My roommate told me this morning that her Dad is coming to visit this weekend. Her comment: I’ll have to spend time with him for THREE WHOLE DAYS! My reaction: So? [Starring in disbelief, shaking my head] Clearly, the girl doesn’t know how lucky she is that her Dad lives “only” a 6-hour car ride…
This is what I am doing these days. I know, women are said to be very good at that and I agree. I don’t get overwhelmed when I am trying to juggle multiple tasks at the same time. In fact, it makes me feel more productive. Downside? There are not enough hours in the day to…
… to hear the name of your relatively small hometown in Germany on American NPR [National Public Radio]? Close to 0%. Exactly. So call this a snowball’s chance in hell what happened to me yesterday. I was driving home from work – a little later than usual because I had to wait for a computer…
I can’t believe it’s been a whole week since my birthday and I haven’t posted anything. I feel like I am behind on so much stuff… updating, responding to emails, returning calls. If I owe you any of that, please be patient with me. I’ve been busy with work and even with a three-day-weekend, there…
I got tagged by lovely Kim this morning and therefore I have to participate in this little meme:  Here are the rules: * Link to the person who tagged you – go blame Kim. * Post the rules here – DONE! * Share 7 random or weird facts about yourself – see below. * Tag 7 random people…
Thank you all for thinking about me on my birthday and sending gifts, cards, emails, text messages and messages on Facebook! You all really made my birthday extra-special :) It was a really good! decision to take yesterday off. J and I were able to sleep in a little bit and when I got up,…
I realized that I write and post an awful lot about food lately. It’s just that both J and I enjoy good meals and I’ve been trying out new recipes… and J’s loving it :) I received some requests for a recipe over at flickr, so over here in my Cookbook is the recipe for…
OMG. You know what? No, of course, you don’t, because I haven’t told you yet. What a stupid question. Maybe you should sit down. I definitely needed to sit down before she told me. I would literally have fallen over. That’s for sure. My sister is pregnant!!! As in, my little baby-sister will be having…
