I could so! be a hibernator
I’ve been really tired lately. I think it must be the time of the year. The last two weekends, I easily slept at least 10 hours each night without waking up once. That is very...
Month: November 2007
Will I be brave enough?
I have an appointment at the hair salon tonight. I am contemplating again about changing my haircut and color. I am afraid I will walk out with the same hairstyle that I had for years...
A rarity
When I went shopping on Friday afternoon, I came across a rarity at the supermarket. White Asparagus! OMG! While white asparagus is very popular in Germany, I think I’ve never seen it at a US...
I am going to have a good laugh today.
My dear friend Sanni from Germany sent me a priceless gift this week. A CD with the first season of “Stromberg“, a German comedy show [which is comparable to “The Office”] with Christoph Maria Herbst....
Back in the reading business
As some of you might recall, I used to be in a book club when we lived in Davis a few years ago. It was a fun group of people and I was quite crushed...
And sometimes I wonder: How hard can it be?
I always thought I had a pretty ordinary name. It’s not that I dislike it per se, but “Sandra” was a very common first name in the seventies and with a somewhat “ordinary”, typical German last...
What’s for dinner?
I’ve recently had more trouble to come up with ideas for dinner. We do have a few dishes that we like to make on a regular basis, but lately it feels like I am running...
What is time?
Sometimes I am surprised how fast the day goes by. “Time” is seriously a strange concept. Even though every day has the exact same amount of hours and minutes, it’s curious how some minutes can...
Bored again..
… or the never-ending story of finding the perfect WordPress theme. I know you’ve endured quite the theme-changing here lately, which was first due to the “I am going pink for October!” initiative and then...
The Fifth Season Of The Year
Today is November 11 and unfortunately I missed to post this at exactly 11:11 am which marks the beginning of the “fifth season” in Germany – Carnival. The Rhineland area, where I come from, is...