Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Anna, Au-Pair, Baileys, Boston, Calvin and Hobbes, Emily, For Better or For Worse, Instant Messengers, Internet, Limoncello, Michael, photography, Photoshop, Seinfeld, Skype, Star Trek
I have been tagged by My Autistic Boy and Other Adventures in Fatherhood.
The rules:
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
Alright, here goes nothing:
1. I LOVE Seinfeld. I started watching it when I first came over as an Au-Pair in its first season. When Michael moved down to Atlanta, and I was still in Boston, he would call me and we would watch it “together”. We love watching the reruns now.
2. I am a Trekky.
3. Uhhhh, hard to believe this one: I was very shy and timid when I was growing up.
4. I like it rather cooler than hotter, because I can still get out and run around. Hotter weather paralyzes me, and I really don’t like that feeling of being cooped up inside. I love the saying: There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.
5. I make my own liquors, my favorite ones being Limoncello and Baileys.
6. I am not sure what this says about me, but before we had kids – I was already married, mind you – my favorite cartoon was Calvin and Hobbes. After kids, my favorite cartoon is For Better or For Worse.
7. People, who know me, are very well aware of this – If I have more than three steps to take, I run them. I’ve always done it, and don’t think anything off it, but it gets pointed out when I meet someone new. It just shows how much of a busy body I am, I guess.
8 . Last, but not least: I am a geek at heart. I love my computer. I admit it. I love the Internet. How can I not? The Internet has helped me stay in touch with my beloved family in Germany and so many friends through e-mail, instant messengers and now Skype. We see each other through our web cams. Grandparents and uncles get to see Anna and Emily grow up – literally! Anna and Emily are totally thrilled, because, finally, they can just say “Look what I made!” or “Look what I can do!” and it works. The computer opens up so many possibilities for my photographic adventures as well. I love looking at the photographs every so often, something I never did with printed pictures as I don’t have the patience for scrap booking. I also like to hog too many pictures that would never go in a scrap book!!! And I’ve started to play around with them on Photoshop. So much to learn! The Internet is also my learning tool for everything. I am totally dependent on it from most of my recipes (bookmarked, certainly) to anything I ever wanted to look up and learn about. Well, that would also explain why my work is computer and internet based – that is a chicken and egg dilemma, though.
So, now I have to tag some people here:
Yes, I know I am supposed to tag 8 people, but these ones are the ones I felt comfortable with tagging. We’ll see who plays the game, or if it takes some almost a year, like it did me to put some funky facts together.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Anna, Emily, hot cocoa, snow, snowball fight
Needless to say, we have a snowball in our freezer. Anna’s first mission was to get a snowball and put it in there. Then she proceeded to go outside, loving to run around in the snow, play with the neighbors kids and have fun. She finally came bck in to put her gloves on. I am sure she was so excited, she did not even feel the snow. Lilly on the other hand was more interested in the hot cocoa than the snow. When we then opened the front door and she saw the blanket of snow covering everything and we started to pick it up and throw at each other, she got sooooooooooo mad, because she wanted the perfect blanket of white intact when she woke up in the morning. Unfortunately, snow became snow and rain, then sleet and by morning, we still have some white covering the ground, but it is not snow, but ice and it is rather patchy. Oh well, we enjoyed it while it lasted and there might be more coming Saturday night. As you can see, we have BIG jackets, warm slippers and hand warmers to keep us warm.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Anna and Emily, grandmother, memories, mother, singing, songs
I was just cleaning up the dishes after dinner, what a chore, but Anastacia definitely gave me a lift. Whirling and dancing around the kitchen cleaning up after dinner to the sound of “Not that kind” and “Who’s gonna stop the rain” is way more fun than to do it in silence, fussing children upstairs, just doing my job! (more…)
