To Rising

Today I join  Rain´s Thursday Art and Dinner Date with "Sunrise".

Quite fitting for this date.

 

I was in the office at Volkswagen Wolfsburg and we got no info at all as the CNN-Website was "dead". Hectical phone calls were made. Can´t believe it´s so long ago and still so fresh.

 

So... let us rather go to a country that is free:

 

 

Not healthy but very yummy.

 

Not into Rösti?

How about this, a black bean burger:

The internet series:

"Germany to scare: 30 ruins of days long gone

 Schlosshotel Waldlust, Freudenstadt, Baden-Württemberg

This former grand hotel in the Black Forest once hosted royalty and celebrities – today, it's more likely to be seen in German horror films. The Schlosshotel Waldlust, built in 1902, has had numerous owners over its more than 120 years of existence. Among them was a woman known only as "Adele B.", who died a violent death here in 1949. She is said to still haunt the corridors.

After her death, the building was converted into a military hospital, but it was finally closed in 2005 and has since fallen into disrepair. It remains a cultural monument."

Henry 🦁

 

 Addendum: I love and didn´t know what Elizabeth commented: "We refer to today as Patriot Day. The day we came together as a nation."

T This Crazy Week

 

yes! (ja!) let´s start Tuesday and join Elizabeth´s T!

The journal:

Monday: I am sorry I have to start with this, but it is to share...

 

 

 

Since 2022 he should´ve been gone. 2022!

She was on training for dental technician, spoke German, was integrated... #shortage of skilled workers - such a young life, gone for nothing.. .

 

TV-News: an Iraqi pushed a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl (a refugee for real) in front of a train. She died.

We should all give a thank you to ex-chancellor Angela Merkel... 

The man was actually "long" to leave Germany, but, hey, "all refugees welcome" and do what you like.

GOOD NEWS: I have the bogie!!!! 

They asked if I know what this is.

In a sec: "Laufdrehgestell"! (and I speak fast)

Test me...

I am back at ALSTOM!!!! 

Them: "We come from BOMBARDIER, if you know..."

Me: "My Hubby presented me with a mini as ASLTOM didn´t have any..." I sent following pic.

I think (with Ingo and fK) I won BIG!!!

 

Met so many colleagues at ESE, it was like "coming home".

And yes. At age 53 I am a trainee...

Tuesday: ALSTOM-teams-meeting was good, but you need patience. Austrians speak so slow! And that accent... Mediocre, as they know I am German but still. As fK says "easy, anybody can do..."

fK sent me a wonderful link, a docu/interviews with/about one of my fav actors, Dieter Hallervorden.

 

Another I admire is Udo Jürgens. He sang about how life really begins at age 66:

 

One day I´d like to go as he did: Wiki: "On 21 December 2014, Udo Jürgens collapsed unconscious during a walk.." 

See here, if you like, we dressed up big!!!!

 

Dieter...."at age 99"...(he turned 90 last Friday).

That man is unbelievable and tonight I´ll watch his movies Back on Track (2013) and Head Full of Honey (2014).

Just have a look how he dances! He performed that song for the first time just recently, in this video had to check the text. Wow. And now my brain sings... "mit 99 Jahren..."... "Survival of the fittest", it´s a great song!

 

Yah, wonderful.

The instruction from ESE for Outlook was "old" - now my admin has my private number as I needed his help. What a start...

Wednesday: Nothing special. A bit learning, grocery shopping and making pizza sauce with Adriano Celentano on the BOSE. Well, and Pan-Pizza.

 

Thursday: Back for real at ESE-laptop. My, difficult to work with but one monitor and then such a small one, too! 

 

 

 

Friday: 05:36 a.m. - such heavy rain - no TV!!!! Oh, I LOVE such rain ...

 

 

 

Later Maggi-Fest, more tomorrow...

 

Weekend: Saturday: A day to better forget.

 

Sunday: Tom  reminded me TODAY IS NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS DAY.

When my Brother was on the way my maternal Grandmother moved in with us to help taking care, parents working full time. My paternal one left us when I was 6 months old.

 

I never had a Granddad. Paternal passed when Dad was only 14, maternal made it out of Russian captivity and passed soon after. 

The first he met was my then 4-year old Mom. 

He called her by her name, my Grandma told me. 

She ran away, screaming in fear. 

He had grown a long read beard, was very skinny and she did not recognize him.

Quite a welcome...

 

In kindy I made a friend and when visiting met her Grandpa. I did not know men can grow old, too and was afraid...

 

My Grandmother, when we were old enough moved back to Pinneberg, near Hamburg.

She had 14 Grandchildren, most living in the area.

The only ones visiting: Bro and I from far away, 250 km.

When she passed I had to forbid Bro to attend the funeral.

He said, "anyone crying and I..." - I knew he would! He was into martial arts back then.

So I can only say: GRANDMA´S DAY.

 

I have no idea who took this pic, Dad, likely... Bro and I were dressed like twins.

Ingo´s parents named their first boxer (as in dog) after her, that was confusing (they did not know my Grandma)!

 

Fairy tale: Von dem Fischer und syner Fru - beautiful lesson! 

"Das wollen wir uns bedenken"...

 

Munchy:

 

Henry 🦁

 

Happy T-Day!

 

T This Tired, Crazy Week

 

This drink, with which I join Elizabeth, it asks you to indulge, to treat others.

I treated myself...

The journal:

Monday: FIL on Ingo´s nearly empty phone, I got the NEW number for "landline".

BIL. Same as their Mom, FIL´s Mom, INGO.... pancreas. Inflamed.

BIL´s new wife, nearly my age, highly pregnant.

FIL invited us to celebrate Ingo´s Birthday. In Emden. Let´s see. All too much.

Pancreas inflamed and a baby on the way?

I.Want.A.Boring.Life.

And really. Come to Braunschweig to celebrate!!!

Why are we supposed....  Braunschweig is a very beautiful city!

Tuesday: fK.... "my 'wife' is OK with you now, but our kids are not 😂 "Iris" here, "Iris" there, all the time."

I had no idea!

Ingo: ... same with her. "fK, fK, fK"....

Same in your life? 

 

Wednesday: O.   M   G.

Phone. 08:50. am - Think it´s fK. Pick up as usual with "Hi!".

Meep, ESE. Got a laugh. Will now always answer with my surname!!! Boy, glad fM laughed! (we never met) - OK, I reveal cause it´s such a beautiful name: Margarete!

Then fK  - then fE!!!! They all call me "meine Liebe" and I think they mean it.

Asked in April and due to "issues over there" get two responses only now. 

From two different companies - and lovely people I worked with at both - see my dilemma...

 

Thursday:  Tired.

I do the sketches for this journal on the weekend and saw a note for this day ... Nieces Birthday.

SHOOT!!!! WhatsApped her hence on Sunday, her answer: "It´s OK, even if late, thank you!"

She´s like me. 

Scary. Genes, huh. Her Dad/Bro´d make a big fuss again! 

She´s 15 now. An adult.

Hey, wait. I just held her in my arms, 5 days old, she slept and I adored her little fingers!!!

Friday: Tired.

 

 

Weekend: Saturday: They sit right here, called "LaFamme" a pill I am to take soon. No. Guess I won´t. fK had another... no. Thank you but likely no. Women over time went without - I can do that, too! Right?

Ingo feeds me with cold fruit to cool down.

On TV: Pizza!!! A docu.

Dreamed of Da Nico at night and a Ten Without Ham. (See  "Change Of Blog-Title? An Era Ends" - my dear Bro is in there, too...).

 

Nico retired 2024 and went back to Italy.

He always smiled big when my Brother, my Mom (!!!!!!), Ingo or me myself ordered one.

There was no "Ten (without ham)" anymore and the answer always was: 

"Can get cold, goes to Braunschweig, right?"

Can you imagine my face when my Mom!!!!! came to my home in Braunschweig with that?

I think I smiled BIG all day!

 

Sunday: Not kidding: TV: docu on Pizza. Different channel and docu, but... Pizza!!!! (Tried to order pizza on Thursday - they wanted ALL my data before showing the menu. No.).

Btw. fK said my sense of smell might change when I get off the pill and I might not like to smell Ingo anymore!!!!

Vanilla. Ingo smells of Vanilla. I like vanilla. Löwenzahn: On smelling. Life is creepy.

 Henry 🦁´s Wife

I feel shit#y but pampered! 

I am not alone in menopause and especially studies and job-sorrows!

When Ingo was so severly sick bloggy friends were there and helped - real hugs and I´d broken down, not able to help Ingo, hugs from far away help(ed).

 

 

Look Over

Today I join  Rain´s Thursday Art and Dinner Date with "Fences" (she sadly takes a break, though, but some of us join anyway).

The fence we have here has a "secret hole" that was used by our neighbors to walk over directly.

One nice summer day Ingo and I sat on the balcony when suddenly......

 

A bit - it really was but a bit! of wind came and our sun brolly like a rocket made it to third floor....

 

...and back!!!! Right there were people usually sneak over!!! We have no insurance.

 

Nothing bad happened and ever since I tie the darn brolly safely to the balcony!!!! 

 

And, P.S. yes, "went" ... it has stopped. Now it´s "them" and "us"... sad. 

So the dinner-part....  "Neigh, whinny"....

King-Frog still thinks of the rocket-brolly....

 

Ingo can touch the sausage already and will NEVER understand I have a different feeling of "heat". Must do some research.

I´m no princess. Hot to me is hotter than to others. 

Don´t run after me when you cook and want me to take a taste. HOT! 

The banderole is a classic and clever thing yet... HOT!

 

The new series from the internet:

"Germany to scare: 30 ruins of days long gone

 

 

Johannisthal, Berlin Airfield

 

When it opened in 1909, Johannisthal Airfield was one of the world's first motorized airfields. However, no aircraft have used its runway since 1995. The first German female pilot, Amelie "Melli" Beese, learned to fly here. The first German passenger airline service also launched from Johannisthal in 1919.

The historic airfield eventually lost its glory, and its operations were relocated to other airports. Today, part of the site has been converted into a park, but disused hangars and other industrial facilities can still be seen."

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 

And what happens?! People complain about "the heat". 30+C we talk of, that is but 86+F...

I hope Perth is a bit warmer come February!!!!

 

 

T STands For NoThing (No Holiday)

Who can resist this to join Elizabeth´s T??? Who hosts, despite being sick - best wishes from here....

 

The journal:

 

 

 Monday: Not a chance to join studies.

Not willing anymore, either. €12 800 for this? Agency is paying.

 

 

 Tuesday: No. Just no. 

Half of the students have problems, too.

And how "important" and "knowing" those others are. No? I did this for real.

I had real projects.

Door-bell, Postie: "I need a 'readable 'K' - despite it is for 'S'."

Ingo forgot to take my surname when  we  got married so....  but postie knows.

I think next time I offer postie a snack. He looked tired and still tried to be funny (I think no one can sign "readable" on these devices).

Wednesday: "ST4-seminar-chat: 'I am sick, headache and all, the flu..." (it is "summer") - next person: ..you get the picture. Left are but two. BOY, I TAKE ANOTHER DAY OFF!!!

Really, I was interested in ST4! Like Photoshop, can do anything.

No one cares.

Why should I (I do).

Thursday:  Off.  

And I did it again.

Bad.

Graff. Most dangerous book-store.

LAST edition of SEESEN, my old home town. An "adventure"-thingy.

For my Bro.

Ingo: "Open?"

"No, for Bro."

"Open!!!"

 

OK, it´s ours now (Ingo moved away aged 6, me at 17). 

We´ll explore our old home town some day, maybe with Bro and family.

HA!!! Seen the man on the cover? Find him in SA... renamed...

 

 

 

Friday:  Off again. Ingo assured me I do the right thing.

And got me beautiful flowers in a Gherkin-glass (cause I left you the "love-note" in your lunch box?) 

I was about to throw away - the glass!!! > new vase.

The man is genius.

 

 

Weekend: Saturday: Ingo fell!!!! I got up! Ran!

Ingo: "Thought you fell!" (I ran...)

Behind the closed loo-door the timer fell.

I hear that behind the closed bedroom-door (wanted to sleep in on this "summer"-day).

That is when your partner is chronically ill- you hear EVERYTHING in panic. 

Since 2008.

 

And now... studies and all down... GO AWAY. 

Ingo got corn and everything for a BBQ..  It is my fault...

 

Sunday: Go away. 

Where to?

It must be my fault. And I am stuck. I am sorry, Ingo. Walk in my shoes for once (haha, I walk barefoot to enjoy our wooden floor).

 

Oh, the title: No studies, but I was totally stressed about it and the weather was shit#y, so... not a holiday at all...

Munchy:

 Henry 🦁... did not gotten beamed up by Scotty, Erika, or. did he?

 

 

P.S. I have a new series from the internet for you!

"Germany to scare: 30 ruins of days long gone

 

Forgotten sites of German history

 

Germany's history could hardly be more complex, encompassing periods of industrial prestige and groundbreaking creativity, as well as periods of great darkness. Many buildings still bear witness to significant events today. This is also the case with the following 30 places where time seems to stand still. Some have fallen into disrepair, others have been converted, and for still others, any rescue may come too late.

Find out here which of these forgotten sites are open to visitors – and which should not be entered for your own safety."

 

Let us start tomorrow!

And please wish me luck I get the final YES to my training at ESE!

And... have a happy T-Day!