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Celebrity sighting

July 10, 2010 in | No comments

We had our first random celebrity sighting downtown today!

“The Little Couple” was pretty easy to spot since they were being filmed for the show. At least I assume that’s why they were preceded down the sidewalk by a camera operator, a guy guiding the camera operator (since he was walking backwards to film them drinking their Starbucks and chatting with friends…), and a boom mike operator. Then they were followed by a whole pack of people — other tourists trying to get in on the action, I guess. It was pretty crazy!

This really happened

July 31, 2009 in | 1 comment

Shawn has been very disappointed with me that I have not blogged about this before now. I think the weirdness of the situation just overwhelmed me and I wasn’t really sure where to file it in my brain. But in order to make him happy, here’s who we saw randomly just a few weeks ago:

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Seriously

February 3, 2009 in | 4 comments

After my last post, there seemed to be a lot of people questioning my honesty/sanity/knowledge of what phallic pasta looks like. My husband even went so far as to suggest I read an online article discussing how gummy candy shaped like lighthouses, when turned the proper way, can look like a part of the male anatomy. (Like that makes better sense - a rogue shipment of lighthouse-shaped pasta made it’s way to a grocery store in Kyiv?)

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Giggles at the grocery store

January 30, 2009 in | 2 comments

You will never believe what product I discovered today during my trip to the grocery store. I was in the pasta section, trying to determine if anything close to whole wheat pasta exists here, and right between the spaghetti and the penne I spotted it: multi-colored, penis-shaped pasta. I stared at it for a moment, just to make sure I was seeing things correctly. My thought process went something like this:

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Laika’s latest obsession

December 8, 2008 in | 3 comments

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Some things never change

November 20, 2008 in | 2 comments

Namely this crazy country in which we currently live. This happened last week while we were gone. I suppose it’s a positive thing that they were even in session, considering that the president desolved parliament last month and called for new elections. Guess they had to put those off in order to attempt to keep the economy from completely failing. It’s hard work being a politician here.

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Score one for “the little guy”

August 27, 2008 in | 3 comments

I’m not sure if I’ve ever really discussed parking in Kyiv before. All you need to know is that it’s a free-for-all. Pretty much any place will do as a parking space - the sidewalk…the local park…partially blocking traffic… You get the idea. Today seems to be particularly bad in our neighborhood. Laika and I had trouble getting out of our building because of a car parked on the sidewalk directly in front of our door. Then we had to squeeze by two cars that had left just enough room on the sidewalk for me to pass by sideways (there’s a fenced lot next to our building). And when we got to the grassy area where Laika usually “does her business,” there was a huge black SUV parked in the middle of it.

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What else would you call it?

August 13, 2008 in | 3 comments

On Sunday, Shawn and I realized that we had forgotten to pick up any American cheese at the commissary for the burgers that we were going to grill that night. Since the commissary is not open on Sunday, we were forced to rely on our local market, or else go cheese-less. Luckily, we found this:

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Strange sightings in Ukraine

August 4, 2008 in | 2 comments

Every single day I see strange things here. For the most part, I’ve become accustomed to them and generally ignore them while muttering mean things under my breath. (Don’t worry - I mutter mean things about people in the US as well, so don’t you call me culturally insensitive.) However, today I’m either seeing weirder things than usual, or I’m just paying more attention. But it sure has been a strange day.

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Disappointment

June 16, 2008 in | 2 comments

So the one event I was looking forward to this summer happened on Saturday and I was not there. It’s probably wrong of me to be as disappointed as I am, but I really wanted to see Paul McCartney in concert. However, the concert coincided with the biggest thunderstorm of the summer (so far), turning the streets into rivers, and creating the feeling that it was actually raining from above and below at the same time. So we made the decision that it would not really be enjoyable to go and stand with tens of thousands of Ukrainians in those conditions. But two days later, I’m still disappointed.

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