No wonder I’ve been so lazy about blogging, nothing’s happening here really except some job things that I won’t blog about publicly though. Went to my grand-ma’s with my dad yesterday after having bugged him long enough about going there with me. She seems like she’s come back well from her stroke and heart-attack last December. We went grocery shopping for her and then had some yummy Eichsfelder coldcuts lunch. Mmmm! Too bad I couldn’t fit anymore in my tummy, would have loved to have tried that liversausage, too.
Hmmmm, whatelse… I hung out with Juliane on Saturday. They got a new puppy and he’s too cute! Went on a walk with all their 3 dogs and the poor old one kept trotting behind but at least she did walk seeing that she hadn’t been able to do that before.
My old roommate from Hamburg also called me (well both of them did but I mean the one that works as a journalist). She wants to shoot a story about that genetically manipulated corn that’s being tested on a field near here and we gave her a couple of contacts to talk to. Well turned out all these organic farmers that are soooo against the field don’t want to appear in front of a camera for who knows what reasons. Come on, they have an opportunity to get their point accross and they don’t want to do it… uhm-kay (oh and it’s not private TV, it’s a public channel, too). Ah well.
Oh yeah I’m supposed to write that Marc and I were on the phone for ages yesterday and it was nice to catch up with him. 😉
This week I have a couple of appointments. Dr.’s on Friday, hopefully hair dresser, too, then Saturday my step-dad has his birthday party and then Sunday I’m going to Hamburg with my Dad and maybe I’ll watch his soccer team (HSV) play or maybe not, then I’ll go straight to my friend’s place where I’ll stay the night before I have an interview there.
Alright, I’ll stop boring everybody now… toodles!
33°C
All of a sudden summer came back. From 15° or so to over 30° in 2 days. Yeah great. But at least it’s not raining anymore and skirts and shorts are back out of my closet. Yay! Now all I need is a pool ;-).
Tomorrow is my great-aunt’s funeral. She passed away at 82 after having laid in bed for about 4 years now. My mom is very upset as it was her god-mother. I can’t say I knew her much but seeing that my mom is so sad I’ll go to the funeral, too. Still debating about what to wear. I take it a black bikini is out of question but man, it’s gonna be hot in the midday heat in black clothes. I’m thinking about maybe a navy skirt and a black tee; that should be fine…
Last week I went bowling with my friend Jenny and her colleagues. Funny thing is that one of our old classmates now works with her and he was bowling, too. It’s always nice to meet old high-school mates again. Oh yeah and I totally sucked at bowling…. 96, 77, 64. Yeah enough said… The 96 is fine but the rest… oh boy… Need to play more than once every 2 years I guess 😉
Oh I also finally called Steffen, a college mate who lives and works in my town now. I said we should meet up and do a little Werni-Reunion so hopefully we’ll do that later this summer.
Nothing definite at the job front yet but things are looking well and with loads of finger crossing I’ll have a nice job soon. Oh yeah, I never heard from the company in Frankfurt again. Hmmm. Well the job isn’t my thing anyways I realized but still weird to not have heard from them at all – they did reimburse me for my trainticket there, though. Ah well, doesn’t matter. 🙂
Back to Work
… on my thesis. My ex roomie sent me the proofreads yesterday so I get to edit the last chapter now. Yay! She’s the best! Looks like I might actually be able to hand the thesis in beginning of next week. Woot!
The weekend was nice. Went out to town with my friend Jenny and her co-worker on Friday night and we had cocktails – without alcohol since we always have to drive back to our villages – and then went to my town’s crappy little club where we had great laughs about the free freakshow there and danced. Fun fun!
Saturday Anni was in town so Jenny and I met her and her boyfriend for coffee. Took us hours to catch up on how things are going and on what old school mates are doing now. Love my girls! Now my town only needs a place like Starbucks…. 😉
Sunday I actually went to my Mom’s sportclub’s Katerfrühstück (hang-over breakfast) which is usually the end of a weekend long celebration of sportclubs, firebrigades, shooting clubs etc.. Of course I went for the free food but the old chaps were also kind of funny and made me dance with them so it was quite alright. Well someone had to drive my parents home anyways ;-).
I’m also in the process of auctioning some things off at ebay and my two last auctions went realllly well – so happy. Need to get rid of some more stuff but I’m always so lazy to put the stuff online and figure out the postage… Well, first priority is my evil diploma thesis anyways…
Smoochie!
Good Weekend in Bankfurt
I realize I’ve written a lot of protected entries these days but hey, you never paid for getting 100% insight into my soul and brain and this is my blog. 😉 Some things are just not ready to be known to the world yet so have a little faith in me.
Anyways, as the heading suggests, I spent the weekend in Germany’s financial center, in Frankfurt am Main. I got invited by a company to introduce myself there and I figured it’d be wasted money if I don’t spend some time in town while I was there. I met with my old friend A for coffee and we chatted for a while until my family unfortunately called and made me do some crazy things. That morning it had been my sister’s graduation from high school (yeah unbelievable… she’s growing up and got a brain, too) so I drove my mom’s car to the train station and they were gonna pick it up with their spare key and take it home. Well, turned out my sister had lost her keys including the spare car key that god-knows-why was on her keychain to begin with. The car was standing there in a 1 hour parking zone and now they wanted me to overnight the key. OK so I’m just a bit annoyed that A and I have to leave the nice cafe and find a post office but you know, shit happens. Of course the line at the post is looooooooong. Half way through my mom calls me again to tell me to cut a copy of the key in case the post loses it. Uhm ok so we leave the line again and try to find a locksmith. Found one but he doesn’t have the right keybase to make a copy. Nicely enough he saves us a walk to the other one by calling and asking if they have one there. They didn’t. So another call to the family and we’re allowed to mail it without making a copy. Back to the long-ass line at the post office. Had a real nice post officer who actually gave us a bubble wrap envelope for free when he saw that I had wanted to buy a box and then we were finally done. You’d think my sisetr would say thank you for making it possible for her to drive to some music festival the next day and in the process kind of ruining the afternoon with the girl that was my bestfriend in middle and high school. Nope, no thank you at all and I had to ask my family to give me back the money I paid for the overnighter. Tzzz!
Anyways, enough bitching about that, I’ll just remember for the future.. Muahaha!
So after that episode, I met my friend K and after retrieving my bag from the lockers at the train station we headed to her place. She just moved to Frankfurt this year and she’s got this amazing apartment. We got some groceries with her boy (if you’re curious about how it feels for an American to live in Germany, click on that link titled Frankfurt Files on the right) and just hung out and cooked a lovely coconut chicken curry and had that with our friend I. Chatted until midnight and then just slept looong. More relaxing in the morning with nice breakfast (sorry D my stomach just wasn’t ready for eggs then ;-)) and then we met I at Starbucks in the city center and relaxed some more. I also got the tour of Frankfurt, which was kind of messed up by the Ironman event’s stages but I still got a feeling that Frankfurt is an alright enough city that’s quite livable. Water always adds a big plus to a city and walking along the Main with the skyline on the other side was just plain nice. You’d think a big city like Frankfurt would offer all sorts of food but it took us forever to find a place that was a) not way too redlightdistricty or b) too fancy=expensive. We finally settled on Chinese and I won the contest of ordering the best dish (though everyone had been eyeing it on the menu anyways, I just made the call) but even K’s sad peanut chicken was quite good. 😉
We finished off the day at a cocktail bar where we had to wait ages for our waitress to come by and she was bitchy about it too but we still got the happy hour deal.
Sunday was more relaxing with another great breakfast (yum those pancakes!) and K’s boyfriend giving me lots of great advice on negotiating salary in case I’ll ever have to… *rolls eyes*. Then it was time to catch my train again and I even came to the station to say bye so that was sweet.
Oh yeah the train ride…! My reservation was for a seat in a compartment (cause the normal seats were booked out) and this guy sitting accross my seat had his feet up on my seat when I got there and he was really big. Didn’t stop being annoying the entire train ride with putting his fat legs everywhere and dropping his big magazine on my feet without saying sorry and then hitting everyone in the compartment with his backpack. Everyone was just rolling their eyes at him. Ruuuude!
Anyways, I’m back home. Had lunch with my Dad yesterday, which was nice. My friend J came over on Monday night and I made sushi for her. Also finally got my deposit from my apartment in Werni back after calling them again. Yay, I’m rich now! Happy days 🙂