The quiz yesterday was fun, as usual. There're two Irish colleagues in our support team who come over from Dublin every few weeks, and they know a lot about the type of music that the quizmaster usually asks. Without them, we'd been totally lost. But so, we got almost everything right, and the few questions that we didn't know, we mostly guessed ( Read more... )

Met with Hubby in Heidelberg after work yesterday evening. We went to our favorite Arabian place and had falafel and halloumi for dinner. Hmm, sooo yummy ( Read more... )

We were at a pubquiz yesterday evening, together with some friends and colleagues, and we won! Yay! And the prize was even rather nice, we won a voucher for 4 main meals and a Guinness advertising sign with a lamp inside. When trying to switch it on, the light bulb broke, but with another bulb it should be fine. And it looks cool :o)

( Picture )

German mobile contracts usually run for two years, then get extended every two years if one doesn't cancel. Hubby's mobile contract extension was due. With the extension, you have the chance to get a new mobile for a lot less money than it would cost normally. But this time, Hubby didn't take a new phone, but a Tom Tom navigation system for the car ( Read more... )

My looong weekend in bullets:

• Saturday: Maddin gave a housewarming party in his new apartment in Munich. Great evening, but now I definitely had enough BBQs for this year.


• Sunday: Well, since we were already in Munich, we went to the Oktoberfest (a.k.a. Wiesn) in a small group. This thing is huge, and so many people were there! And about half of ( Read more... )

The last two days were incredibly funny. ( Read more... )

Rain, rain, storm, and more rain. That's the holiday weather here :o ( Read more... )

A few short sentences about the last days ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in over a week, so here're the highlights of the last days:
( Read more... )

First of all, Happy Birthday, ridicully! May you find a nice place for working on your dissertation!

I hope you all had a great weekend and those who celebrate it had a wonderful Halloween!

My weekend was four days long because there was a Holiday yesterday, and I'd taken off on Monday too, ( because a good friend from my school times visited us for the weekend... )