in the kitchen: homemade pizza
The highlight of this week’s kitchen successes was tonight’s homemade pizza. I highly suggest THIS recipe for an easy, quick pizza dough. Don’t be scared by the yeast; it was surprisingly easy. I changed a few things. I did knead the dough for a few minutes, add garlic powder and some Italian seasonings, and let […]
at home: a new addition
We miss our cats. A lot. Moving to Romania, they got left behind, living with my dear mother. Mom has always had a menagerie and she makes animals (and insects , remember the preying mantis, Mom?) live forever. So we know Lott and Fizzy are in good hands. But we still miss their antics, their […]
around town: DOG is GOD backwards
Today, we were on a major quest of epic proportions – finding the Catholic Church in Targu Neamt. Now you might think: small town, churches look like churches obviously and Catholic translates to Catholic — easy peasy. But alas, it was not easy. Apparently the Catholic community here is relatively small. We had heard from […]
on the road: package in Piatra Neamt
On Thursday, we got a notice that we had a package to pick up in Piatra Neamt. The notice said that we HAD to be there Friday between 8:30A and 12 noon to pick it up. The postal system in Romania definitely likes control – you can only do certain things on certain days for […]
in the piata: oh, the tragedy. . .
So today, after I got finished at work, David and I headed to the piata. It’s a fun busy place that I’m growing to really like. I’ll have to see if I can bring my camera there and snap some photos. I picked up beautiful tomatoes, a bunch of cucumbers (I’m going to try to […]
on a not-so-good day: advice to remember
I had a clinical supervisor in graduate school who said there were three things we needed to remember being counselors and therapists: Be grateful. Be humble. (Admit you don’t know everything.) At the end of the day, don’t carry other people’s baggage. A choral director I had in college said repeatedly, in a gruff voice: […]
in the kitchen: the first weeks
Maybe we’re dorks, but we’re meal planners. We sit down and map out what we’re going to eat when. It worked great in the states and we’re trying to get back into the swing of it in Romania. The past 2 weeks I tried out Romanian adaptations of some of David’s favorites: Cheesy Chicken with […]
a theme: exhaustion
I go into my organization for 3/4 of a day and I come home. “I’m exhausted.” I have pizza with a handful of Romanians and I think, “I’m exhausted.” David and I go to the grocery store or the piata and I come home: “I’m exhausted.” The phone rings and it’s our landlord who speaks […]
in the news: Romania, Madonna, & Roma
As an American making a life in Romania this summer, three things have come up when talking (in broken Romanian) to folks on the street: What do I think of Michael Jackson? What do I think of Barack Obama? Did I know that Madonna’s coming to Romania? Well Madonna has come and gone and in […]