Dezember 2011
45 Einträge
"When You're Still Waiting for the Snow to Fall,
it doesn’t really feel like Christmas as all.”
I’m flying back to Michigan today, and I’m leaving for the train station to go to the airport in about an hour and a half. There is no snow here, and it is not cold enough for snow in Michigan, which is actually kind of good when one is flying. It’s not the snow that makes Christmas; there are so many other reasons why...
Ain't nothing like mailing your Christmas cards on...
glitterbubbles:
section9:
bowlingalley-lawyer:
when you’ve had them for almost 4 weeks.
Yeah, sorry y’all.
hahaha, mailing them? I’ll be writing mine tonight after Cody’s dad’s family’s celebration. probably while watching something festive. I’m sorry/you’re welcome? you’ll probably get them before the first, and that is pretty good for me, I think. xoxoxoxo
I haven’t mailed any,...
Gottesdienst (Church Service)
Wednesday turned out to be a good day, as I’ve written before.
I didn’t really write too much about Gottesdienst though. Every year, before Christmas break and summer break, there is an ecumenical church service for the school at the catholic church in Edigheim (the part of Ludwigshafen where my school is). This year, the service also included a brief discussion of the traditions of...
Executive Decisions
I think after I finish grading the essay that is sitting next to me, I am going to call it a night.
I survived today. I’m not going to lie; it was difficult, but I ended up enjoying the day very much. I had an unexpected reaction, but I also had unexpected support. I felt very, very loved today. Why do I always cry when I feel loved? That doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense, does...
Three Hours of Sleep
I only got three hours of sleep last night. I am sad about this right now because I am so damn tired.
I have an hour and 15 minutes until my train leaves. I’m leaving in like 30 minutes so I can go to the ATM, get breakfast, buy copious amounts of Red Bull, and if I’m lucky, maybe I’ll even find a seat on the train. I hope that I don’t have to stand the entire way from...
Christmas is Fast Approaching
It’s raining today, and that does not make me a happy camper. I checked the forecast for Michigan for next week, and it seems that there will also be no snow when I am home for Christmas. Screw that.
I wish the weather here was not so crappy. It wouldn’t be so terrible if it was snow. After a while, the rain just gets depressing. (I could probably never live in the Pacific Northwest.)...
Help!
Tumblrers!
I have a $50 e-gift certificate to amazon.com and a 25€ e-gift certificate to amazon.de! Yay for birthdays!
I need book suggestions! Fantasy is not my genre. I’ve tried it, and I just never could get into it. I do, however, appreciate it’s value as literature. Please don’t hurt me!
Some of my favorite books are The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, How to be Good and A...
Twenty Six: Part Two
My 26th birthday was absolutely wonderful. I felt so loved, and I’ll remember it forever. Really.
Lunch with German Mom was lovely. There is a restaurant on the top floor of the department store in Mannheim, and she took me there, and we had a wonderful lunch and an amazing conversation, and I still smile when I think about it. (It was only two days ago, but still.) I’ll be smiling...
26
Well, dear, dear Tumblr Friends, the day has arrived: the fifth anniversary of my 21st birthday. AKA: My 26th birthday, and I am SO excited!
This birthday is already shaping up to be better than last year. Last year, I stayed up until 2am baking 72(!!!) muffins. I got up to go to school at 5am. Spent the day at school. It was about a seven, on a scale of 1-10. On my way home, I bought a cheese...
"Tonight, tonight, it's coming tonight!"
Or actually tomorrow morning. I am really enjoying this phase I’m going through where I make A Christmas Story apply to practically everything in my life or at least everything related to my birthday.
I am FINALLY excited about my birthday. God, I hope I don’t jinx it. At any rate, German Mom is taking me out to lunch :D, and then I am meeting German Sister, a former student, and...
Productivity
I just finished cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom, and I have to say, they both look pretty fabulous. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that the apartment, my room included, is never going to be as clean as I want it to be. Let’s face it. I live with two other people, and I inherited a mess.
This is not to say that the previous tenant of my room (You know who you are) is messy or...
Lots
I have lots of things to do today. I want to do zero of them. Well, maybe going to the gym.
Quote...
…ALL the Coldplay lyrics!
I am having the kind of night where I just want to lay on the floor, stare at the ceiling, and listen to Coldplay.
I wish winter in the Rheinland was not so shitty. Though, it is kind of like December ten years ago when I started losing my mind. Everything is cyclical.
I’m just pissed off that I feel so crappy when I am so pleased about so many things. I am...
H'Okay
It’s been just over a week since that bad thing happened on Friday, and I am finally back to 85% of my normal functionality. I think after I survive the Christmas party on December 21st, I will be back to 100; it’s one of those personal victory sort of things.
German Mom and her husband had a huge role in making this better. They are incredibly wonderful people. German Sister, too.
I...
If I was so sure I knew where I was going...
…how did I get so lost?
December to Remember
Okay, so I really used to love December, but right now, I’m super pissed at December even though my birthday is in four days. December and I have been fighting for at least two years now.
Brief rundown of our feud:
2009 - I failed out of the College of Education, and my sister spent December 23-30th in the hospital due to symptoms which we would later find out were caused by her tumor.
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And One More
I miss teaching. A lot. Yes, I “teach” at my current job, but to say that’s teaching is to use the term loosely. Teaching is so much more than what I’m doing now. I liked my students that I had this semester, but teaching at the university level is very different than what I did last year, and I realize now that, although this pays the bills and gives me teaching...
Also, Ironically, I Hate Winter.
My birthday is in December, and I love Christmas, but I hate winter. I’d be okay with it if winter just ended after New Year’s, and we had some sunny but crisp weather until it started to warm up for spring. This damp cold with no snow bullshit has to go.
I’ve started going to the gym in order to fight the winter blues. Some days, it works better than others. I spent an hour on...
26 is Sneaking up on Me
Don’t judge me.
In nine days, I will be 26. Last year, when I turned 25, it was the first birthday that I actually felt different, felt older. I also hoped that I would spend #26 here in Germany, and that wish came true. Although, I didn’t get to wish on any candles last year… No matter.
Some really crazy stuff has happened between 25 and 26, and I’m happy to say that I...
Woo!
I just finished up my first semester as an academic writing instructor. There were some rough spots here and there, but the most important thing is that I gained valuable teaching experience.
I think I’ll be much better at it next semester than I was this semester just because I have an idea of how this is supposed to work.
At any rate, I’m really excited because I don’t have...
Into the Strenuous Briefness: Scrutiny →
iamlittlei:
I’ve been procrastinating my lesson planning very deliberately this weekend.
Tomorrow I am being observed by the district science curriculum supervisor. Until now I have not been too nervous about this; she already likes me, she’s heard nothing but good things about my classroom, and she’s…
It’s normal to be nervous when being observed, but after doing student...
The Tangential: 10 Anxieties I Have About Grocery... →
thetangential:
1. I will accidentally “overindulge” by buying expensive greek yogurt and some kind of exotic vegetable, all out of a fruitless quest to be healthy, and it will somehow result in me being broke 1 week later.
2. Worrying that I am co-dependent because I hate going to stores alone.
3. Worrying…
Story. Of. My. Life.
