Double-Half
or One Ten without ham

I just stumbled over this very nice photo-blog, outdoor photos.
Really great nature-pics!

How sick is this?!
A cancer patient who is likely to die soon will donor her kidneys to only one person. There are 3 three patients - or competitors? who need a kidney desperately.

The cancer patient - and viewers´ votes - will decide who will get the life-saving organs.

It´s a dutch reality show!

It´s very, very hard to be on a transplant waiting list, but this is a disgusting way to call attention to it to the public, I think.
The poor woman has to play "God", she decides who may live or die!

"The big Donor Show" is "totally unacceptable", at least to me... is this a way to encourage people to become organ-donators? I´m one without having seen such a horrible show!

Extreme-cyclist Timo Mueller is back in town. He is only 21 years young and made some 21 000 kilometers on his push-bike.
He traveled Braunschweig - Sydney - Braunschweig for amnesty international. He hoped to get one Euro for each kilometer, but didn´t reach his goal. If you wanna help, simply go on his site Cycling for human rights.

He called his Cycling for Human Rights just the first thing to do to make people aware of the problems and to collect money.

On his site you can also read about his adventures from Darwin to Sydney - he wrote it in english.

He found the road trains threatingly - I did so, too - though I was sitting in my car! Took this pic in 1999 - impressive, huh?



Not just because of this I think he really is a brave young man, worth mentioning.

So much to tell... I saw Tommi at an online-shop and e-mailed Ingo a pic of him - with no reason!
When we went doing our errands, there he was! Tommi! Ingo bought him for me - he will be with me in the nights where Ingo is not.

I´d prefer Ingo, but isn´t he cute, too?



He is a cloth with a bears´ head. Soooo cuddly!

Speaking of it, we are the City of Science 2007 - and I bought us a present. A present for Ingo which will stay in my place since I live in Brunswick! Well. A present for me, after all...

A "The “Kitchen of Ideas Braunschweig"- kit. At flickr I have more detailed pics... In it is a wooden spoon, an apron (pic with sweet guy to come), noodles that are shaped like lions (Brunswick is the town of Duke Henry the Lion), a timer, a recipe for tomatoe-sauce and a kit to grow tomatoes and invitation cards for when the tomatoes have grown and you cook the sauce and make the lion noodles.

Here is the sweet guy:



The noodle certainly is shaped like the DNA (you can click to enlarge) and it says Yummy-knowledge... OK...

LeckerBissen means delicacy, LeckerWissen ... well, Wissen is knowledge and in the kitchen of ideas we mix it to a new word. Um, they but I am a proud citizen! :-)

Leonhard Euler, or as Wikipedia says Oiler, the famous mathematician from the 18 hundreds (the one from the 19 hundreds was Carl Friedrich Gauss who was born here in Brunswick) was the reason for us to go and see his experiment - Ingo will blog about the details later.

Man... I read it in the newspaper - it was even my idea.... So we went and listened to gun shots and it was plain LOUD! And, well, rather boring to me.

The couple´s name who managed the stuff was Loewe - I am not kidding!!!! I am not lying, for sure! Their name was Lion!
See it here in acion:



On the way to it Ingo saw some tinsel:



Will you ever believe which T-Shirt I was wearing????



I bought this one in Perth! Around christmas, when the whole town was full of tinsel, as you can see here at flickr, just visit the Perth-set.

... not really but these guys made one here in the neighbourhood :-)
Pic taken from my balcony whilst having a corn for BBQ:

This is the castle from the back - I will not go there, this is a pic from the free newspaper we get.

Yeah - this looks like a castle, hm? So very much historical.

270 trees have been cut down for it. Can you believe this?! Two hundred and seventy trees! Not to mention the playground, the skaters´ site...

Money. Yeah. That´s what it´s all about, even in the "little" things like this one...

... or rather not!

We went to Goerge to do errands. We looked for carrots, radish, asparagus, capsicum (yep, how healthy ;-)...) ... when I saw a bottle of sparkling wine on the shelf and "Braunschweig..." was in the title! I just love stuff of my town!

I said to Ingo "give me that bottle, please!". He did and then we saw it has the castle on it. It was a bottle promoting the new castle of my town. I said, "nahhh - put it back I don´t want that!!" A young man standing next to us looked over and grinned. I said "sad for the loss of the park..." and he said "Yes!..."

I found an article, sadly just in german, on wikipedia on our "castle".
Long story as short as I can - first a pic of the book I even bought on the subject (title: "The park belongs to us!" - we lost):



Brunswick was heaviliy bombed in WWII, also the castle was ruined. The people had time - five years! - to decide whether to rebuild the castle or to let go. It was kinda 50:50, very sharply they decided to let go.
We had a very beautiful park instead.

Some years ago they started a new debate on rebuilding the castle. Again very close decision - and I bet money was heaviliy involved.

They cut off all the trees. The beautiful park is gone. A remake of the castle sits there now, hosting shops. A tiny kind of museum, too. Hot debates are still running.

To us younger people the park was a good place and we have no connection to the castle. There were protests and all but the money-poeple won.

The student/young man was on our side, obviously...

The park...



That´s there now:

with this?

We just watched a documentary on ginger and they showed the ginger factory in ...Australia, in Queensland - who would have guessed that?

They say it´s the largest in the world and also delivers Europe.

So I think the corms I bought so far all came from there. What a nice thought. If we had known that, we would have visited the factory for sure! But apard from Fraser Island we more or less just rushed through there.

Well, next time.

That will be either when we´re retired or when we for some magical reason won heaps of money (would be a miracle since none of us plays Lotto or something).

Well. So far, next time I buy a ginger corm, i will just give it a happy smile :-)

Ahhhh... three days off, another long weekend is to come! We will see each other five days! At least if you count not only Friday evening but also Tuesday morning.

And yes, if the weather is good enough we even go to the beach, the Okerkabana (german) is open again!

Time just flies... we´re together then for thirteen years!

Speaking of stupid things you do like wearing two different shoes (see last post)... a friend reminded me of a certain situation, also at work :-)

I try to live healthy. Not always like 5 a day but I usually have an apple for a break.

My customer had a customer and we were all sitting at my workplace since I have two monitors.
My customer has not, which means she is not used to it.
Whilst talking to her customer she grabbed over to take the mouse and show something. The mouse was on the right monitor, she was looking at the left monitor. I was wondering if she was hungry.
Because... she took this:



If I had an apple as usual she would have realized it´s not a mouse - but the nectarine had a form and structure... well since she was concentrating on the monitor, she at first didn´t feel the difference - and moved the nectarine, staring on the screen!

Luckily I hadn´t seen clearly what she was doing!!! I would have cracked up!

Afterwards we had to laugh our heads off!!! :-))
And I have to concentrate so I don´t laugh out loud - I´m having lunch and my colleague would think I´ve gone crazy...

Argh... I hope no one looks at my shoes in the meeting... I´d have to giggle sillily, now that I´m reminded of the nectarine-story!

... or not a pair.
I wear trousers today where I need "high heeled" shoes. I don´t drive with them no more, so I just grabbed two black shoes whilst wearing sneakers and changed when I arrived here at work (having my breakfast-break now). I made my way up to the fifth floor and thought, darn - one shoe claps, the other doesn´t, why is that?!

In the office I had a closer look. Hmmm... the base is shorter on one than on the other... worn out? Closer look - different shoes!!!!! Argh!

I have a meeting today!

Both shoes are black, have thick heels - one is slightly more narrow in the front (no, I don´t wanna hear any comments from any man here!). The right might be 5mm higher than the left - on a quick grab this morning in half light I didn´t see that.

Did that happen to anyone else, too?

I feel clumsy!

As if running around like this!:



Not a good start at work, feeling like a clown!

Even worse! I just remember that happened some years ago before! With the same shoes! There my office was right near the factory which means I had to walk quite a bit from my car to the office like clack! - no-clack!...

When I´m home I will seperate those pairs.. One in the corridor, the other in my room!
Will you believe that...

I just "found" this site from flickr, flickrvision - they show dynamically the pics that were just uploaded around the world - I think it´s fun.

Whilst here on the internet (which is still new to me again) I have the TV blurring.

Hehe... a documnetaion on some guy coming from the Hamburg-area is on - memories, sweet memories of my childhood just flow over.

Dialects are strong on me - I take them over quite quickly. I have been at relatives in that area as a kid all the time and it takes me just minutes to get the slang back. People are irritated when I talk to someone who orignates from that area like one of my (sadly former) cutomers - hehe, I just have a big smile on my face listening to the telly now! :-)) Biiiiig one!

I have relatives in the german part of Switzerland, too, and when I hear someone from there I can´t help grinning either.

Dialects are a mystery to me - a sweet one!

A sad one, too. The relatonships to the relatives broke up due to the gap in age. Due to my grandmother being dead for over six years now. She held us all together. I´m right inbetween with my age.
I wanna go to bed with a nice thought.

My grandmother... was a strong person - had nine kids of whome seven survived. She had seen the badest things but was able to teach my brother and me the very good things in life like poor knight (german) - a receipe,a sugary one I loved the smell of security it spread when I was little.

I´ll take a very deep breath now and go to bed, missing Ingo.

... is over.
On Wednesday we went all childish.

I said, let´s go for a walk. Ingo asked if I had ever went into the laundromat across the street. Since my answer was no, we went in.

Here you can see a man lost in memories...



On our journeys throughout Australia we often sat in laundromats watching the time fly by while our clothes made their way through the process. We played cards until Ingo couldn´t stand me winning all the time no more. We read books, newspapers, talked, relaxed or simply let the beautiful landscape we just traveled run through our inner eyes again.
Great. Now I want to buy my car back, hop in and start another journey!

Next we went to the playground across the other street and had some silly fun - and no, there were no kids we pushed no one away ;-)



On we went in the neighborhood, stopped at the museum/institute.

The otter here looks like "YAY I´m being photographed!" He makes his best to look nice, see how he straddles his fingers for joy?



And Ingo???? "LOOOOook!"

I won´t post a pic of what made him so excited I only tell you: It was a bunny. Wo-hoooo I just can´t stand the excitement... ;-) Here in the city they just are a pest (if you want to see it anyway, I put the pics up at flickr under Braunschweig/Brunswick [what a surprise ;-)...])

Next we passed a new beer-garden. The waiter shouted, hey, come on in :-)

But we had other plans - we finally... well, ok, me... finally wanted to go to Herman´s (german), a fancy student´s pub. We veeeery seldom go into pubs. It´s expensive and usually very loud.

This one was cool. Though not at the sea, we even found a beach chair in the arch cellar.



More pics, as mentioned at flickr. The music was surprisingly quiet, so we could talk without screaming at each other.

On the way back home we passed the museum/institute again - and the door was not locked! So we went in. The offices were closed but we could run around and have a look. It was like we did something forbitten - and it probably is. When entering one hall, the lights went on - are we on the internet now, caught in action? ;-)

Anyhow, I want to go there when they´re open - doesn´t look too bad (german).

The weather was good.

On Saturday we went to the football game (german).

Am I glad I didn´t invite my brother!!!!

He studied in Cologne and it was "against" the Cologne Falcons.

Football in Brunswick was known for the highest fairness in Europe.

Was...

They have a new sponsor to moderate the games, a radio station called RTL. Well. Maybe I am old. But it was waaaaaay too loud! There are also heaps of kiddies who depend on their parent´s rationality to protect them from the noise.
I forgot again to pack ear protection - it was just plain awful.
To top it they were not fair!!!!

For kick-offs "Start Me Up" from the Rolling Stones is played. In earlier days it was just played when the Lions kicked off but with the years, more fairness came in and it was played for the other teams, too.
Also here. But only 'til the Falcons showed they are strong, too.
When they were on the field with their Offense-team, the music went so aggressive - I was ashamed.

Ingo and me agreed to leave before the game was over.
I complained via e-mail and certainly got no answer (yet?) - I will also post in their forum to see if others felt the same. The Lions won 35:28, how "nice" - it´s not the team´s fault but we were deeply disappointed by the atmosphere.

Sport is meant to be fun! And fair! Oh, and fun!!!

On Sunday we went to El Goucho again to treat ourselves with a yummy steak. "Our" waitor gave us a big grin, how nice. We´re not there that often. Seldom rather.
But we´re one of two couples who always come by bike. We never need the card, we know what we want. We don´t spoil the steak with sauce. Especially Ingo explicitly thanks the cooks (you can see them from the dining area) and Ingo gives good tips (as mentioned we´re there seldom). And we all are of one age and don´t use the formal way to address each other.
And it´s sooooOOOooo yummy.
Really. I could freak out (ok not that much) when I see people order ketchup there...

Now Ingo is back home. I feel alone. My brother called me via Skype, but it was rather disturbing, still so many problems to be solved - but he finally starts moving to the future!

And he told me the package I ordered some? eight?! weeks ago to his address has arrived!!! I thought it was lost.
It came from Great Britain which is actually just around the corner! Certainly I ordered a book and stuff from the Lover of Life, Singer of Songs, from Farrokh Bulsara or Freddie Mercury, a genius who died way too early.
YAY - I am sooo keen on reading the book!

We sat in the kitchen, having this:



Hmmm, was yummy!

The radio was still on and it was blurring...

"I said, do you speak-a my language?
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich..."

I looked at Ingo, hand right beside the shelf....

Would you make that man a Vegemite Sandwich????



But what´s it about the man in brussels???

The radio is singing "Let´s do the time warp again!... It´s just a step to left... and then a jump to the ri-hiiihihiihgt!" And I´m young again! I throw around with toilet paper and rice (nah... not really! Not in my apartment! ;-)...)



I´m in the open air bath - guess, where? In the town where "everything is just around the corner" - ahhh - how many kilometeres did we walk in the dark, even in the cold, just because the boyfriend of a former friend (sad she´s my friend no longer) said, aw, it´s just around the corner!
Yep that was right here, right in Brunswick! I even met Steffen some years agao. We had a little talk but we won´t be friends no more.
We went on holidays together, once a year, all the four of us. We had fun.

I feel quite old now! ...

I´d like to make a time warp to tell my friends to stay my friends. They are not together anymore.

(Maybe!!!) Good news! My brother just called me! HE called ME! He called me to say he wants to book that secure-driving-training for me and wanted to know which date suits me.
My doc was right! Give them silence and they will come to you. I´m SOOOOOOOOooooo happy right now!
He wants to call me via Skype in 30 minutes - I hope Ingo can fix dinner (two sorts of asparagus!) in time.

My brother sounded good. Happy, content. I don´t want to hear bad news - my heart races to the news I will hear!

This is what we do now, and together! While Ingo blogs, I plant! (well, now I blog and Ingo is in the kitchen!) See, here I try to grow lavender, rosemary and peppermint. I Already have basil, tomatoes, sunflowers and "Livingstone daisy".



I don´t know if I have a "green thumb" but so far my plants are growing like crazy! I have an australian chestnut I bought from Ikea - know the myth that as soon as you take them out of the artificial Ikea-environment, where they are green and lush, they die unter sunny, healthy, normal conditions? Mine grow! I have three other plants I don´t know the names of but they just groooow....
I live in a small appartment and a friend said, simply cut them down!

I can´t do that!

Let´s see if the newly seeded ones will grow....

I just love that we can live in one place and can do different things and are still together!

As mentioned before, Ingo has an... hmmmm.... affliction? with italian stuff.
No no, he is not xenophobic (what a word!!), no, not at all!
But since the story at Carnarvon´s Pelican Point italian stuff follows him (and hence, me, too).

We went grocery-shopping (or do you say, we made errands?) and we came home with this:



YUMMMM!!!!
Usually - if so - we buy spanish ham, the "good" one, Jamón serrano, but today we went to another store and bought "Prosciutto Italiano" - italiano!!! - he´s back, the italian guy! We never had that before - and I think we will never have Jamón serrano again! It was soooo tender, you will not believe it! And the taste... I could still melt away! Hmmmm - we ate a whole package! 100 g! For brunch. Together with german breadrolls and butter with olives. Sadly this butter is a special for starting off BBQ season only. I bought all they had (six pieces). I never liked butter but this one is different....

If you probably read along, Wendy, Ingo is sitting in my kitchen now, peeling asparagus. White one for him and green one for me!

Well. That was that for now. Though blogger tells me he saves my drafts now every minute automatically, I will still use the ole strg+a and strg+c before saving this post ;-)

And then I will see how far Ingo came with peeling asparagus.
Oh. On the pic you can see that you should drink red wine to the ham. We couldn´t. The bottle Ingo´s father brought from Spain is in Ingo´s place. We drank Sangrita (german) instead - a kind of very spicy, non-alcoholic, tomatoe-juice, yum!

Hmmm! Ingo turned the radio LOUD in the kitchen! "Start me up" is on - we hopefully will hear that a lot tomorrow! This is played in the stadion when there is a kick-off for our team (german) - and the others now, too. It will be the Cologne Falkons. And Shrek (german) will bring the ball in the stadion! We´ll have fun tomorrow there! :-)

There was no pic available on "freezer bag" at stock.xchng. The search for ice cube gave me this beautiful pic and I took it - it´s got nothing to do with what I wanted to say, though...

For the first time in my life I bought plastic freezer bags. How come?
Well, "hotel mama" provided me with everything. When studying I always shared flats with other people and we never had a freezer. Same for the first years I worked - again shared the flat, again no freezer. Never missed it. Now I have one... I use it for making ice cubes in summer.

Wal*Mart leaves Germany now. The friendly cheese-saleswoman sold everything for half price and said, hey, take double!
I said, I live alone in the week.. and she went, you can freeze cheese.

I dunno if this really saves me money, but: I bought cheddar cheese! Which means, they have cheddar cheese! At the speciality cheese shop they said, no, no cheddar.

Hmmmm.... memomies of our latest holidays. You know, they don´t say cheese over there, they say:



So, I bought double mass, a freezer bag the first time and freeze the cheddar we got here from Great Britain and Ireland.

I like it only from a whole piece here - slices taste somehow... artificial, yucky...

Well that´s no Coon!

The day started early since a colleague wanted me to take him along. He knows how much afraid of driving I am since the accident and yet,... he hops in the car...
We wanted to meet at 06:20, I was there at 06:10 and he was already waiting. We´re "sick"! :-)
Actually he wanted to buy something to drink, but the shop wasn´t open yet...
Sad thing he doesn´t like to start work early more often - we could safe so much money, driving together!

The colleague I share the job with took the day off and man, it was just packed with work. So I - and my other colleague worked overtime.
Driving back was difficult due to heavy rain.

When back home I tried to make skype work. That was awful. But finally a newer version worked.

Did grocery shopping, a little walk in the rain included - I like that.

I´m still waiting for Ingo. He has run out of socks. Washed them and has to wait ´til they tumbled dry... That never happened to me, running completedly out of socks!

The poor man had to work all day outside in the rain - he won´t be in a relaxed mood when he finally will arrive...

Buuuut... here come the good news: Tomorrow is a public holiday! The day after that we took off, too. Saturdays neither of us works and for Sunday it´s the same. Four days off, yay!!!!

And after that I will push my brother to book the secure-driving-training for me (he is in a car club).

Barbara wanted to cut her long, beautiful hair to give it to locks of love, an organization that gives hair to kids who cannot afford wigs..

Sad thing there are kids with no hair - good thing that such an organization exists. My hair is waaaay too thin and grows sooooo slow that I cannot help.
Anyone who plans to get a real haircut can help - heaps of kids help, too.

Sorry, if I gave you "ear candy" - what a word! In german it´s an "ear-worm"! English is waaaay nicer!
And no, I don´t wanna run or hide.

"So I simply kept on running" was a sentence a primary school kid just said.
newsclick (german) reports of a marathon where primary school kids practiced weeks for.

In the Prince Park they ran in the pouring rain. Altogether they made 2202 kilometers.

Or you can say 3000 €.

They ran for kids who live in poverty, live right here in my town.
It was a benefit performance for the "United Kids Foundations" (sorry, this is their real name, but I found no button "english" - it´s a weird world sometimes).

"My mother said I won´t make 20 laps. But then I thought: It´s for needy kids. So I simply kept on running."
He made 30 laps! (And what a negative person is his mother?!)
He is nine years of age.

This is just great!

This is just very sad, too!

When I grew up.. either my family kept me away - or "protected" me from subjects like these or they were hidden from public.
Kids these days are confronted very early with the bad and sad sides of life. Is that good? Are 6-year-olds strong enough already for this (this is when primary school starts)?

Btw: Needy kids from this region will make a holiday from the money in autumn.

My name is Kaiser which is german for Emperor.

And in some weeks there will be a coronation! For me!

Ok. Rather with me and the crown will look like this....:



And it was Ingo´s idea to relate to a crown like for an emperor, too! Seems he is way more creative than I am!

So. I went to the dentist today. It was - luckily! - another one, one that understood my horror. I got an extra high dose of anesthetization and she said if I feel anything I can just wave and she´ll stop.
Since last time I felt something, I waited for the pain and shivered all over. But: I felt not a thing!

Bad news is she said the tooth is one of the most important and most used ones and I need the crown. And have to pay for it, at least a part! I want a white one, which does cost some money, I will get the price next week or so.

Ack! Getting old is expensive!!!!

Thanks to Ingo I can see it with humour, though! :-)

Thanks to Wendy I found my way back to eat asparagus again!

We had a BBQ on Sunday with green asparagus with olive oil and parmesan - and I liked it! Hehe, thank you for the tip, Wendy!



Next we´ll also try corn again, I guess.

The season has started. No, I don´t mean the AFL, the Australian Football League - there I don´t even know the rules...
I´m talking about American Football in Germany, the German Football League (german) - The Braunschweig Lions played "against" the Hamburg Blue Devils last Saturday.
The toughest team to play against.

The lions simply ate them up with 31 : 6 (german)!

Who would have thought that? New headcoach (sadly had to let go of the old one), new Quarterback (same to say here), No. 40 gone as well and anyhow... strong team!

Can anyone explain why I get so many pics of a soccer-ball when searching for "football" at stock.xchng??? And the first good one is from the AFL?

forever...

Yikes! Yuck! I bought some strawberries yesterday. Red, ripe and sweet. I knew I couldn´t eat them all in time and thought I just share them here at the office. So today I brought them here, opened them up, right above my console... and strawberry juice went all over just everything.
They were not just ripe, those strawberries... More than half of them went to the bin (downstairs which means five floors down and up again before seven in the morning...!) - after trying to clean up the mess!

Sad nine of them are left to eat.

Try to buy avocados over here... they´re hard as stone! Why not sell strawberries before they are over-ripe?! Or ripe avocados?
The left ones look yummy none-the-less.

Dear colleagues, don´t sleep long, they might be eaten.. just by myself! ;-)

Hmmmm... they smell just too yummy!

And I do have to eat... this afternoon... eeeek... I have to make my way to the dentist. I feel sick already. Stupid, I know. I can stand a lot. But don´t touch my teeth! And the noise of the drill.... ahhhhhhhhhhh..

Think of strawberries, sweet strawberries...! Or of the pear that waits to be consumed or the Cape gooseberry fruits... sounds healthy, hm? And yummy!

newsclick (german) reports that the fastest woman in Germany comes from... :-) yep, Brunswick.
She just won a marathon again, Luminita Zaituc is her name.

She is only 1,63 m in height. So, being tall doesn´t automatically make you fast.

I borrowed this from Knut´s blog´s picture section - what a tired, cute, little polar bear, my heart just melts!
Good thing I´m not a polar baer - I´m fit :-)
At this hour! The clock rings at 05:40 tomorrow...

No, I didn´t break another tooth! (And yes, I had an apple today!)
I wanted to call this post "everytime a dollar..." but then, it doesn´t happen that often!

I went to the doctor today ro get tested on cancer. While my blood pressure was measured, the assistance asked me, "how old are you?" (man, and I really needed a second! A sign of older age, hm? ;-)...)

So... I mumbled "... 35...".

And she said, "oh, I thought you were younger. It is advisable to get an immunization against *a certain kind of cancer* and the health insurance takes the cost for women up to 26."

I was astounded to be taken for so much younger again and felt a biiiiiiig smile make it´s way to my face.

"In your case you would have to pay 500 € yourself."

I immediatly lost my smile (but will gather information and decide later)!

This happens from time to time and I am really afraid that one day it switches and I look ten years older than I am and people expect me to wear teeth like shown above!

They remind me, too, that I have an appointment with the dentist on Tuesday....ahhhh

newsclick.de (german) says, in Brunswick you can find the first automatic beverages market worlwide - WO-HOO!. They call themselves getraenke drive 24 (german).
Different from for example the USA or Australia you can buy any beverages in the shops, also liquor. The protection of minors is "guarantueed" in so far as the machine reads the age of the card-holder and refuses to deliver beer to holders under 16 years of age and liquor only from 18 years on. If that works, then good (how many parents will "loose" their credit cards from time to time?).
You can get beverages 24 hours a day and since the "shop" is run by robots the prices are low.

Whew. Remember the days when you could buy anything from 08:00 a.m to 06:00 p.m. ... and after that... waited 'til the next working day?

This cartoon says: "When Jutta came home surprisingly, she had to find out that her husband was an Ossi" - Ossi means from East Germany.

Man... it´s nearly eighteen years now that the frontier had opened!

My colleague who grew up "over there" could give it a laugh though...

I didn´t ask him if he likes bananas...

Nothing much happened today.
I went from Ingo´s place to work, worked, chatted, worked, went to Wal*Mart in my town, took all my belongings (also the errands) in one piece into my apartment (coughing! pfff...), had something to eat (salad and mini-Pizza)...

Went online (still YAY) and thought... ummm... and now? Unpacking? Nahhhh...

I sort my Blogroll.

Is it more "fair" now?

I could have put them all in one category in simple alphabetical order. Would that be fair? Then german and english would mix. OK, I could mark them. Nah... Plus they´re not even all blogs neither.

I am german but have (apart from my boyfriend) no german readers.

I looove Perth and have traveled Australia twice.

I have never (yet!) been to the US, but have some blogs there that I read daily.
I don´t read all the Perth blogs daily though.

I bet everyone has his favored blogs to read, but would never admit it in order not to hurt anyone. My sorting before was no real sorting. The roll just grew and I kept Australia "and the rest" separated in no particular order.

I don´t wanna offend anyone. I admit: I´m very interested in what´s happening in Perth. I feel home there and will come back sometime sooner or later.

I like and read all the blogs listed here!

Oh, and for sure: I love the idea of blogging itself!
Getting to know other people in the whole wide world up to the level they let the public do so.

Meet some in person by spending the holdidays in their town after they made me so much homesick (and do it again!).

Well. Maybe I change the list again. For now I think it´s ok, is it?