Archives for February 2005

Hi everybody… how was your weekend? Mine was pretty good… I love hanging out at home doing nothing but sleep, watch movies and read :)

Friday night I went to the Bookclub – Robin was so nice as to host again, but except Silke and I nobody showed up … and I couldn’t help but tell them that I feel that the bookclub is falling apart. Robin’s going to move to the Bay area in two weeks, Silke will return to Germany next month, Rachel doesn’t seem to be very interested anymore and Antonia didn’t show up the last two weeks and didn’t even let anybody know.
That’s not a good sign, is it?

Saturday I slept in… what a surprise! It feels like I don’t even wake up before 11:00 a.m. anymore! ;) But maybe it was just because I really had the urge to write a letter when I came home Friday night and didn’t go to bed before 2 a.m. :) In the afternoon, I spontaneously decided to go to the hairdresser and get a haircut. I hadn’t had a haircut in months and I thought it was high time to do something about my hair… now it goes just below my shoulder and I got some layers for more volume! I like it and J likes it, too :)

Then I went to the “Used Books”-Store in Sacramento that I found on the web and bought the book (see below) that Robin recommended. I’ve already read the first two chapters and it’s really interesting!! :)
Afterward I went shopping and then cooked a great dinner with J! It’s so much fun to cook together :) In the evening we watched “The Terminal” with Tom Hanks. We were really lucky, because the Netflix movies were already in the mail on Saturday (so they were shipped within one day, which is a great turnover!! :-)) The movie was ok – honestly, I expected a little bit more, but… oh well!

Sunday was pretty lazy… except for our our workout! There is no better feeling than after you’ve worked out for an hour :) we felt great!!
After that we had some coffee, read, watched TV and after dinner we watched another DVD, a German movie called “Echte Kerle” (Regular Guys). I was really surprised to see that it was available at Netflix and since one of the main actors (Tim Bergmann) went to my school, J had to see it!! He really liked it, although I have to say that the subtitles were pretty bad at times… they didn’t capture the German humor at all! Fortunately J understands a lot of German, so he didn’t have to rely on the subtitles alone!! He really thought it was a fun movie and that it is funny that Tim Bergmann went to my school… he couldn’t help but mention that Kevin Costner went to his Elementary School (the only difference being that he wasn’t born back then :) ).

Yesterday we stayed at home and just enjoyed being with each other. We went out for dinner to “Fresh Choice” and I had a huge salad and their really delicious bread with garlic spread! *yummy* Then we went home and watched the last three episodes of Sex and the City‘s first season :-D Fortunately I’ve already ordered the second season at Netflix for next weekend!!
Then we watched “The Battles of Algiers”, a movie that Jon picked out about Algeria’s struggle of independence from France in the 1950’s. It was a good movie, but reading the subtitles the whole time was kind of exhausting and I fell asleep after half of the movie was over. I just couldn’t help it… it was getting too late ;)

So, how were your weekends, guys???

Hey there… good news! I FINALLY got my California Driver’s License *wohoo* :) I almost thought I would never get it…
Wednesday night we went to Davis to see Claudia for her belated birthday party. We got her a gift certificate at Borders and we also got a bookmark for her sister Britta, which we hadn’t met, but she’s her twin, so it was her birthday, too.
Claudia said that you can tell that I am a twin myself as nobody else would have thought of getting her sister a gift :) oh well, yes, I know how that is!

They also had invited another couple, Ben and Stacey. Ben is German, too and he comes from the same town as Claudia and Britta. He got married to Stacey last year and lives in Davis as well. The world is a small place! We had a really good time with drinks and snacks and a lot of talking and J and I went home much too late. So that I was really tired yesterday… but hey, it’s almost weekend and we get Monday off (it’s President’s Day!) :)

We set up an account with NETFLIX yesterday :) It’s really cool, because you can chose from thousands of movies and you can set up your own movie list and also change priorities online, so you’ll always get the movie that you want next!! We already ordered the first three movies and they got shipped earlier today, and since one of the distribution centers is here in Sac, I am hopeful that we’ll have the movies for the weekend!!

Didn’t do much last night… we did the laundry, watched two episodes of SATC and I went to bed kind of early, because I was so tired!

Plans for the weekends are… sleeping… reading… sleeping… watching movies… sleeping… snuggling with J… sleeping….*lol*  and maybe go someplace (in case it stops pouring! The weather is really nasty right now!)

So, I hope you’ll have a great weekend, too! :)

I like this quote :-)

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 – 1956)

Hi everyone.
I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!! :-D Since J and I made the whole last week a “Valentine’s week”, we just had a cozy evening at home on Monday. I think I totally got J into “Sex and the City“, because he volunteered to watch two episodes with me!! That was awesome :-)
First we wanted to watch 7th heaven but they turned the Valentine’s episode into some kind of musical – everybody had a singing part and it was just ridiculous, so we decided NOT to watch it :-D

Friday night I usually go to the bookclub -as you know – and we wanted to watch “The Notebook”. I was dying to see that movie (because I have heard so much about it), but then I didn’t feel like driving to Davis Friday night and decided to stay home with J! But now he has to watch “The Notebook” with me sometime ;) I made him promise *hehe*

Well, and then we have a cat since Saturday… this is “Lenard” (or “Lenny” as I call him :))

Saturday morning when Jon wanted to take the trash out, he opened the door and the cat sprinted up the stairs into our apartment. It walked around everywhere and then took a nap on our couch… J gave him (as we found out it’s a male!) the name “Lenard” :)

It was a beautiful day and we went shopping later and when we came back, Lenard was still sleeping on our couch! He just didn’t want to leave… we finally had to kick him out before we went to bed. Since he was wearing a collar, I assumed he had an owner and would go home.

But he didn’t… the next morning, when J opened the door, he was sitting on our doormat. And J let him in again… he spent the whole day at our apartment.

We went to Fairfield (which is about 45 min. from Sac) around lunchtime and finally followed through with our plan to go miniature golfing :) We had thought about doing that for quite a while and even though the weather wasn’t as nice -it was cloudy and windy- we had a lot of fun!!! Hey, and I won… which is really a rarity!! ;)

On the way back we stopped at the store to pick up some cat food – we gave Lenard some tuna on Saturyday, but we thought it would be a good idea to get some “real” food for him!

So, he stayed with us til yesterday morning and I was wondering how much longer he would stay with us… we really don’t know where he came from or to whom he belongs.
Maybe he’s one of these outdoor cats how finds himself a new home every couple of days ;)
Anyways, I came home from work yesterday and Lenny was gone. J told me he kicked him out, because he was getting headaches and he was pretty sure it was because of the cat. I was sad somehow because I kind of got attached to Lenny already :( oh well… it wasn’t our cat in the first place.

J and I went to BestBuy later to buy a vacuum cleaner (the very old one that we had broke a few weeks ago) and then we spent quite a while at “Barnes & Nobles”…. I love bookstores!!