Tuesday, December 30, 2008

the reverse resolution!

I got this picture from the internet and LOVED the sofa :)

You guys,

The new year is approaching! Two things to tell you:

Yes, here we go! My New Years resolution is going in reverse, since I am always giving up on the positive ones:

-never relax
-hate music altogether and the Muppet Show
-never stop working
-work hard on a grey tan and wrinkles!

Sam wants a bath, he is so modest

What about you :)

Today, when driving back from Northern Germany, in my mind a wonderful sunset outside framed my wishes for each one of you.

For your children, your partners, your dreams and wishes, yourselfs:

-Minimum once a day somebody or something to make you laugh

-Always a chicken in the freezer and a good piece of anything you like best in the fridge

-Whatever else I am not able to guess!


A HUGE HUG to all of you!

B

Thursday, December 25, 2008

hungry?

www.foodista.com

Merry Xmas

Yesterday was great.

B and a friend of hers took me to the cathedral at midnight! Before that, her friend and her cooked at our house, and I think B is having a hang-over from the champagne with strawberry syrup, but she says the magnificent evening was totally worth it!

In the church, since the guys were talking in Spanish, they discovered there are so many people from Spain and southern America, B was delighted!

Around this time of the year, so many of you have celebrated their birthdays and we have been thinking of all of you, hopefully not forgotten anybody and sending HUGE hugs!

As a Christmas gift to herself, after lots of thoughts about it we invited a gardening team to our house, on the pot is says: a gardeners work is never at an end. :)

here they are:

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

the raubfisch view of words

USING ONLY ONE WORD

Where is your cell phone?
- which one? the spanish, the private, the blackberry?
Your significant other?
- as clueless as Bridget
Your hair?
- too long - no time for the hairdresser
Your favorite thing?
- if it really MUST BE a thing - my Golf Cabrio
Your dream last night?
- wondering why ROCA needs this type of glove....
Your favourite drink?
- I want my CUBA LIBRE!
Your dream/goal?
- happiness by turning Galan into a reliable partner
What room are you in?
- office
Your hobby?
- Galan - horseriding
Your fear?
- serious illness
Where do you want to be in 6 years?
- here - right where I am
Where were you last night?
- www.hipicapre.com (Birgit - what the hell were you doing in Gummersbach?)
Something that you aren't?
- married
Muffins?
- I'd prefer something more salty
Wish list item?
- Galan
Last thing you did?
- answering questions of colleagues
What are you wearing?
- riding boots
TV?
- to relax on the couch
Your pets?
- Galan
Friends?
- Few - but good ones!
Your life?
- exciting
Your mood?
- happy - finally some holidays
Missing someone?
- just a little bit - Javi and Galan
Drinking?
- together with smoking my bad habit
Smoking?
- clueless if I should/could/would stop next year?
Your car?
- normally to get from A to B - but in special occastions to have fun
Something you're not wearing?
- high heels
Your favourite store?
- Krämer-Pferdesport
Your favourite color?
- black and white
Where do you go to over and over?
- http://www.jardiabadessa.com/
My favourite place to eat?
- Piscolabis in Tarragona
Favourite place I'd like to be at right now?
- www.hipicapre.com

MERRY XMAS!

Monday, December 22, 2008

one word

this is supposed to go in an e-mail, but it´s funnier this way :)

USING ONLY ONE WORD

Where is your cell phone?

- jacket

Your significant other?

- clueless

Your hair?

- fuzzy

Your favorite thing?

- Sam

Your dream last night?

- helpful

Your favourite drink?

- sancerres

Your dream/goal?

- happiness

What room are you in?

- living-room

Your hobby?

- piano

Your fear?

-boredom

Where do you want to be in 6 years?

- Barcelona

Where were you last night?

- Gummersbach

Something that you aren't?

- relaxed

Muffins?

- banana

Wish list item?

- Onegin

Last thing you did?

- eat

What are you wearing?

- business-attire

TV?

- nope

Your pets?

- Sam

Friends?

- you!

Your life?

- miraculous

Your mood?

- edgy

Missing someone?

- always

Drinking?

- accompagnied

Smoking?

- accompagnied

Your car?

- fictitious

Something you're not wearing?

- tattoos

Your favourite store?

- tonger

Your favourite color?

- robins egg

Where do you go to over and over?

- Harry´s

My favourite place to eat?

- home

Favourite place I'd like to be at right now?

- Petersberg

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Scrabble

You guys,

Ever since my brother tortured me with board games e.g. teasing me afterwards whenever I lost (he is older and he saw my revenge coming :) ), I am not the biggest fan.

But Scrabble and trivial pursuit is so cool, and now I am waiting for people to come over and play! I will try to get an english and Spanish version too, so it will be fun in any direction whatsoever :)

Hurry :)

Fotos to follow.

A big hug,
B

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

stories about a fugitive monkey, why germans like anglizisms and schnuckies

Dear furry and human friends,

I have the floor since B is watching House and thought that I should share some stuff with you, she misses you all! And I have to make it short since B is taking me on a business trip, so buckle up!


1. Schnuckies
B has Schnucki-issues, sometimes annyoing, sometimes cute ones. Boy, they are everywhere! And at a distance, or unknown. In the office, in the tube, well-spread and so far away. My suggestion is: Take her out if you are in the area. Tell her to stop being shy and relax. I will take care in a furry way and hug her whenever possible so she gets used to that, am I a good pet or what :)

2. why is English so convenient to so many people
B has been wondering: why is it so comfortable to use English expressions, it seems to be so easy to us and so many other people in Germany. Here´s what we think: the German language simply has too many words with thousands of letters!

sorry - Entschuldigung
goodbye - Auf Wiedersehen
health - Gesundheit
show - anzeigen
happy - glücklich

See? By the time you guys finish a German thought english-speaking people might already have finished a bundle of them! In fur-world, hugs mean so much more than this, but B enjoys thinking about such really irrelevant stuff instead of the giant real problems last year :)

3. the escape from the Zoo
B spends all day with serious number stuff and the people around her are: sometimes yelling, sometimes extremely generous, organized, chaotic, in every shape and so many personalities. So today, when one of the clowns (who likes being that, btw) was asked if he would like to tell to the on how he escaped from the apes department in the zoo...

...I think that did it for her, she laughed so hard about it the management came by to enjoy this joke. Then she went down to play foosball with the guys and just relax.

A huge furry smile, wave and many rays of sun, my dear friends,
Sam

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

aaaand the rest of the poem

it´s too cute to isolate two lines from the the rest, so here you go :)

Old Irish proverb:

Work like you don't need the money;
dance like no one is watching;
sing like no one is listening;
love like you've never been hurt;
and live life every day as if it were your last.

work, like you don´t need the money

Dear all,

there is a saying of the following sort:

work like you don´t need the money, love like you never have been hurt


and the poem continues but I am going to stop here.

In business life our paths cross with so many people, and in rare occasions and with a little bit of luck, you will find the right people. Yesterday and today were full of impressions,tons of bosses and and a few non-boss colleagues in a seminar about intercultural project management. It was weird sometimes.

I am finding out who the right people on-site are to face the strange ones, apart from you guys, of course. After some turbulences last week, I think I am finding a way to stick to the first part of the poem and moreover after magnificent holidays I do not wish to be rattled at all (less than ever before). And some colleagues to face the one or other storm. I think they have proven to be good within the limited occasions working life gave us. That might be calming. I don´t think we can face the working world alone.

But maybe you do? Got receipes how to deal with this stuff?

For the second part of the poem, someone will come, there is not to much to comment but I will hopefully be able to do so before I am eighty years old.

For those in need, shall both parts of the poem with us.

Peace and love,
Birgit