- Noticing how I sat up straighter on the subway one morning due to a muscle relaxant injection. And how positively being pain-free affected my mood. So perhaps I'm sometimes just a reactive bitch because I'm in constant pain?
- Girl talk at school, hugs from Sandra. Teaching Leonie handlettering.
- New Zealand will reopen their borders in October! So excited!
- Learning about RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria).
- A morning with an interesting yellow mood of light right after sunrise.
- A Saturday walk through the forest with Michi, Lena and Christian; lots of sunshine and lunch at the Chinese restaurant (eggplant on rice is my favourite); spending the afternoon together, making plans, fun conversation and rum-flavoured biscuits.
- Finding Graffiti Tofu at Alnatura when I'd thought they'd discontinued the product. / also: their museli spelt cookies and lemon sablés.
- In November they'll open a huge Ghibli Park in Nagoya! I need to go back to Japan!
- Sunny weekend mornings. A pot of coffee. Working on the computer, writing, organising, creating the illusion of getting my life in order.
- Vaguely planning trips to Israel and NYC.
- Dinner at Goldmarie with Becky. Noticing how most guests looked like extras on a movie set due to their uniform clothing.
- Endlessly scrolling through tumblr, waiting for an image to speak to me (is it 2011 again?)
- I'm still not over that edamame song #clingclang
- Pistachio nails with tiny diamantes.
- Making friends at choir practice. Singing Oh Happy Day (one of the very few songs in the repertoire I've actually heard of before).
- My first yoga lesson in years. Wearing an appropriate outfit (swirly marble leggings, a long green cardigan and a big scarf); the smug feeling of being more balanced and flexible than the other ladies at quite a few asanas despite my long hiatus.
- Fiery sunsets. Blue hour. The time of the day when the sky is still light blue in the southwest but there's already a dark night sky in the east.
- Making ESL worksheets. Finding a very useful website with free PNG icons. I still kinda wanna be a school book designer when I grow up...
- Thorough girl crush research on Michelle Zauner and Zoe Kravitz (they're both super cool and have pretty good bands and lots of tattoos). Nursing my growing obsession with South Korea after reading Crying in H-Mart (which made me cry on the subway). There even is a Munchies episode with Maangchi and Michelle Zauner.
- Most characters in Superstore. I can't even decide who I like best.
- Pink heart-shaped post-its.
- More pink: lunch with the very gorgeous Anika (major hair envy) at Vegan Junk House Club (the perfect place to be for pink-appreciators like me), walking through sunny downtown, stoppping at Eataly and &otherstories. Coffee and matcha cheesecake at Gartensalon.
- I survived my first MRT despite my claustrophobia. The images were really interesting! I love learning about what's inside of me - physically as well as mentally.
- A cute comic. Happy Valentine's to me - again...
- Thick, luscious milk foam. A mild coffee obsession.
- Learning all kinds of new English words all of a sudden. There are just so many. Caustic, baffling, indictment, to misconstrue, to efface, the very small difference between contraption and contraction, to pummel and to plummet. Related: two new kinds of tumors on my radar; saree cancer and squamous cell carcinoma (yes, the variety of things I find interesting is astounding).
- Ya-Yah is back! She's such a talented masseuse.
- Another case of reassessing something that made me super grumpy initially. In this case I'll have to spend the whole morning at school even though my class isn't there and it feels like a total waste of time. But then I thought... why not use that time for a creative project instead? So now I'm actually looking forward to it. Magic. I think this is called mental reframing and it works like a charm.
- Vegan ramen at the new Takumi branch with Franzi (who I really don't see often enough).
- Three compliments for my very elegant outfit (it was just the gemstone/marble turtleneck with paperbag trousers but I think my pencil updo must have made it look chic) / a compliment for my voice - worthy of voice acting, apparently. Not mad about that.
- Innocent Blue Break juice. Yum.
- Talking to more people at the choir. The soprano lady who welcomed me, Monika, and Peter - who turned out to be my neighbour. Getting the hang of some of the songs now that I've sang them once or twice. One was even stuck in my head for a few days!
- Dark chocolate with candied orange peel (which is so weird because I used to hate orange flavour).
- A date with myself. Massage, ramen noodles at SAM, shopping, Like Lovers Do at Kammerspiele (a very colourful play; I had fun even though it was very eccentric).
- Using oven spray for the first time. I never knew how effective it was!
- The letters my students had to write during social skills training. They wrote thank you letters to kids who make them feel good about themselves and "I wish you would..." letters to those who they're having a hard time with. I loved how deliberate most of them were!
- J-Bone and A-Hole (Jonah and Amy finally starting to date #superstore)
- Fresh pineapple. Mango. Strawberries. I love the day of the year when strawberries are finally available again.
- Evening walks along the Isar Hochufer two nights in a row - first with Raphael, then with Sebastian. I'd never been there before. I loved the lock keeper house, the little chapel with the frogs swimming in the basin and the seemingly orthodox paintings; I discovered a sizeable garden gnome collection and a nest swing at the playground. Raphael gave me very late Christmas presents (two books and a tasting box of bean daals); and with Sebastian I ended up at FLEX.
- Voice training. Hitting the high notes I thought I'd lost forever after a few hours.
- Raclette and board game night with Margit, Dennis and Frank. Playing Beatsaber and an exit game.
- Palindrome Day with my favourite number. 22-2-22 <3
- A fun evening at Augustiner with some colleagues. Meeting Nick, a former student with whom I played beer pong a few days later.
- Lying down in my own bed after a horrible evening and a taxi ride.
- Making pancakes with Frank. Sitting on the sofa, reading to each other from a book about 60's song lyrics without any rythm or tune; trying to guess the songs.
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