Time flies by....

This morning my niece called and told me that she is going to be a pupil from summer on - and I thought noooo  she is such a sweetie and a cutie and it can't be that she is soooo "grown up" now. She is five years old (tursn 6 in August) and I once again thought - where has the time gone? I can remember when she was born I can remember her first words (in the first time she couldnt pronounce 'Kerstin' so she always said "Dizzin" (oh how I loved that) and I have spent sooo much time with her (never thought I would find myself down on my knees for hours and hours with her on my back and listenend to her "gooo Dizzin go"..
So today we have some pics from my "one and only" soooo beloved niece Ann- Sophie:

pround aunties smile - an irritaded Ann-Sophie

OMG - what a grin and smile.....

Hey - thats meeeeeee - look at me "Dizzin"

Wow - Dizzin - you're living in a nice place here in Munich - my first Munich-visit

Hey - one, two, three - smiiiiiiileee and say cheeese - you see the photographer genes she got from her aunt?

Bath-time...

sharing my ice cream with my beloved aunt

Kerstin - when I am grown up I want to become a photographer - or a pilot - or a vet - or a "human doc"...

Beach on Mallorca

I LOVE THIS SHOT  - I LOVE MY NIECE - SWEETIE YOU'RE ALWAYS MY LITTLE " MOUSE COOKIE"

Lazy sunday and monday - so no entry - but here we are again....

Sunday and monday were such beautiful days - I nearly had forgotten how lovely spring can be. We had two awesome days with lots of sunshine and nice temperatures - around 25 degrees. Hub came home from the final of the championselage on Sunday around 01.00 pm and we decided to have a bbq in the afternoon as the weather forecast said in the evening there could be some rain showers close to the Alpes. But no rain in sight and we enjoyed a whole day outstide.

 

Monday the weather again was sunny and no clouds in the sky - we had breakfast outside (for the first time this year - no thats not true - we had it already in Turkey in April - but here at home it was the first time). Then later we did some gardening and in the afternoon we had a cup of coffee with our neighbours and then we did a long walk around the area - was soooo nice it was warm enough to wear a summer dress. Later in the evening we had a bbq again and some asparagus (I love it) and we went inside at 9 pm.

On saturday I ran 10 kms and I felt great - sunday I only ran 5 km - but felt also great. So monday run was cancelled due to the fact being lazy and enjoying the garden and today I have to do my 10 km run again - have a new route and love it. So nothing really interesting happened the last days - just relaxed days and enjoying the beautiful weather. 

On friday I have an official photoshooting again in the evening  - so far my "business" runs good this year. In June I have to fly to Duesseldorf for a photoshooting and I will do some photoshootings with my friends and their children. I had to take a lot of courage to tell them I won't do that for free - I am a "photographer" and this is my business and I have to be paid for that. Once a acquaintance asked me to do a photoshooting for her and asked for a "special friendship cost". I told her that I have no special friendship costs - she can inform herself about my prices on my homepage and if this is okay for her I'll do the shooting - if not - she can choose another photographer. (I have to say my fees are much lower than the fees of others - I have a problem to match my fees with theirs as I have no education in photography - all my knowlede comes from practicing and reading 100's of books). I always wonder how people think they can ask me for doing my job without being paid. I also have costs - I have drive to them - I am there and I work with them for hours and hours - I have to drive home again - I have to edit some photos - I have to burn it on a dvd or cd or whatever... and I am busy for a whole day and then for free??? I once asked a friend if she would do her work in the office for free and she immediately said no - so I won't do that either I replied. Big eyes in her face - aha if you turn the situation upside down - they see it with different eyes.

Saturday

This morning I woke up very relaxed and before I opened my eyes I thought: Yes - weather forecast told about a great weekend weather - opened my eyes and guess what I saw??? RIGHT - dark clouds again. 

Okay - I will start to ignore that thing called weather here in Germany - I went downstairs had two cups of coffee and a toast then took some time to read some blogs here (normally I don't do that on weekends as hub is around and I don't have time for that - he keeps me busy and/or want to be entertained LOL). Then the sky went from grey to light blue and I snapped my running shoes and did a 10 km outside walk - hmmmm - it did smell sooooo well - so spring like - so good. (I think the older you are the more you notice things like how it smells, how green the grass is etc.

After returned home I felt (and still feel) very good and proud of myself as I did my 10 kms run - and not shortened like I sometimes do. First 5 km with sunshine then 3 kms with clouds and last 2 kms with - yes - rain.

So I thought no need to shower after running  - heee just kidding - right now I come back from having a shower and now I will go and buy some rhubarb to make a rhubarb-strawberry punch and a rhubarb cake.

Have to clean the windows from inside of my car - bitterly needed- then a short visit to my mother in law - think we will go to the cementry and bring father in law some flowers for pentecost.

In the evening I am invited in the neighbourhood for a barbeque (if the weathergod is in a good mood) and then watching the championsleague final - should Bayern Munich win they won a "triple" which didn't happen in Germany til now. 

Yesterday evening I downloaded some songs and got some "flash back" to the good teenie ages - some songs from the late 70 th and the early 80th - great time we had. But I think every age has its ups and downs - so when I thought I had problems at around aged 18 - I only can smile about now.... 

Honestly today I haven't taken any pic - my thought was to take my cam with on my run but I can' t  run with that heavy thing around my neck....And I really wanted to run this morning. Okay enough of my hooey..

Have a great weekend all and hear/see/read you soon - wishing you always the right light in front of your lenses :)

Weekend in front ot the door....

...and hubby is not at home - awww. He's on the way to watch the final of the championsleague in Madrid - a so called business trip (LOL)  Bayern Munich against Inter Mailand. Poor man has to fly to Madrid and have to watch soccer - and all for business.....  Okay, honestly he said that he would love to stay with me or take me with him but last thing was not possible as no flight for me (okay I could have taken a plane to Frankfurt - then Brussels - then Madrid but I didn't want to sit in a plane for half a day when I could do it in 2,5 hours).

So I decided to stay here and will do some gardening (if the sun comes out) and some work for me because I am a little behind my time schedule. So some office work now then in the evening a bath with a glass of wine and an interesting book - then the remote controll of tv is for me all alone - yipeeee!!!!!! And then hush hush into bed..

Tomorrow - if - big if - if the weather is fine I have to mowe the lawn and then some gardening - later on maybe relaxing in my garden and in the evening watching that soccer final - fingers crossed for the Bavarians.

Yesterday I went shopping and after a few minutes I ran though the mall there was an announcement: "A little girl - probably 1 and a half years old - black short hair and dark skin is looking for his parents. Please pick her up at the information.

I remember when I was little this situation was my worst imagination - losing my parents in a shopping mall. Okay I made my way though all these shops and then the announcement came again after 10 mins. I thought if I would have "lost" my child I would have picked it up meantime. After 10 mins I heard that again and I thought I will have a look at the information. There a small girl sat on a womans hip and cried and cried (it wasnt her mother it was the woman who "found" her) and the whole girls body shaked. I was sooo sorry for her. I watched the scenery for more than 10 mins - no woman or man came and picked up the little one. As I had a friend with me yesterday I had to go but today when I went to the shopping mall again I asked at the information what happened to the girl and the lady told me it took more than 1,5 hours before she was picked up by her parents.... Please - what kind of parents are they? They must have known that the little one is afraid to bits. Its hard to say but some people don't deserve having a child.

Todays pic was taken when I came home from shopping  - so not something out of my inventory.... "freshly made" LOL.

team up thursday - second week

Second week Marcelle and I are working on our new challenge "team up thursday". When I said last week I was a little nervous about my first pic I have to say this week I was a little nervous again. I think I have to learn not to give myself that pressure regarding "doing the perfect shot" - "having a special idea". I know the thought behind is just having fun and showing your pics and how and what do you see by the chosen theme.

This week our theme is yellow - chosen by my team up partner and friend Marchelle:
Yellow is the color of the sun and yellow gives us light, serenity and enjoyment.
First photo is mine - the photo underneath is Marcelle's

Wow - I thought "yellow" and immediately looked around what I can find in yellow - some post.its, some color pens... then I thought I should look outside to the nature or whatever yellow I can find outside. And my fist idea was the german letter boxes. Did some photos but honestly I didn't like them because the yellow was dirty or bleached out - not that yellow I wanted. Then by drving to the golf course last week I saw all these huge fields of rapeseeds - everything is yellow here. It looks sooo nice and I though: yes - thats it....

When I talked to Marcelle on Monday she told me that she will send her pic to me now as she was expected to stay in hospital from wednesday on and I can can put her pic on my blog - we talked on the phone and then her pic arrived - I opened it and  - wow - we both had the same idea.... LOL. 

I love the comprehensiveness Marcelles photo mediates - so not just one single blossom - a huge field of blossoms. I feel the requireness to run into this field and outstretch my arms to capture the whole scenery. Very well done Marcelle.

So I had to go out and do another "yellow shot" but I had something in my head - dandelion. I took my pic and sent it to Marcelle so that she can "prepare" it for her blog and when she opened my pic she told me that this was also on her mind - great minds think alike.

I really love being part of the team up thursday and even its my/our second week I find myself watching a lot of things with different eyes - I think the idea behind also opens your mind and creativity.

Take a look what theme and photos "our colleagues" have chosen - for example Berta; Corey; Megan or Melody

Showing you my hometown Schlüchtern

For almost 22 years I am now living in Munich - I love Munich and since my teenage years I wanted to live there. Every summer when my parents, my sister and I packed our car for holidays and drove all the ways down to Austria or to (former) yugoslavia and we passed Munich I always said: One day I will live here.

And in 1988 I finally moved and not even one single minute I have regret this decision. Nevertheless I sometimes am "homesick" although Schlüchtern is not so far away from Munich - about 400 kms and a 3 hours drive (with no traffic jam).  But funny thing is all the things that bothered me when I in my young 20th I now love these things: For example - as my parents were running a bakery we were known in our small town and so everyone knows what the others were doing - our neighbour (an old man who didn't sleep very much in the nights and often sat on his window) told my father: Kerstin came home at 02.00 at night - do you know that? She stood in front of the door for more than half an hour - I don't know the boy she was hugging... LOL - what other entertainment should an old man have????

When I walked in town most of the people knew my face and asked: Hey Kerstin, why not at school - not helping in the bakery or in the bakers shop... bla bla bla....

Nowadays I am sooo happy when I meet people who recognize me, my face and my name - time changes.

So now here are a few pictures of my beloved hometown Schlüchtern - about 35 km away from Lauterbach :)

Rain in May...

...wash your worries away

take a dose take off your clothes

feel the soft warm spray of the rain in May 

LOL - I cant feel a soft warm spray - I feel a cold shower when going outside...

Yesterday I found some ideas to create own frames for my pictures and I tried to create them.

Today I show the "easy ones" - hope the more difficult ones I can show tomorrow..

I remember that song from the early 80th - performed by Max Werner - think this is/was a "one hit wonder". I loved it that time but I hate it now because it definately doesn't wash my worries away - I am worried about that rainy weather - but this shouldn't become a weather blog so changing the point.

 

 This pic was taken at the beautiful beach of Marahau in New Zealand - we had such a nice time there. Hub asked a few days ago where I would love to spend our November holiday. I have to say that I normally enjoy my holidays but when it comes to an end I am happy to go home again because I love to be at home. First holiday end where I sat in the plane and cried as sad its over was in Canada in 2005 - then when we flew home from Christchurch I cried half an hour - I was sooo sad - I loved the landscape, the people, the nature - I loved everything and I wish I could return - maybe....

Exhausted....

Oh man - I haven't felt like this for ages - I woke up that morning and didn't realize where I was - what day it is - what's going on and I had to sort out my thoughts for more than 3 minutes. I felt soooo exhausted (and still feel after 2 cups of coffee and 4 hours later) - couldn't even move to stop the alarm clock..... What happened? No idea.

We had a nice weekend - friday we had friends around and I went to bed at around midnight - not that late. Saturday a friend of Achim came to watch the soccer game with Achim  - and as we (Bayern Munich) won the game with 4 : 0 we were in a very sportive mood and did some fun games with the Nintendo WII which I got for my birthday. Went to bed at around 01:00 in the morning - again not too late.

Sunday we went to the golf course and did a 18 hole tournament (3 men and me) - weather was very windy and sometimes it was rainy but not too much. We need more than 5 hours and went home at half past eight in the evening - had a 45 mins drive and then a short and quick dinner - went to bed at 11 pm and this morning I was like "knocked out"......  I am sitting in front of my computer and finished one photobook and  I am tired and my eyes are still "half open" -

Have to go and play piano as my piano teacher will be here in the afternoon and she exactly knows if I had played and done my "homework"..... Right now we are on some classic music and I am working hard on me to play it like it should be played. But I love this piano lessons I take now for 1,5 years again. I had piano lessons for 6 years when I was a teen but then stopped and never had lessons. When I bought my own piano 5 years ago I thought I would teach myself a little and will find back to where I finished years ago. But honestly I couldn't bring myself to work the way I thought. Sometimes I sat on the piano and played along and when it came to some difficult parts I stopped and played what I played all the time- nothing new - always the old things. So when heard that my neighbours son got piano lessons I thought: now or never - I asked the teacher and she told me to wait a month then another pupil will give up as she moves to Spain.

Since Oktober 2008 I am doing piano lessons now and slowly but constantly I can feel myself "coming back" - sometimes I think my fingers are a little rust in - but a famous piano player once said:

If I don't play the piano for one day - I feel and hear it

If I don't play for three days - my wife recognized it

If I don't play for a week - my audience regocnized it

Off for my weekly's "team up thursday" photoshoot - Marcelle just sent hers to me and I am really impressed - funny thing is as we have a weekly theme I thought about that and when I saw Marcelles photo I had a laugh because it is/was exactly what I wanted to do - but I had another idea in my head so I will take that photo now - as se sun is coming out (even it is for a few minutes) - later again off to play the piano for an hour or so.

Weekend - I am sick and tired of rain and cold temperatures...

Now I am really p....... - what a spring we had until now. End of April a week with nice temperatures around 20 degrees Celcius - and from the beginning of May until today (and thats the 16th) only rain and clouds and temperatures around 8 - 10 degrees. And the weather forecast said it will be like this the whole next week.

And then? In June? Temperatures around 30 degrees??? Where is the "good old spring" gone which brought us nice temperatures around 20 degrees so that we slowly but constantly get used to higher temperatures and not from 8 degress to 30 degrees?

Sometimes I think the nature strikes back - I think we have done sooo much mistakes - we are destroying our "Mother Earth" step by step. See all the floodings the last years, see the Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoe eruptions... Do you think that is "normal"? I think we spent far too much time, money and energy in "excursions to the universe" and other things.

Way too much rubbish and waste what has to be burned - way too much plastic that cannot be recycled, way too much gases that goes to the atmosphere... Noo I am not a bigot in environment protection but I think if we sum up all these things we are destroying our nature.

Yesterday I did a short walk around our area and I found bin liner "parked" in the forest - who the hell is doing that? Last week I saw a neighbour from our street coming out of the forest with a spade in one and a small tree in the other hand - he digged it out and plant it in his garden. Hey - what if everyone is doing that?

I think some of us don't have any respect for the nature.

We should take care of our "Mother Earth" - we only have THIS ONE.....  Thanks for listening....

Golfers mosaic

It's raining again....

Loved and still love that song from "Supertramp". Even its a song title the words are bothering me... Since two weeks we have that weather - now and then a day its not raining the whole day..... Boring!!!

This morning I was on my way to a photoshooting - just when I arrived I was told the photoshoot won't happen because of the weather - we should have taken some photos outside and it was raining cats and dogs. So back home and doing some blogging, some paperwork, then later I will stop by at a friend for a cup of coffee and in the evening we are having friends with us.  

Got a call this morning from a "colleague" who asked me to do a photoshooting for him as he is away that day. Nice that he is always thinking of me (regarding photography - lol). He has great connections and we worked together a few times. We will work together in June for a photoshooting in Duesseldorf - we were asked to make photos for an event of an insurance group and we've worked together for them last year here in Munich.

We were asked to come over to Duesseldorf (flight and hotel costs will be paid by the insurance group) as we are much cheaper (included all costs for overnight stay in a 4 star hotel and flight)  than the photographers in Duesseldorf.

Yesterday we went to the "Golf Ladies Open" - even it rained we could watch some women playing golf over screens. We sat inside and had coffee and tea and the poor ladies had to walk for hours outside in the rain. But thats golf - there is no bad weather - there is just bad clothing....

The weather yesterday was bad - nevertheless I did some photos. Always my cam around my neck (ohubby told me he would love to see me "normal"  - I am normal!!!!)

Some "impressions" from yesterday..

team up thursday - the first one...

Now that is a challange - joining the group of those fantastic photographers.... I am happy to found some more woman who are addicted to photography.

Now Marcelle and I "teamed up" and joined the fun. The rules are the following:

you have to chose a partner and then you discuss about weekly themes - every "couple" does it for its own - that means there is not MAIN THEME - every team has to chose its own theme for the week.Then when you've chosen a theme each of you sends a pic to your partner and you can do it like I did (two photos in one pic or you show it in any other way) and you post it to on your blog.
Now tell everyone why you have chosen that theme and tell something about your partners photo. It sounds very excited for me and I am happy to show you Marcelles and my first "project"

Now Marcelle and I have chosen the theme........ratatataaaaaaaa - SPORTS -and that is what came out:

 

I really love Marcelle's idea of the pic - you see you never know what you can do with photos you've taken and somethimes think: OMG - for whatever reason I have taken that one..... Not that I think Marcelle had that thought but when I sometimes go through my pics I think - why the heck did I take this one.... and exactly three days after I delete it I find an idea for what I could have used it.....
I think when you are addicted to photography you see the world with special eyes - I don't know if anyone would have taken a pic from balls in a net - THAT is something special. Not only the "beautiful and special" things need to be photographed- sometimes the "normal" and unimposting situations or combinations are the interesting ones. The more I concern myself with photograhy the more I see some things in different ways (its hard to explain - even more when its not your first language) but I think those who feel like me will understand me.

I don't know exactly why I have chosen the skiing boots and the cap - the last three days I was really angry about my lawyer - I need an italian lawyer as last year a snowboarder bumped into me and for me it ended up with two broken ribs and whiplash injury and concussion - thank god I wore a helmet otherwise I don't know if I would be able to write my blog here....he is very lazy and the day before yesterday I had to kick his a....and maybe I thought about skiing.... so its not a "situation" I photographed - its a "composion"... would love to know what you're thinking about our "project"

So I am really looking forward for next weeks team up thursday - I KNOW THE THEME  and have an idea but won't talk about until its next thursday...

....another rainy day....

...in New York City - at night those city lights they sure look pretty....

I held my candles to the wind and watched my dreams just sail away.....

I decided to take some songs which I love/loved as blog titles - this one comes from the Bay City Rollers - which I loved when I was a teen. I remember having pinned up photos and posters from Leslie (the lead singer in the last BCR-years) and the whole "gang". I so felt in love with Leslie. I had one poster of him (very close) over my bed and one day I decided I won't remove my clothes in front of him - he would see "everything" - hey honestly with 14 years there was not much on me that you could see - LOL.

Today its ugly outside again and I have to give myself a push to go out to the grocery as we have a day off tomorrow (is it called bank holiday or public holiday? - I think its public holiday). So as we had  "mothers day" years and years ago the "fathers" decided to have a "fathers day" too. It's not an "official" one but everyone knows about that.

I have no clue which photo I could show this morning - ahhh - some green.... puts me in a better mood:)

Marcelle and I decided to join the "team up thursday" group - later I will talk about that more. Marcelle sent me some links of photographers and they all are taking breathless photos - for example Berta and Megan. Will show the link of the others next time. Anyway, Marcelle and I decided to join the group and tomorrow we will show up our very first "project" - we were really excited and nervous about that but now that we've both chosen the photo to our theme we are quite happy with the result. More about the rules tomorrow.

Sun is shining in the sky there ain't no clouds in sight....

one of my favourite songs from Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" - that must have been in the late 70th....

Do you know that feeling when listening to a song from your younger years and you immediately get a "flash back" to this time? Sometimes I am so sentimental and emotional and I can remember what I did and remember all my thoughgs while listening to this song. So often I think that were such great times - no worries and sorrows - every problem was solved by my parents and everything was so easy (by looking back). At this time I thought everything was so complicated....Seems I am a little sobby today....

Excitement this morning as I called my "blogger friend" and I had to speak english again. Its funny by reading and writing most of the time I have no problem but starting to speak I think I am not allowed to make any mistake and that gives me pressure... So sometimes I think too much about the english grammar or whatever.

But talking to Marcelle doesn't give me any pressure as I know she exactly knows how I am feeling. And today I've learned again a little thing about the difference of an english word: sports.

For me sports was everything what depends to the german word "Sport" - skiing, golfing, jogging, soccer, netball, swimming, aerobic, basketball...... now I know theres a "sports" and a "fitness" in the english language....

I shouldn't hang around here - have to do some paper work and some emails - have to write an offer for a photobook and have to edit some photos.

Holy communion again....

Weeks ago I was asked to do some photos for a Munich church - for the first holy communion. And this was not a privat photoshooting - it was an offical shooting as they want to avoid all parents standing in front of their kids and do some photos. The kids wouldn't concentrate on their first communion so now in most of the churches here it isn't allowed anymore to do photos when there are some parochial ceremonies. (From the churchs view I can understand as then there is always a disturbance during these cereomnies - from a mothers or involved peoples view I think its hard not to take pics from your little one who is standing in front ot the pastor....

First thought yesterday was yipppeee - sun is shining and there will be a good light at church as the roof of the church has some windows so the sun can come right in front of the altar and the children. Bad luck - the sun was there and the children always blinked with their eyes. Then my camera went wild because with all those white dresses and the sun on it the camera was confused - too bright because of the white dresses - background too dark - aaahhhh - I really did sweat yesterday...and I am not soooo happy with the result - but I couldn't ask for doing the holy communion again on another day :)

This is the best shot so far - (haven't been through all my 400 pics) I love the sun on the girls hair in the back...

See what the sun did - dresses are nice white but you can't recognize anyting in the background....
More when I am done with checking all pics....

See how difficult it was - bright and dark...

...to brighten the day.....

...I need some colors. I cannot believt it is so cold again - this morning we had 5 degrees. Its raining since Monday so the positive thing is that the nature is exploding - we have a fresh green around the house which is beautiful. But nevertheless you see the leaves with big raindrops so it would look much nicer with sunshine.
Okay - not whining around about not having sunshine - I'll brighten your day with a colorful pic....
No - first pic is a special pic for a special person - you know who you are:)

Maybe I will write something more later - right now I am squeezing my brain because of a "project" I will do with a friend - more when I know more about that.

If I am not able to write down more today I wanna wish all my readers a nice weekend although the weather isn't as nice. Here in Germany sunday is "Muttertag" - mothers day - so a big heart (again)

Just searched for a special photo....

....which I didn't find yet - I think I have to overthink my name folders, my named pics and...... I think I have to re-organize my whole photo folders and system....

Nevertheless I stumbled over this pics I "created" years ago - no idea which editing program I used (maybe Ulead)

The culprit

What an commotion yesterday - phewwww!!!!!
Above you see neighbours cat - the culprit. Yesterday afternoon I went to the buyback centre to leave some cardboard boxes there. When I came back and got out of my car my neighbours daughter told me with excitement that our alarm advice went on... OMG - burglars in my home??? During the day? - yes - most of the break-ins are happening during the day. My neighbour came out and told me the same - alarm was ringing, next neighbour came out - told me alarm was ringing and I thought I have to take a look. I sneaked around the house and checked if any windows were broken - nothing - told myself not to be a coward as my neighbours were around me and then I told one of my neighbours: Ah Manuela, maybe on of your cat is caged in my house - She replied "No - both are sitting at home" - Okay I opened the door and yelled a loud "Hello - somebody in whose not allowed?" (Laughters in my back) and who came out really shocked and looking guilty? My neighbours cat!!!! OMG my neighbour went very red in her face as I told her: "Manuela - there must be a different cat sitting in your house - THIS IS YOURS....
In that second two police cars came around - omg - I started to grin and went to them - told them what happened and they suddenly began to grin too and we had to fill out a few papers and then I had to call the security to tell them that everything is okay and why the alarm went on.

What happened? When I took the cardboards out of the house one fell off - I put the others in my car and came back to snap the one who was left there (meanwhile I put the boxes in my car the cat must have sneaked into my house and then I closed the door and I kept her closed).

Now hub and I have discussed about the costs for the police and the security (will be around 150 Euro) and hub thinks it should be assumed by the neighbours or at least half/half..... I think its not possible for me to check every now and then if there is a cat in my house - they climb over the fences and are in our garden 3 times a day - normally no problem. But now?  What do you think?

you don't know what you got until you lose it.....

....and I can testify that's the truth
I had it all and didn't know how to use it
I was so stupid - it was right before my eyes..... (lyrics by Bryan Adams)

 

I am sad - I am really sad - yesterday we were told that our friends and neighbours are going to leave Munich to live in Essen for the next years! We know each others (Thomas, Manuela and their kids Johannes and Victoria) for more than 10 years and we live next to each others since 2004. When Tom told us that he had to change his job and has to work in another branch of the bank he is working for (same where hubby works) we (and his family) thought its just for a few month or a year. But after trying to come back to Munich he didn't get any good job offer (although he was told its easy to come back) here in Munich again and now they decided to move to Essen.
Think we had (and still have) a very close and special friendship - we gave space to each others and nevertheless we were very close sometimes.We spent a few holidays together and we know we can trust each other to 100 per cent!

When they were away we did the housesitting for them - and vice versa. I can't imagine to give my keys to anyone other to look for my home and garden (okay, if my parents would live here it won't be a problem).
So many nights we sat together in the garden - sometimes in ours - sometimes in theirs - we "opened the barbeque season" and we "finsihed the barbeque season" together - we shared happyness and sadness (okay thats what friendships are for but I will mention it nevertheless).

They will move in the middle of July this year and although I know that Essen is not that far I have a feeling that a stone is placed on my heart - I can't imagine not seeing them every now and then - and if its just for a "hello - how are you?"

I think its easy for children to make friends - they're playing together in the kindergarden or at school - for them its easy - the older you are the more difficult is it to trust to others (my opinion).
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Now to another point: I cannot imagine how fast a week can go by - A whole week has gone by and I have no clue where the time is gone.
Monday I prepared everything for my parents arrival  - was busy cleaning the house and changing beds and whatever had to be done
Tuesday I baked two cakes, went to the groceries and got what I needed - did a 8,5 kms run and then waited for my parents to arrive. They arrived at 01.00 pm and we had a little lunch, later on I picked up my mother in law and we had coffee and cake and later on we went to a venue where we listened to Urban Priol (a german comedion) which was great but honestly a little too long. He talked about this and that (in his special way - sometimes I really thought I cracked up) for more than 3,5 hours with a short break of 20 mins.
The last 30 minutes I found it hard to concentrate - it was a little too much but anyway - I l(ed)mao....... LOL
We came home at midnight and had a short glas of sparkling wine to celebrate my birthday  and then off to bed.
Wednesday I had a nice breakfast and opened all my pressies -I really couldn't trust my eyes and not just about getting pressies I think I have the best hubby in the world: Got a tomtom (which is great) - go a WII fit and sports (altought he told me weeks ago he would never buy something like that) I got some things for my garden which were on my "wish list", I got my book I sooo wanted for my new editing programm, I got a nice perfume, I got...... loads. Don't get me wrong  its not what I am looking for but this year I must have been a very good and lovely wife :) :) :)
Wednesday afternoon we had coffee with my parents and neighbours later on we had a barbeque with fish which I really really love and enjoy.
Thursday I went to a big supermarked (Metro) to get all things what I need for my birthday party on friday and saturday - have to do it in two evenings as I have no space for 25 people in my house.
Thursday evening my parents left and went home again - they had a good drive home with no traffic jam and were at home after a 3,5 hours drive.
Friday I prepared different salats and other things (antipasti, crackers etc) and we had a great party - ended at 04.30 saturday morning (noooo - I wasn't drunk at all ) and I woke up at 10 o clock saturday morning - went downstairs and cleaned all grlasses and everything - renewed and replaced everything and went back to bed as I was tired like hell.
Saturday afternoon after a 2,5 hours nap I got up again - did my hair and dressed myself and was ready for the next partygang to arrive - ended up at 02.00 o clock sunday morning and if I hadn't say I have to be at church at 08.00 in the morning for a communion photoshooting they wouldn't have left so early LOLOLOL....
Sunday I woke up because my alarm clock went wild (didn't hear something for more than a minute heheeee) and stared at the mirror in my bathroom - didn't recognized that face but I washed it :) - But after having two cups of coffee I began to feel like ME again. Went to church (raining) did some pics (raining) after church I did a two hours photoshooting (without rain) then invited by neighbours for lunch and coffee (their daughter Victoria had also her first holy communion) - did some pics there (raining) and went back to church at 06.00 pm - did some pics (no rain) and then back home.
Cleaned my kitchen and then jumped on my couch - recognized the beginning of a movie but fell asleep after the first 15 mins. Went to bed at 10 pm and slept all night until 06.30 am this morning.
WOW what a week - but I LOVED it!!!Thanks for reading .)