If you haven't felt amazingly and totally alive yet today, then watch this:






and I thought it was just a commercial....




Paul Potts went on to win "Britains Got Talent!"

Rules: Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your Friends-list has done. Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.

1. Gone skiing in the Alps

2. Gone snorkeling in the Maldive Islands (Indian Ocean)

3. Hired a wedding planner


Will make real post later!

Poll #1206175 spelling
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which is the correct spelling? (don't look it up, please just answer with your first instinct.)

I will be traveling home to the good old -- or at least sort of good, but hard to believe it at the moment, and that is, well not really all that old compared to most other countries U.S.of A.
er, ahem, yes,
I will be traveling home to the land of my parentage in a week from today.

I am hoping my bruised tail bone will have healed up already and have stopped making my arse hurt by then. I fell on said tail bone at my birthday party when I tried to sit down, and the chair tried to run for cover, leaving me to sit on a chair that wasn't there, and therefore making my arse kiss the floor pretty damned hard. Ouch! Ouch I say!

Other than that, my Birthday party last week was a huge success! (for pictures go here)

It would seem that I have nothing more to say right now.

Poll #1159075 photos
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Which one do you like best?

Somebody please, please buy me some cadbury creme eggs before they're all gone, and I will love you forever!

kthnxbye


P.s. I will pick them up at the end of April!

My perfect snack would be: 
peanuts, popcorn, and raisinets with a tall glass of fresh squeezed orange juice.

(That or bacon snacks")

What would your perfect snack be?

Many of you have seen this already. This first 10 minutes are a bit slow, but the second half is extremely good. (it's 35 minutes long)

If you haven't seen this, please watch...

Ok, so every time I sit down to make a post, I get distracted by all the shiny things the internet has to offer and I don't know what I want to say anymore.

I keep meaning to make a video post or something, but today the battery on my camera was dead. I thought I'd try voice recording a post on my new mp3 player and then transcribing it, but it turns out that my thoughts escape me even more when I start speaking than they do when I'm typing. PLUS, I can't remember what I've already said when recording. The hardest thing with typing is just getting started. Well, I'm started now, so here I go...

I'm sitting here eating yogurt... aaaaand I just spilled some on myself! Great!......

(2 minutes later)
Ok, I'm eating yogurt and it's banana passion fruit yogurt and it's seriously delicious. I think it's the most delicious yogurt I've ever eaten. Passion fruit is a popular flavor for yogurt here in Germany. Peach passion fruit yogurt is probably right up there after strawberry and raspberry for the top yogurt flavor. I'm not a big fan of peach, but the banana pasion fruit flavor is just the right combination of sweet and tangy. I don't think I've ever seen passion fruit flavor in yogurt in the US.

Today is my second day of my new diet. It is a high yogurt - no wheat diet. The reason I'm starting this diet is because I've been having gastrointestinal problems for a while now, and I'm hoping to combat them. (plus I think it won't hurt my endeavor to loose weight) Those of you who know me well know that I have occasional problems with gas. Whatever problems I had in the past are nothing compared to the problems I've had for the past 3 weeks. I don't know what the cause of this problem is, but I hope my new diet will help.

Right now the sun is shining and it's hailing -- which is indicative of the weather we've been having for the past week and a half.


In other more exciting news: I got an early birthday present! It's a 16GB Creative Zen Mp3 player!!! My old Creative Zen Touch having survived many falls and drops and beatings finally had the buttons stop working completely. I could still listen to music, but I couldn't control the music anymore (only the volume worked.) And, when Timo tried to upgrade the firmware on it for me, and couldn't push any buttons to confirm the upgrade, it would no longer even play music. SO, I got my birthday present early and it's soo very awesome. I can now watch videos as well as listen to music, and a bunch of other awesome stuff. It can even make recordings -- as I pointed out earlier.




( moar pictshurs )



I'm sure I had more to say, but now I've forgotten what it was.

Oh, I know -- I got plane tickets to go home! I'll be home from the 21st of April until the 19th of May. That's 4 whole weeks!

Yeah, I think that's about it, now I have to go vacuum the house like I promised I would do, and then I have to figure out what I'm making for dinner.

It's nearing the end of February and I feel like I'm just starting out. It's been a bumpy two months, and all the zest and enthusiasm I had for the new year boiled away with too much work in January, and then apathy, lack of motivation, and almost depression in February. I'm making a start on pulling it back out, and salvaging something into a new beginning. The spring is a great metaphor right now, as it is struggling with the winter back and forth. Some days it feels like spring and other days it feels like the bitterest cold of winter here. February is often the coldest month, but it's been a mild winter, and I know that spring will come.

As for wedding planning? Does burying my head in the sand count as wedding planning? Cause, maybe if I ignore it my wedding will plan itself. No? I can't hear you, I'm ignoring you. Not that there wasn't some good weeding planing done in January -- being thrown into it together with the boy after Christmas during our US visit, forced us to finally sit down and talk about what we want. No further steps have been taken however, but luckily for us, there is still more than a year to plan. We plan to hire a wedding planner too, since we don't want to deal with organizing all the little details ourselves.

In other news, I joined a Gym! Which is totally awesome and I'm way excited. I can't believe, in fact, that I didn't do it sooner. Along with my sign-up package, I also got a deal where they do 4 training sessions: First, a fitness check and an aerobic exercise routine, along with showing you how to use the machines (treadmill, exercise bikes, elliptical machine etc.) Second, a training session on using the weight machines, and setting up a routine for using them. Third is stretching instruction, and fourth is a diet class. I did my second training session today (working with the weight machines) and I had to realize how wimpy I've become, so I'm totally looking forward to beefing up and having muscles.

Well that's all for now, I've got to get to bed, because I have to get up at 6:00 am tommorow >;P (or whatever emoticon is a yuck face.)