Merry Christmas!

зима (Winter)

холод! Cold cold cold! Winter has finally arrived here as well. My winter so far:

1. every morning I spend about 10 minutes ice scratching (yes, only 10, because I am a climate killer and start the engine and heating before I start scratching (I am sure Al Gore also does it this way - plus, he often goes by private jet and I always decide to take the car instead, so who is the big polluter here?!)
2. after that I have my adventurous daily 15 minutes because it takes some time for my windows to start being see-through again, but as I am always late, I cant wait for that and have to start driving immediately
3. I do not leave the house without at least 5 layers of clothes and
4. I started integrating into my Muslim neighborhood as I am wearing my scarf wrapped around my head like a headscarf when I have to brave the cold more than 5 minutes
5. inside you always find me glued to the heating

Plus my highlight (or better lowlight) up to now: Yesterday evening we celebrated christmas at the office. We went out for dinner in Zeist. That is a shitty small town near Utrecht that consists of one long boring main street, thousands of one-way streets and parking lots where they force you to pay 13 euro (THIRTEEN) for parking! Anyway, so we went there, and around 11 I decided to drive home to Germany. In theory it would take about one hour. Hahaha. It was soooo fucking foggy, I hardly could see a thing. When I had to change highways (and I know the route very well!), it was so foggy that I only managed to see traffic signs when I was already passing them, so it took me almost 20 minutes to change highways...horrible.

My question: Do climate change and global warming also imply that fog gets eliminated?

If so, pass on the CFC!

non-smoker, day 113

My 4 months anniversary of not smoking! Since 112 days, 2688 hours, 161280 seconds I am not supporting the tobacco industry anymore....blablabla I feel better...blablabla my health is much better....blablabla my lung is much better....blablabla I am much fitter....blablabla!

Whatever! I still dont feel the non-smoking enlightment and I gave up waiting for it. At least I can still drink! To prevent the emergence of another depression, you better dont try to take away alcohol as well...I mean, come on, what would be the next step? Me doing sports??!! Hell no!

Cheers!

MISSING

This black dress has disappeared from my wardrobe some time ago. Though I have looked for it over and over again in all places where my clothes are stored plus the wardrobes of criminal, clothes stealing family members, I cant find it! I cant even remember exactly when I lost it...must have been between april and early june. If you have any hints/have seen me wearing this dress, please email me!

Dark side of Christmas

Though all in all I am a big fan of Christmas ( how could I not love it? Christmas time are the only four weeks in the year where you are obliged to go shopping and spend lots of money, so the only four weeks where I dont have to feel guilty :), there is one thing I really HATE about it: Wrapping presents. Uah. HORRIBLE. Hate it hate it hate it. Every year I find myself fighting with wrapping paper and scotch tape. Approximately I need 10 m² of paper and 2 meters of tape for wrapping one present. Time it takes to wrap a gift: From 15 minutes to one hour. Through the years I developed some christmas rules to prevent my annual gift wrapping crisis:

1. Only buy presents shaped like squares
2. Never ever buy anything round (mission impossible to wrap it!)
3. Try to buy presents at shops where they wrap it
4. Always use TESA scotch tape, the fake tapes are not sticky enough
5. Don't try to glue your presents. Especially don't glue them on your white carpet while drinking a bottle of wine and slowly losing control over your moves!
6. Put names on the presents. Full names. Otherwise embarassing situations are very likely.
and
7. Do not hide your presents in such secret spots that you cant find them yourself. A christmas present given in late march isnt much fun anymore.

Anyway. I am done for this year. So let Christmas begin!

Zusje komt terug naar huis!

Viva Long Island Iced Tea!

Prettige Sinterklaas!

Fiesta, Fiesta

PS: Despite of the consumption of (too) many alcoholic beverages, I did NOT smoke! I know, I know, I was very surprised of myself as well ;)

Coolest Puschen ever!

Another saturday, another very reasonable purchase: New house slippes with cool zebra pattern! Or as we say in German: PUSCHEN FÜR DEN WINTER!

Overwintering in style!