who – are – YOU?

seriously, i had an average of 40-50 people visiting my blog each day in the past week – who are you? – if you read this, whether if it is your first time coming across this little nonsensical blog of mine or you are a regular, please leave me a comment and tell me how you’ve come to be here and read what i have to tell

any comment will do, just let me know, why you’re here – if it makes me laugh, well, that would add an extra bit fo flavour, but just a regular hello and where you’re located would be very much appreciated – i so much want to know who you are and what you think – and please, i do take orders! – if you want me to post on something special, just say the word and i’ll consider what i can do – or look at the menu and choose a category you think i’ve been neglecting and i’ll be happy to come up with something

but thank you for reading anyways!

good to be a star

elizabethtown

this has got to be my most favourite movie of all times and right now i please want an all night phone-conversation and a crazy family and not a crappy stressed life – success really is debatable

sunny afternoon

i think it is about time for another update of life – if it were just as easy as updating your computer, that would be nice – well, my life is not as easy as that, my life is a rollercoaster (gee, gotta stop speaking in song titles, that is so annoying) – anyways, my life at the moment consists of juggling two jobs, theater (where i always do more than originally planned), a phd and being kind of still sick

being sick is getting better, but there are days when i lack all efficiency and all energy to get up and go about my chores – and then there’s days where i jump out of bed and do the duracell bunny without stopping until i hop back into bed – that’s somehow unnerving because it’s neither here nor there

then there’s the two jobs – seriously, needing money is such a drag – but four months of not earing any money, traveling in england and living in berlin, left a black hole in my finances and so i am trying to get that filled in – it is a dreary task – but at least one job includes a trip to berlin next week (plus one more later this months or next) and is fabulously paid – and the other – as much as i’d love to say, same old, same old because it sounds cool, it is also pretty exciting to say it’s not same old, same old

it’s much better new, much better new – i am not so much bothered anymore by things that have bothered me before and there is loads of cake to go around whenever i work and, to tell the truth, it is not the cake i baked, but cake others provide for me – lovely – still not my long over-due birthday-chocolate-delight, but cake nevertheless – i am just not sure if the motto “carola’s flowers grow at cron & lanz” (http://www.cronundlanz.de/) is something i really like getting around – it seems rather presumptuous, doesn’t it? – but then, i do like cake

and i also like red clover schnaps, which we had yesterday – self-picked and self-distilled red clover schnaps – it sounds fancy, but it tastes very much exactly like it did when you sucked the little bit of sweet honey-stuff out of the clover flowers when you were a kid, which i am sure you did – we all did!

result of red clover schnaps was my being very happy indeed and going ’round hugging and kissing everyone, even at the theater – it really was a blast, as no one usually gets that much cuddling from me, usually only special people, not just everyone – but yesterday – yesterday i loved everyone

and i am getting married – or not and still have a fabulous party? – well, that is another story and shall be told another time – for now, let us enjoy the sunny afternoon

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hippie makes happy

i feel like dancing naked in the rain, like singing loudly and smoking weed, like being part of something and making love in the fields – woodstock has definitely taken me with this wonderful movie – go watch and be taken yourself

it includes good music – a great plot – wonderful scenes full of humor, tragic and absurdity – moments that make you giggle so hard you just want to stop because it starts to hurt – and my new favourite ever smiling boy actor jonathan groff – that hair, oh delicious – see for yourself

this day has been a happy one from the start – i was in a continuous good mood and nothing, not even work, could bring me down – it was like being on drugs and whatever that drug is, i want it all the time – so this movie completed my day to perfection – i am happy as a hippie

random ramblings

after having been in semi-depression for the past few weeks, life seems to be getting back on track

i manage to get things done, get up early and start bright and fresh into the morning

last weeks crisis at work has been smoothed over, but i’ve taken an overdue decision – i need a new job, quickly! – started looking and applying

the apartment-hunt has a new twist, no longer intensively looking to buy, but rather to rent and share with two friends

barbaro’s been tame like a lamb and i’ve started to reconsider my feelings – i know, i know, i’ve said so before, but this time it feels like i am slowly making progress – and if he no longer acts barbaro, he might not be interesting anymore – perverse, but if it helps

theater life is a charm, it all works out perfectly and i feel very appreciated for what i do – i only can’t say no and there’s too many projects at once which makes me feel like a juggler, but i think i can handle it, somehow

phd work is also coming along nicely – reading, reading, reading, as if that would be bad, huh?

i’ve been sporty, going swimming once, twice, thrice a week and running occasionally – tonight i’ll see the national football team play azerbaijan in the world cup qualification and i am excited to be at a real stadium again – hoping for loads and loads of great goals

my career as agony aunt has developed into strange new directions – and, same as always, i give help to everybody else with their complicated love lives, while my own stays pitifully twisted as always (okay, there’s hope, but that comes and goes) – but, never mind, it’s okay, i’ll be fine and as much as i love to help, it all works out in the end and everybody is happy, even if it’s twisted and absurd and strange how life and love works – it’s really not all that natural to me that the guy, who seemd hopelessly in love with me not six months ago, is now dating my best friend and talking babies and weddings with her and she only having split up with her ex a couple of weeks past – that’s soap material, not real life, isn’t it?

so, as the leaves start to fall and autumn comes around, i am perfectly content with things once more and ever so glad to be over that depressingly depressive phase – that was hell!

cute-ish

apart from the music, this is about the cutest thing i’ve seen in quite a while

declutter your life

should not take seriously as leads to breaking more and more of my good crockery – smashed my best casserole dish to smithereens just now – not good!

sweet tooth

i just ate a whole pack of mamba – and, o my god, it’s still that good – sweet, yummy, gooey perfection – i want more!

broken china

a common saying in germany is that broken china brings luck – taking things literally i broke my grandma’s irreplaceable meissen forget-me-not plate last night and followed it up with an ever so slightly less valuable pink cup today – but so far no luck whatsoever – only my beloved almost hitting me and breaking my nose with a cricket bat, a hole in my favourite skirt and a funny ache in my throat – so, i’ll put behind all my superstitions*, try not to break anymore valuable china and live happily ever after

jjj

* this includes late-night candle-light tarot sessions, where i’ll already know the outcome (i say barbaro, you say hot plate, thank you very much) anyways

the nanny

how many after-school afternoons were spent watching the nanny? – oh, many, many – almost every single one – i absolutely loved this show and since i am on holiday this week, but still wake up early, i spent my early morning hours sipping coffee and watching back-to-back episodes of the nanny on tv – delicious

work in progress

once again a photography post – i nearly forgot about my fascination with michael wesley until i took a photo of the construction site outside my work – a five-year work in progress to build berlin’s newest subway line

wesley took things a step further with his open shutter project on the construction of the new moma in new york from 2001 – 2004 – amazing!

man-icure

today i found out that i could never have a man with bad nails – and this had nothing to do with this specific specimen cuddling the doors of the tube – it’s just terribly unaesthetic and rough and a total no no

baby boom

it is not just me – everyone else noticed as well – there are more pregnant women these days and usually ready to pop out a baby or two – since we’ve not been able to determine a blackout or similar happening in novemer, we’re sure it’s a regular baby boom and we’re proud! – we need babies and babies are adorable, if sometimes smelly and annoyingly loud! – i’ve begun counting pregnant women and so far friday’s been the best day: at least ten of them during a two hour visit to the outdoor pool – sunday and today it’s been three to four and i’ll keep on counting – there’ll be an update if the magic ten is topped

still alive and kickin’

yes, still alive – hello, hello, hello – i am here – just waiting for this week to be over to write about what has happened – believe me, it would be no fun otherwise, so check back later tonight for news of chaos week

great gifts

dead like me and a very great longing for american-style breakfast

my new daily show is “dead like me” – soo funny, so un-american, with an almost british sense of humor – me likey very much – but it has one very bad side effect – the undead, the reaper-gang meet at a waffle house every day and that makes me long for american-style breakfast big time – mhm, waffles, pancakes with maple syrup, crisp bacon and eggs, hash browns and sausage, grilled cheese – i am hungry!

the jackson hype

it has taken the world by surprise – michael jackson’s dead – millions of fans around the whole world are grieving – i am not so sure – of course, he’s a legend and like every other good pop star, he had to have the scandals, outrageous life-style and crazy ideas – i just don’t think too much of this whole idea of making your kids wear masks or, even worse, changing your whole self beyond recognition – but i guess that’s the way he had to be – and whatever else there is to say, whole generations of us have grown up with his music and that will stay!

berlin has it’s own way to cope – apart from vigils and spontaneous meetings either to sit in grief or to celebrate the music, people talk and form their own ideas – my co-worker decided, he’s simply done the elvis and is really not dead at all, just gone undercover (hard to imagine barbie-man jackson going anywhere and not being recognized, but the general idea is appealing, it would suit his craziness) – someone else said, he’s glad for the children because it seems they now have a chance to grow up somewhat normal

my office not only overlooks the brandenburg gate, but als berlin’s own version of madam tussaud’s (outrageously expensieve, but always busy – http://www.madametussauds.com/berlin/) – they not only put their michael jackson copy out front, but also put out a book of condolence, so fans could sign their name alongside getting their photo taken with their idol – the media seized the chance and rolled up with cameras to interview the grieving masses – i have yet to find proof any of the footage actually made it on screen, but i sure enough watched rtl-ntv and news24 camera men all morning and afternoon yesterday – once again, i am not sure, what to think – it’s just an other person dead – okay, he was famous and dying at his age is a pity, but then – he’s  the king of pop, he lived his life to the full, so death probably saved him some troublesome times – in the end there’s only one thing that’s important

gotta love IKEA

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