theinbetweenismine

just a girl living the expat life

Archives for October 2005

Laid-back days…

filed under: this and that

J and I returned to Sacramento on Sunday evening. I was thankful that J didn’t mind driving the whole way from LA… I was so tired and slept most of the drive (I think that was my jetlag coming through ;) since I hadn’t really had time to be tired when Cathy and Greg were there :)).
We got home around 6 p.m. and I decided to do some shopping since our fridge was virtually empty and I couldn’t help but notice again how expensive groceries are here :( so glad I brought some stuff from Germany :)
We made a big salad for dinner and then went to bed pretty early.

The last two days, I didn’t really do a whole lot besides unpacking my suitcases, doing some laundry, writing my diary and some emails and hanging out.It’s really nice to be back in our apartment :) the weather is gorgeous… it’s still nice and sunny out with a nice cool breeze. October is definitely the nicest month of the year in California.

I also got the chance to hear J and A practice the last two days (as they’re doing that in our apartment :)) and I must say I am really impressed, especially by their own two songs that they have written while I was gone. They are beautiful and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from songs that are played on the radio. They sound so professional… no wonder they’re having a really important meeting on Friday with someone who’s willing to help them produce their first demo album. I am so excited!!!

@ Cath: I haven’t heard from you yet, so I hope you guys made it home safely, sis. Did you have to pay a lot for having overweight suitcases? :) I miss you so much already! Hope to hear from you soon!

What an awesome weekend…

filed under: friends, fun!, this and that

sometimes you wonder how things finally work out in one way or another… I really didn’t expect the last weekend to happen the way it did, and therefore I am even more thankful for it. Be prepared for a very long post :)

So I went on the plane on Friday. My Dad took me to the airport Friday morning (fortunately, his classes started later that day) and I had to get my ticket changed at the LTU service center. I checked in then and they asked me the usual questions about who packed the suitcases, where were they up to the point of check-in, etc. I got a window seat which was fine with me as I had planned to sleep most of the flight, but which of course didn’t happen… After our first meal, I was happy to find out that they were going to show “Miss Congeniality II”, but I only watched the first half hour and then kind of fell asleep since I hadn’t slept much the night before, but that didn’t last long. I find it more and more difficult to sleep on a flight when you’re crammed into one of these tiny seats and you get a neck cramp if you keep your head in this weird sleeping position for longer than 30 minutes.
Then I read for a while, wrote some emails and watched “Berlin, Berlin” since the second movie they showed -which was “Robots”- was not really tempting [thanks Ilka for the dvd’s, that really made the flight a lot nicer”:)].
The last 3 hours were kind of interesting as we flew over the US mainland and there was no cloud cover, so we had a beautiful view flying over Mono Lake, Yosemite National Park and finally the Californian Coast. I could even see the Hollywood sign in the Hollywood Hills just before the landing ;)