- Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri was a pretty good movie. Frances McDormand is a queen.
- Watching the dancers at Swing Thing. Swing dancing looks amazing, I'm so jealous. Unfortunately I can't dance at all.
- What self-care actually means.
- Miss Effis soft fur. Cuddling in the morning. Playing with straws. The sound she makes when I touch her. I knew a cat was missing in my life.
- Watching my first ice-hockey match in years! I love the atmosphere in the stadium. The only thing missing is the Rama Lama Ding Dong song they usually play whenever my favourite team scores a goal.
- Getting a private diving theory lesson from a hot diving instructor. He also cooked for me and showed my pictures of a shark attack and amazing sea snails.
- K. - even if we aren't supposed to be I feel happy to have someone like him. He loves weird things about me. That I know myself so well. And that I'm very open. And he wants me to like myself more. Sounds like a keeper, huh?
- A love affair with classical music. Watching Mozart in the Jungle and going to the concert of the symphonic orchestra at Gasteig really makes me want to get out my cello again. I love this orchestra version of Lisztomania - they use it for the intro in Mozart in the Jungle.
- "What do teachers do if they want to go wild?" - "They grade papers without a ruler!"
- Barnhouse granola with yoghurt and a ton of fruit.
- I don't know why but the cat sometimes smells like milk chocolate when I kiss her. It's wonderful.
- Spending an evening with Rasmus from Denmark at Flex. A feminist, metal-fan, living in Edinburgh. Good company.
- Seeing Kat Frankie live in concert. If I could pick a voice... it'd probably be hers. Lexi and me got "Bad Behaviour" T-shirts with a naughty cat. And Doris was there, too. Didn't surprise me since everyone (including me) wore denim shirts and made out with ladies (not me).
- Singing karaoke with the kids.
- Being sweaty (!) after swimming and figuring out a way to do proper arm training in the pool.
- Big Harry festival with Frank and Manu. Wearing a dress I hadn't fit into for months and high heeled boots. Jazzrausch BigBand.
- Getting two Malen nach Zahlen giraffes for Stolli.
- The best breakfast: mango, raspberries, yoghurt, coconut shavings and a little bit of dark chocolate.
- Booking flights to Indonesia and getting all kinds of tips from colleagues!
- Wearing red lipstick and pigtails to school and getting TONS of compliments from the girls.
- "I'm a grammar nazi." - "But that's kinda anti-semantic!"
- Hokkaido pumpkin, zucchini, feta and tomato sauce roasted in the oven. Some fresh basil. Deliiiiish.
- Creative Instagram accounts like these.
- Rocky Horror with the tall, tall dude from Graz. Kissing, forgetting about taking the subway. The yellow ring in his blue irises.
- Visible effects of my lifestyle change, especially being more active: I have something resembling shoulder blades now and I can see my spine on the upper back. Also, my heart rate has decreased by about 10-20 beats per minute.
- Finding a good way to be able to do push-ups by pulling myself out of the water repeatedly.
- Romanesco. What a weirdly perfect vegetable: Romanesco superficially resembles a cauliflower, but it is chartreuse in color, and its form is strikingly fractal in nature. The inflorescence (the bud) is self-similar in character, with the branched meristems making up a logarithmic spiral. In this sense the bud's form approximates a natural fractal; each bud is composed of a series of smaller buds, all arranged in yet another logarithmic spiral. This self-similar pattern continues at several smaller levels. The pattern is only an approximate fractal since the pattern eventually terminates when the feature size becomes sufficiently small. The number of spirals on the head of Romanesco broccoli is a Fibonacci number.
- Calling the cat Effi Biest.
- Margaret Atwood. I'm currently reading Lady Oracle and I want to get started with the MaddAddam series afterwards. I love her writing style.
- Spending an evening at Dantebad with K. Chasing each other round the pool. Sitting in his lap, stimulating blood circulation.
- My life turned to shit when my car broke down that evening but the Bosnian ADAC guy was really nice. I liked him and he even drove me home!
- Being praised for my calm, factual reaction to the car fiasco.
- Miso soup. With nori and mushrooms, furikake and umeboshi vinegar. Some soy or fish sauce. I can't get enough of it at the moment. It's a part of my new three course breakfast. Miso, some vegetables with a soft-boiled egg and fruit with yoghurt as a dessert.
- Jonathan. Couldn't think of a better colleague. He even listens to me whining on the phone for an hour and even thinks of constructive comments and other ways of thinking about my issues.
- Olivier gave me KitKats on his birthday and I pushed him around on a book cart, pretending to be in a game of Mario Kart.
- Making Rose Bakery's lemon cake (with blueberries and poppy seeds). Although one tiny piece has about 500 calories and I might have to freeze it to resist temptation.
- My green tea obsession. So far I have green tea with coconut (and mango), rhubarb-raspberry, ginger-ginseng/grapefruit and peach.
- The bluish undertones of the Anny Milady Marsala nail polish under water.
- Shopping at Mango. That red dress! Those black silk sandals. Pretty! My favourite store at the moment.
- The goodie box I received in the mail. Friedericke sent some treats for me and the cat before she went to Colombia.
- Reading at the library. Eye contact with a pretty guy getting some work done at one of the desks.
- Meeting little Miss Theresa. My friends have babies now, I have the cat. I like it like that.
- My new Soul Bottle with jellyfish print.
- Going to the cinema alone. Spontaneously. I ended up seeing Call me by your Name - a lot of summer and kissing, beautiful. And it's wonderful how much of an indulgence a handful of popcorn can be. I got a mix of salty and sweet and savoured every kernel. I appreciate treats so much more (and in much smaller dosages) since I've been eating healthier.
- The name Mafalda.
- Seeing the Paul Klee exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne. Cuddling with baby Pauline. Walking through the sketchbook room (I love sketches and drawings even more than paintings).
- Ramen with sesame broth and an extra egg at the new Takumi. An evening with Lena.
- Meeting a nice doctor from Klinikum Bogenhausen when I had a look at her apartment (pretty but too small).
- Reading over 120 pages in one day (Murakami) just by bringing a book to public transport.
- Pikas (Pfeifhasen) - the sounds they make are adorable (but could be confused with stepping on a dog toy).
- Sleeping under two blankets. Both fresh out of the washing machine. The smell of clean laundry makes me so happy. Apparently you can even buy weighted blankets which are supposed to help with insomnia!
- Cuddling with the cat in the morning (one of the rare times she actually wants you to touch and notice her).
- That actor who plays Luke in The Handmaid's Tale.
- Wearing old pyjama pants which used to be too tight. Great feeling.
- White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.
mar 4 2018 ∞
apr 3 2018 +