Nov 08
29,11,08
annoying yank overheard at xmas market: 'So
Uh...maybe you should bust our your earmuffs'
Good job everyone with making 2,0 'think it was his idea'...it
almost worked... :)
These are from the weihnachtsmarkt
This
is my favorite pic of 2,0 ever! Scroogey!!!
someone organized a thanksgiving dinner so we got turkey and stuff
this year.
Stephanie
insisted she wasn't flirting with some dude named Guy, but it sure
looks like she is ;)
26,11,08
...outta the blast from the past files...
It was weird that the only birthday card I got was from my dad...He
doesn't really celebrate birthdays either...
off to the market...yay..first night...
24,11,08
Rented a car for the weekend and went to Ikea (bad eveil ikea!!!),
and then some small towns to look at castles and such...
Took a bunch of pics that won't be of interest to anyone in germany,
but for the people in the States who don't have cobblestone streets,
castles, old buildings etc you can have a look...
LINK!!!!
23,11,08
It snowed...
weihnachtsmarkt starts this week!!! Ring my bell anyone who's down
there...I'll pop down!
17,11,08
Went bowling yesterday...
I
believe that was a gutter ball...there seems to be an abundance of
pins back there...
we
were bowling with jackie Kennedy...scarf...check...short skirt
(ripped)...check...style points and posing galore...
Squires
is talking too much....
Gee
bAWWWSTTAAWWNNNNN I bet the coat would look better on me than
you....
my favourite thing about the bowling alley is that the 'smoking
room' also happened to be the 'game room'...
(Not only did I win at bowling, but also off road racing, air hockey
and scrabble, but no one likes a gloater so we never had this
conversation)...
So is it just me or is the idea of a designated smoking room to keep
the children 'safe', and the idea of a 'game room' is to give the
kids a haven...perfect...
let's put the crotchety old ladies together with the annoying
children and their noisy games and see what happens...
german politician #1: Well, it seems that even the French are going
to ban smoking at most places
german politician #2: why
german politician #1: I have no idea...
german politician #2: OK let's do it...2 months before they do...
german politician #1: good idea!!!
15,11,08
Ever buy a tageskarte in anticipation of actually using it?
Yeah me neither...
happy birthday queen Nür. Realistically this was probably the only
chance in my life to go to your bday party and I missed it...bummer!
gotta stop skipping those once in a lifetime events...oh
well...maybe next year eh?
so I'm watching the Oregon State football game on the
internet...(illegal???)...I also watched some rugby today and as
I've always said since being here that the real rugby players are
much more men-like than the american rugby players...
it's a US feed, so I get commercials from the States. Ok here's my
analysis...xmas is cool...I just want to buy stuff....
desperate housewives...stupid!!! seriously a fire in some crappy
club...OMG what to do!!! run away run away!!!
bowling tomorrow...
15,11,08
Thanks everyone who gave me the birthday wishes...
Thanks mona for the mood lighting, and Julia for bothering to find
34 candles in Deutschland ;)
I started Italian lessons the other night...I think I've forgotten
everything but ciao!
I
don't know why but at some point I was pretending to ski whilst
sitting at the pub...
Not
sure when I'll ever get to use the glasses, but thanks to MacGowans
for the best birthday gift ever!!!
Kat,
take the advice...
...and here comes Obama thinking of bailing out the Auto
Industry...wouldn't it be better for the environment if the US auto
industry failed or shrank...Putting business interests ahead of the
environment....Obama as republican....
If they did fail you'd have more european and Asian cars on the
roads over there...I don't think that's bad.
The money would be better spent elsewhere...I've only ever owned one
US made vehicle (a 76 jeep CJ5) and it was 25 years old when I
bought it...if I was paying taxes in the states why should I have to
use those tax dollars for a bailout of a company(ies) that doesn't
benefit me...
Just shut em down and give the retired workers free health care
(give em all health care) and a year in community college. It
doesn't take a genius to notice that if your pension plan takes in x
dollars but owes x² that the people in that company are stupid to
offer that and the workers are stupid to accept that...(social
security)...companies with stupid people running them should fail.
Can we just give Michigan to Canada???
I've been accused of making incorrect statements just to elicit a
response on this page... ;) who me...
...and I finally heard an intelligent european take on Obama (on a
news podcast). something along the lines of 'it's great that he won,
but germans need to temper their enthusiasm a bit. If they knew his
positions they'd realize he's not going to win the Socialist
politician of the year award'.
Ok so I probably completely butchered that quote (it was only from
memory), and if I'm not mistaken that might be sarcasm coming out of
a germans mouth...The world ends tomorrow...
12,11,08
Just to clarify...If I was forced to vote for Obama
or McCain I would have easily and without question voted for Obama
and I think he could end up being a great president (yes I know he's
a scientologist and his real name is Barack eLRahn Obama, but I just
don't care...). I just think if
Europeans really knew his positions they might not like him as much
(too far right). I think they've just been caught up in the hype
without really knowing what they think they know...
that said I really hope he succeeds with his grander more important
plans...
09,11,08
Didn't actually find anyone today to talk politics with (first time
in a while)...so I'll just put up a pic of Keith and myself
representin'g our support for people in wheelchairs, and Saffa who
is representin'g corky....
08,11,08
still amused by the response to Obama here...He would be a centre-right
candidate in most of europe (most american democrats would
be)....people think that when I don't treat him like a saviour that
I'm anti-Obama...not true...I just think people's response here is
overly optimistic...but with the tax rates he proposes, the
prominence of his religion, his opposition to gay marriage, his
complaints of ,the loss of american jobs' (which implies tariffs and
opposition to free trade) - as already noted these are not left
positions in europe. I'm almost excited about the day when the euros
will lost their naiveté and idealism when it comes to Obama and
american politics...
05,11,08
yeah mate, the election is over...what can I say...those are my
people yo!!!
welcome back!!! FFM missed you...
a british colleague had Obama as her desktop wallpaper...really
people, are the parties that different...no!!! if you think they are
you are european!!!
Euros with their bloody proportional representation and multi party
systems...
...OK with a Dem house and senate (being one of the astute observers
of politics of course I know what a filibuster is...)...
...knowing what a filibuster is does not make you an astute observer
of politics....
I started to expound on my point about an Obama vs. McCain
presidency and what legislation would be different, but scrapped
it...I don't have time to edumacate....
OK...maybe health care legislation will be quite different, and
environmental legislation will be more comprehensive, but other than
that it would end up being the same...taxes, war, immigration,
etc...the other important issues would have ended up identically....
I'm much more interested in how the religious right reacts...this
could be the end of the religious right in politics...as they fail
in 2012 and then move to create a multi-party system....
fun to watch...like 50 y.o. making out at the pub...
04,11,08
an old irish dude who used to play with Bob Geldof (I think his name
is Dave) loves politics (esp. american politics...I always tell him
it doesn't affect him, but he seems to think it does...), anyways he
wants McCain to win then promptly die...just to see Palin in
office...that would be a good show!!!
Eric is a flip flopper!!! Changing to Obama just because of Palin...
2.0 promised me I could sing a
johnny horton song during his wedding if I would come...I'm pretty
sure he didn't clear this with stephanie, but since Eric wears the
pants and the wedding is really for him I know that I will be
singing "the battle of new orleans" in Minnesota next May....thank
you eric!!! you are my hero...
During the time immediately
preceding his promise the two yanks were singing "the battle of new
orleans" in the pub...I should be ashamed, but i'm not really...
I think Saffa also promised me a
song at his wedding in SaffaLand as well (if I show up and if I'm
invited...)...cheers matey!!!
Some dude who lives in my flat rode the elevator down with me and
asked me if I was going to vote...really...I've never even said more
than 'hallo' to him before.
No I'm not voting, but if I was I'd vote for whoever was more likely
to raise your taxes...you need it...
Me (to Mona the
waitress): can a brother get some cake!!!!
me: Kat, Do you
know what the root word of navajo is???
01,11,08
Was introduced to a someone who apparently knew of me...New friend described me as
'frish und vital' (fresh and vital)...
Those are new words used to describe me...flattered??? maybe....
They should see me now...
...and too thin...also a new one...
