good news

all,

Lorena and me discussed a few days ago that is has been almost one year since we went to Chicago to Join Keren and Ben at their wedding, it feels like ages ago and yet like I saw them all yesterday for coffee, it must be the blogging...

Anyway, Keren´s Ben wrote something about people being surrounded by blond people tend to become "lighter" in the head :)
These days, I am around myself a lot and I am really getting confused :) :

I was scared of having to make too many compromises with a new job since I have taken a new technology path. It´s almost scary after a year of so much hard work, but apparently it was worth the risk and the nerves! My home feels like an office ever since I came back from Berlin: my phone keeps ringing and I am having a couple of interviews throughout the next days, huge companies. So, I am trying to bundle my energies and carry them to people, so everybody gets the best they deserve :))))

I really hope that within the next four weeks I will get something good to start with in my new area.

B

Berlin: hard work for everyone but us :)

All,

the last few days the following happened: Beatrix and Christian supposedly consider me crazy ´cause I had so much fun with them, while they had a lot of stress they handled with the greatest of ease (they will protest here again, but that is fine with me :) )! Their daughter Greta is so cute and sweet, her parents adore her and their home invites to literally hang out and relax. It feels so good to be with them, we know each other forever (since university in 1993), we have written exams together, looked after each other since then especially when we grew up in professional and private things and still laugh our heads off about the little things in life, (like the foto below), all-in-all we have something very precious to hold and I am sooooooooooooo happy about it!

Sam was busy too. As he learned in Chicago with Dov-Tov and T-Rex, it is the utmost fun looking out of the window with other cuddly toys, such as The Owl, The Resident Bear (the Fish stayed on the ground, don´t know why) so I suppose they had maybe had great things to discuss about life as peluches, about what children love most, but at minimum a great time simply observing the sky/neighbours. Hence, the following foto to me looks like taken at an after-work-party in the lounge with playing-gal Greta, taken by his public relation manager (in this case, that would be you Beatrix) :)



Beatrix, Christian,Greta thank you so much for the greatest time and a big hug to you!
Yours, B

as she sails across the skyway of Berlin

Tomorrow I will be in my favourite city in Germany, with the best friend a girl can have, her child, her husband in their home in Berlin and spend some time with them, I am so happy!

Sam has already piled things up and is ready to roll:



a big hug to all of you,

B

71st reason why

It´s so creepy, I am so tired and can´t sleep.

the good old internet gave me 71st reason why, which is the most colourful music video I have ever seen, even with human bumble bees! ignore the lyrics and enjoy if you feel tired :)



http://youtube.com/watch?v=AWmgfU1tbmM

70 reasons why!

I have exactly 70 reasons to celebrate, percentage-wise: I am a certified consultant!!!!! As of today, 17.20 CET!!!!!!!


YEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yesterday, Loreley; TODAY Anina s birthday

Went to München yesterday and couldn´t take Sam with me, he wouldn´t have felt comfortable with business people, so he missed some culture, I went past this piece of culture on the way down to München:



The mountain Loreley, which is famous for the little girl that was sitting on it´s top, combing her blond hair, singing and making sailors so fuzzy they would not overcome the obstacles in the river Rhine and drown with their boats....



following this link you will see nicer fotos! http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreley

Also, congrats to Anina, it´s her birthday today and all the best again, it was so nice seeing you yesterday!!!!! (ps: the indoor fotos did not work, don´t know why)

hugs, B

Dedicated to P.

All,

my friend P. in Hannover has been dedicating herself to Afrika, possibilities of helping and she is right now in Ghana.
Girl, this is something you might like, about the 30th anniversary of the Hunger Project!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43h_rUpp1ng


Hugs.
B

La luna llena sobre Ithaca :)

Ithaca

As you set out for Ithaca
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don't be afraid of them:
you' ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon - you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbours you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind -
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaca always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to make you rich.

Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

K.Kavafis

La luna llena sobre Paris

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this one makes me smile:

one of my favourite songs from Spain, the group is called La Unión
the video is a bit strange, but the guy is cute and the song is great :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vsKPiDLmNNs



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inner compass - or: trust your intuition

Imagine being stressed out and:

*fearing to accomplish what you really want like La Golfa said, that being the real object in the way
**just having left a loooong and very funny interview for a great international job
***just having left a looong and very funny interview for a great international job in the wrongest of all cities in the wrong country

Standing unknowingly on the platform, closing my eyes and listening to "hoy igual que ayer" from Ana Torroja, a strong wind blew into my face, the train came in and I realized I literally (and erroneously) would have gone north instead of south.

took the right train from the right platform to the south and left a big smile for the great international job in the wrong town in the wrong country

Sam gets a party! pssssshhhhhhhh!!!!

All,

Sam is back home and we went through fotos, given the fact that his birthday is approaching. So much has happened! All in all one of the nicest pictures, taken by Sam from a tree in Bonn in May is this one, whilst barbecueing outside and having a blast:



I want to repeat that, only inhouse, brunching, with the Moon and the Sun OUTSIDE, but please feel free to come by on Dec 2nd!

Shall you meet Sam in between, shush ;)

Bring booze and whomever you want to bring, let´s celebrate!

Big hug,
B