Now just half a year shy of permanent residency still true as my time as a student only counts 50% – live and learn, I have been in Germany since 2003. I once made do in a mere 42.5 qm which I shared with my beloved Unnamed German Spouse. Since December, we’ve moved up in the world and now I have a whole 86 qm to call my very own. All this is still located in southwestern Germany. Professionally, I am “on a break” right now, in which my primary occupation is figuring out what I want to do with my remaining time on the planet – which may be entirely different than what I did til now. I’ve started over and we’ll see where that goes.

Due to scheduling conflicts, I am aparantly haveing my midlife crisis 10 years early.

Catholicism in Germany makes me miss American Catholicism – which says a lot. I do try to keep a lid on it here as most of my readers do not share my views, but I will have the occaisional comment. (I “play nice” here. Please respect that.)

The blog title is a pun. If you know me personally, please just call me Ann. I do hope to work again one day am now working again, and, well, as they say on Car Talk, “No last names please.”