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*Because I’m a person - Stilbruch.

Recently I’ve my documenting my day-by-day activities. Hmm. Guess I’m still in the habit after keeping a good journal on my travels, I’m used to recording stuff I do and I’m conscious of how I spend time each day.

Well, today. I got up at 7h30 again and I baked a chocolate cake and flapjack with dear Mother. Then I did lots of ironing and I put Sigur Rós on because I am loving Takk at the moment. So beautiful. At 9h30 I got a call from work saying, did I still want my old job back for the summer? To which I replied yes please! So I will start either this Friday or a week on Thursday. I’m really looking forward to going back, in a strange sort of way. I like the nice income.

It’s funny how I’ve only been back home for 4 days so far, I’m really powering through all my sorting stuff out. Only really 2 things left to do: apply for uni accommodation, and organise photos from travels. Most other stuff is sorted, need to send off a form for student loan but that’s waiting on someone else.

Productive.

Anyway later on I read for a while because it’s nice sitting down with a good book and then I got out my German grammar workbook for some random reason, because I felt like perfecting my language skills I think. Why am I studying? I think I miss it too much. I really can’t wait to get to uni. Anyway I powered through most sections, a lot is already filled in from last year during A-Levels, but oh well. Oh and I found the CD I bought in Vienna from a really cool band I saw, they’re from Dresden, Germany, sing in German and English, and they’re called Stilbruch (www.stilbruch-band.de). I love them.

Now I’m revising my German irregular verbs:

fechten, ficht, focht, hat gefochten - to fence
gedeihen, gedeiht, gedieh, ist gediehen - to thrive/prosper
greifen, greift, griff, hat gegriffen - to grasp/seize

I loved it so much. It did make me want to paint my face white and my lips bright red and wear lots of eyeliner and basically see how I would look as a geisha. I KNOW I KNOW I’m not Japanese but I still think it would be a fun experiment!

They’re so pretty. This film was so beautiful. It made me want to visit Japan so badly, but that’s not going to be for a while! Ah such a wonderful film, made me feel very happy and peaceful.

The scenery and photography of the film was just incredible. There’s one bit where she’s a little girl sitting on a bridge, the still-frame shot of that is just one of the most beautiful images.

I would definitely recommend this film to anyone. It’s just amazing. Haha and the whole film I was waiting for that one line…

“I just want a life that is MINE!”

Well, seen as it’s Mother’s Day today and seen as I need to learn how to cook, I decided I would cook the meal for today in our house. It was roast duck (MMM) for main course, and I made a lovely chocolatey-hazelnut cake for dessert. Look, lovely:

Admittedly, my mum helped me with the first course, a full roast meal is hard when you dunno what to do, but she said it’s nice to cook with someone, which made me feel happy. I love my mum to bits. I got her some flowers and some Body Shop stuff and a nice card for Mother’s Day. And yeah, a nice dessert

The meal was very yummy. We had some nice wine and some nice conversation and lots of nice time spent together. Then I did the washing up and tidied up while my parents went out for their Sunday afternoon walk.

I think I’ll help my mum with the cooking more often. She likes it. Maybe I can make a dessert every Sunday or something, I like cooking, it’s easy to follow a recipe and it’s fun to make something.

When I was a little girl in primary school, we once did a class assembly about Pancake Day. I was the chef and the teacher found me a white chefs outfit and a big tall hat to wear. I stood by a plastic oven and held a plastic frying pan and I had a plastic pancake we nicked from the nursery box of plastic food which I had to throw up in the air and flip over. I spent ages practising beforehand so I could be able to catch it. I wanted to toss it and flip it infront of the whole school.

I missed it. I went so red.

Anyway on another note I do love pancakes. We’re having them tomorrow though, not tonight (long story). Can’t wait!

Hmm bit delayed but better late than never.

Just a quick ramble about Christmas.

Edit: okay maybe not that short…

(more…)

I couldn’t sleep for ages last night. I was quite tired but I had so much on my mind that I couldn’t drift off. First I was thinking about Bob going to New York tomorrow (today) and how much of an amazing time he will have, and then I was thinking of my own travel plans, and I tried to arrange some things in my head, where I’d go, what I’d see. Then I started trying to remember some Dutch vocab I’d read recently, but midnight on a Sunday night in bed isn’t the best time for that I guess.

And when I did eventually drift off I had the weirdest dream ever.

I dreamt I was starring in a new movie, and we had just got started with the filming when I had appendicitis. I was rushed to hospital and stayed there for a week while I was treated. I had no anesthetic and I watched as they cut me open and removed my appendix.

I left the hospital on a Saturday, and when I got home my mum explained that as a celebration we were going out on the Sunday for a meal. I asked where and she said San Francisco. We would fly out early morning, have a meal in Chinatown in SF and then fly back in the evening. I was so confused.

And we did, we went to San Francisco and I collapsed on the plane, because I wasn’t really meant to fly straight after surgery.

I was rushed straight back to hospital and I woke up at 6am to the sound of the Steel Samurai (my alarm) crying because you can die from appendicitis.

36%

Oh well, I’m not really planning on ever going there.

Inn did this a while ago, I kept meaning to do it recently.

Not the perfect combination but this looks comfy. I need some new jeans, ones that actually fit properly.

The lovely Bob gave me an iPod for Christmas, 80gb classic black:

I’ve been spending the past few days sorting it out, cover art, Futurama episodes etc etc. Bob mentioned Podcasts to me once, and today I checked them out. Twenty minutes later I am oversubscribed to about five German ones, a few French ones and one Dutch one.

Sooner or later I will check out some others no doubt. These will be handy for the bus home from work. And when I go travelling soon.

Ace.

The good stuff:

• Tis only 2 days til I see Bob again
• I’m seeing my dear Lucy on Friday and I’m taking her to Yo Sushi
• Thing at Greenhead tomorrow night
• Tomorrow is last day of work for 2 weeks
• Sunday is Bob’s birthday
• I just made some fudge and it is yummy
• I am cheered up
• My train tickets for January arrived today, yay more London time
• I signed up to Remember The Milk and it looks fun
• I can’t wait til Friday!
• I got another photo on Explore woot:
• I am thoroughly cheered up again now after a lousy day in the office
• I actually had time to take a lunch break today at work
• For the next 2 weeks I will be getting paid to NOT work
• It’s nearly Friday and Friday means more money
• Ich liebe und ich werde geliebt

The bad stuff:

• Some parcels probably won’t be delivered in time for Xmas. Oh well!