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December 24, 2014

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The pros and cons of Swiss living

Hooray for new link ups!! Michelle over at The American Resident has started a link up called "Where I live." It's not just for us silly expats either. It's about loving where you live and wanting to share it with the world. I'm a day late with my post but better late than never right?
This weeks prompt is "the dark sides of where you live or have lived, but the one condition of this linky is to put a positive spin on your posts. Feel free to vent about the bad stuff this week, but match each negative with a contrasting positive!"
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Hi! Remember me? Tatiana the expat blogger that constantly thinks "today is the day that I get back on the blogging bandwagon. Today is the day I get myself sorted out and finally finish all my draft posts and put all my lovingly laid plans for this space into action."

Here's the thing, I can think those things all I want but in reality if you don't actually DO anything about the things you are thinking of doing then nothing gets done. Go figure.

So here I am, in the middle of April finally admitting to myself that thinking all these things isn't good enough, I should probably actually do them.

So here I am, actually writing for the first time in a while and you know what?

It feels good!

A bit of a struggle, I feel out of practice, rusty if you will, but it's a nice feeling.

So what HAVE I been doing with all my time when I was saying I was going to write but was lying to myself?

(if you don't want your bubble burst about my luxurious life in Switzerland …

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Years ago John and I had the opportunity to see Salman Rushdie speak. It was brilliant. But the biggest take away I got that night that my job as a writer was to open up the world for someone us. That was the job of any creator actually. Just open up the world for someone else.

Anthony Bourdain didn't open up the world for me.

He blew the doors off.

My family likes to make fun of my Bourdain obsession. My husband has grown to accept it as one of my delightful quirks and most of my friends are just polite about it. Hell half of my friends don't even know who I'm talking about most of the time. They just smile and nod while I rave about the fact we went to a place we saw on some CNN show and it was just as awesome as I hoped it would be.

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