Expanded Angles

I totally forgot that Frankenstein’s monster learned how to smoke in „Bride of Frankenstein“. Well, I wish I could quit!  ;-)

Easter is ahead and all I do care about are the 4 days off. Raised as a Catholic this used to be a very important time for me and my family. But nowadays it is not special to me anymore. The weather is awful. So I decided to spend most of the time at home, preferably in my bed.

I’ve done a lot of reading lately (Ray Bradbury, Tom Rob Smith, Neil Gaiman, David Peace) and I plan to continue with it. I haven’t finished reading “House Of Leaves” (Mark Z. Danielewski) yet, although I started with it months ago. But I always get distracted by other things: other books, graphic novels, games, movies, life itself…
Did you experience that: you stopped reading a certain book and after a while you start to forget what it was all about? So, I think I should hurry! I hope I have it finished after Easter.

Here’s a link to bring you into the perfect Easter mood: http://www.happyplace.com/15235/the-creepiest-easter-bunny-photos-ever-taken

;-D

Happy Easter!

I am a person who likes making lists.
Schedules, to organize my life. It’s absolutely necessary for my time management. Otherwise I would “get lost”.

I would probably forget most of my plans because life can be so hectic and unpredictable sometimes. And this is further aggravated by the fact  that I am a person who gets easily distracted.

Oh look, a butterfly!

So, I made some plans for 2012. Nothing spectacular, I know. But I hope I can accomplish most of them within the next 9 months!

·          relax much more in my spare time (reminding myself that a job is just a job and shouldn’t influence  my entire life)

·         join a Tai Chi Chuan class

·         spend my weekends rather with my friends than with my Xbox

·         learn a new language (any suggestions?)

·         quit smoking. AGAIN.

·         new tattoos (yes, plural)

·         NY in July to meet my dear friend K. and finally her husband

·         bar-hopping in London with my dear friend M.

·         Edinburgh in fall

·         a new hair color for the summer (again: any suggestions?)

·         visit dear friends in Germany

(@ R,P,B and T: Remember our plans for the Village People Meeting in Hamburg? Give me a date and I’ll be there!)

·         another bad taste night with the lovely ladies B. and I. (Next time in Bremen?)

·         Oh, and I decided to use these beauties again (on a daily base):

:)

Lying sick in bed for almost a week gives you the opportunity to slow down and to think about your life (a little bit).

I’ll turn 38 this year and honestly, this scares the crap out of me! It’s not getting older that sucks. Looking older is what’s so annoying. And the fact that I don’t feel any wiser or more mature. I thought this would come with time. But nope! I’m still feeling immature and insecure. I wish I would be more confident about myself but I am not.

My life has become quite busy. Work is now the dominant part of it and I don’t think I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong: I love my job! But I have the feeling that it is consuming me. Even in my spare time I think about work and this exhausts me. I do have social contacts but quite often I’m glad if I don’t have to communicate after work. Odd, isn’t it?

I miss photography, I miss strolling through the streets, I miss reading books, I miss my pen pals, I miss writing proper blogs …
So, I think it’s time for a change now. Or soon I will be a frustrated old spinster!  ;)

First of all I “re-activate” this tumblr blog. I got my account in November 2009 and back than it contained much more written blog entries than it does now. In the last months it became rather a platform for reblogging funny pictures from the internet. I enjoy those pics very much but I think it’s time to rediscover the joy of writing.  :)

Hach ja, the weekend is almost over. But that’s ok because I really like my new job!  ;-D

I think I’ll go jogging now.

Sneakpreview!  :-D

I spent the entire weekend home - working on my computer (yay, on my new website) and playing with my XBox (Dante’s Inferno - a rather disappointing game).

I guess today I should leave the apartment at least for one little walk through the city!  ;-)

I’m trying to advance my intellectual level by constantly reading books. But I have no clue whether the books I am choosing are the right ones to do that because - as with movies and comics - my focus seems to be entertainment. I recently joined an online book club and recognised that all the books those guys were reading and disscussing bored the heck out of me! I am frankly unable to read any books that are not thrilling me after 10 pages the latest! I’m not saying the books I like would be bad in any way, currently I’m reading King, Pratchett, Gaiman (loving his Graveyard Book!), they are just not high-intellectual or sincere. But why not - after all reading is supposed to be fun and not perpetual torment that needs special motivation!

I have also retrieved my lost interest in dinosaurs (Jurassic Park had ruined it for me back then). But that does not effect reading scientific books or watching sincere documentaries.  ;-)

Look, there’s a dino on my pen! :-D

beef at the workplace, “Are you looking at me?”

I’m considering to buy a dinosaur-skeleton assembly set. I think it’d look great hanging off my ceiling, glowing in the dark.