Diners! Oh! There is nothing better than crispy bacon and syrup with pancakes! Yum Oh Yum!
Tag: Turkey
There is SO much snow here! Ankara does get some snow, but usually not more than a couple inches at a times. Yesterday morning I woke up and there were a few inches of snow on the ground and it…
Seriously. This week we had a couple of anniversaries. Monday, the 14th was our second anniversary of our engagement. We had left San Diego and were in NH on a stopover on the way to Turkey. Bulent took me shoe…
This man loves dogs. Any dog. My husband is as burly and masculine as you can be, but get him near any type of canine and he is like butter. Which is truly adorable. We spend a lot of time…
Last Sunday I flew home to the US for a whirlwind visit. We had many plans to do many things. While was able to do most of those things, we had to plan and re-plan ad revise our plans. This…
This summer I got married. Somehow it was not shocking to my friends or family. Maybe that was because we had been together for five years, and had been engaged for one and a half. I would have been happy…
Or vacuum, or mop, or dishes, or dust, or scrub. That is our deal. Bülent and I have a division of labor. I am the Cooking Bitch, and he is the Cleaning Bitch. This works well for us, with the…
The other day I was having a conversation with some male colleagues. They were asking about the dress code at work. For women, the rule is--if you wear pants, you need to wear a long jacket, or a tunic. They…
I am a little late for the obligatory New Year post, but I have good reasons. We spent New Years Eve with some very good friends of ours. It would have been a lovely evening if I had not been…
I was at a Christmas party the other day and someone was very curious about whether or not we “did” Christmas. Living in a Islamic country with a Muslim husband I suppose it was a valid question. The thing is,…