the samples was La Mer cream.I've used it three times so far and all I can say is that it's exactly like Nivea cream; the one that comes in the blue metal tub. It smells the same, feels the same and acts just like Nivea.Save yourself a ton of money and opt for Nivea if you're looking for a

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I felt too constrained on Wordpress so now I'm back to Blogger. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to import my blog on Wordpress to this blog so I suppose I'll just keep the one on Wordpress but will consider this to be my primary blog.The great thing about Blogger is that I can have a real stat counter (who knew I still had regular readers?) and I can choose from thousands of templates

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