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It has been ages since I wrote anything... but I read today in the newspaper that it is very good to remember three good things a day (and to take your bike to work, two separate articles but guess how I did get to work :-)) and I wanted to connect again via live journal for ages, so I take this moment of peace and quiet (after I asked my daughter not to quiz me about dogs anymore...) to post.
A lot has been happening, and I have been extremely busy with work, preparing my trip to Egypt (only three more days...) and to get my EU project started (who would have thought that EU burocracy would be so... burocratic?). It is a very good kind of busy, though, working on different things all interesting (except for the burocratic part, but I do learn a lot) and even getting my book projects on the way, too.
So, keeping my tradition, three good things of today
- Yummy food, as always :-) On Friday, when I was preparing the food for next day, slightly stressed out after a busy day at work, I listened to a show on a Nebraskan public radio station (I love this radio station! Great music and news about Broken Bow High School honoring its winter atheletes...) about cooking. And the lady on the show said something wonderful - how we should make preparing dinner a fun and nice time for us. To enjoy it, maybe listening to wonderful music, maybe having a glass of wine, to try fun and yummy food, to just make a chore into some me-time. I really, really liked it! And so, I had home made pastries for lunch, leftovers from last night and extremely yummy, and sloppy joe's for dinner :-).
- Taking the time after a good but very exhausting meeting to take a walk at the water side, watching the Norwegian cruise ship leave the harbor. I really love my town. Kiel is not the prettiest of towns for an out-of-towner, to put it with Bruce Springsteen "You ain't no beauty but ey, you're allright". Except that it is more than allright. Maybe more like Klaus Hoffmann put it "Du bist kein Top-Model. Du trittst nicht auf, du kommst herein. Das übersieht man schnell". But Kiel is so wonderful. It has just the right size (we have theater, an opera, concerts, sports, restaurants and many of them), but is no so big that you get lost. We live pretty quite, and yet I can take my bike to work and be downtown in half an hour. We have the waterside in town, I can go swimming after work, yet again only 15 minutes by bike, or go to the beach (20 min by car) or in winter, we can ice skate. We have lots of young folk due to the university and lots of young culture. And still it is small enough that you know folks when you go places. I so love it here.
- A hot bath :-). Taking the bike might be very healthy, but to be honest, it still is pretty cold in the morning and evening. So a hot bath to get warm again and relax the muscles is just the best.
And now I have to read "Stadt der träumenden Bücher" to the kids. Schlimmes Schicksal :-)!!
A lot has been happening, and I have been extremely busy with work, preparing my trip to Egypt (only three more days...) and to get my EU project started (who would have thought that EU burocracy would be so... burocratic?). It is a very good kind of busy, though, working on different things all interesting (except for the burocratic part, but I do learn a lot) and even getting my book projects on the way, too.
So, keeping my tradition, three good things of today
- Yummy food, as always :-) On Friday, when I was preparing the food for next day, slightly stressed out after a busy day at work, I listened to a show on a Nebraskan public radio station (I love this radio station! Great music and news about Broken Bow High School honoring its winter atheletes...) about cooking. And the lady on the show said something wonderful - how we should make preparing dinner a fun and nice time for us. To enjoy it, maybe listening to wonderful music, maybe having a glass of wine, to try fun and yummy food, to just make a chore into some me-time. I really, really liked it! And so, I had home made pastries for lunch, leftovers from last night and extremely yummy, and sloppy joe's for dinner :-).
- Taking the time after a good but very exhausting meeting to take a walk at the water side, watching the Norwegian cruise ship leave the harbor. I really love my town. Kiel is not the prettiest of towns for an out-of-towner, to put it with Bruce Springsteen "You ain't no beauty but ey, you're allright". Except that it is more than allright. Maybe more like Klaus Hoffmann put it "Du bist kein Top-Model. Du trittst nicht auf, du kommst herein. Das übersieht man schnell". But Kiel is so wonderful. It has just the right size (we have theater, an opera, concerts, sports, restaurants and many of them), but is no so big that you get lost. We live pretty quite, and yet I can take my bike to work and be downtown in half an hour. We have the waterside in town, I can go swimming after work, yet again only 15 minutes by bike, or go to the beach (20 min by car) or in winter, we can ice skate. We have lots of young folk due to the university and lots of young culture. And still it is small enough that you know folks when you go places. I so love it here.
- A hot bath :-). Taking the bike might be very healthy, but to be honest, it still is pretty cold in the morning and evening. So a hot bath to get warm again and relax the muscles is just the best.
And now I have to read "Stadt der träumenden Bücher" to the kids. Schlimmes Schicksal :-)!!