Push some Molecules

So. Ingo is on his way to Lueneburg.
He´ll stay overnight at his brother´s place and tomorrow morning he´s due.
Hopefully the last surgery.

The last tube gets out.

I don´t have a good feeling about it, dunno why.

Fingers crossed all goes well.

And then close this chapter.

This title... well.
Long ago I broke my arm. Very long story. At some point I had to sign that I understand it is very possible I might loose the function of my right hand.
There I stood, January night in the hall of the Hannover Medical School, calling my Mom, crying in fear.
She was harsh. More yelling that telling me that if I don´t stop being that negative it will go wrong.
That was the first time in my life that I really tried to think positively.
Maybe I pushed some molecules.
My right hand is just fine.

Green is as green does

I´ m not from Belgium

I don´t live in Sesame Street neither, but I started the day with a sesame roll. YUM:



This is what I had.
Ingo had this:



At one time and he was faster than I was.
Like a seven-headed caterpillar (guess that´s a German saying, no? But ya know what I mean...).

Oh, gosh, in some aspects being a kid these days must be just great! How I would´ve loved this:



What´s all that do to with Belgium, you might ask?

Well. I said to Ingo, oh yum, gonna put this on the net, what is Rosenkohl in English?
No, not "rose kale", it´s Brussels sprouts!
So it seems we not only have to be very, very thankful for French Fries that come from Belgium originally, but also for this lovely, yummy treat!




Was. So. YUM.



See? If I did this whole stuff in German I would not have learned where Rosenkohl originally came from. What kind of an educational hobby do I have here after all, huh? :-)

Raising kids

I know I know nothing about it.
But I don´t think this toy shows the right way?
Or am I too conservative?



I couldn´t help but shake my head in disbelief.

Any opinions?

New York, Braunschweig, Paris

... in one title - we are metropolis! :-)

Season opened

So I left work at 11:20 today to meet my bro in town.
I´ve gathered 40 hours overtime again, so that´s no problem.

After a good long chat we went to the city. We left the car in the Schlossarkaden (german), the shopping mall for which our park had to get cut off.

Didn´t it look chrissy-like:



We just went out to get greeted by the next Season´s item:



Goal was the Christmas Market:



We´d asked Ingo more than once but he didn´t want to join us. Maybe better so, the place was just loaded. Seems like everyone wanted to have a look.

Saw this wooden cow-marionette, kinda cool, huh?



And, new to this market, an ancient carousel. Well, half the lights weren´t working :-(



The old machinery made a whole lotta noise, but since I´m afraid of heights I won´t go in anyway!

The roads look pretty also, like every year:




Another impression of the market:




It was coooold, so we had some mulled wine. Shows a bit in the pic, I suppose!



Afterwards Ingo and me went to a friend to exchange our self-made Advent-Calendars. Hmm, am curious what I´ll gonna find:



So much for "show and tell"! ;-)

One working day and then: Weekend! Yay!

What did I just say?

Did I say "time runs"? You cannot trivialize that, I suppose.



I was in Primary School today.

That smell. Oooold. Somehow. Old, wet chalk maybe?
When I entered the room I couldn´t believe it! They had old, wooden chairs and tables! You know those really old ones, good old handicraft! Darn it, why did I leave the cam at home?! It´s so small it fits in my trouser pocket!

Seems like Primary Schools never "grow up"!

I went there to donate blood to the German Red Cross and man, I understand there isn´t much money. But it would have been a great idea to let us donators sit on teacher´s chairs, no?
It was weird for me - now what about the taller guys?!
"Anemic" as you are you might think the chair never comes, you bend your knees, bend, bend... still nothing!

Weird feeling!

Good thing is: They now ask where they should take the blood for the hemoglobin percentage test from - finger or ear?
Nothing in this whole procedure hurts more than that shot into the finger!

I don´t know where the German Red Cross gets the sausages they offer afterwards, but they are really yummy! :-)

What else.. my car ate an earring today.
It´s darn cold so I had the heating full on. Warm (hot) air blowing at my face whilst I turn my head to the right, the "wind" grabs the left earring and I see it flying to the right.

Now. I searched the passenger seat for it, upside down. No-thing.
Have to add. In German cars are boys. So darn it, get the earing back to me, you freakin´ ole guy! Unless you got a moped as a girlfriend, but that´s very unlikely in winter!

Time runs

It´s 17 years already that Freddie had died.

Who ordered this?!

When I cycled home on Friday night I rode through: snow! Just to wake up the next morning to face this:



Yesterday they said in the news in Hannover, some 70 km from here, cable car rails freezed and the cars jumped off - how weird is this? We have November!

Can´t remember when we had snow in November last time but I remember a late December Day some years ago where I was wondering about a man running around in a T-Shirt - outside. Just to think, hm, ok, it´s 20 C!

Weird weather! Forcast is: cold. Ugh :-(

Grey November Day

Ugly, huh? This was around 3 p.m.!
We went for a walk anyway.

And I wonder...

Who´d be willing to pay money for a lamp like this?!:



I might buy this lemon squeezer, though!!!



I really could squeeze lemon after lemon on Chancellor Merkel´s face. I even could call her "Angie" doing so! Keeps on talkin 'bout recession, handing over money "symbolically". Great idea. I guess next time I refilled my car, I´m gonna step in and pay "symbolically" - let´s see what the guys in real life think of that?

Gone with bad thoughts, though!
It wasn´t a real success, maybe no really worth the job. But with a wee bit of imagination I felt like being back in Darwin - may I present: Our first cheese-spinach pie!



The dough wasn´t good. We used ready-to-go pizza dough and ready-to-go puff pastry for the top. Why do those darn things come in squares, huh?! Maybe we should do the dough on our own.
The filling was just YUM, though! :-)

Have you ever been in Darwin? If you go make sure you not only see/experience Tracy, but also stop by at the Fannie Bay Goal. Go early in the morning, be the first to enter the cell in the maximum security prison... you gonna find out that.... and when you turn round to leave the quickest you can, you find out you can not. The door is so darn small and people keep coming in...

Hmmm... long time ago. Memory still fresh as if it was yesterday. Just it wasn´t, it was 13 years ago! And when we came back in 1999 I had to find out... the shop I used to buy those super-yummy spinach-cheese-pies was no more.

So you can say: Today we revived my tastebuds from 1999!
I always used to buy at least two pies. Ate one, left the other(s) right underneath the car´s windscreen. That way it /they stayed hot all day :-)

Best thoughts to fight a grey November Day like this one!

A Winner, for Sure

Just found a link to FAIL blog over at Cazaroonie´s place - hey, but this one sure is a winner, no?!


see more pwn and owned pictures

Lost a Day?

I am aware of the fact that this one is probably one of the oldest jokes around... But... I laughed my head off none-the-less!

An amazing story about an email gone wrong

A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier.

Because of hectic schedules, the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday, with the wife flying down the following day. The husband checked into the hotel. There was a computer in the room, so he decided to send an email to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address, and, without realizing his error, sent the email.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned from her husband’s funeral. He was a minister who had died of a heart attack. The widow decided to check her email, expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted.

The widow’s son rushed in to the room and saw the computer screen which read:

To: My Loving Wife
Subject: I’ve Arrived
Date: October 16, 2004

I know that you’re surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now and you are allowed to send emails to your loved ones. I’ve just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.

P.S. Sure is freaking hot down here!

What has this to do with the title, dammit?!, you ask?

Plain nothing.
But I nearly lost a day today.
Because my Mom did yesterday.

I called her on the phone - yesterday.
She told me, "... and then yesterday, Wednesday...."
Me: "Yesterday was Tuesday, today is Wednesday!"

Today at work I have to register what I do and - BHAM! the list is full for Monday and Tuesday...! What the????

I had the list from last week - where I was at work only Monday and Tuesday. Haaaah.... Stupid me! ;-)

Morning Has Broken...

The cam really isn´t good for pics with no light. But... beautiful sight it was this morning!

This is the view my colleague would have had if she started earlier, that is!
My sight reveals my customer´s logo in full size...

Just it´s not summer anymore.

In No Proportion

On Thursday we floored some 40m². Friday... maybe 8.

We started off with a "masterpiece":



But then... yep, the stupid ole carpet again! Even our fingers hurt - a lot. We were tired and really unmotivated, here´s the reason:



The little corridor is only 2,50*2,50 m - hence no space to build up power with some drive. :-) Looked like a duck, my Bro here!

Partially we needed to dismantle the carpet by using hammer and trowel! Actually my Bro did:



I never have worked that hard before, really. If I had known what we´re really up to I might have told my Mom to get some professional craftsmen - that carpet needed professional tools!

It was frustrating, but we finished the job.

And this was the treat for all the hard work:



All fresh and yummy - so sad I don´t get that in my town!

My Bro gets more days off (easy with our Mom being his Boss :-)...) to do all the small works like putting borders on and all that. But I guess my Mom will move in only in Spring next year.
It´s such a frustrating time of the year now, dark, grey, cold.

So... pics come in Spring!

Made for Eternity

... that´s what the carpet in my Mom´s new apartment was obviously made for - gack!

I take three days off to help my Bro with the apartment. I painted the wall in the Tuscan color my Mom wished whilst my Bro tried to get rid off the carpet:





It was time again to let Hercules out:



Instead of a filthy ole carpet we put in cork, way better, no?



Our bodies hurt, but we nearly finished off the second room today! Was fun also :-)

One more day

... for us - together! Monday morning will be packed with sports-stuff for Ingo and then he´ll head home, yay!
Actually he´s "released" Tuesday at 9 a.m. But since there is nothing else on the list...
ta-daaaa :-)
... he´ll be off!

I know he´s not much into packet soups... but I just had to buy these as a "welcome-pack" (you can click to enlarge):
Sun, Moon and Stars-Soup clipped to his telescopium:



Pirate-Soup in the style of our bedroom and a pumpkin-cake since he missed Halloween (did anyone celebrate? I didn´t... maybe we do next weekend):



Speaking of Halloween... a Ghost-Soup is in also:



See our Miele-Baer? He´s not too sure this is not dangerous! ;-)

Hope he likes the 4PEAT-T-Shirt... it has a strange form, very short, but that´s the style - hey, a 4-Peat, not bad, huh?





Turns out to be another "show and tell", huh? OK - From what animal is cheese made of?

Riiiight:



Awww, finally. Three long weeks. One more stay at the hospital on Dec 1 (Nov 30th - Dec 2nd) and then that´s hopefully it! Can you believe it, it all started as emergency on Easter Monday.

Martin, his brother, who is a doctor, said it might take up to a year to full recovery - from July on - but I guess I´ll meet the old Ingo tomorrow!
Happy!!!! Me! :-)

Did the tofu-thing again (see last post) - was really, really yummy!!! Maybe I should write it down, just in case...

I would dare to offer

Since Ingo isn´t here and time for my tofu expires... I had to do something!

So, as I found no good recipe online, I bought mushrooms, zucchini and lemongras, added stock, creme and a bit of white wine and from this



I managed to make this



It smelled good and even tasted good! I´m not too sure about the lemongras. Seemed as if only the tofu took the taste. Did I put it in too early maybe?

It was really yum and if I made it more often, I´d feel safe enough to offer it to others.

But then... Since Ingo very possibly won´t give it a go, I´ll make the other half tomorrow and that´s it then.

Resumee: Wasn´t that difficult. But when I have a look at the dishes... gahhhh! Well, not really. I´m just not a cook, I suppose ;-)

Next it´s my turn again with cleaning the stairway, then I´m off to the gym and afterwards I search for some yummy food on the third Mumme-Meile (german).