I just read in the news (well it took some time to make it to Germany) that in Baltimore people can actually marry their pets.
Certainly everybody in the world is free to do so on marryyourpet.com.
Call me narrow-minded - but I think this is not just weird.
A simple online-wedding is available for "only" 10 US-Dollar - certainly you can also spend 200!
In that case you get a T-Shirt and a hand embroidered, personalised wall plaque added to your certificate.
You can do so after you proposed to your pet. What kind of nonesense is that?
Or are people getting so lonesome that their mind really goes to believe in that?
And the site doesn´t seem to encourage to sodomy, no, just another stupid way for people to get rid of their money. People, there are others in needs - give the money to organisations who care!
But, well. The market for this obviously is there.
Here is an example from the "Love Story" ´s section:
"Margaret and Seth
'I am so in love with my 5 year old bearded dragon-Seth. When I first layed eyes upon him in the petsmart, I knew! He was the one for me! I just recently divorced - and he always had an open ear when I really needed to talk.'"
Does she really believe in that? Did she ever get a decent answer? I dunno, but when I "need to talk" then I also want the listener to talk back to me.
I´m narrow-minded... white-bread ...
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
In the City
That´s where I went yesterday after work. I parked the car, grabbed the bike, went to do my absentee ballot - hehe. Wasn´t easy. I stood in front of the community center which should be open ´til 4:30 but was closed. A man was standing there, too, wondering. A third one joined. I took my ballot paper - another adress was given there. I asked where that was, they didn´t know but one of them said, "ask that man over there, he looks like he knows" - and he did! How could he tell?
Afterwards I went to see my doctor. I just sat down in the waiting room when she called me in. Great! But the time I saved there I lost at the (cell-) phone provider T-Com.
Unbelieveable. Three (!!!) customers in front of me in the row left. One was going, "if I come here tomorrow, will I be served then?!" - He claimed to have been waiting for almost an hour - I was standing in line for over 30 minutes, so I believed him. But I couldn´t go anyplace else since I bought the darn cell phone just there.
One staff member was trying to call the main store using two empty phones. Another one took his break.
Another custumer popped in, asking me if this was one or two rows. I told him, "guess one, but three people left already ". We tried to joke around for a while but it wasn´t funny. Staff claimed one customer just stole a cellphone, didn´t know what to do, in the end he found the cellphone on his desk. (...)
Finally! It was my turn!
I told the lady I think the rechargeable battery doesn´t work, turned out the charger was (seems to be) the problem (I hope so! I don´t want to have to come back again!). She fetched another one to check - but could not give it to me! No, she can only send the bad one in and get me a new one. She wanted to call me when it´s in - if she could use the cellphone number? Sure!! It´s empty due to the charger not working, but give it a try! Argh! I gave her my number at work and she offered to charge the cellphone ´til closing time since I told her it´s the only phone I got. O.k. - not she is the stupid one but the T-Coms´ system.
So I had 1 1/2 hours time to spend in town. I wanted to buy a nice cereal bowl for my boyfriend - one with a lion (I live in the town of Henry the Lion) - no chance. I got bored.
Roaming around, I went to the City Point (mall) and found an new chinese restaurant with take-away. It looked very clean - aaaand it had those fancy take-away bowls you see in american movies all the time!
I don´t quite remember... in Dampier (WA) we took a chinese take-away but it came, as I believe to remember right, in simple aluminium. And it tasted awful, that I know for sure. Here you usually dine in, take aways come in boring styrofoam.
So I couldn´t resist. Chicken with noodles it was. Hot. Take-away. Fancy american-like.
Then I thought, damn, gotta fetch my cellphone, get to my bike (other direction) and drive home.
Well! Still hot, even after turning on the telly, DVD-player, Gilmore Girls (I got chinese take-away!), fetching chopsticks and taking pics, giving it a try (first time actually using chopsticks) - and proving it on the digicam!
So - without the darn T-Com-thing I wouldn´t have discovered this fancy take-away! To everything bad is something good :-)
BTW: It was easy using chopsticks after a while! Ingo had shown me how to do it, using things, but no real food - with real food it´s easy!
And the mixture of meat and noodles was just fine, taste: great!
Yum!
And I now know why in american movies people always get those take-aways out of the fridge - impossible to eat it at once - way too much!
Afterwards I went to see my doctor. I just sat down in the waiting room when she called me in. Great! But the time I saved there I lost at the (cell-) phone provider T-Com.
Unbelieveable. Three (!!!) customers in front of me in the row left. One was going, "if I come here tomorrow, will I be served then?!" - He claimed to have been waiting for almost an hour - I was standing in line for over 30 minutes, so I believed him. But I couldn´t go anyplace else since I bought the darn cell phone just there.
One staff member was trying to call the main store using two empty phones. Another one took his break.
Another custumer popped in, asking me if this was one or two rows. I told him, "guess one, but three people left already ". We tried to joke around for a while but it wasn´t funny. Staff claimed one customer just stole a cellphone, didn´t know what to do, in the end he found the cellphone on his desk. (...)
Finally! It was my turn!
I told the lady I think the rechargeable battery doesn´t work, turned out the charger was (seems to be) the problem (I hope so! I don´t want to have to come back again!). She fetched another one to check - but could not give it to me! No, she can only send the bad one in and get me a new one. She wanted to call me when it´s in - if she could use the cellphone number? Sure!! It´s empty due to the charger not working, but give it a try! Argh! I gave her my number at work and she offered to charge the cellphone ´til closing time since I told her it´s the only phone I got. O.k. - not she is the stupid one but the T-Coms´ system.
So I had 1 1/2 hours time to spend in town. I wanted to buy a nice cereal bowl for my boyfriend - one with a lion (I live in the town of Henry the Lion) - no chance. I got bored.
Roaming around, I went to the City Point (mall) and found an new chinese restaurant with take-away. It looked very clean - aaaand it had those fancy take-away bowls you see in american movies all the time!
I don´t quite remember... in Dampier (WA) we took a chinese take-away but it came, as I believe to remember right, in simple aluminium. And it tasted awful, that I know for sure. Here you usually dine in, take aways come in boring styrofoam.
So I couldn´t resist. Chicken with noodles it was. Hot. Take-away. Fancy american-like.
Then I thought, damn, gotta fetch my cellphone, get to my bike (other direction) and drive home.
Well! Still hot, even after turning on the telly, DVD-player, Gilmore Girls (I got chinese take-away!), fetching chopsticks and taking pics, giving it a try (first time actually using chopsticks) - and proving it on the digicam!
So - without the darn T-Com-thing I wouldn´t have discovered this fancy take-away! To everything bad is something good :-)
BTW: It was easy using chopsticks after a while! Ingo had shown me how to do it, using things, but no real food - with real food it´s easy!
And the mixture of meat and noodles was just fine, taste: great!
Yum!
And I now know why in american movies people always get those take-aways out of the fridge - impossible to eat it at once - way too much!
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Curry - coincidence
Tuesday - that´s the day were the famous "Currywurst" is served in the canteen were I work nearby. One whole sausage is a lot - but I have a colleague who usually eats only half of it - I joined and he gave the other half to me. It´s really so yummy - and famous, too:
VW Leads Industry in Sausage Output - Daily Auto Insider.
And what a coincidence - the regional news say just today that the Autostadt abandoned the Currywurst and therefore it is no longer accessible for the public.
Good that my customer is with me here - looks yummy:
Not healthy... but yummy - we call it "C-Wurst".
Herbert Grönemeyer even has a song upon it: "Currywurst".
Yum.
VW Leads Industry in Sausage Output - Daily Auto Insider.
And what a coincidence - the regional news say just today that the Autostadt abandoned the Currywurst and therefore it is no longer accessible for the public.
Good that my customer is with me here - looks yummy:
Not healthy... but yummy - we call it "C-Wurst".
Herbert Grönemeyer even has a song upon it: "Currywurst".
Yum.
A day to remember
I can not remember this day 34 years ago, but Ingo sure can.
I have a beautiful coin of 1972 Summer Olympics, my Mom gave to me:
Cell phones you could not even think about those days and a gagging order was given out when the terror began. Ingos father was there as a police officer and no one knew what had happened exactly, only that a German police officer had been killed in the massacre.
It wasn´t him but some other poor man.
I have a calendar that gives me historical important dates for the day. Unlike HappyNews.com most of the things remembered there are sad ones.
Most of them. Despite the article found at wikipedia, my calendar says that today in 1928 Penicillin was discovered - and, certainly!
Today Freddie Mercury would celebreate his birthday - his 60th!
With him what great music would Queen had been able to produce furthermore...
I have a beautiful coin of 1972 Summer Olympics, my Mom gave to me:
Cell phones you could not even think about those days and a gagging order was given out when the terror began. Ingos father was there as a police officer and no one knew what had happened exactly, only that a German police officer had been killed in the massacre.
It wasn´t him but some other poor man.
I have a calendar that gives me historical important dates for the day. Unlike HappyNews.com most of the things remembered there are sad ones.
Most of them. Despite the article found at wikipedia, my calendar says that today in 1928 Penicillin was discovered - and, certainly!
Today Freddie Mercury would celebreate his birthday - his 60th!
Happy birthday, Freddie!!!
With him what great music would Queen had been able to produce furthermore...
I just hate those remakes or the musical "We will rock you". This is not a tribute in my eyes...
Monday, Monday...
My Mondays... I don´t do much but watch TV in order to feel a little better, to stop missing Ingo that much. I usually watch TV series - a friend gave me the two first seasons of Gilmore Girls on DVD which I can hence watch in the original language (to be fair.. I gave her the fourth one, but she insisted on buying the other ones).
I wonder.
When one of the "girls" come home - and often they are the first ones to get to an empty home - why are the lights always on? When I get home and am the first one to arrive I would freak out if the lights were on!
And I wonder... are the front doors really that thin? I would not feel safe!
I was puzzling around the apartment before settling down to watch the series and had the TV on to have some noise around. I realized again how bad the ads are these days!
Why is it always men explaining how to use detergent and you see women working with the stuff?! I most hate Cillit BANG. Every BANG makes me mad and I would just due to the bad ad never buy that stuff (is that what the ad-team wanted?!). Or take the (german?) ad of Mr. Proper... It´s night, a couple is peacefully asleep. The woman wakes out of a dream where she tries hard to clean up the house when, sure, the white-clothed Mr. Proper shows her how easy it is with the right cleaning stuff. She is sitting straight in bed the next moment exclaiming "Mr. Proper!" with a big smile in her face. Hrgh! Sure, THATS what we women dream about!
I know at least two man in person who clean their apartments by themselves and I bet there are many more out there - what do they think of these kinds of ads? Are these ads developed by men or women?
Or take those ads where no one says a thing, there is just noise or music (BMW or some cell phone provider) - I don´t know about people with bad sight or no sight at all but I could imagine that they, too, "watch" TV, probably using it as seeing people use audiobooks - to them - as well as to those who are puzzling around, not watching - these ads pass meaningless or, in my case - go on the nerves in a negative way.
Hey, guys, ever heard of Usability?!
Where have the good ads gone? Are they to come back? I just loved some of the Volkswagen-ads, for example the Polo-ad "Black cat" (did that one had music only???? OK, if so, to everything there is an exception... it was very well done and I just love the scene where the man gets out of the car and goes "geek!" when the girl is ringing the bell on her bike...) or the Sharan-ad with those guys from Denmark are going, "Hey, daddy, wanna go to the beach with mommy?" and then "mommy" and her two beautiful daughters appear and "daddy" gives those guys the look :-)
More of those please, no BANG anymore!
I wonder.
When one of the "girls" come home - and often they are the first ones to get to an empty home - why are the lights always on? When I get home and am the first one to arrive I would freak out if the lights were on!
And I wonder... are the front doors really that thin? I would not feel safe!
I was puzzling around the apartment before settling down to watch the series and had the TV on to have some noise around. I realized again how bad the ads are these days!
Why is it always men explaining how to use detergent and you see women working with the stuff?! I most hate Cillit BANG. Every BANG makes me mad and I would just due to the bad ad never buy that stuff (is that what the ad-team wanted?!). Or take the (german?) ad of Mr. Proper... It´s night, a couple is peacefully asleep. The woman wakes out of a dream where she tries hard to clean up the house when, sure, the white-clothed Mr. Proper shows her how easy it is with the right cleaning stuff. She is sitting straight in bed the next moment exclaiming "Mr. Proper!" with a big smile in her face. Hrgh! Sure, THATS what we women dream about!
I know at least two man in person who clean their apartments by themselves and I bet there are many more out there - what do they think of these kinds of ads? Are these ads developed by men or women?
Or take those ads where no one says a thing, there is just noise or music (BMW or some cell phone provider) - I don´t know about people with bad sight or no sight at all but I could imagine that they, too, "watch" TV, probably using it as seeing people use audiobooks - to them - as well as to those who are puzzling around, not watching - these ads pass meaningless or, in my case - go on the nerves in a negative way.
Hey, guys, ever heard of Usability?!
Where have the good ads gone? Are they to come back? I just loved some of the Volkswagen-ads, for example the Polo-ad "Black cat" (did that one had music only???? OK, if so, to everything there is an exception... it was very well done and I just love the scene where the man gets out of the car and goes "geek!" when the girl is ringing the bell on her bike...) or the Sharan-ad with those guys from Denmark are going, "Hey, daddy, wanna go to the beach with mommy?" and then "mommy" and her two beautiful daughters appear and "daddy" gives those guys the look :-)
More of those please, no BANG anymore!
Monday, September 04, 2006
Weekend
On Friday we saw a reportage with William Shatner about how Star Trek inspired people to invent cell phones and technologies like that - just great!
Saturday was.... well ... mixed.
First we went to visit Ingo´s grandmother. She was cute as ever. When Ingo said, "if it wasn´t for the long ride, I´d take you with us to Australia in December", she went like "I didn´t go to Spain - you think I´d go to Australia?!".
Next we went to an "Oldtimer-Show", a tipp of one of Ingo´s colleagues. Seldom I went to a place more boring. Tractor standing beside tractor beside tractor. Yawn.
We then went to the "Sehusa Festival" - the largest history festival in northern Germany. My familiy is participating, too. Their group, a bunch of over 50 people, represent the musketeers.
The moment we entered the town it started raining. Great. We waited ´til it was over and went to the festival - fee of three euros per person. We didn´t find my family, nor something to eat and it started raining again. We left that place. I actually wanted to see a myth that was being played. I saw the piece as a kid and got so scared! I saw it again 10 years ago and thought, well too much technology added. I wanted to see how it is today, but, nahhh, no way.
We went to a greece restaurant instead.
No, the food I got wasn´t kind to me ;-)
I wasn´t that hungry and asked if I could get a childs meal (Kinderportion) - man I couldn´t eat it up! It was too much! What do they think children eat?!
Sunday was rather quiet and very nice.
This morning was very sweet, too. We let the clock ring very early and then again and again, just staying in bed.
I feel so lonely now.
Friends of mine just started that kind of relationship we have. They have two apartments now, too. The distance is a little larger than ours so the one traveling has to leave on Sunday evening already. I hope they manage.
Saturday was.... well ... mixed.
First we went to visit Ingo´s grandmother. She was cute as ever. When Ingo said, "if it wasn´t for the long ride, I´d take you with us to Australia in December", she went like "I didn´t go to Spain - you think I´d go to Australia?!".
Next we went to an "Oldtimer-Show", a tipp of one of Ingo´s colleagues. Seldom I went to a place more boring. Tractor standing beside tractor beside tractor. Yawn.
We then went to the "Sehusa Festival" - the largest history festival in northern Germany. My familiy is participating, too. Their group, a bunch of over 50 people, represent the musketeers.
The moment we entered the town it started raining. Great. We waited ´til it was over and went to the festival - fee of three euros per person. We didn´t find my family, nor something to eat and it started raining again. We left that place. I actually wanted to see a myth that was being played. I saw the piece as a kid and got so scared! I saw it again 10 years ago and thought, well too much technology added. I wanted to see how it is today, but, nahhh, no way.
We went to a greece restaurant instead.
No, the food I got wasn´t kind to me ;-)
I wasn´t that hungry and asked if I could get a childs meal (Kinderportion) - man I couldn´t eat it up! It was too much! What do they think children eat?!
Sunday was rather quiet and very nice.
This morning was very sweet, too. We let the clock ring very early and then again and again, just staying in bed.
I feel so lonely now.
Friends of mine just started that kind of relationship we have. They have two apartments now, too. The distance is a little larger than ours so the one traveling has to leave on Sunday evening already. I hope they manage.
Time runs
On Friday I visited my family - when I entered the salesroom, I found my brother standing at the counter holding a child. He gleefully turned around and said, "look, this is my godchild, she just took her very first steps!".
I couldn´t believe it!
It seems it was only yesterday when he introduced me to that baby that grabbed my finger with a strength I never thought a baby might have.
If you don´t have kids, time seems to stand still. You do your everyday stuff and keep on living like ever. Which actually is very comfortable.
I am just a little afraid that next time I see her she might go to school already... I´ll be a lot older by then and probably will be a little shocked... again.
I couldn´t believe it!
It seems it was only yesterday when he introduced me to that baby that grabbed my finger with a strength I never thought a baby might have.
If you don´t have kids, time seems to stand still. You do your everyday stuff and keep on living like ever. Which actually is very comfortable.
I am just a little afraid that next time I see her she might go to school already... I´ll be a lot older by then and probably will be a little shocked... again.
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