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My Uterus and the case of the Missing Essay July 22, 2024
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Today is the last day of my 12-year career at Garmin. Soon every day will feel like a Saturday but today is bittersweet. Yesterday I dropped my dad off at the airport. This morning my brother left before dawn with my sweet Princess Mia Mole Slayer. Today I say goodbye to the friends who have made going to work each…
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If you know me at all, you probably know how much I love to travel and I’ve probably told you about my dream to live abroad. For years I have been standing on the edge of a diving board, too afraid to jump in but too stubborn to turn around and walk back. Well, my friends, this is really happening…
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After a harrowing drive, we arrived in the town of Arundel which was much quainter and pretty than Southampton where I work 45 minutes away. The castle is very well preserved and still inhabited by its family. Here’s a photo I took on the walk up to the castle. We must have still looked harried from the drive. As we…
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My last European adventure began with my director renting a car in Heathrow and me navigating us South to Arundel castle which a coworker had recommended that none of us had ever heard of. I was especially excited because the day we were going to be there was a smugglers and pirates festival. We hit the road and my director…
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Snow greeted us this morning. The first snow of the year. Just a dusting. My brother got a nice pic of it from his office window. He was kind enough to warn me this morning so I had time to mentally prepare myself for that first “Oh sh*t!” of the day and allowed enough time to warm up my car…
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Tuesday morning we felt that our heads had just touched the pillows before the alarm went off for our early morning meet up with Gray Line tours. We picked up a butter croissant and cappuccino in the central station. The public transport here is extremely efficient, clean, convenient, and pretty easy to figure out as well as many of the…