Ingo wrote this post about his dad.
I haven´t seen his parents for quite a while and was astonished how alike the two look - and are, luckily.
You can see it in the post. I showed the pics to a friend and she said, "well, really! So you know what the future brings; good-looking, that man!"
Yeah. And honest. Funny in his own way (didn´t get the joke he made... again), agile, happy.
Hm. Look foreward to the future with his son :-)
Friday, September 29, 2006
Random
The new Perth map is there. My old one is too tattered to work with.
The new one came fron UK and, well. The North is missing, it only displayes the town ´til Innaloo. We´l live in Wanneroo/Landsdale. Well, ok, we know where that is.
I´m going to - argh! Damn! I hate living in two places! I wanted to bring some stickers to Ingo´s place so we can mark points of interest and figure out a plan for our holidays in Perth. Driving back to fetch them would cost too much time and gas.
Ingo lives in a village, we will not get stickers like that there. Argh. Shoot. I´ll try in my brothers´ town.
I just found a great site to the subject!
We gonna stay at Ingo´s place this weekend. It´s a long weekend; Tuesday is off (day of german reunion), so Monday is a bridge day and I´ll be back to work (and single life) on Wednesday. One day then and I see Ingo again :-)
Hmmmm... I got a Nashi fruit here. I wanted to eat it on the way home but I think it won´t make it that long... looks so yummy!
It reminds of the Paspaley Pearls Shopping Centre in Broome (have a look at Cable Beach!)... It was a Coles-Store, I guess. We had heaps of Nashi fruit, every day we´ve been there - and we´ve been there for at least three weeks. On our last day we went to Sun Pictures, the world-oldest open air cinema, for a last time.
(They have a website now!!! I love the internet!!! Please have a look! The pic of the 1950´s - that´s how it still looks! My back hurt afterwards so painfully from the chairs... in Wyndham we went to the hospital because of that - we thought it might be the kidneys. Tests were taken on me. The doctor found out it was only stiffened from sitting - he put me in order again, told us about some places we should see and when I asked how much he´ll get he said, "nahh, that´s ok, it was nothing after all" - the Aussies! :-) The Lonely Planet said, 35$ just for getting in!).
Will you believe that: The couple sitting beside me in sun pictures brought a Pizza! Into the cinema!!!! My dream! I didn´t know this was allowed! I tried to convince Ingo to stay one day longer to have a Pizza in the cinema!, too, but... I didn´t succeed (the story with the roof-reck will be told another time, Ingo!)
Hach. I look foreward to December! Quantas now offers one free flight (with return flight certainly) within Australia, but that´s not on the tickets I bought. Well. I couldn´t decide where to go anyway. Carnarvon or Broome?
The new one came fron UK and, well. The North is missing, it only displayes the town ´til Innaloo. We´l live in Wanneroo/Landsdale. Well, ok, we know where that is.
I´m going to - argh! Damn! I hate living in two places! I wanted to bring some stickers to Ingo´s place so we can mark points of interest and figure out a plan for our holidays in Perth. Driving back to fetch them would cost too much time and gas.
Ingo lives in a village, we will not get stickers like that there. Argh. Shoot. I´ll try in my brothers´ town.
I just found a great site to the subject!
We gonna stay at Ingo´s place this weekend. It´s a long weekend; Tuesday is off (day of german reunion), so Monday is a bridge day and I´ll be back to work (and single life) on Wednesday. One day then and I see Ingo again :-)
Hmmmm... I got a Nashi fruit here. I wanted to eat it on the way home but I think it won´t make it that long... looks so yummy!
It reminds of the Paspaley Pearls Shopping Centre in Broome (have a look at Cable Beach!)... It was a Coles-Store, I guess. We had heaps of Nashi fruit, every day we´ve been there - and we´ve been there for at least three weeks. On our last day we went to Sun Pictures, the world-oldest open air cinema, for a last time.
(They have a website now!!! I love the internet!!! Please have a look! The pic of the 1950´s - that´s how it still looks! My back hurt afterwards so painfully from the chairs... in Wyndham we went to the hospital because of that - we thought it might be the kidneys. Tests were taken on me. The doctor found out it was only stiffened from sitting - he put me in order again, told us about some places we should see and when I asked how much he´ll get he said, "nahh, that´s ok, it was nothing after all" - the Aussies! :-) The Lonely Planet said, 35$ just for getting in!).
Will you believe that: The couple sitting beside me in sun pictures brought a Pizza! Into the cinema!!!! My dream! I didn´t know this was allowed! I tried to convince Ingo to stay one day longer to have a Pizza in the cinema!, too, but... I didn´t succeed (the story with the roof-reck will be told another time, Ingo!)
Hach. I look foreward to December! Quantas now offers one free flight (with return flight certainly) within Australia, but that´s not on the tickets I bought. Well. I couldn´t decide where to go anyway. Carnarvon or Broome?
This way, Germany
I finally got birthday presents for my brother (who does not read this blog, I´m quite sure):
The book "This way, Germany" - it´s a "nearly-present", though. I wanna read it, too, and since his birthday is on the 26th... well... I´ll be careful. It´s about what we can learn from our neighbours: The swedish pension scheme, the finnish education policy, the swiss health care system and so on. I´m keen on learning.
And another book, "Bono about Bono". My brother is a U2-fan and the book sounded interesting.
And I got a hat for him. A large one. With birthday candles on it. I´m gonna send Ingo to him to deliver it and sign it with that huge pen I got him.
Hehe. I´m sad I can´t see his look... "My freaked-out sister"-look...
29... wow.
The book "This way, Germany" - it´s a "nearly-present", though. I wanna read it, too, and since his birthday is on the 26th... well... I´ll be careful. It´s about what we can learn from our neighbours: The swedish pension scheme, the finnish education policy, the swiss health care system and so on. I´m keen on learning.
And another book, "Bono about Bono". My brother is a U2-fan and the book sounded interesting.
And I got a hat for him. A large one. With birthday candles on it. I´m gonna send Ingo to him to deliver it and sign it with that huge pen I got him.
Hehe. I´m sad I can´t see his look... "My freaked-out sister"-look...
29... wow.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Highway-shooter
I just read in the local news that the highway-shooter is back. At night he goes up on the bridges and shoots randomly on cars!
He hit three cars this time. People have not been hurt yet, but one lost control over his car last time due to the loud bang.
You need a gun license here to own one. Still the police cannot find out from what kind of gun the projectiles come.
A reward of 1500€ is set on the shooter.
He shoots randomly!!! Why would he/she do that?
I´m on the highway every working day... just at daytime, though.
It´s really frightening...
Addition
New ist this article. The newspaper says they got the news from the police only because they asked for it - the police wanted to hide the information. And last time a woman had been injured.
Man, this is just a little town here!
He hit three cars this time. People have not been hurt yet, but one lost control over his car last time due to the loud bang.
You need a gun license here to own one. Still the police cannot find out from what kind of gun the projectiles come.
A reward of 1500€ is set on the shooter.
He shoots randomly!!! Why would he/she do that?
I´m on the highway every working day... just at daytime, though.
It´s really frightening...
Addition
New ist this article. The newspaper says they got the news from the police only because they asked for it - the police wanted to hide the information. And last time a woman had been injured.
Man, this is just a little town here!
Addendum
I found this on Ingo´s digicam and am so free to show it here - do they, the Stuttgart Scorpions, look like they just missed the chance to take part in the German Bowl (click to enlarge)?
To me they look like they enjoy (the atmosphere in the stadium in my town which was declared to be the best in Europe... *am so proud*)
Being proud
... of having such a special, creative person caring for me.
On Saturday we split our shopping-tour off to be faster and to be able to spend more quality time together. I did the grocery, Ingo went into town.
On Friday I had bought a vase you can stick on the wall. And forgot to buy a flower for it.
This sunflower is - part of - what Ingo came home with! :-)
Here is where the rest of this went!
To me they look like they enjoy (the atmosphere in the stadium in my town which was declared to be the best in Europe... *am so proud*)
Being proud
... of having such a special, creative person caring for me.
On Saturday we split our shopping-tour off to be faster and to be able to spend more quality time together. I did the grocery, Ingo went into town.
On Friday I had bought a vase you can stick on the wall. And forgot to buy a flower for it.
This sunflower is - part of - what Ingo came home with! :-)
Here is where the rest of this went!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Inexpressible
I just stumbeled over this:
It´s a bakery in Vienna, Austria: TRZESNIEWSKI.
During a study trip to that town my professor invited us all for a snack there.
Hehe, they were good, but we actaully only went there due to the name and the good joke they made with it ("TRSN... Gesundheit - TRZESNIEWSKI - the inexpressibly good bread rolls").
A long time ago...
It´s a bakery in Vienna, Austria: TRZESNIEWSKI.
During a study trip to that town my professor invited us all for a snack there.
Hehe, they were good, but we actaully only went there due to the name and the good joke they made with it ("TRSN... Gesundheit - TRZESNIEWSKI - the inexpressibly good bread rolls").
A long time ago...
Who am I?
I had to break hard three times yesterday. Once with the car, twice with the push-bike due to car-drivers not paying attention.
I realized if some bad accident would happen to me on the push bike on a normal day, no one would know who I am, whom to call.
When I go to the gym, I don´t have my purse with me; I wanna do some work out, not buy anything. Same with football games. I buy the tickets - Ingo pays for the rest.
Today I will make copies of my ID-card and blood donation pass and put them in the backpack. I´m not so sure about my organ donation pass, though...
So. People will know at least who I am if something happens.
How do I identify?
Yesterday at the gym the battery of my mp3-player gave in. Stupid thing is, the recharger works only with two batteries, so every second battery I am without supplies.
I had to listen to the music provided in the gym.
Bang! Next thing I´m in Cologne! In my brothers´ kitchen. I don´t know the songs´ name, it goes oh-ohhhh all the time, sung by some girls. I like it.
My brother is five years younger than me and as kids we had heaps of fights since my grandmother prefered him a lot; he reminded her of her youngest son. She actually raised us since both our parents worked full time.
We got along better when he reached fourteen. I had an accident and he helped a lot.
Some years ago he took me to Cologne, where he studied. We even had to sleep in one room (he was into flat-sharing, too and the other guy was a pest but luckily went on holidays).
We got in a minor fight just once and had a lot of fun most of the time. In the kitchen, on a sunny, hot day, this song was playing.
I guess even just once, so how can memories get stuck so deeply to a song? I could draw the kitchen straight away!
A few songs later I was in Cuba, not this year but in 2001. "Who let the dogs out?".
Then Jamaica, another song I don´t know the title of, but that was playing along every day we´ve been there.
Smells and ... not sounds but sounds in a context (music) do have a strong power, I guess.
I realized if some bad accident would happen to me on the push bike on a normal day, no one would know who I am, whom to call.
When I go to the gym, I don´t have my purse with me; I wanna do some work out, not buy anything. Same with football games. I buy the tickets - Ingo pays for the rest.
Today I will make copies of my ID-card and blood donation pass and put them in the backpack. I´m not so sure about my organ donation pass, though...
So. People will know at least who I am if something happens.
How do I identify?
Yesterday at the gym the battery of my mp3-player gave in. Stupid thing is, the recharger works only with two batteries, so every second battery I am without supplies.
I had to listen to the music provided in the gym.
Bang! Next thing I´m in Cologne! In my brothers´ kitchen. I don´t know the songs´ name, it goes oh-ohhhh all the time, sung by some girls. I like it.
My brother is five years younger than me and as kids we had heaps of fights since my grandmother prefered him a lot; he reminded her of her youngest son. She actually raised us since both our parents worked full time.
We got along better when he reached fourteen. I had an accident and he helped a lot.
Some years ago he took me to Cologne, where he studied. We even had to sleep in one room (he was into flat-sharing, too and the other guy was a pest but luckily went on holidays).
We got in a minor fight just once and had a lot of fun most of the time. In the kitchen, on a sunny, hot day, this song was playing.
I guess even just once, so how can memories get stuck so deeply to a song? I could draw the kitchen straight away!
A few songs later I was in Cuba, not this year but in 2001. "Who let the dogs out?".
Then Jamaica, another song I don´t know the title of, but that was playing along every day we´ve been there.
Smells and ... not sounds but sounds in a context (music) do have a strong power, I guess.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Perky
I can no more.
My customer is on the phone all day. Private. Loud. Using the same words all the time, like "ya know?!". When I have to talk to my colleague, he simply talks even louder.
We can not concentrate. My colleague says, she waits automatically for the next "Ya know?!"
Now he calls his dad. I hope he doesn´t tell him the whole long story (one hour, at least!) he just told his girl friend.
Ah, thanks, his father is not .... aw, no! His father is not available. But he talks to some friend now. About soccer. That can be a longer talk.
What can I do? Is this normal? I can no more.
"Ya know?!"
My customer is on the phone all day. Private. Loud. Using the same words all the time, like "ya know?!". When I have to talk to my colleague, he simply talks even louder.
We can not concentrate. My colleague says, she waits automatically for the next "Ya know?!"
Now he calls his dad. I hope he doesn´t tell him the whole long story (one hour, at least!) he just told his girl friend.
Ah, thanks, his father is not .... aw, no! His father is not available. But he talks to some friend now. About soccer. That can be a longer talk.
What can I do? Is this normal? I can no more.
"Ya know?!"
The Wait is Over
At Chicken Treat you can get Salt & Vinegar Bites!
They say, "Available for a limited time only, while stocks last".
Aw. ´Til we arrive the offer will be gone.
What a pity.
Here in Germany the combination of salt and vinegar is very new. And way too mild.
Ups, another post about food...
Chicken Treat - we treat chicken right. used to be their slogan. Now they say, the chicken lover´s chicken. I liked the old one better.
Really high
I got these pics from the offical website - amazing how high Kelvin Love can jump! Nice pics (click to enlarge)!
Headcoach Kent Anderson gets his bath:
I just love football :-)
Headcoach Kent Anderson gets his bath:
I just love football :-)
Happy Birthday, Ingo!
To the right, that´s me (click to enlarge) - I run to wish you a Happy Birthday, Ingo! To the left you see other "people" from Brunswick, wondering why I´m running.
I used an extra-large pen since you are extra-special to me. :-)
BTW - Notice the very cute elk-ear beans on top of the card Ingo bought for me!
1999
- Port Augusta, near Nullarbor.
You went to the hairdresser, I tried to buy a birthday card for you, remember? It´s not easy to surprise the person you travel with! It was difficult to find the right card, I managed just in time. We went to Woolworths (the fresh food people) to do our grocery shopping and afterwards I pretended I needed some yogurt and needed to get back.
You (pretended to believe me) believed me! I never "need" yoghurt! I went back in and got some birthday candles. It was...? the beginning of September.
On we went.
Kings Canyon
Next relevant stop (to this story): The gas station near Kings Canyon. It was my turn to fill up the car. I went inside to pay and hectically looked for a birthday cake for you. I found a diet-fruit cake. And I got some party ice to fill up our Esky.
You waited at the car.
I came over to you. Ice in the right hand in front of my body; cake in the left behind my body.
You (pretended not to notice) didn´t notice (the Esky was on the other side of the car - not easy to do this stuff in a more or less elegant manner!).
I hided the cake on "my" side of the car and had a very thrilling moment when you looked for something just there!
Rest area near Kalgoorlie
Morning of the 26th of September in 1999. I grab the cake from the gas station near Kings Canyon, the candles and the birthday card from Port Augusta, try to light the candles on the cake (wind!), go over to you, where you are making coffee - and you really look surprised! (Remember how sweet the diet-cake was? The sugar crunched! Like the diet-fruit-roll you had in Carnarvon... What if I got some "normal! cake?)
But your real birthday present was still to come!!!
Somewhere in WA
Evening. A rest area. We set the car to sleeping mode (all our travelling gear is in front now, the back of the car free to take us for the night).
We sit in front of the car in our chairs.
There is a light breeze.
A stronger breeze.
Thunder! Lightning! Stronger lightning, heavy lightning! Coming right towards us! We are stunned. We have 40 litres of gas on top of the car.
Pack and run?
But where to?
Then.
The thunderstorm flashes by, takes a turn to our right side.
Like a birthday fireworks just for you! :-)
Happy Birthday, wish I could give you a hug and a big kiss. Miss you.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Semi-final
Yes! The Braunschweig Lions won 36:17 against the Stuttgart Scorpions and hence take part (for the tenth time) in the German Bowl!
There was an interview with an ex-football-player and he said the atmosphere in the stadium in Brunswick is the best in all Europe!
This article says, the Scorpions enjoyed being here, despite the fact that they will not take part in the German Bowl - and, yes, they have been celebrating, it was just great!
A lot of fun!
Ingo decided it would be a great idea to get in line with the kids and have some lions painted on our faces - here we go, I even got some glitter:
BTW: The story(ies) about Ingos left eye (click to enlarge) are not true. He never went over barbwire, lost it and had it cut in his eye. He made that up. As well as other horrible stories - he was born with the eye like that! The phenomenon even has a name (which I regularly forget --> It´s a Coloboma, Ingo just told me - not too bad " If, for example, only a small part of the iris is missing, vision may be normal..." read in MediaWiki).
And here are the winners:
Only this guy wasn´t impressed:
Ever seen a sleeping teddy-bear? He is a backpack - too cute!
I can not remember having a September so hot! Though I just love heat and sun it scares me a bit. Is this climate changes already?
There was an interview with an ex-football-player and he said the atmosphere in the stadium in Brunswick is the best in all Europe!
This article says, the Scorpions enjoyed being here, despite the fact that they will not take part in the German Bowl - and, yes, they have been celebrating, it was just great!
A lot of fun!
Ingo decided it would be a great idea to get in line with the kids and have some lions painted on our faces - here we go, I even got some glitter:
BTW: The story(ies) about Ingos left eye (click to enlarge) are not true. He never went over barbwire, lost it and had it cut in his eye. He made that up. As well as other horrible stories - he was born with the eye like that! The phenomenon even has a name (which I regularly forget --> It´s a Coloboma, Ingo just told me - not too bad " If, for example, only a small part of the iris is missing, vision may be normal..." read in MediaWiki).
And here are the winners:
Only this guy wasn´t impressed:
Ever seen a sleeping teddy-bear? He is a backpack - too cute!
I can not remember having a September so hot! Though I just love heat and sun it scares me a bit. Is this climate changes already?
Friday, September 22, 2006
Late summer
It´s soooo beautiful! Another clear, sunny and warm day with temperatures of 26°C! And the weather is to stay good :-)
And the weekend is on the way (with Ingo)!
Here is a pic of the lunch Ingo made for me for Wednesday:
Yum! Made with love :-)
Sunflowers are everywhere - even on my finger now:
The rings are from Zebra design, the frogs - or frog kings - are sooo cute, too (click to enlarge)! They are made of silver and ceramic - the motives will last forever :-) You can also have a picture of your choice put on the ring, it´s really great.
We´ll be in my place this weekend, there is another football game. I hope our team wins - I have the cards for the German Bowl already and it would be just great to have them in there in the stadion in my town.
And the weekend is on the way (with Ingo)!
Here is a pic of the lunch Ingo made for me for Wednesday:
Yum! Made with love :-)
Sunflowers are everywhere - even on my finger now:
The rings are from Zebra design, the frogs - or frog kings - are sooo cute, too (click to enlarge)! They are made of silver and ceramic - the motives will last forever :-) You can also have a picture of your choice put on the ring, it´s really great.
We´ll be in my place this weekend, there is another football game. I hope our team wins - I have the cards for the German Bowl already and it would be just great to have them in there in the stadion in my town.
Fool, me
I totally forgot to mention the second weekend this month!
I came to Ingo´s place after having my beloved Pizza da Nico in my familys place.
Ingo had done the grocery-shopping on his own, so we had more time for us!
And on Sunday morning he surprised me with this fabulous brunch!
I know that he doesn´t like croissants - it was all for me and - so, a lot later - thank you (again) .. :-)
BTW: The "Airplane-spoons" are from a Two-buck-shop - I guess it was in Esperance, WA.
I came to Ingo´s place after having my beloved Pizza da Nico in my familys place.
Ingo had done the grocery-shopping on his own, so we had more time for us!
And on Sunday morning he surprised me with this fabulous brunch!
I know that he doesn´t like croissants - it was all for me and - so, a lot later - thank you (again) .. :-)
BTW: The "Airplane-spoons" are from a Two-buck-shop - I guess it was in Esperance, WA.
German correctness
On my way to work. Two lanes merge into one after the traffic light and there is a sign showing the principle of contriving: Car one from the left is first, then car two from the right, followed by car three from the left and so on. We call that the zipper-method.
I´m car one and I don´t even have to speed since "car" two is a bus.
Car three (which hence is actually car two) could have made it easily to be the second in lane, but, noooo...
Car three actually waited to let the bus be the second in lane and drive slowly along.
Why?
See the title. Or call it "un"flexibility.
I´m car one and I don´t even have to speed since "car" two is a bus.
Car three (which hence is actually car two) could have made it easily to be the second in lane, but, noooo...
Car three actually waited to let the bus be the second in lane and drive slowly along.
Why?
See the title. Or call it "un"flexibility.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Coincidence(s)
So we went to see my Mom in her holidays to have dinner with her on her 65th birthday. We knew the towns´ name, nothing more. Shortly before our arrival we called her on her cellphone - we wanted to surprise but not to stress her.
The cellphone was out.
We drove around in the health resort, looking for her car, finally parked our car someplace and my brother and me went into a clinic - the only things we knew was that there were doctors ,too, where our Mom stayed and that it was a special offer.
The people were so friendly, calling other hotels for us, asking for our Mom!
Turned out we parked our car right in front of her hotel!
It was dinner time and also here the staff were very friendly, running around, looking for our Mom, calling her name - nothing. So we went outside to look for her, maybe she was on a little walk?
We gave up and ordered dinner at some restaurant (with some of the slowest staff ever).
Suddenly my brothers´ cellphone rang - our Mom wanted to go for a walk after dinner and saw the car.
So, finally, we were able to meet her after all.
Let´s hope that was a lesson for her - the darn cellphone should be on all the time!
The cellphone was out.
We drove around in the health resort, looking for her car, finally parked our car someplace and my brother and me went into a clinic - the only things we knew was that there were doctors ,too, where our Mom stayed and that it was a special offer.
The people were so friendly, calling other hotels for us, asking for our Mom!
Turned out we parked our car right in front of her hotel!
It was dinner time and also here the staff were very friendly, running around, looking for our Mom, calling her name - nothing. So we went outside to look for her, maybe she was on a little walk?
We gave up and ordered dinner at some restaurant (with some of the slowest staff ever).
Suddenly my brothers´ cellphone rang - our Mom wanted to go for a walk after dinner and saw the car.
So, finally, we were able to meet her after all.
Let´s hope that was a lesson for her - the darn cellphone should be on all the time!
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Power of mind
On Friday I got sick with migraine - on the right side of my head. I left work very early, drove home, took a tablet and tried to sleep.
Then I went to pick up Ingo at the railway station. I felt a little better and managed to drive into the city on the push-bike. We picked up the chinese take-away and drove back home. I tried to eat a little bit.
The next morning I woke and felt it - the migraine was on the left side - as usual. I didn´t get up, Ingo was still asleep, holding my hand.
I tried to relax and thought, NO! Not migraine again today!
It worked! I was able to eat my take-away easily, we went to the football game where I had a baguette, no problem, no tablet! I felt the head a little bit but that was definitively no migraine anymore!
Really strange!
I forgot all about it and remembered only because my right eye hurts a little bit.
This is the same with the long rows in the supermarket. You forget all the times where you ran smoothly through and keep in mind only the negative times where you had to wait really long.
Why do we tend to forget smooth times but keep negative stuff in mind?
Then I went to pick up Ingo at the railway station. I felt a little better and managed to drive into the city on the push-bike. We picked up the chinese take-away and drove back home. I tried to eat a little bit.
The next morning I woke and felt it - the migraine was on the left side - as usual. I didn´t get up, Ingo was still asleep, holding my hand.
I tried to relax and thought, NO! Not migraine again today!
It worked! I was able to eat my take-away easily, we went to the football game where I had a baguette, no problem, no tablet! I felt the head a little bit but that was definitively no migraine anymore!
Really strange!
I forgot all about it and remembered only because my right eye hurts a little bit.
This is the same with the long rows in the supermarket. You forget all the times where you ran smoothly through and keep in mind only the negative times where you had to wait really long.
Why do we tend to forget smooth times but keep negative stuff in mind?
Monday, September 18, 2006
Persevering
The quarter final this year was very one-sided - 79:0 for the Braunschweig Lions. The other team, the Darmstadt Diamonds, are newcomers and stayed really brave, trying to make points again and again, not giving up.
But they had no chance, not in this town with so many local fans supporting their team!
We bought fan-stuff, too:
Too precious to be eaten up!
On Sunday we went to Ingos´ place, where I´m sitting right now. I find it so hard to "work" here! Though I am sitting at the same table with the same red-green keybord it feels strange. Not at home - at least not as long as Ingo isn´t here! He made me sleep longer since it´s a day off for me, which I did - I really feel like I need a holiday. But the bed felt so empty without him. Darn.
He´ll be back for lunch in half an hour but after that I´m alone again. No time to adjust, tomorrow I´m off in the afternoon to meet my brother.
We are going to "surprise" my Mom on her 65th birthday, where she wanted to be alone.
We take her friends with us.
It was my idea. Though I don´t like them. But, well, it´s for my Mom.
After lunch I will work on my Perth-plans; I have to promise to myself! December will me here in no time, I know that!
But they had no chance, not in this town with so many local fans supporting their team!
We bought fan-stuff, too:
Too precious to be eaten up!
On Sunday we went to Ingos´ place, where I´m sitting right now. I find it so hard to "work" here! Though I am sitting at the same table with the same red-green keybord it feels strange. Not at home - at least not as long as Ingo isn´t here! He made me sleep longer since it´s a day off for me, which I did - I really feel like I need a holiday. But the bed felt so empty without him. Darn.
He´ll be back for lunch in half an hour but after that I´m alone again. No time to adjust, tomorrow I´m off in the afternoon to meet my brother.
We are going to "surprise" my Mom on her 65th birthday, where she wanted to be alone.
We take her friends with us.
It was my idea. Though I don´t like them. But, well, it´s for my Mom.
After lunch I will work on my Perth-plans; I have to promise to myself! December will me here in no time, I know that!
Friday, September 15, 2006
My "day off"
So I went to the doctor yesterday morning. They took some blood, send me home to have breakfast and made me come back after an hour to have some blood again, this time just a drop from the finger. Mostly that hurts but not this time.
The next test they wanted to make at 4pm - I had the day off!
This was the first time I got a sick certificate! I work for five years for my company and had been ill only once - and that was in my holiday. Not that anyone ever noticed. But I was always kind of proud on that fact.
I got a sick certificate since I work 40km off the town I work and at first the blood-check-scedule wasn´t clear.
So. I went to town and tried - successless - to find a gift for my brother, then went to the gym for three hours. Back to the doctor for another drop of blood. This time another staff memeber tried. She was so anxious to hurt me, she didn´t get deep enough and had to pick once more - into the same spot - now that did hurt!
I went to do some food-shopping, went home, cleaned the apartment up - I´d been on my feet all day - and really felt that way, my feet hurt! I need some proper shoes for Perth, Ingo is right.
I´m just not used to being up on my feet all day and my "office shoes" have soles way to thin. You feel every little stone right through. I thought about taking a hot bath... but was too lazy to do so.
I was not too lazy to take some pics, though.
This is the new jaap-sheep, the one to the right with the fancy norway-style cap, cute, huh?
See the smaller sheep to the left? I found it some years ago, it was lying on the street behind my car. It used to drive along since then, but when I had to give the car away I took it in my apartment where it still "lives". I wonder if it misses driving around or if it´s glad not to be exposed to the burning sun/freezing cold anymore...
Now I hope Ingo´s not freaking out, but I had to buy these Chili and Basil noodles!
I´m in noodles somehow. If you click to enlarge you can see that I have some sorts of heart-shaped noodles, pigs, cows hens and a rooster, teddybears, christmas trees, shooting stars, gingerbread and oranges and the Cologne Cathedral with bishops (my brother studied in cologne) - you get heaps of that stuff at Pasta Store.
And this cup I bought for my office - another lion.
Hanging there reallly lazy - this should not suggest that I´m lazy, too!
And another lion - this is the towns´ emblem:
The next test they wanted to make at 4pm - I had the day off!
This was the first time I got a sick certificate! I work for five years for my company and had been ill only once - and that was in my holiday. Not that anyone ever noticed. But I was always kind of proud on that fact.
I got a sick certificate since I work 40km off the town I work and at first the blood-check-scedule wasn´t clear.
So. I went to town and tried - successless - to find a gift for my brother, then went to the gym for three hours. Back to the doctor for another drop of blood. This time another staff memeber tried. She was so anxious to hurt me, she didn´t get deep enough and had to pick once more - into the same spot - now that did hurt!
I went to do some food-shopping, went home, cleaned the apartment up - I´d been on my feet all day - and really felt that way, my feet hurt! I need some proper shoes for Perth, Ingo is right.
I´m just not used to being up on my feet all day and my "office shoes" have soles way to thin. You feel every little stone right through. I thought about taking a hot bath... but was too lazy to do so.
I was not too lazy to take some pics, though.
This is the new jaap-sheep, the one to the right with the fancy norway-style cap, cute, huh?
See the smaller sheep to the left? I found it some years ago, it was lying on the street behind my car. It used to drive along since then, but when I had to give the car away I took it in my apartment where it still "lives". I wonder if it misses driving around or if it´s glad not to be exposed to the burning sun/freezing cold anymore...
Now I hope Ingo´s not freaking out, but I had to buy these Chili and Basil noodles!
I´m in noodles somehow. If you click to enlarge you can see that I have some sorts of heart-shaped noodles, pigs, cows hens and a rooster, teddybears, christmas trees, shooting stars, gingerbread and oranges and the Cologne Cathedral with bishops (my brother studied in cologne) - you get heaps of that stuff at Pasta Store.
And this cup I bought for my office - another lion.
Hanging there reallly lazy - this should not suggest that I´m lazy, too!
And another lion - this is the towns´ emblem:
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Proud on "my" town
For a change this entry is not about food ;-)
I just stumbeled over Speechballons - they are no invention of the comic era - one of the first (and the first on this page) is from the 12th century and comes from Henry the lion from Brunswick :-)
I just stumbeled over Speechballons - they are no invention of the comic era - one of the first (and the first on this page) is from the 12th century and comes from Henry the lion from Brunswick :-)
In the City II
Just two customers before me at my cellphone-provider´s place, but when it was my turn the lady went away with my document and I didn´t see her for a while. She came back with the document only, asking if I had really been called that the charger is here - Ye-hes!
She went to look in a different place, same result. I was about loosing my patience when a colleague turned up and knew where the charger was.
That was close!
Good thing - the charger was the problem, everything is fine now with the phone.
I strolled through town in search of a nice birthday-present for my brother.
I bought a yellow duck that´s flashing (don´t ask) and another Jaap-sheep - for me! And a birthday card for my brother - the beginning is made at least.
I went to the City Point-mall and found some light trousers I can take to Perth - for 2€ !
Then I got an idea! It´s Tuesday, a new episode of Girlmore Girls is broadcasted and I´m in the place where you get the fancy chinese take-away. So - there I went. While waiting I saw a sign saying between 7 and 8 it´s happy hour - pay for one take-away and take two. Great, I thought, I have something for Wednesday evening, too!
On my way home then it struck me! Ingo wants to check out this take-away on Friday. Man, I hope I don´t look like a take-away myself by Saturday... ;-)
But it was yummy and a little different to last time - less meat but more fresh veggies - and though just shortly before closing time freshly prepared for me.
When I left the building I got a little shock - it was dark already! Summer is coming to and end... And I had no lights for the bike with me! So I had to do what I hate bikers to do most, I went without lights. But at least I was careful and on the pavement. I don´t get those guys who drive around regularly without lights, on the road and in the wrong direction in oneway streets...
So, this afternoon I make sure I have my lights with me again!
She went to look in a different place, same result. I was about loosing my patience when a colleague turned up and knew where the charger was.
That was close!
Good thing - the charger was the problem, everything is fine now with the phone.
I strolled through town in search of a nice birthday-present for my brother.
I bought a yellow duck that´s flashing (don´t ask) and another Jaap-sheep - for me! And a birthday card for my brother - the beginning is made at least.
I went to the City Point-mall and found some light trousers I can take to Perth - for 2€ !
Then I got an idea! It´s Tuesday, a new episode of Girlmore Girls is broadcasted and I´m in the place where you get the fancy chinese take-away. So - there I went. While waiting I saw a sign saying between 7 and 8 it´s happy hour - pay for one take-away and take two. Great, I thought, I have something for Wednesday evening, too!
On my way home then it struck me! Ingo wants to check out this take-away on Friday. Man, I hope I don´t look like a take-away myself by Saturday... ;-)
But it was yummy and a little different to last time - less meat but more fresh veggies - and though just shortly before closing time freshly prepared for me.
When I left the building I got a little shock - it was dark already! Summer is coming to and end... And I had no lights for the bike with me! So I had to do what I hate bikers to do most, I went without lights. But at least I was careful and on the pavement. I don´t get those guys who drive around regularly without lights, on the road and in the wrong direction in oneway streets...
So, this afternoon I make sure I have my lights with me again!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Birthday(s)
My Mom is turning 65 next Tuesday. And she goes on holiday for that week. Is it an escape?
My brother just called, he said he doesn´t want her to be alone on that day. And he is right.
The plan is, we drive to her to go and have dinner in some nice restaurant.
Man, this is gonna be a lot of driving!
Ingo comes to my place the weekend since there is another football game. With two cars we then drive to his place (not that he knows of, but yes, that´s the plan so far).
I´ll take Monday and Tuesday off and do some more detailed research for our christmas-holidays and Tuesday afternoon my brother and me drive to my Mom.
Wednesday I drive back to work, Friday back to Ingo´s place.
Will cost a lot of money...
If there is somewhere someone out there who does research on beaming - let me know how to help, I wanna have it done and ready to use the quickest possible!
Ok ok, I know. Beaming will not be possible. Any alternatives? Cheap, quick and safe please!
So. This is it for today, I´m going home now (in my car). It´s just the best weather here - 27°C! Temperatures are still to rise! At least ´til Thursday the weather will be that great! Yay!
So when I´m home I ´m gonna use my sunscreen before hopping on the bike and get to town.
Hm. It´s my brothers birthday soon, too, and I still don´t have any idea what to buy as a present. Suggestions are welcome. He is turning 29. For the big 30 I have an idea - a flip-book with him in it. But for this year???
Before that it´s Ingo´s birthday - but luckily we are out of the present-thing for dates like that. When one sees something the other might like he buys it and gives it over the next weekend. Much easier.
I hope I find something nice for my brother in time...
My brother just called, he said he doesn´t want her to be alone on that day. And he is right.
The plan is, we drive to her to go and have dinner in some nice restaurant.
Man, this is gonna be a lot of driving!
Ingo comes to my place the weekend since there is another football game. With two cars we then drive to his place (not that he knows of, but yes, that´s the plan so far).
I´ll take Monday and Tuesday off and do some more detailed research for our christmas-holidays and Tuesday afternoon my brother and me drive to my Mom.
Wednesday I drive back to work, Friday back to Ingo´s place.
Will cost a lot of money...
If there is somewhere someone out there who does research on beaming - let me know how to help, I wanna have it done and ready to use the quickest possible!
Ok ok, I know. Beaming will not be possible. Any alternatives? Cheap, quick and safe please!
So. This is it for today, I´m going home now (in my car). It´s just the best weather here - 27°C! Temperatures are still to rise! At least ´til Thursday the weather will be that great! Yay!
So when I´m home I ´m gonna use my sunscreen before hopping on the bike and get to town.
Hm. It´s my brothers birthday soon, too, and I still don´t have any idea what to buy as a present. Suggestions are welcome. He is turning 29. For the big 30 I have an idea - a flip-book with him in it. But for this year???
Before that it´s Ingo´s birthday - but luckily we are out of the present-thing for dates like that. When one sees something the other might like he buys it and gives it over the next weekend. Much easier.
I hope I find something nice for my brother in time...
Likeable
The other day I mentioned how much I was annoyed by my cellphone-provider.
I e-mailed them about it.
Today I got three mails back and was called here at work.
The staff member apaologized once more and said my complaint was very likeable, very friendly.
Hehe :-) Thanks.
And finally the charger has arrived. I´ll give it a try then, let´s see how long I have to wait today...
Only thing I don´t feel so good about: The staff member said he talked it through with the team - I hope they don´t made an annotation like "annoying customer" on my stuff... it´s a very small shop.
I e-mailed them about it.
Today I got three mails back and was called here at work.
The staff member apaologized once more and said my complaint was very likeable, very friendly.
Hehe :-) Thanks.
And finally the charger has arrived. I´ll give it a try then, let´s see how long I have to wait today...
Only thing I don´t feel so good about: The staff member said he talked it through with the team - I hope they don´t made an annotation like "annoying customer" on my stuff... it´s a very small shop.
Millionnaire
I had the TV on yesterday while doing "stuff" like coming home, unpacking, preparing food for the next day and so on. The show "Who´s gonna be a millionnaire" was on. Out of ten one makes it to the chair and gets questions, three jokers are allowed.
I like it, you learn things on the run that way.
After a while it was a womans turn. She was over 50, looked rather ordinary but what annoyed me, she didn´t smile. Her mouth went the other side down.
But. She was smart. Clever. Had a great sense of humor that didn´t come out at first. I really had to change my mind and started to sympathize.
Lesson of the evening: Don´t judge too fast! :-)
When I was younger people thought I was arrogant, but I was only very shy. They always told me afterwards - which helped me to adjust (I hope!).
Some weekend-pics - we got really good weather and went for a nice walk:
We met Ingo´s dad who rode on his bike. They look so much alike! I didn´t take a pic. It still feels odd to me meeting his parents again.
In the evening we put some corncobs on the BBQ.
Oh and here it comes: The best Pizza in the world part two:
YUM!
My brother couldn´t join me - a great excuse to have another Pizza Da Nico when I´m there the next time :-)
I like it, you learn things on the run that way.
After a while it was a womans turn. She was over 50, looked rather ordinary but what annoyed me, she didn´t smile. Her mouth went the other side down.
But. She was smart. Clever. Had a great sense of humor that didn´t come out at first. I really had to change my mind and started to sympathize.
Lesson of the evening: Don´t judge too fast! :-)
When I was younger people thought I was arrogant, but I was only very shy. They always told me afterwards - which helped me to adjust (I hope!).
Some weekend-pics - we got really good weather and went for a nice walk:
We met Ingo´s dad who rode on his bike. They look so much alike! I didn´t take a pic. It still feels odd to me meeting his parents again.
In the evening we put some corncobs on the BBQ.
Oh and here it comes: The best Pizza in the world part two:
YUM!
My brother couldn´t join me - a great excuse to have another Pizza Da Nico when I´m there the next time :-)
Monday, September 11, 2006
Steven R. Strauss
He had to die in the WTC, like so many others. He was only 51. He worked as an electrical worker. I am sorry for his loved ones.
Pictures of that day are everywhere.
I also feel very sorry for all the children who lost their fathers and mothers, for all the people who lost their partners.
Terror is so unnecessary.
Pictures of that day are everywhere.
I also feel very sorry for all the children who lost their fathers and mothers, for all the people who lost their partners.
Terror is so unnecessary.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Addendum
Have I mentioned that I think I´m a good driver, but when it comes to park the car I´m worst than a total beginner?
The doctor's practice is in the easterly region of the town (where I live) and everybody says it´s very difficult to find a parking lot. Well, near the botanical gardens I always find one, I never had to cruise around.
The doctor´s practice is near where I lived before and it is really more difficult to find a place for the car. Right in front of the door. A big space. I could drive in just like that.
Certainly I was way too early ´cause I thought I will have to cruise.
Not me! I remember my colleague I did ride sharing with. He often gave me his car a huge V70 (Volvo), especially when we went out in the evening and he had some beers. I drove him home and took the car with me - always found a spacy parking lot!
Strange, huh?
While waiting to get to the doctor I went to see the house I lived in. The area there is also very beautiful. But when I saw the house...
Man, I don´t know how I could live there for years!!!
I shared a flat with two other people. Marco, who owns the apartment. He´s way over 40 and still lives together with students! And is really strange. Plus, the place had no real kitchen. Just a little hall where the kitchen table is, to the side the cooking area. The table was right before my room. No privacy.
And Ingo and me spent the weekends there regularly.
At first Christine was living there, she was nice but moved. Then Stefan. Well, ok. Then Paola. I moved out.
Marco and Poala both speak italian. Marco also speaks chinese, so all the chinese students regularly come to the house. They went in my room, too, when I was not there. Marco said, that´s normal for chinese people.
I was the only one with a TV. So, when I wasn´t there, they simply went in and watched.
I wanted my privacy, but they kept on sneaking in.
So Ingo built a lock for the TV.
Crazy! I needed to unlock my TV there when I wanted to watch.
I lived there three years!!! How could I?
I have to thank Paola for freaking me out! I have a very nice aparment on my own now and could not imagine to get back to flat-sharing. Ever!
The doctor's practice is in the easterly region of the town (where I live) and everybody says it´s very difficult to find a parking lot. Well, near the botanical gardens I always find one, I never had to cruise around.
The doctor´s practice is near where I lived before and it is really more difficult to find a place for the car. Right in front of the door. A big space. I could drive in just like that.
Certainly I was way too early ´cause I thought I will have to cruise.
Not me! I remember my colleague I did ride sharing with. He often gave me his car a huge V70 (Volvo), especially when we went out in the evening and he had some beers. I drove him home and took the car with me - always found a spacy parking lot!
Strange, huh?
While waiting to get to the doctor I went to see the house I lived in. The area there is also very beautiful. But when I saw the house...
Man, I don´t know how I could live there for years!!!
I shared a flat with two other people. Marco, who owns the apartment. He´s way over 40 and still lives together with students! And is really strange. Plus, the place had no real kitchen. Just a little hall where the kitchen table is, to the side the cooking area. The table was right before my room. No privacy.
And Ingo and me spent the weekends there regularly.
At first Christine was living there, she was nice but moved. Then Stefan. Well, ok. Then Paola. I moved out.
Marco and Poala both speak italian. Marco also speaks chinese, so all the chinese students regularly come to the house. They went in my room, too, when I was not there. Marco said, that´s normal for chinese people.
I was the only one with a TV. So, when I wasn´t there, they simply went in and watched.
I wanted my privacy, but they kept on sneaking in.
So Ingo built a lock for the TV.
Crazy! I needed to unlock my TV there when I wanted to watch.
I lived there three years!!! How could I?
I have to thank Paola for freaking me out! I have a very nice aparment on my own now and could not imagine to get back to flat-sharing. Ever!
(I´m writing down one hour for a break today due to blogging. I had to write this down to get it out of my mind. Felt so strange looking at that house!)
Cassette
Hehe, I found this in Krissy´s blog - isn´t that cool?
Yes I really used cassettes - how cumbersomely! Now you take your mp3-players´ stick (or whatever cool new stuff) in the PC and have whatever you like.
But still... no bad memories to the good ole cassette... (note the credit :-)...)
Yes I really used cassettes - how cumbersomely! Now you take your mp3-players´ stick (or whatever cool new stuff) in the PC and have whatever you like.
But still... no bad memories to the good ole cassette... (note the credit :-)...)
Busy, busy - Da Nico
I went to a doctor today, a friend recommended. I had an appointment for 09:15 - the earliest possible! This doctor is there for patients in the morning only.
Wow. The town sure was awake! Heaps of cars, cyclists, pedestrians, everybody was busy, having breakfast on the run. Usually I leave home at 06:15 when everybody is at home. Am I glad I don´t have a 9-5-job!
And, man, never have I been checked so thoroughly! She checked really everything, next week I will have to take a day off, a big laboratory test is done on me and further checks plus I have to make an appointment with a neurologist and a dermatologist!
Just ´cause of the dizziness I have sometimes.
The doctor I was before simply said, well, you´ll have to live with that - though I told him it also happened once while driving the car! If I run him down due to dizziness - with my car - will he still think we simply have to live with that?!
Well. So I´ll have to run to doctors now. Rats.
But today I will have a treat! It´s months now that I had a Pizza Da Nico. It´s the best Pizza in the world! Ingo ate too much of it and now gets sick when only smelling it. Well, I´ll have it at my familys´ place, no problem.
Luckily Da Nico is in my familys town, so I don´t have the oppotunity to get one too often ;-)
And it´s always good for two meals - so I know what I´ll have on Monday! :-)
Hmmm, I look foreward to have it!
I dunno. To me eating is fun. I have a colleague in my office, I don´t know if he chews at all. He puts really large amounts of food into his mouth, gobbling it away with no thought, really stoically. But, well. On the other hand, anything he does he does it phlegmaticly.
I love food and I look foreward to the pie Ingo owes me (in December in Perth; in Germany you don´t get pies)!
There was a song on the radio when we were at my place (no internet access, nothing to find out the truth) - Don't You (Forget About Me). I said, Simple Minds (I hate this song), Ingo said, Billy Idol.
A pie for me - and a euro :-)
But first a number ten without ham (this is strange, I don´t go there too often and always order only take-away, still they always remember me...).
So, if you come to Seesen one day... check Da Nico out!
Wow. The town sure was awake! Heaps of cars, cyclists, pedestrians, everybody was busy, having breakfast on the run. Usually I leave home at 06:15 when everybody is at home. Am I glad I don´t have a 9-5-job!
And, man, never have I been checked so thoroughly! She checked really everything, next week I will have to take a day off, a big laboratory test is done on me and further checks plus I have to make an appointment with a neurologist and a dermatologist!
Just ´cause of the dizziness I have sometimes.
The doctor I was before simply said, well, you´ll have to live with that - though I told him it also happened once while driving the car! If I run him down due to dizziness - with my car - will he still think we simply have to live with that?!
Well. So I´ll have to run to doctors now. Rats.
But today I will have a treat! It´s months now that I had a Pizza Da Nico. It´s the best Pizza in the world! Ingo ate too much of it and now gets sick when only smelling it. Well, I´ll have it at my familys´ place, no problem.
Luckily Da Nico is in my familys town, so I don´t have the oppotunity to get one too often ;-)
And it´s always good for two meals - so I know what I´ll have on Monday! :-)
Hmmm, I look foreward to have it!
I dunno. To me eating is fun. I have a colleague in my office, I don´t know if he chews at all. He puts really large amounts of food into his mouth, gobbling it away with no thought, really stoically. But, well. On the other hand, anything he does he does it phlegmaticly.
I love food and I look foreward to the pie Ingo owes me (in December in Perth; in Germany you don´t get pies)!
There was a song on the radio when we were at my place (no internet access, nothing to find out the truth) - Don't You (Forget About Me). I said, Simple Minds (I hate this song), Ingo said, Billy Idol.
A pie for me - and a euro :-)
But first a number ten without ham (this is strange, I don´t go there too often and always order only take-away, still they always remember me...).
So, if you come to Seesen one day... check Da Nico out!
Thursday, September 07, 2006
DigiCam (& stuff)
I should really have it with me all the time - and take the time to stop the car for taking pics (since the cam is so slow - though making good quality pics in my eyes) !!!
This morning (after crying after the money I had to spend to refill the car) around 06:20 I left town and drove towards a field where the fog was lying down so beautitully! It started approx 1-2m over the ground, was about 3m high, only 5m wide and the passing cars before me had created a "tunnel" where the street was.
Nature can be so beautiful!
BTW... I´m so fed up with eating bread. After trying cornflakes I went on to take Pita to work - a yummy and I think also healthy alternative. Only bad thing about - it´s too much! What should I do with a whole salat, cucumber and all the other stuff? O.k., I have a Pita for dinner, too.
Yeah. And I could snack the rest away... Problem - I don´t want to. I don´t like to eat the same over and over again.
Now I read in Ingo´s blog he bought Sammy´s Super Sandwich - does that mean that´s what I´m gonna get on the weekend? ´Cause that´s, too, too much for a single person...
To put the stuff in the freezer is for salat not possible, for bread too expensive. Darn. Companies really should adjust to people living single (hopefully inbetween the week only)!
This morning (after crying after the money I had to spend to refill the car) around 06:20 I left town and drove towards a field where the fog was lying down so beautitully! It started approx 1-2m over the ground, was about 3m high, only 5m wide and the passing cars before me had created a "tunnel" where the street was.
Nature can be so beautiful!
BTW... I´m so fed up with eating bread. After trying cornflakes I went on to take Pita to work - a yummy and I think also healthy alternative. Only bad thing about - it´s too much! What should I do with a whole salat, cucumber and all the other stuff? O.k., I have a Pita for dinner, too.
Yeah. And I could snack the rest away... Problem - I don´t want to. I don´t like to eat the same over and over again.
Now I read in Ingo´s blog he bought Sammy´s Super Sandwich - does that mean that´s what I´m gonna get on the weekend? ´Cause that´s, too, too much for a single person...
To put the stuff in the freezer is for salat not possible, for bread too expensive. Darn. Companies really should adjust to people living single (hopefully inbetween the week only)!
Marriage
I just read in the news (well it took some time to make it to Germany) that in Baltimore people can actually marry their pets.
Certainly everybody in the world is free to do so on marryyourpet.com.
Call me narrow-minded - but I think this is not just weird.
A simple online-wedding is available for "only" 10 US-Dollar - certainly you can also spend 200!
In that case you get a T-Shirt and a hand embroidered, personalised wall plaque added to your certificate.
You can do so after you proposed to your pet. What kind of nonesense is that?
Or are people getting so lonesome that their mind really goes to believe in that?
And the site doesn´t seem to encourage to sodomy, no, just another stupid way for people to get rid of their money. People, there are others in needs - give the money to organisations who care!
But, well. The market for this obviously is there.
Here is an example from the "Love Story" ´s section:
"Margaret and Seth
'I am so in love with my 5 year old bearded dragon-Seth. When I first layed eyes upon him in the petsmart, I knew! He was the one for me! I just recently divorced - and he always had an open ear when I really needed to talk.'"
Does she really believe in that? Did she ever get a decent answer? I dunno, but when I "need to talk" then I also want the listener to talk back to me.
I´m narrow-minded... white-bread ...
Certainly everybody in the world is free to do so on marryyourpet.com.
Call me narrow-minded - but I think this is not just weird.
A simple online-wedding is available for "only" 10 US-Dollar - certainly you can also spend 200!
In that case you get a T-Shirt and a hand embroidered, personalised wall plaque added to your certificate.
You can do so after you proposed to your pet. What kind of nonesense is that?
Or are people getting so lonesome that their mind really goes to believe in that?
And the site doesn´t seem to encourage to sodomy, no, just another stupid way for people to get rid of their money. People, there are others in needs - give the money to organisations who care!
But, well. The market for this obviously is there.
Here is an example from the "Love Story" ´s section:
"Margaret and Seth
'I am so in love with my 5 year old bearded dragon-Seth. When I first layed eyes upon him in the petsmart, I knew! He was the one for me! I just recently divorced - and he always had an open ear when I really needed to talk.'"
Does she really believe in that? Did she ever get a decent answer? I dunno, but when I "need to talk" then I also want the listener to talk back to me.
I´m narrow-minded... white-bread ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
In the City
That´s where I went yesterday after work. I parked the car, grabbed the bike, went to do my absentee ballot - hehe. Wasn´t easy. I stood in front of the community center which should be open ´til 4:30 but was closed. A man was standing there, too, wondering. A third one joined. I took my ballot paper - another adress was given there. I asked where that was, they didn´t know but one of them said, "ask that man over there, he looks like he knows" - and he did! How could he tell?
Afterwards I went to see my doctor. I just sat down in the waiting room when she called me in. Great! But the time I saved there I lost at the (cell-) phone provider T-Com.
Unbelieveable. Three (!!!) customers in front of me in the row left. One was going, "if I come here tomorrow, will I be served then?!" - He claimed to have been waiting for almost an hour - I was standing in line for over 30 minutes, so I believed him. But I couldn´t go anyplace else since I bought the darn cell phone just there.
One staff member was trying to call the main store using two empty phones. Another one took his break.
Another custumer popped in, asking me if this was one or two rows. I told him, "guess one, but three people left already ". We tried to joke around for a while but it wasn´t funny. Staff claimed one customer just stole a cellphone, didn´t know what to do, in the end he found the cellphone on his desk. (...)
Finally! It was my turn!
I told the lady I think the rechargeable battery doesn´t work, turned out the charger was (seems to be) the problem (I hope so! I don´t want to have to come back again!). She fetched another one to check - but could not give it to me! No, she can only send the bad one in and get me a new one. She wanted to call me when it´s in - if she could use the cellphone number? Sure!! It´s empty due to the charger not working, but give it a try! Argh! I gave her my number at work and she offered to charge the cellphone ´til closing time since I told her it´s the only phone I got. O.k. - not she is the stupid one but the T-Coms´ system.
So I had 1 1/2 hours time to spend in town. I wanted to buy a nice cereal bowl for my boyfriend - one with a lion (I live in the town of Henry the Lion) - no chance. I got bored.
Roaming around, I went to the City Point (mall) and found an new chinese restaurant with take-away. It looked very clean - aaaand it had those fancy take-away bowls you see in american movies all the time!
I don´t quite remember... in Dampier (WA) we took a chinese take-away but it came, as I believe to remember right, in simple aluminium. And it tasted awful, that I know for sure. Here you usually dine in, take aways come in boring styrofoam.
So I couldn´t resist. Chicken with noodles it was. Hot. Take-away. Fancy american-like.
Then I thought, damn, gotta fetch my cellphone, get to my bike (other direction) and drive home.
Well! Still hot, even after turning on the telly, DVD-player, Gilmore Girls (I got chinese take-away!), fetching chopsticks and taking pics, giving it a try (first time actually using chopsticks) - and proving it on the digicam!
So - without the darn T-Com-thing I wouldn´t have discovered this fancy take-away! To everything bad is something good :-)
BTW: It was easy using chopsticks after a while! Ingo had shown me how to do it, using things, but no real food - with real food it´s easy!
And the mixture of meat and noodles was just fine, taste: great!
Yum!
And I now know why in american movies people always get those take-aways out of the fridge - impossible to eat it at once - way too much!
Afterwards I went to see my doctor. I just sat down in the waiting room when she called me in. Great! But the time I saved there I lost at the (cell-) phone provider T-Com.
Unbelieveable. Three (!!!) customers in front of me in the row left. One was going, "if I come here tomorrow, will I be served then?!" - He claimed to have been waiting for almost an hour - I was standing in line for over 30 minutes, so I believed him. But I couldn´t go anyplace else since I bought the darn cell phone just there.
One staff member was trying to call the main store using two empty phones. Another one took his break.
Another custumer popped in, asking me if this was one or two rows. I told him, "guess one, but three people left already ". We tried to joke around for a while but it wasn´t funny. Staff claimed one customer just stole a cellphone, didn´t know what to do, in the end he found the cellphone on his desk. (...)
Finally! It was my turn!
I told the lady I think the rechargeable battery doesn´t work, turned out the charger was (seems to be) the problem (I hope so! I don´t want to have to come back again!). She fetched another one to check - but could not give it to me! No, she can only send the bad one in and get me a new one. She wanted to call me when it´s in - if she could use the cellphone number? Sure!! It´s empty due to the charger not working, but give it a try! Argh! I gave her my number at work and she offered to charge the cellphone ´til closing time since I told her it´s the only phone I got. O.k. - not she is the stupid one but the T-Coms´ system.
So I had 1 1/2 hours time to spend in town. I wanted to buy a nice cereal bowl for my boyfriend - one with a lion (I live in the town of Henry the Lion) - no chance. I got bored.
Roaming around, I went to the City Point (mall) and found an new chinese restaurant with take-away. It looked very clean - aaaand it had those fancy take-away bowls you see in american movies all the time!
I don´t quite remember... in Dampier (WA) we took a chinese take-away but it came, as I believe to remember right, in simple aluminium. And it tasted awful, that I know for sure. Here you usually dine in, take aways come in boring styrofoam.
So I couldn´t resist. Chicken with noodles it was. Hot. Take-away. Fancy american-like.
Then I thought, damn, gotta fetch my cellphone, get to my bike (other direction) and drive home.
Well! Still hot, even after turning on the telly, DVD-player, Gilmore Girls (I got chinese take-away!), fetching chopsticks and taking pics, giving it a try (first time actually using chopsticks) - and proving it on the digicam!
So - without the darn T-Com-thing I wouldn´t have discovered this fancy take-away! To everything bad is something good :-)
BTW: It was easy using chopsticks after a while! Ingo had shown me how to do it, using things, but no real food - with real food it´s easy!
And the mixture of meat and noodles was just fine, taste: great!
Yum!
And I now know why in american movies people always get those take-aways out of the fridge - impossible to eat it at once - way too much!
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Curry - coincidence
Tuesday - that´s the day were the famous "Currywurst" is served in the canteen were I work nearby. One whole sausage is a lot - but I have a colleague who usually eats only half of it - I joined and he gave the other half to me. It´s really so yummy - and famous, too:
VW Leads Industry in Sausage Output - Daily Auto Insider.
And what a coincidence - the regional news say just today that the Autostadt abandoned the Currywurst and therefore it is no longer accessible for the public.
Good that my customer is with me here - looks yummy:
Not healthy... but yummy - we call it "C-Wurst".
Herbert Grönemeyer even has a song upon it: "Currywurst".
Yum.
VW Leads Industry in Sausage Output - Daily Auto Insider.
And what a coincidence - the regional news say just today that the Autostadt abandoned the Currywurst and therefore it is no longer accessible for the public.
Good that my customer is with me here - looks yummy:
Not healthy... but yummy - we call it "C-Wurst".
Herbert Grönemeyer even has a song upon it: "Currywurst".
Yum.
A day to remember
I can not remember this day 34 years ago, but Ingo sure can.
I have a beautiful coin of 1972 Summer Olympics, my Mom gave to me:
Cell phones you could not even think about those days and a gagging order was given out when the terror began. Ingos father was there as a police officer and no one knew what had happened exactly, only that a German police officer had been killed in the massacre.
It wasn´t him but some other poor man.
I have a calendar that gives me historical important dates for the day. Unlike HappyNews.com most of the things remembered there are sad ones.
Most of them. Despite the article found at wikipedia, my calendar says that today in 1928 Penicillin was discovered - and, certainly!
Today Freddie Mercury would celebreate his birthday - his 60th!
With him what great music would Queen had been able to produce furthermore...
I have a beautiful coin of 1972 Summer Olympics, my Mom gave to me:
Cell phones you could not even think about those days and a gagging order was given out when the terror began. Ingos father was there as a police officer and no one knew what had happened exactly, only that a German police officer had been killed in the massacre.
It wasn´t him but some other poor man.
I have a calendar that gives me historical important dates for the day. Unlike HappyNews.com most of the things remembered there are sad ones.
Most of them. Despite the article found at wikipedia, my calendar says that today in 1928 Penicillin was discovered - and, certainly!
Today Freddie Mercury would celebreate his birthday - his 60th!
Happy birthday, Freddie!!!
With him what great music would Queen had been able to produce furthermore...
I just hate those remakes or the musical "We will rock you". This is not a tribute in my eyes...
Monday, Monday...
My Mondays... I don´t do much but watch TV in order to feel a little better, to stop missing Ingo that much. I usually watch TV series - a friend gave me the two first seasons of Gilmore Girls on DVD which I can hence watch in the original language (to be fair.. I gave her the fourth one, but she insisted on buying the other ones).
I wonder.
When one of the "girls" come home - and often they are the first ones to get to an empty home - why are the lights always on? When I get home and am the first one to arrive I would freak out if the lights were on!
And I wonder... are the front doors really that thin? I would not feel safe!
I was puzzling around the apartment before settling down to watch the series and had the TV on to have some noise around. I realized again how bad the ads are these days!
Why is it always men explaining how to use detergent and you see women working with the stuff?! I most hate Cillit BANG. Every BANG makes me mad and I would just due to the bad ad never buy that stuff (is that what the ad-team wanted?!). Or take the (german?) ad of Mr. Proper... It´s night, a couple is peacefully asleep. The woman wakes out of a dream where she tries hard to clean up the house when, sure, the white-clothed Mr. Proper shows her how easy it is with the right cleaning stuff. She is sitting straight in bed the next moment exclaiming "Mr. Proper!" with a big smile in her face. Hrgh! Sure, THATS what we women dream about!
I know at least two man in person who clean their apartments by themselves and I bet there are many more out there - what do they think of these kinds of ads? Are these ads developed by men or women?
Or take those ads where no one says a thing, there is just noise or music (BMW or some cell phone provider) - I don´t know about people with bad sight or no sight at all but I could imagine that they, too, "watch" TV, probably using it as seeing people use audiobooks - to them - as well as to those who are puzzling around, not watching - these ads pass meaningless or, in my case - go on the nerves in a negative way.
Hey, guys, ever heard of Usability?!
Where have the good ads gone? Are they to come back? I just loved some of the Volkswagen-ads, for example the Polo-ad "Black cat" (did that one had music only???? OK, if so, to everything there is an exception... it was very well done and I just love the scene where the man gets out of the car and goes "geek!" when the girl is ringing the bell on her bike...) or the Sharan-ad with those guys from Denmark are going, "Hey, daddy, wanna go to the beach with mommy?" and then "mommy" and her two beautiful daughters appear and "daddy" gives those guys the look :-)
More of those please, no BANG anymore!
I wonder.
When one of the "girls" come home - and often they are the first ones to get to an empty home - why are the lights always on? When I get home and am the first one to arrive I would freak out if the lights were on!
And I wonder... are the front doors really that thin? I would not feel safe!
I was puzzling around the apartment before settling down to watch the series and had the TV on to have some noise around. I realized again how bad the ads are these days!
Why is it always men explaining how to use detergent and you see women working with the stuff?! I most hate Cillit BANG. Every BANG makes me mad and I would just due to the bad ad never buy that stuff (is that what the ad-team wanted?!). Or take the (german?) ad of Mr. Proper... It´s night, a couple is peacefully asleep. The woman wakes out of a dream where she tries hard to clean up the house when, sure, the white-clothed Mr. Proper shows her how easy it is with the right cleaning stuff. She is sitting straight in bed the next moment exclaiming "Mr. Proper!" with a big smile in her face. Hrgh! Sure, THATS what we women dream about!
I know at least two man in person who clean their apartments by themselves and I bet there are many more out there - what do they think of these kinds of ads? Are these ads developed by men or women?
Or take those ads where no one says a thing, there is just noise or music (BMW or some cell phone provider) - I don´t know about people with bad sight or no sight at all but I could imagine that they, too, "watch" TV, probably using it as seeing people use audiobooks - to them - as well as to those who are puzzling around, not watching - these ads pass meaningless or, in my case - go on the nerves in a negative way.
Hey, guys, ever heard of Usability?!
Where have the good ads gone? Are they to come back? I just loved some of the Volkswagen-ads, for example the Polo-ad "Black cat" (did that one had music only???? OK, if so, to everything there is an exception... it was very well done and I just love the scene where the man gets out of the car and goes "geek!" when the girl is ringing the bell on her bike...) or the Sharan-ad with those guys from Denmark are going, "Hey, daddy, wanna go to the beach with mommy?" and then "mommy" and her two beautiful daughters appear and "daddy" gives those guys the look :-)
More of those please, no BANG anymore!
Monday, September 04, 2006
Weekend
On Friday we saw a reportage with William Shatner about how Star Trek inspired people to invent cell phones and technologies like that - just great!
Saturday was.... well ... mixed.
First we went to visit Ingo´s grandmother. She was cute as ever. When Ingo said, "if it wasn´t for the long ride, I´d take you with us to Australia in December", she went like "I didn´t go to Spain - you think I´d go to Australia?!".
Next we went to an "Oldtimer-Show", a tipp of one of Ingo´s colleagues. Seldom I went to a place more boring. Tractor standing beside tractor beside tractor. Yawn.
We then went to the "Sehusa Festival" - the largest history festival in northern Germany. My familiy is participating, too. Their group, a bunch of over 50 people, represent the musketeers.
The moment we entered the town it started raining. Great. We waited ´til it was over and went to the festival - fee of three euros per person. We didn´t find my family, nor something to eat and it started raining again. We left that place. I actually wanted to see a myth that was being played. I saw the piece as a kid and got so scared! I saw it again 10 years ago and thought, well too much technology added. I wanted to see how it is today, but, nahhh, no way.
We went to a greece restaurant instead.
No, the food I got wasn´t kind to me ;-)
I wasn´t that hungry and asked if I could get a childs meal (Kinderportion) - man I couldn´t eat it up! It was too much! What do they think children eat?!
Sunday was rather quiet and very nice.
This morning was very sweet, too. We let the clock ring very early and then again and again, just staying in bed.
I feel so lonely now.
Friends of mine just started that kind of relationship we have. They have two apartments now, too. The distance is a little larger than ours so the one traveling has to leave on Sunday evening already. I hope they manage.
Saturday was.... well ... mixed.
First we went to visit Ingo´s grandmother. She was cute as ever. When Ingo said, "if it wasn´t for the long ride, I´d take you with us to Australia in December", she went like "I didn´t go to Spain - you think I´d go to Australia?!".
Next we went to an "Oldtimer-Show", a tipp of one of Ingo´s colleagues. Seldom I went to a place more boring. Tractor standing beside tractor beside tractor. Yawn.
We then went to the "Sehusa Festival" - the largest history festival in northern Germany. My familiy is participating, too. Their group, a bunch of over 50 people, represent the musketeers.
The moment we entered the town it started raining. Great. We waited ´til it was over and went to the festival - fee of three euros per person. We didn´t find my family, nor something to eat and it started raining again. We left that place. I actually wanted to see a myth that was being played. I saw the piece as a kid and got so scared! I saw it again 10 years ago and thought, well too much technology added. I wanted to see how it is today, but, nahhh, no way.
We went to a greece restaurant instead.
No, the food I got wasn´t kind to me ;-)
I wasn´t that hungry and asked if I could get a childs meal (Kinderportion) - man I couldn´t eat it up! It was too much! What do they think children eat?!
Sunday was rather quiet and very nice.
This morning was very sweet, too. We let the clock ring very early and then again and again, just staying in bed.
I feel so lonely now.
Friends of mine just started that kind of relationship we have. They have two apartments now, too. The distance is a little larger than ours so the one traveling has to leave on Sunday evening already. I hope they manage.
Time runs
On Friday I visited my family - when I entered the salesroom, I found my brother standing at the counter holding a child. He gleefully turned around and said, "look, this is my godchild, she just took her very first steps!".
I couldn´t believe it!
It seems it was only yesterday when he introduced me to that baby that grabbed my finger with a strength I never thought a baby might have.
If you don´t have kids, time seems to stand still. You do your everyday stuff and keep on living like ever. Which actually is very comfortable.
I am just a little afraid that next time I see her she might go to school already... I´ll be a lot older by then and probably will be a little shocked... again.
I couldn´t believe it!
It seems it was only yesterday when he introduced me to that baby that grabbed my finger with a strength I never thought a baby might have.
If you don´t have kids, time seems to stand still. You do your everyday stuff and keep on living like ever. Which actually is very comfortable.
I am just a little afraid that next time I see her she might go to school already... I´ll be a lot older by then and probably will be a little shocked... again.
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