T STands For HearT

 

My ticket for Elizabeth´s T!

These days it´s rather tea, though, brrrr, it´s cold.

 

 My week, huh?

 

Monday: FRICKIN´ cold!!! Even the table is cold in the mornings now!

The translation company... threw up again.

I´m getting sick of this.

Teamleader said after the deadline we talk with them. So long I clean up after them, is faster. 

Fun with Admin 😀

9 hours, done and then into the cold to get Ingo´s bread. Found the cute CV deux. Later grocery... what a crap shop!!! Who has no soup-green in this cold?! But they have a self-check-out, comphy for the stuff I got.

A miracle... young people standing in line instead of using self-check-out. Thankfully, you always find an empty place there, hence.

 

Tuesday: Work 10 hours - 1 session with D

And some words for you I laughed my head off about.. I did my colleague´s job, the Proofreader´s:

What do you think of...

 

Kurzschlussschutz. (yes, 3* s)

Kippplattform (headache already?)

Schnellschlussbefehl - I was in tears! Of laughter!

This document was translated from Chinese. It was meant to say the tram has blinkers on when the doors shut in emergency. They translated it with "blinzeln in 2Hz"... well, blink (with one eye)... if you are in Frankfurt... be very careful taking this tram 😉

2 sessions with D.

Wednesday: Work 11+ hours (OK, I had a mini-lunch-break, brekkie at work-PC, though), no sport with D.

Really, last minute they in an international meeting asked me to change something... gahhh.... we ALL work hard, it´s OK. 

I managed and everyone was happy, Spain, Germany, France, but, really...

I HATE when everybody watches me working on the dot.

And on top it was announced we get more time, not Dec 1st but 9th.

Nice, but, ... more stress.

Ingo got Schelllackplatten. Was nice.And got better. Yet...

Knackered. Tired. Worn out. But happy. 

No sport.

 

Thursday: Meeting cancelled. One member went in, I saw that, joined to clarify and ... one after the other joined anyways.

Gah. I am "the German", LOL, always on duty...

Later...

My Excel magician was off already, so I called it a day (some dude destroyed the document in line 150-something).

He helped me BIG before, though!!!! As little time as we have it was for post Dec 09th... but now I can do it myself!

Gave up after 9 hours. 

2 sessions with D.

 

Friday: 10 hours, no news, huh. "Can you do this, we need that"....

We don´t have to deliver Dec 1st, Dec 9th or 12th. This is GOOD! And means more stress.

Oh, whatever it takes, right, we need to get that baby on the rails!

 

Ingo came home with a beautiful flower that has to bloom still.

Weekend:

Saturday: We were both knackered and split up:

Me > City to get meds.

Ingo > Grocery.

 

Me > city - gave an artist a Euro and bumped into Braunschweig zeigt Herz - they only take coins and I had left but two.

Explained to the lady who got the other and got the heart for €2.

 

Came home, Ingo saw it and took off to the city (it´s a 20-minutes walk) and got a second heart for I don´t know how many coins 😍

We really tried one Lebkuchen-heart - too sweet for me, but Ingo loves it.

Yes!!!! The Christmas-Market is on!!!

I am not that dumb to go there on a Saturday, though.

Maybe one day, Wednesday for lunch or such.

Sunday: Woke up in the middle of the night cause I went to bed too early.

Went back to bed after watching TV, Ingo got up at 04:00 am and tucked me in so nicely.

I LOVE my job and he loves his but really... retirement sounds tempting!

Weird sleep schedules and we have to be back to normal in an instant.

 

X-Factor, Löwenzahn and Die Maus, then Fairy Tale.

Wow, one I think kids cannot keep up with! Quite a story. Certainly you knew from minute 5 they will love each other.

But now I wanna watch Quantum Leap again!

 

We do not watch "TV on demand", we are old-school and I love it cause it makes a tradition, right?

AND W! 😘Our 80+-y-o neighbor. Met him outside. We chatted in 6C and I invited him for when the ALSTOM stress is bit lower to a "party" 😊

Oh, I will have to bake an onion cake!

Later American Footy, yipee, with Henry the Great! 🏈 

 

Commentator: "What are they DOING?!" - They just talk to each other."  - "That´s nice." 

And this is why I LOVE American Football! They play nice. They PLAY. 

Fußball is horrible.

Food-wise...

Carrot, pomelo, chicory, oil and cheese.

Art-wise... Ingo liked this better than the can with  which I join AJJ:

To a great week again!!!

Stressy, but GREAT!

Henry 🦁

Colorful version by a street artist.

T STands For Too Long!

 

My entry for Elizabeth´s T - a tomato-juice 🍅

 

I am sorry for this long post.

In my defense: 

a) this is my diary, sort of, but especially

b) it´s your fault! 😉

 

In my blog-beginning-days I wrote what came to mind.

Now: Monday: Sami´s Murals, Tuesday, Elizabeth´s T, - and with the journal my diary cause- Wednesday Tom´s Signs2, Thursday Rain´s Art and Dinner Date, Friday Nicole´s FFO and Annie´s Smiles. And... if the words ring a bell in my brain (which doesn´t happen that often, as I am not that creative) I join River with Wednesday´s words on a Friday...

So... sorry. 

 

T has  to take it all due to the journal!
Saturday and Sunday is for "special" events or things I like to share off-topic.

 

I thank you all for the challenges and memes, don´t get me wrong  - it is FUN!!!!

 

Journal, if you care just yet again...

Monday: Ordered Ingo´s bread and went straight to get it after working 45 minutes to take care of things (it´s a 2km-walk one way). 

Expected a long queue - I was the only one! 07:00 a.m. Is too early for most 😴

Next Netto: Christmas-jumper and PJs and a foot massage machine. By golly, that thing was heavy!!! My feet fall asleep so I hope this thing will help. 1 1/2 km to  carry that... Meeep. And... it tickles!!!!

Since weeks I said we need to remove double/triple etc files from Sharepoint.

Anyone listened? Nope.

Monday morning: No one could work, space is full.

"Can you take care?". Yep, I do, 10 hours again. Wrote down 9. Alas, I am not allowed to work over-time and always do.

2 sessions with D.

Evening: "Lost places" on TV (thank you, Ingo, for letting me know!)

 

Tuesday: My Excel-magician again saved my life! And oh. Stress level can get higher, who knew that 😉Trying to work whilst being in a meeting with the noise in the Spanish office... puhhhh.... How that dude can work at all is beyond me.

We all give our best. 10 hours again. Bleh.

But teamleader confirmed: Once stress-level gets down I write down 8 hours and am but gone - give and take.

I hope we make it beyond the stress level at all...

Lunch superfast, and, if I may say so... super-yummy! Sad I can´t really remember how I prepared the tomato-sauce on Sunday... (I´ll show you Thursday)

 

2 sessions with D. 

Wednesday: The morning started with a wonderful saying by The Padre: "...golden papers falling" - what a wonderful way to describe trees going naked (which I hate).

 

LOL. Wrote to proofreader that the translation company with more time and effort kept the German part. He called back at once! Ups, meant the English part, of course - think we have too much stress! 🤣

And asked how to put a graphic into a textfield in MS Word, what nonesense! Other way round, of course!

 

I had to work in German being in a meeting. They all spoke English but Spanish colleagues in the background were real loud. These chaotic 10-hour-workdays really show off. I´m not multi-tasking-languaging...

2 sessions with D. 

And for once I really enjoyed a musical!!!

In Gilmore Girls - Autumn. Wonderful. 

Certainly they had to take me to our bakery with ABBA´s "Waterloo" (I mostly walk by "Waterloo Straße" every Monday)

 

Thursday: Went to bed  10:15 p.m. - I get up 05:00 a.m. (no clock  needed).

With my same-ole-same job I went to bed 11:15 p.m. and got up 04:40 a.m.

I´m really in so much stress now I need the plus sleep!

06:00 a.m. Outlook, first mail: 

"Dear, ..."

LOL. Sweet. He meant to write "Dear all, ....", but this made me laugh straight away.

(He is Brazilian, speaks German but this went to also the Spanish colleagues).

 

Next: TOTAL chaos. Proofereader called me and we chatted for nearly 40 minutes (after "solving" the problem) about how great trams and the technical challenges are 🥰

 

Next Admin answered on a post from day before that I don´t need his help, but thanks for the offer. He joked this project is like really in chaos.

I "joked" back I have the new doc xy in German but found the original only as draft - have saved it in another program, though, and KABOOM - he went for the rescue and I learned so much new stuff again (can be resolved only with help from Spain, though).

The chaos went on all through  the day. 10 hours, what else.

Chaos in a great team nails what I do these working days.

Proofreader is also quite sure that even if we don´t hit the milestone the project will go on and I will keep my job.

Two sessions with D.

 

Friday: 10 work hours, eating whilst working, loads of learning - even the Admin did! He was happy, then we both gave up and he said, let´s resume come Monday. Knackered again.

Ingo went through the roof again. Another pressie. We need a bigger condo soon, if he keeps doing this. 

Ingo had a day off.

Before he took care of food for me when being home, reckon he´s sick of my work-routine, but I have no choice. I had an egg, hard boiled on Saturday for lunch. Ack.

 

 

Weekend:

Saturday: We slept in, sooo good. I was really totally worn out from the week.

Sadly then Ingo had a bad time and I was the one he let it go off to.

Maybe I am the dumbest human being alive , maybe it´s the stress or medication he has to take. Good times and sometimes very bad times.

Why I write this?

It has to go out and maybe some of you experience this, too.

If so... you are not alone.

Made kale. Was too sad to like it.

Sunday:

Die Maus, sleep, that was that.

Art-wise:

He´s more or less on holiday, it´s frickin` cold, windows open just shortly!

And food-vise... not even this these days...

 

Just a plain one.

We hopefully will make it. 

If we do... I´ll take a ride on the tram in Frankfurt when we fly to Perth again!

Motivation, right?

 

Henry 🦁

Dot. No question mark. We FIGHT.

I don´t wanna lose my job and my team and I wish Ingo understood...

T STands For Billy & Six Thirty

 

My entry for Elizabeth´s T-Day - SUMMER - OK, this was way too sweet...

Thankfully 3 days to use it up!

 

Food-wise...  very nice story:

I was in for chicken nuggets when being in the city, but hello?! 

6 pieces for €7,99? /US$ 8,12!!! Maccas (McDonald´s)... no way!

Nordsee... old breadrolls with "fresh" fish, nope.

 

The Doner-guy - Muslims, and there I stand in summer clothes without husband.

NO WORRIES!!!!

They have chicken nuggets! €5,99. Hm - with fries. Nah.

The guy said, "OK, you can get rice instead". - "Just the nuggets, please, I´m not that hungry."

Mean face. His boss right behind him gave me a grin, put his index-finger on his lips and said loud enough for the grumpy guy to hear: "OK, just for you 😉"

 

He was a little surprised I didn´t want sauce, either, so I at least took the fork - and I still have and use it. I payed €3,20.

See... TOLERANCE - sorry for screaming, but this was such a nice surprise!!!

Most  - male and female Muslims don´t accept German women in summer dresses in Germany.  How´s it like where you live?

The journal, if you like:

Monday: Another surprise! Colleague J was nice and helpful in a one-one-e-mail!

W still has trouble with my name (how, I am the only woman), yet both mentioned me several times in the meeting and teamleader N later told me he is quite sure my contract will live on!

Can it get better?

Yes! It can (Hello, Obama, again!)... It was...

  

 HOT IN  THE CITY! 

The BEST summer in years!!!

 

I was maybe 11 or 12 when the song came to Germany and I "fell in love" with Billy Idol.

Well, better than the Sex Pistols, my parents were relieved. See, that´s what happens to your kid when you lie... The Sex Pistols.

Dad said there is nothing but classical music, sure I found out and went to the other extreme.

I spare you...

No, I do not!

 

He got old, as we all did, but.. .wo-hoo! Doesn´t he still look sexy?!

Am I glad my parents didn´t understand English...

How do you native English speaker (with kids) manage?

No, really, serious question:

Can you "overhear" English music?

I can, mostly, not a chance with German. Each dumb word takes it to my brain.

I enjoy Adriano Celentano - if interested I look up the lyrics, otherwise it´s but his voice and music, perfect, same with Spanish - how about you?

 

Later WA/Outback Australia was on TV... I´m not interested in gold, but I love the landscape.

 

Tuesday: Wonderful. Work and balcony.

 

 

 

Wednesday/Thursday: Since last Wednesday I´m doomed to translate not only from English, but also Spanish to German.

Neither do I speak Spanish (it´s always the same Excel-sheet and I hopefully got it right), neither am I a mechanical engineer (bigger problem! Always new sheets! Ingo was able to help once).

Yes. My title at Alstom: Documentation & Translation Manager aka girl for everything!

(I´m actually a graduated engineer from architecture which helped already, but here I am out!!!!)

Proofreader said he won´t proof read. Meep. Trust is... not good here!

We still talk about a real tram where people will be transported, or dogs, cats, who knows - alive beings!!! 

I hope these are control-sheets never to be used!

 

Friday: Work stays crazy - but: yipeeeeee - summer.

One of the best summers in YEARS!!! I still can´t believe it!

 

Saturday we went to see the Christopher Street Day parade - after two years they were back!

Sunday... just fun at home.

As River spotted the birdhouse in this post... here is the sketch:

 

Spot the cat?

 

I´m still not finished with Six-Thirty and his female companion (scientist in Chemistry in 1960-s, now host of a food show - sneaking in Chemistry and fighting for women´s rights):

This about 1960+ being 2020+ 

Six-Thirty 26 - Six-Thirty 25 - Six-Thirty 24

Six-Thirty 23 - Six-Thirty 22 - Six-Thirty 21 - Six-Thirty 20 - Six-Thirty 19 - Six-Thirty 18  

Six-Thirty 17 - Six-Thirty 16 - Six-Thirty 15 - Six-Thirty 14 - Six-Thirty 13 - Six-Thirty 12  

Six-Thirty 11 - Six-Thirty 10 - Six-Thirty 9 - Six-Thirty 8 - Six-Thirty 7 - Six-Thirty 6  

Six-Thirty 5 - Six-Thirty 4 - Six-Thirty 3 - Six-Thirty 2 - Six-Thirty 1

Book here

Henry 🦁

 

 

Happy T and fun!

 

Stop Trying

 

 

"it´s exhausting."

"Funny" coincidence I watch the movie  The Family Stone and all goes wrong just yet again.

Can´t do anything right. 

Good movie, though. Henry sleeps. Two posts.

Braunschweig - Impressions Of A City

 

Ingo found this gem you find at the endof the text cause I want to explain a bit 🥰

No German required, but you might want to skip the endless skating / bike scenes... 

 

08:16 you see an "idiot". People get married there and "for fun" (?) they made a mess that needed clean-up (see, that´s why we married in Perth / Joondalup).

 

08:30 the first sibling of Henry.

 

08:41 another Henry, and this one moves. 

 

You can see Duke Henry in minute 10:10, he has to endure some rocky concerts there, together with his wife Matilda. 

 

Minute 16:15 you see where the man is looking, LOL. 

 

 

18:31 - some "Scottish" guys making music with a bagpipe. And men fighting with swords. More bagpipes with half-naked men follow. 

 

22:32 - a stranger giving a long thumbs up, creating a big smile. 

 

24:14 - our Okerkabana.... not this year... followed by vehicles we use, LOL - he even has a number plate!!! 

 

Ice-skating, mabe this year? 

 

The best is last, you see Henry in 27:18 - finally! 

Sadly just .... you can guess... his "Popo", what else?! 

 

Followed by cute dancers and red brollies. This was obviously pre-Corinna. Now the city is empty. 

                         

 

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 

 

At least we´re soon 20C+!

When you cannot travel you sure need to love your home even more, right....

 

If you´re in for "a quickie" go here.

 

JUMP!

 

(Sorry if I gave you an earworm - I don´t even like that song...)

Mural taken at Phils, no idea if they still exist, I´ll be in the "hood" in a couple of hours to get Ingo´s bread and will check.

Fun about this one is actually this to me:

 

 ... because that´s how you enter our home 😃

 

 

We used  to have one each, but when Ingo´s apartment (finally!!) flooded (again), one was gone, as in ruined. So now we only hop here.

More to come, but first I take care about said bread... and pay Henry 🦁 a visit there:

Taking part again in Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.

 

 

 

I Braved Up (No Hospital)

Yes. I made these myself, thanks to flow´s Book for Paper Lovers!

That´s already the third book, means I missed two. Maybe this ugly sight:

... would´ve been long gone.
But who cares.

I "braved up" yesterday:

Maybe rather dumb, being home alone, huh?
I´ve heard of people falling from ladders...

But at least I was wise enough to change the thongs to sneakers.
I managed three rungs and was shivering, too, but I managed!

This was particularly difficult as there is a sideboard in the way:

Looks like we party every day now (and that, we actually should, right?):

Actually an easy solution as was our very ugly ceiling the pre-owners were frustrated with some whopping 14 years!

Oh, shoot. Friday already.
Where has the week gone by so quickly?!!!