Monthly Archives: February 2009

A Very Angry Wombat

By Erin | Published: February 27, 2009

So, I’ve gotten a million things done today and yesterday. I’ve had these two days off, and I decided to try and make the most of them by actually accomplishing things that needed to be done, instead of spending the whole time procrastinating, which is my natural state of being. Yesterday I knocked out a [...]

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Two Weeks…

By Erin | Published: February 23, 2009

There are times, when I think about leaving for Congo in two weeks, that I feel excited. The rush of traveling to a place so foreign from what I’m used to. The newness and unfamiliarity. The starting of something I’ve been thinking about for a long time now. And then there are other times when [...]

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Socks + Hardwood Stairs = Not a Good Combo.

By Erin | Published: February 21, 2009

Here is what happens when you raise your child in a one-story house in Florida with carpet and tile and no hardwood. Everyone knows a proper girlhood includes a two-story house (preferably with a secret passageway, or an attic ghost, or a mysterious old trunk with a secret bottom compartment, but let’s not be picky), [...]

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Three Weeks

By Erin | Published: February 16, 2009

Our plane takes off three weeks from today. Time seems to be accelerating. I’ve started my oral typhoid vaccine. I alternate days–take a pill, skip the next day, take a pill, skip…and so on. And I snagged my malaria meds from the pharmacy. I’ll start those in two weeks, then will continue taking them once [...]

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Vaccinations and Tickets

By Erin | Published: February 10, 2009

Last Thursday I went to get my vaccinations at our doctor’s office. (Jesse’s doctor happens to be one of the travel doctors in the area, so I didn’t have to go to the health center–good thing, too, because apparently some people are having to wait weeks for their appointments.) When he came in and looked [...]

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