Mrs.B

Step 1: Take some paint
Step 2: Staple a piece of paper onto a fence and paint a blob on it
Step 3: Squirt the blob!
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I’m stressing out. It’s that darn job interview I have next Tuesday, it’s doing my head in. I have a written test in the morning, about the EU and probably something work related (web publishing), then in the afternoon an interview with my current boss and a panel of probably 4 others :| Some of this interview will be in German :| …

Our renovation plans have been postponed until the summer of 2013, but I am already dreaming of my new kitchen and am collecting little bits and pieces to decorate it with.

One thing I want to have is display shelves of different espresso cups. The initial plan was to just have cups but now the scope has widened a bit…

A couple of weekends ago we went to Edinburgh to visit some friends. On our second day we spend the morning at a place called Our Dynamic Earth, it’s an interactive museum exploring our planet and its geology, geography, climate, evolution, etc. …

I have now had three 3-week manicures back to back. They are very lovely and keep me from totally butchering my cuticles (by picking) but unfortunately I will not be continuing. The reasons are simple: …

1. Blogging IS a great way to make real life friends
… just don’t expect EVERY other blogger you meet to be your bestie. Just like in real life, some people you click with and come people you don’t. …

Samson lost his locks this weekend. As cute as his curls were on some days, most of the days they were a bit of a mess… He’s not a fan of haircuts though so I used the band-aid method – quickly ‘shaved’ his whole head on the highest setting of the hair clippers and the job was done. He only screamed for a minute :| …

We took a train up to Edinburgh on Saturday morning to visit some friends. I made the mistake of not packing my sunglasses – the weather was actually very nice and we all enjoyed this little cross-country adventure. In addition to just wondering around the town, we also went to a couple of cool museums, photos of those are coming in the next few days …

Last night’s German lesson took me straight back to 1993 – that year I arrived in the States with plenty of English in my brain but not enough speaking experience to actually get it out in coherent sentences.

The mental strain in the first few months actually made me physically exhausted (as well as frazzled my brain so much that …

I remember clearly the day when I was filling in university applications in 1994 in St.Louis, Missouri. I had no idea what I wanted to major in and was advised to just pick something I enjoyed because “you can always change it later on”.

I picked German.

But I didn’t change it later on. …

No prose today, just a snapshot of the weekend as recorded by Twitter… it doesn’t accurately describe how awful Saturday was, but I don’t want to get too ‘up close and personal’ right now :)

I’ve given up all hope that there will be spring in this country so dresses have been abandoned for the time being and on this casual Friday, I’m mostly in black (which is very unusual for me :). …

I only had a few hours on 3 days to walk around Amsterdam, so my impressions of the city are probably fairly trivial. Here they are nevertheless…

I’ve just crashed in my hotel room after walking around sunny Amsterdam for 4 hours with a friend I hadn’t seen for 15 years. It was so nice I have no words right now. Maybe tomorrow :)