Today is my Mom’s 57th birthday! Yes, my Mom and my Dad are only 2 weeks apart :) It’s nice, because usually they can celebrate their birthdays together. Since they are both teachers, they both have time off for the next two weeks, because it’s fall break right now. I...
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This was a fun weekend. Kim got here Friday night and we went out to dinner at my favorite Italian place in my town. Remember how she was not meant to go out to dinner? So we had to make up for that :) She had yummy Pasta frutti di...
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TGIF! And it’s going to be a good one… first of all, I am going to play. Kristine wants to learn about our muses. This is going to be quite interesting, I guess. 1. SomeTHING (not someone) that inspires you to do what you do. (work, hobby, donate, create..whatever) Nature....
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…the postal service, that is. I received a letter from the “Deutsche Post” [= German Postal Service = GPS] today stating that the certified letter that I had sent to J at the beginning of August had indeed not reached the recipient. What a surprise! It didn’t say anything about...
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© Perfume My weekend was pretty much filled with family activities. Friday night I went to the movies with Nina, Dirk and my friend Ira. We watched “Perfume”. Have you read the book by Patrick Süskind? It’s one of the most fascinating, yet repugnant books I have ever read. However,...
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Kristine is awfully curious this week about our deep and hidden secrets… so let’s make this a little therapy session :) Here are the answers to this week’s assignment: 1. Something you have outgrown… OMG! My old Doc Martens. I LOVED them… and I just remembered that they are still...
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I am going to kill someone. Seriously. It’s probably not going to hit the right [= the responsible] person, but I don’t care at this point. I am so fed up with it. I said it before and I’ll say it again: The postal service sucks. Remember when they delivered...
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Friday night we went to watch one of Dirk’s soccer games again – we, this is my Dad, my sister, her friend Heidi, Dirk’s Mom and me. We had access to the VIP area again and had some drinks and snacks before the game. The game was great and Münster...
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