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1) Open a jar of Salsa. Having finally found a brand of salsa which is to my liking (Clarky’s from Plus), I will probably not bother with growing Jalapenos this year.
Either way, the jar was hard to get open. It didn’t even help to shove a knife under the rim of the lid.
So I drove [...]

Yesterday morning didn’t start out well. Tobi wanted to go outside at 7.30, which for him is relatively early (he usually sleeps until 9.30).
When he came back in, he promptly vomited three huge piles on the carpet. I felt sorry for him and went about cleaning everything up, reassuring him that I wasn’t angry about [...]

(being excited at something like this I mean)
I was innocently grocery shopping at my favorite discounter yesterday evening and minding my own business, when I saw a vacuum cleaner on sale.
I had a closer look at it and without batting an eye, placed one in my cart.
It’s one of those new-fangled ones which doesn’t require [...]

(though not necessarily in that order)
I accepted a package at the office yesterday from one of the major courier services. When the courier was getting ready to accept my signature on his electronic thingy, he asked for my name. I told him.
He then said, “You live in (name of town), don’t you?”
I chuckled and replied [...]

For once, I managed to ignore the inner voice that regularly nags me about things like dust, dog hair and the saw dust which is inevitably tracked into the house when I get wood from the pile out back.
I’m fed up with vacuuming and the ensuing “attitude” problem allowed me to just ignore all of [...]

There really isn’t an explanation, really. But any Bavarian will claim to be a Bavarian before he claims to be German, as Mausi pointed out in her comment on my last post. Though I was born in Bavaria, my families, mother’s and father’s side, come from Silesia originally (which today is in Poland / Czech [...]

At my new place of work, the air is very dry. While I realize this is a very normal condition for offices being heated in winter, I have become very sensitive to dry room air. Due to the fact that I live in a house made entirely of untreated wood, the room climate at home [...]

I am growing tired of the snow and of the cold (-10) which we have been having. It helps to remind myself that sometime next month, the crocusses will start to appear in the garden and that spring is around the corner.
Here it is Monday again. I was a good girl and did my year-end [...]

Inspired by the sunshine (which we had for the first time in over four weeks) and driven by intense longing to be back in the mountains, my father, stepmom and I got in the car with Tobi and decided to head for lunch in the mountains.
On the Hahntennjoch, we stopped by the side of the [...]

On Sunday afternoon, my DSL stopped functioning once again, and I called the technical support at Telekom. They ran a quick check and there was indeed a problem with my DSL connection. As it was Sunday, I wasn’t expecting them to correct the problem before Monday and they didn’t, of course.
Meaning I started my Monday [...]