This Is The Life

What a weekend we had! Sunny and warm, it was so good!

The trees are still naked but flowers are already there:

We don´t have black swans over here, only white ones:

First time this year in a skirt :-)

And here I´m wearing the meteorite Ingo got:

Sunscreen: Invisible Zinc, arrived Saturday in the mail and is as great as I thought it iwould be – not slimey at all :-)

The first bbq:

We had Gulasch for dinner, though, and this wine really knocks you out of your socks ;-)

If you look hard you’ll notice some Aussie-stuff in the backround in both wine-pics :-)

Some more shadow-related pics:

Handsome, huh?

Spring!

This doggie was happy with his hamburger :-)

Here you get Lulu as a “Sonderangebot” and in the other direction you´ll see the sun set…

Well, so far it looks as if we indeed might get a real summer this time!

“e” sure is happy :-)



(a pressie from SIL)

Dear Angel

We go as far as Buenos Aires… and the Angel lives in my town, he´s called like that by Pablo, an 11 year old boy.

As mentioned earlier some guy over here has too much money, they call it the wonder of Braunschweig.

And he gave 2000 euro to Pablo in Buenos Aires now. The boy had heard of “us” and written to the newspaper he needs help, otherwise they´ll have to live in the street.

Over 200 000 euro the unknown already gave to charity, isn´t that just great?

A good way to start the week, huh?
Got my summer-tyres on, the winter-tyres I brought in the cellar, both sets, mine and Ingo´s are gone now, yay!
Bought a book for Bro while waiting for the tyres, "Reassuring Words in Times of Grief". Life has to go on.

Hugs From Lion City

Too cute, huh?
No, not in the city of Henry The Lion (aka home, or Löwenstadt) but still too cute, huh?

The Life

We´re all getting older, huh? Even those "mannequins" do! Fun idea actually, no?

And what do I do about it? Riiiiight...

Oh, come on, don´t judge me, it´s yummy! And I had not all of it, it was too much!

Right, we really should buy in a healthier place like this, huh?

Sadly too far away! But at least shirt and bag show what we love :-)

Instead we went here once more...

The weekend before this one, that is. I´m kinda slack with blogging atm...

Hmmm.... if you ever come here, this is the place to go!

Yum!

And no, they don´t pay me for telling! The just are the best, trust me!

New In Old

We´re finally into spring! So, instead of running on my cross trainer, Ingo suggested to go for a walk... man it was so good! To feel the warmth outside, to see the sun for a change...
To see spring arriving, new flowers admidst the old leaves from last year...

Sadly the forcast isn´t good at all, so here are some more impressions to look back to...

This is river Oker, right opposite lake Ölper. Right into the sun :-)

And man, these guys knew how to have a good time, huh?
BBQ and a few fresh beers, funny enough to French music:

I so hope we get a good summer this year!

I´m A Papa

Went to my family-place today. First stop, though, was the Hospital where three of us were born (I, Bro, Niece, in that order) and Mum died.
I wanted to thank the team of the intensive-care-unit with a gumbaer-Pizza, cause they cared so well, they were just great, full of respect and if you can say so, love.
Didn´t do that well. The unit was under construction, I had to ask for the new place and it was a bit too much. Didn´t meet the original staff but guess the "Pizza" will find it´s way.

Notary: He´ll do the best he can, won´t bore anyone with details.

Pic above? Max and Moritz, who managed Seven Boyish Pranks. Their "creator", Wilhelm Busch lived 10 km from there and hence those (very ugly) figures.

Right there we picked our lunch:

Maybe you´ve heard about those numerous scandals concerning Doener and old meat - well, here at Gabar it´s fresh meat. They won several prices, they´re open Mon-Sun, 11 am - 11 pm, always crowded... Y.U.M.!
If you know me (see title), I´ll have the other half tomorrow for lunch (yes, it´s ok cold, too).

Bro had to refill his car (which I had to before, too - 1,68 Euro/litre!!!), I went to Niece`s place alone.
Poor little fella is home sick again, all snotty and had just gotten up from her nap.
She stared at me for a long time.

Then Bro got home, she went all smiles, running up to him, "Papa!!!".

Oh, she started talking, I thought, yay!

It took her a while, then she gave me all smiles, came over, poked me in the cheek and exclaimed... you guessed it, "Papa!!!"

Smiled proudly, pointed to her Mama and... Papa!!!

Must be rather frustrating to be a Mama, huh? Another word she can exclaim clearly is: Nein!!! - she gets a "no" darn often ;-) - And for a reason, I have to add.

She even came running into my arms several times and wanted to be picked up! Or just get a cuddle, how sweet is that?
Did she remember me after all? Or does she "just" like me?
(Remember... she is sick, feeling not all that well - how is she like when being all ok and healthy?)

She understands a lot! She is 19 months now. I got up to go and she pointed to the door. Then to my backpack - which I took, went out and put into her stroller (for my convenience).
That was not funny!
I explained to her that this was mine and going home with me (pointing to the door, too), put it back and showed her I need my coat first. We had some longer "conversation" about it, but then she let me get my coat.
And went to the stroller to handle me over my backpack! Wow! Huh? (proud Auntie-talk, I know).
I waved her good-bye and she insisted several times I wave good-bye to her Papa Mama as well, again and again. We all hugged, waved and on the road again I was.

Dad would´ve turned 74 today. And it was a day of heaps of smiles for a change.

Oh, and I brought home a Pizza, too. Half I had for dinner today, half I´ll have tomorrow.

Nah, I don´t go entirely for Junk-Food now! See, I take to work also this:

Ugly Max and Moritz, in front see Gabar :-) Bye, bye for now.

Sorry, no pics of Niece. Guess she wouldn´t appreciate pics of her being snotty and sick, right?

Does Your Sausage Make Poo?

As you may know Ingo is the cook in this household (as in my whole family from my Mother´s side, it´s the men doing the cooking).

Ingo made me Cordon Bleu on Saturday:

It was all ready to go from the butcher, but Ingo added some egg to make it better - from the rest I got a mini-omelette. Don´t know what he did with it, but I couldn´t decide what was more yummy!

(I promise, Pie-Making is on the way, Ingo is just in a whole lotta stress work-wise, so I can´t get him to try new stuff.)

No sauce, right. I don´t go for that. And yes, Ingo cooked two meals on Sat - because, ewwww... this sausage makes poo, who want´s to eat that?!!!

Ingo was awwww-ing and ohhh-ing but man. Ew, looks plain eek to me! Is called Wellwurst - what is "well" about that, huh?!

Was my lucky day today.
As almost every Monday we went to the city.
When a young woman called me and said, hey, your backpack is open, your purse is about to fall out!

See? This is why I love my town! People help you here.

Tomorrow I´ll meet my new friend again. Can men and women be just friends? I guess so. We´re so much alike, it´s weird. We´re so much different in other things, too, certainly.
Ingo did repair/change some stuff for him he cannot handle (minus 10 diopters he´s got, and man, you can hardly tell, great glasses he got (for a price... ewww!)). And I am curious about the pressie he made in return as a thank you for Ingo. It´ll be chocolate-based, so absolutely safe in my Pizza/salty-loving hands.

Called Bro today concerning Thursday when I´ll visit. He was about to call me today anyways. One of his friends lost his car (to the garage for a while) - if he can give him our Mum´s car.
Boy, is he taking the "we-stuff" serious, huh? Ok, I´d be the same. None-the-less. How could I ever worry he´d try to get me out? I did when he never called... stupid, stupid me!

Do I look forward to see little Niece, I tell ya! Bet she can walk and run like a Champ by now!
Will she remember me?
Last time was on Jan 5th, on my Mum´s Funeral, with heaps of other people around.

Oh, boy. I´ll also drive to Bad Gandersheim to bring such a Gummibaer-Pizza to the intensive-care-team as a thank you. Will they remember my Mum? Me and Bro? They were so good, so caring, they made everything less bad, treating my Mum like that.
Sorry, again at that subject. It´s still so fresh to me.

Well. Got the new Braunschweig-Shirt today, yay, will give it a first on Thursday - and wear the flamed heart tomorrow, just to show that Ingo loves me, right?
Men and women... a never ending story.

Advent again

My view when I do my "hip-training", lying on the floor (my hip is not straight and my right ankle hurts bad if I skip training). It was sunny today and it looks cool, huh?
I got so much done today! All floors are vacuumed and mopped and dried (floor is real wood).

And I finally got the time and light to take pics of the other great pressies I got in my Advent-Calendar last December.
This Lion is from some years ago, the frog was from this Calendar:

I have no idea where my friend gets them from (and I don´t wanna know, I like to get surprised), but aren´t they just gorgeous?
Here is Froggy from the back - made with so much love for detail!

And these spoons! Aren´t they just cute?

I usually have the blue one at work (VW-style, ya know) and I smile each time I use it. Really, I enjoy the spoon each working day. The texture is great, too.

I have to find a good light-blue T-Shirt where Ingo will iron on these mushrooms:

I just love Advent, you see why, huh? :-)

In general I like tinsel-stuff. This lion wears his whole year round (bought 2006 in Perth, btw):

And the Santa´s bonnet is there also all year round, it just looks so good, no?

The "pic" of the Japanese women to the right is actually a cloth to clean glasses. It came with my sunglasses and this note from Bro, saying "dear Sis, flowery greetings by heart, love, your Bro" (yeah, I am like that, I pin it to the wall to see every day).

We also did some serious washing! Those super-expensive Braunschweig- and Perth-Shirts (right, the Perth-Shirts were rather not soooo expensive. But consider the cost for the flight... makes them expensive).

I am so lucky lately, you wouldn´t know! Friday we went to the city. I admire this shirt of Ingo:

And so we went into that shop. There was only one of those left - and it was in size s, yay! They make it ready for Monday.
And no, we will not wear it at the same time being one of those couples... (though we accidentially ended up like that just today!).

At our stupid grocery store they also have a Tschibo-section and I saw a cute white long-sleeved cotton-shirt. Size 44, several, 42, 40, 38... all several. One (!) in size 36 - yay! For only 10 bucks, high-quality.

Aaaaand! This:

Oh, Aldi, I thank you! This truffle-butter I detected in 2010 - it.is.so.dang.yummy, you just won´t believe it! They only had it til end January and this time I froze some up.
Guess what? Obviously many people like it - they have it again til summer! Yum - yum - yum!
Says the one who doesn´t care about regular butter.
Sorry Ingo, I know you can´t stand the smell. I hate the smell of your fish-stuff, just let me have my truffle-butter :-)