T STands For To Deer and Blogger-Mess-Ups

 

Oh, does it happen to you, too? Best before-dates expire soooo fast!

Luckily my nose can smell again and this smelled still good, the "house-pig" did enjoy :-)

 

My entry to Elizabeth´s T!

The journal, oh, time so flies... seven weeks no sport due to that darn flu.

I´ll try and start today after work.

 

 

Monday: "Bakery Mechau, G, good morning" - "K, good morning,..." - "Half a Glattes, I put it away, see you later 😁".What, the heck, if one day I want more, like an onion-bread? I get no chance to order!!!

Work was good. "Tschüssi, ciao, tschüssi" (to-be-teamleader´s good bye, he is Brazilian... temperament!!).

 

Tuesday: My magician called ME for help - and I could help - yippeeeee!

And... Weird. My to-be-teamleader called me to tell me what he is doing. Shouldn´t he rather ask what I am doing? There is no hierarchy! We are a team! 😀

Lunch: defrosted 1 portion Mac & Cheese. Ate half. Ack!   

That makes 14 portions in the aftermath!

 

Wednesday: Are you sometimes so dumb you have to laugh about yourself?!

I was to compare Version A0 to B0 and to take "Word compare". And wondered... can MS Word compare English and German?! Ohhhh. 593 changes?!!!!

CERTAINLY I am to take the ENGLISH A0 and translate later what I found.

 

But I needed help anyways as I had 3 windows with 5 views... first time I did this - I´m still a newbie with Word and many a colleague went to ESE (company I am hired at) and asked for further training in this, too. 

Also my ESE-teamleader, whom I asked for help needed a while. 

I finally said, duuuuuhhhh.. ENGLISH vs ENGLISH, my bad.

We had a good laugh and I hope he tells no one... 

 

Human dumbness level three versa AI... 🤣

 

(My magician hates MS Word, so I could not ask him.)

 

Hmmm, toast with truffle-butter for lunch, YUM.

 

And to-be-teamleader ... oh, it´s frightening. His Papa (Brazilians say "Papa", isn´t that sweet) has dementia.

That, and Alzheimer´s is my big fear, too. Read a book about a 40-y-o man with that, read that kids can get it (Alzheimer´s especially), my Granma had it. Both deseases are scary, the latter is dangerous. Granma ran away several times. 

 

He sounded so sad...

 

Proofreader, too, called... he needed help (I could do that - I even "found out" we read German - not kidding!!!!) and then we somehow drifted to studying, politics and... hups!

See, MS teams is nearly like really being physically in the same office!!!

I don´t miss a thing! 

 

Thursday: @Ingo...don´t read this...

My T was devastated. A colleague fell sick and he hence has to work all day with the guy we call "Wiki" or "A##hole".

I reminded him of all the times we payed that dude back.

Like...

Wiki: "T, can you take me to Braunschweig later?"

T: "No."

 

I nearly fell off my chair laughing!!! 

Those who know me personally know I am calm. Twice I yelled so loud at him guys in the next office laughed (no one liked/likes that guy). I could go on endlessly (but won´t).

 

To-be-teamleader... oh. The Brazilian. Means talks superfast and nonstop and calls in an INSTANT when you have a question.

He´s supernice but by 09:00 am I was worn out already 🤣 (I start at 06:00 am)

And he always says: "no stress"!!! LOL...

 

Yikes, another 10-hours´ work day.

 

Friday: Admin called and asked what I had for brekkie (it was 09:05 a.m.). And we talked about... truffle!!! (I had truffle-butter on my egg-bread).

Isn´t life fun?! Unlike Ingo and my T he loves this, too.

And he helped me with a problem I actually... we are a TEAM! 🥰

And I am dumb. I raise problems, others benefit from it  and I.. have to do the work and have a mess still (I said, let´s clean up data in Sharepoint) - duuuu. If I´d said nothing...

But then... we are a TEAM. Right.

MIL contacted me on FB. Think we get along better again.

 

Weekend: 

Saturday: Slept in, got up for the series X-Factor and it was all old ones, gah.

The sun came out just shortly, the grey days since weeks really turn me down. Could´ve stayed in bed. Still coughing and all.

Blogger does not let me comment in many a blog, btw. In some I can give name / url, in others I fail like totally.

I do try different browsers and more than one attempt.

I started asking fellow bloggers to spread the word to those I cannot reach. 

We are a community after all!!

Bummer.

@Cinderella Dalmatian Dog
The look of your dog in pic #1 sure made me laugh out loud, like really!  

Bro called :-)

And I met W :-)

Sunday:

Day of rest. Yay for DVDs, watching stuff in the original!

Sent Bro a mail that I got a book,  The Tale of Ole Green Eyes from dear bloggy-friend and author Cathy - for free (I´ll buy it at amazon if Bro approves), it´s about two sisters and I hope to get my Niece to value learning the English language this way.

Without English I would not have this super-great job!

Art-wise... how about this, my tools, or some of them:

Still not enough colors... thanks to Ingo more to come!

But I have this for you:

 

Maybe you´ve visited last Friday for FFO... I never, NEVER expected the mask would REALLY look like this - isn´t that too cool??? 

Why did no one ring at our door???

(sorry, not a selfie-pro, plus no glasses on....)

Food-wise... an ole pic from ALDI, some time next... LIDL:

Finally I´m done!

 

Henry 🦁

To another good week!

Glassed Mural #1

 

 

Took a different route when picking up Ingo´s bread to get him some nuts from ALDI - or "ALDIschönenSachen" ( ALDIsNiceThings) as my T calls it, and passed by this tiny kindergarten.

 

When we both worked for Volkswagen T and I in the break often went to ALDI nearby and often got non-food-articles as well. We WhatsApp every day but haven´t seen each other since ages as we both live in different towns and work from home.

I sure miss meeting him for real...

 

Well, the kids in this small kindy sure love winter:

 

 

But wait for next Monday.

Hope these murals painted on glass count as murals...

To be honest I´m still a bit sick - week 7, "yippee" and it´s cold so I have not much interest in roaming around, plus in winter... who paints murals? 1C/34F right now.

Work load went up again... I hope for Spring to look for new murals!

This, certainly is for Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.  

 

Henry 🦁

Baby, it´s too cold for you here...

CryBaby is Back

 

These two say hi...

 

The news... the news.

"... with me Russia, Putin would never have marched into Ukraine.

I can solve that problem within 24 hours!" 

 

Please, pretty please... can that dumbhead retire for good???

 

Does this man really believe what he is blurting out???

 

Baby Henry 🦁

Help me, that can´t be true, can it? And he makes it into the GERMAN news with that nonesense.

Elect him NOW - 24 hours later we´ll have peace between Russia and Ukraine, they all will hold hands, kiss, hug and the Russians who live here now will go to Ukraine to rebuild it all, awww, sooooo nice.

Thank you MR. Hmp.

 

Please don´t forget to get him off ASAP... I don´t wanna see orange on the screen no more.

 

I think NOWHERE we have suiting politicians these days...

 

Sorry, two posts again today, you sweet Topflappen...

You Topflappen, you!!!

 

My Bro sent me this via WhatsApp, now I have no idea if this... it must mean something like "love you".

 

To all you Topflappen  - have a great day!!! 

I am glad, happy and thankful to be allowed in this community! 

Sadly this we do NOT have...

 

 

Henry 🦁

To all you Pot-Holders! 🥰

Have a nice Sunday!

(These are the ones Ingo uses, I need the XXL ones that really, really, really keep you safe (but they look boring)).

Big And Little Magic

 

 

I bought this wee, little "Zauberwürfel", as we call it - the Rubik´s Cube...

I was too young back then (and am still too dumb) for it.

 

Did you play/work it?

 

Magic and miracles.

Yesterday I watched another docu on Holocaust.

 

 

I am glad they show it on TV wherever you pop in.

Another woman from Hungary - her name is Eva - ,she speaks German, with strong accent, but she manages (so much for integration! Some Muslims are here 3rd generation and still don´t speak German properly...). 

 

She was OK with talking in the casual "du" with the reporter.

 

Her Siblings and Parents were killed - the youngest 6 months old.

Zyklon B - takes 20 minutes to painfully die, I spare you the pics they showed.  

 

Let me tell you, I cried. 

 

This woman could not speak about it for 60 years, Years!! And then it broke out, all the memories.

What was ... she was already 13 (video below says 18) years old, she saw it all.

 

"Why do you hate me so much", she asked the Germans.... 

She smelled the burning of human flesh (does it smell different from animal flesh?).

 

How strong is she?! To survive that hell and be a nice person???

Speaking of "happiness" after survival.

Please watch the video below - she dances!!!

 

Some say Holocaust is not real. Is the Earth flat, did men never land on the moon???

 

It ... was tough seeing this, worse than the other I blogged about yesterday.

I felt like I need to puke.

 

More than one million people in Auschwitz alone.

 

 

"Death marchs". She could hide in an abandoned barn.

 

When she was safe she bought... German books. She thought... not all Germans are bad. She wanted to learn.

See???? All the Russians who come here now cause they don´t want to fight!!!

Not all Russians are bad!

 

Imagine that!!!!  Auschwitz survivor reads German literature. As Hungarian! (She had cousins in Austria and hence spoke a bit German).

 

It was very... touching. Sad, horrible.

I am too dumb to understand human aggression. 

 

She fights against hate.

Let us follow this woman,  let us fight hate.

 

"That you are not afraid of others, that we should achieve", she says. 

 

 

 

Her pregnant Granddaughter says,  "she is one of the strongest persons...."

Love not hate, remember.... do not forget, Eva´s mission.... 

 

 

Sorry for this long post.

Half my family is not German, the other was not involved (my Dad´s Father was no soldier). But we all have the German war-guilt.

And I refuse that. Look at Mao etc, etc, but! We must forget no evil at all!!!! 

 

Henry 🦁

 

All but lies, eh....

Please see also the video Bill shared (and, Bill, unlike the Italian, which I don´t speak, this was difficult as I still understand French, but not good enough! So my brain has a hard time reading English, understanding bits and pieces of French, being German!):

Irony, btw... in Germany we get ads if we don´t pay for YouTube.

It was a hardware-store with this song in the background...

I leave you with this... let us never forget and let us carry on...

(Don´t) Forget - Try To Understand

The other day there were two docus - not movies! -  on Holocaust and I think I should share this as today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 

So 1943 a young couple in Hungary married and soon the wife, let´s call her "A" was pregnant.

"The Germans" came and took them to Auschwitz, separated the couple.

 

Eight months into pregnancy a young female doctor came to her and suggested to "get rid of it", otherwise Mengele might play horrible games with them both.

 

She, in her mind,  "heard" her mother saying, no, that is already life and kept it, a daughter was born in the barrack, no doctor, no nurse, baby-daughter, let´s call her "B", so weak she did not cry and was  hence not detected.

But "the Germans" found them finally and all the others who had given birth there, and their babies and young ones. 

They marched to a tunnel with them to leave them to die, but "the Russians" were there in time and they all were saved.

 

"A" with "B" turned back to their old home in hopes to be reunited with her husband, but he never came. She remarried and the new husband was a very strict Jew. But he loved the little girl "B".

Still they were not welcome being Jewish (I´ll never get that, they don´t bother you with their religion unlike for example some Muslims).

"B" grew up, went to Canada, married, had a daughter, "C".

But the memories of Auschwitz were there for "B", also from what her mother "A" told her. 

She never was able to show much love to "B".

But did her best...

 

 

"C" loved her Grandpa so much, she wanted to go to a Jewish school, which "B" did not want - she´d lost faith - who can not understand that.

No more dancing in discos, no more fast food, give up your freedom for the Jewish life style?!

 

Both went their own way and "C" in the interview was asked if she didn´t feel imprisoned by all the Jewish rules. 

She said, on the contrary, she feels free and safe now. If she is to die, God wants it, if she is to live, God wants it.

Rules are made for her by God, she just has to follow.

Hm.

When the German wall fell I had one classmate from GDR. She was not happy she had to find out what she wants to do after school. In GDR she would´ve been told.

You might think as German I am crazy to watch this docu in the first place.

But at school we only learned about Hit#er, not much about the other side.

 

I was shocked watching "Life Is Beautiful" in Broome, Western Australia (in Italian, which I don´t speak, but after a while the brain skips there are English subtitles - crazy!).

I sure was shocked of how the brain works and about the movie.

This docu was how it should be to teach Germans proper English, btw - not translated but in English and subtitled.

These days Volkswagen takes young trainees to concentration camp Bergen-Belsen so they HAVE to see the other side (I worked 16 years for (not at) Volkswagen and hence know).

I wonder what my Nieces get taught at school on this.

And now Muslims in Germany go against Jewish people.

It is and stays a crazy world.

We are PEOPLE. BEINGS. Let us BE. 

As long as we don´t hurt each other  - #girls/women in Afghanistan, Africa etc... I read horrible docus on that, too. Why? I need to know. 

 

It´s not all rainbow-pooping unicorns... sadly.

 

Let us remember, let it never happen again.

We have many, too many stones on pavements remembering Jewish victims, like these:

Henry 🦁

And the war still goes on. Do people ever learn...

Two posts today as we must remember the bad but also remember to smile and see the good, look here, if you want or just scroll down...

Smiles About Things For Free And FFO

 

 

Let´s start with a  smile-maker (from the internet) for Annie´s smiles. 

I still have books and DVDs to put out on the street.  But it´s so cold no one who does not have to goes outside...

 

Most are books I found in the street, so... same in your place?

 

It´s so cold (to those of us not used to it) my face hurt when I got Ingo´s bread and the baker lady said my face is red all over... 

 

So... what is the solution (to join Nicole´s FFO with)?

 

 "Hydrate & Revitalise" - yes, written with an "s" - didn´t know the Netherlands, where this product is from, use British English.

 

As today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day I have another post, if you are interested see here...

 

Henry 🦁

To  happy weekend soon!