When I wore this shirt the first time, my colleague T. said "Good Morning!", went on, came back and said with a huge smile, "oh , you have your cat with you! :-)"
So, today, when I wore the Shirt again, he came in, said, "Good Morning", came back, smiled and said "Meowwww :-)"
Gosh. Ingo reported he read in the papers two apartments here in Karlstreet have been broken into and got robbed last week. Geez! (You know how? Just ring the bell at everybody´s, yell, "mailman!" and someone will open. Once you´re inside, it´s an easy job. -
Hey, not here! My friend will move in while we´re on holiday)
Well, anyhows. Yesterday I had a company meeting (yummy food, great company ("old" colleagues) - after a somewhat... long and boooooring interesting afternoon.... - no, really. Management asked again (anonymously) how everybody feels in certain points, like, do I feel my opinion counts, do I have a friend amogst colleagues, do I have the material I need and so on... I love to work there, really)...
Well, came back at 7:45 and cruised around for 20 minutes (!) in search for a place to leave my car (my dear car!).
Finally! at Aldi´s. Just a short walk. I can park here, right? There are doors, but there´s a bike-park, too.
Today... we ran errands. Ingo realised he needed something that made us drive past the place where my car is parked - this car stood:
The grey one, ya know?
I was like... ... ??? ...
And my heart stopped beating for a sec.
Wait!!! This is where I left my car yesterday night!!! Sure? You locked it?
MAN! YES!
I did leave it here, right? Wait, I cruised around and around and yes... I left it here! Nowhere else, here!
Two apartments robbed, a brand new car gone.
Looko, here where the space is free now, this is where I parked my brand new Polo last night:
Look very, very closely (and remember it was dark when I got there)....
Yeah, right.
We went straight to the Police.
"Yes, at Meier, ok." (That´s where he was towed away to)
hehe.. .where else?! :-)))... ok, that´s in your place, "At Meyer´s, at Meyer´s, where else")
Yeah. Saw those lines that say no parking? No? Me neither.
Will cost me some 53 bucks.
Here he is, good boy:
Really... my hands were trembling and I thought, Oh, no, my dear car!! Barely 4 weeks old... and gone. Where is he, what kind of people have him? Can you "love" a car? I can.
It´s "just" a company car, full insurance. How do people feel like who really own their car, huh?
Twice already I had difficulties to open the main door at work. Today it was it. Not a chance. The lock itself wasn´t the problem - the door was blocked mechanically on top.
After 10 minutes, shortly before 6 am, the next person arrived. Not a chance. He belongs to my customer´s company, hence had the plant security´s number - as long as we don´t break in, it´s not their problem. Concierge? No one there.
Finally after 45 minutes the by that time already four of us went to a bakery more or less nearby, for a quick coffee, to warm up a bit. My glasses were so cold and hence "fogged", I had to take them off for 5 minutes! Grab a cuppa like that!
After over an hour we were able to get in - via cellar.
Over an hour in minus 8 C. (in March!!)
I have some very red parts in my face - still now. Ingo says it comes from the long time in the cold.
Oh, how great is that.
In the afternoon the door had been repaired - at least I hope so! Let´s see tomorrow. Let´s see how my face looks like tomorrow.
Addendum... funny that today Ingo´s Bro (who is a Doctor, handy, huh?) had a question to me. So I had for him :-) Am not to worry. Skin is supplied with heaps of blood in those parts, which makes it dry and red. Use rich cream. Still gah how I look like, though. But, well...
Some - several? - years ago, we found a Toothbrush from Signal. It was rated from ages 6-99. Looked funny, be bought two. Then four (we lived in two different towns and saw each other on the weekends only - never look back!).
We kept buying those. They were gone. Came back, we bought heaps! They came back... you get the picture?
I asked unilever, whom Signal belongs to... they said, yes, Signal Junior still exists! We just can´t make sure where they are to buy!
We were at dm today, our fav chemist. Ingo says he has a look every time - no need you look, they aren´t there!.
Guess what:
A.N.D. in green - which is my fav color (surpise, huh?) - we bought 4 greens and 4 "others"!
They really are called "Junior" now, rated from ages 6+. Hmm... why?!
Back home I saw they fit just perfectly to me - they come not only in a light green - they have the Madagascar-Lion as theme - we live in the City of Henry the Lion!
"Sadly" my old toothbrush is still fine... look how handy these are - you make "SPOLTCH" and there they are, waiting for you to use them again:
And Back In Just One Day. and back a wee bit again?
This is what I went through today, kinda.
My Mum wanted to come over tomorrow - with a very (belated and very) special Birthday-Pressie. She sounded so full of power when she told me (Heaven!), yes, she has to fetch it from Goslar and no, she is not afraid of driving anymore and yes, she will manage Braunschweig ok as well.
When has she been here last time? Years ago.
This week I had a ... challenge. I don´t go into detail here. It was exhausting emotionally and I looked the more so forward to Sat!
I had a relevant question to my Bro yesterday, got no answer.
This morning I had it. Sent yesterday to my work account. He went quite into detail, helpingly. And then...
Little Hell Part I: Our Mum has had a lumbago. At first she didn´t know what the pain was, refused to see a doc - balky she is - her Mum suffered of Alzheimer, who knows.... Sunday, the emergency doctor had to come. (Lots of work on my Bro´s side). Again I actually don´t wanna go too much into detail. Our Mum suffers of Depression for several reasons and it also shows in the way her apartment looks like. It´s a small town and rumors as well as truths tend to spread quickly, Bro is a Businessman, a bad combination. He revealed in that E-Mail, too, he was very embarassed, felt guilty and all. (Guess how I feel!)
Nothing has happened concerning the planned move of our Mum. In the contrary.
I E-Mailed back, no answer. Said, he can call me. Nothing.
Back home... I had an E-Mail from my Bro. Subject:
"all-clear"
Doc had said there may be metastases (if you don´t know our Mum was in surgery due to Cancer late last year. We lost our Dad to Cancer already)
Bro didn´t want to tell me until they are sure. I was not to worry. Is no Cancer
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Back to Heaven!
But... is this right? Those two fear Cancer and let me live my life "happily" ever after and the truth is so different? On one hand I am glad. I´d eaten myself up (German saying?) - but... didn´t they do, too? What do you think?
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We´re back to our freezing Hell, though:
NOOOO. I´ve had ENOUGH snow for my entire life! It´s March already! Oh I hope it melts away tomorrow! Pic is taken from the bedroom - with the streetlight you should see the flakes coming down - they still do :-(
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Gosh. Do you have days like these, too?
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P.S. To top it all the Person-Healthy-As-A-Horse, aka myself, has a cold. Gah!
Couldn´t resist... for 3€ ... and the cows do kiss :-)
(My Mum sure´d freak out... being a watchmaker she just hates cheap watches... Do I store them away if/when she comes for a visit? There are over 15 cheapys in the apartment...)
So... before Ingo´s parents took off for warmer Spain, Ingo went there to bring them something (I think something for his Grandmother´s hearing aid).
His Dad was obviously so miserable that he had nothing for dinner for Ingo, that he gave him some money with the words, "go to the Steakhouse, you two!"
Which we did on Sat night!
Hmmm, this was mine, so tender...
This was Ingo´s, a tad bigger and medium rare:
Cam isn´t good in the dark on a distance, but you get the idea, one happy customer:
