- On German Unity Day I made creamy mushroom pasta for breakfast. It was such a lovely, gloomy autumn day. I woke up early, it was still dark, so I started cleaning, organising, cooking, had a good internet reading session, made some tea. Cozy. And I started working on my project again: for years now I've been crocheting a granny square blanket. So far it's a baby blanket at best but I've frogged / undone a big piece of knitting I had done for a cardigan (which I've obviously never finished) and rolled a huge ball of yarn. It must weigh about half a kilo.
- Jennifer Egan talking about books. She shares my notion: “In the moment of choosing, I tend to go with whatever I’m craving most. Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I’m not hungry for, I won’t enjoy it, but if I wait until I have a real appetite for something, I’ll devour it.”
- A little IKEA spending spree (looking at you here, Ypperlig collection - even though I returned the table and the shelves a few days later). I'm also thinking about a new wall colour - which means I'm photoshopping different hues on cellphone pictures. So far, a cold, dark green is my favourite but everyone keeps saying it's too dark.
- Something to look forward to: according to Susan Miller, October 26th will be the luckiest day of the year.
- Cleaning my car. What a difference it makes on my mental state when I have my surroundings in order. It never fails to amaze me. I'm more creative, I have more energy, I'm much better at tackling tasks.
- Watching old pictures and videos from our holidays together. Queen Yogurtha the 26th must have slipped my mind... Hilarious though. We've vowed to take more videos from now on and cut together an annual movie. It's so much more fun than photographs. I also looked at some old pictures of Cleo... gosh, I miss him. I think I need a cat in my life to be truly happy.
- Spending time with Markus. Watching Disney movies, watching him drink his prosecco with a pink straw. Frank calls him my perfect gay best friend - with benefits.
- Sexy dreams: flying to New York, seeing Disneyland (?) and Manhattan from the plane. Just to spend the weekend in a fancy hotel room with a vaguely familiar dude (Roli? Tom?) / A guy looking like Ville Vallo, up in Denmark, who was supposed to be my uncle. / A classroom, a vocabulary test. Helpless me, unruly students. A man who simply stated "I know you want me" and kissed me. Stuff like that drives me crazy.
- The painting "Champagne Breakfast" by Nick Alm.
- Adding orange juice to roasted oven veggies. Making pumpkin soup an thai curry. Playing kitchen goddess. Preparing meals for the freezer, turning my trusted banana bread recipe into muffins, obsessing over homemade semolina pudding - it's one of the quickest, easiest and most satisfying desserts to make. I've tried it with apple and cinnamon, mango-passion fruit, kiwi, banana and lemon zest so far. Now that we're already at it: take some free fridge porn!
- Reconnecting with Frank. We hadn't seen each other for almost three months and actually there wasn't much to say or catch up on. But it somehow just feels right to have him in my life. However difficult our relationship might be, I feel like something is missing without him.
- Shopping at VollCorner: "Kommt ein Karótchen in Frage?" (awesome accent, mate)
- Ewan McGregor as Curt Wild in Velvet Goldmine (1998) - almost licking the mic on stage, sprinkling himself with gold glitter and pretending to jerk it off into the audience, mooning everyone, wearing eyeliner and nail polish... it's supposed to be a homage to Iggy Pop - a very good one indeed. I mean, just look at him. And then we see Brian Slade falling in love with him, quietly, slowly. What a tender - and highly erotic - moment of film history. Thank you for this, Todd Haynes. Long haired dudes are my weak spot. Oh, and have I mentioned that Toni Collette is in the movie, too? Can it get any better?
- Erin Timony's Goodnight Moon videos. Escpecially the Babblebrook playlist. So soothing. I love her sweet face and her personality. Not to mention her voice.
- Smelling the fresh coffee beans through the little holes in the Tchibo coffee bags at the supermarket. Always lifts my mood.
- This new fabric softener I have smells gorgeous. I can't stop sniffing my towels and pillow cases.
- An afternoon at Hofgarten, playing Wikingerschach with Julia, Franzi, Ralf, Frank and Lena (who made zucchini-fennel pizza for us!) - drinking cider and prosecco, enjoying the gorgeous weather, having to explain the rules to some other guys playing boule behind us. Franzi's white blouse with lobster embroidery. One of the nicest Saturdays this year.
- Oh, Dory. After keeping my distance for a few months we had some quite intense moments again in the last weeks. I wonder if I'm the only one who feels that way. I made thai tea ice-cream, we shared pictures of (cats in) our apartments and found out the we both love Ewan McGregor and Von Wegen Lisbeth. Oh, and she cut my hair.
- Doris: "Du bist ein Falco-Song!"
- Learning about Baba Yaga. A house on chicken feet? Interesting. Just like flying around in a mortar...
- A neck and shoulder massage at the Thai massage place - at least during the massage, it was so relaxing and nice. Afterwards my back was sore as fuck.
- The Babylon Berlin screening at Seriencamp was quite impressive. Especially the theme song by Severija Janušauskaitė. I loved that concert scene.
- "Du oder keine!"
- I just realised what amazing friends I have who will readily accept any kind of weird life choice I'll make. They might raise an eyebrow but they'll embrace it because the know and love me.
- Also, I have to point out again how much I love spending time with my journalist friends. I can make a reference to pretty much any (pop-)cultural phenomenon, talk about all the movies, series and actors, use fancy words and they'll still know what I'm talking about!
- Monotypes by Renée Gouin.
- Cold, starry autumn nights, preferably after a storm.
- The Born to Rock Halloween party!
- Watching Andi Zeisler, the founder of Bitch Media in Portland, speak about feminism as a popcultural phenomenon after my first real date with a woman.
oct 3 2017 ∞
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