the one where i take a break
for what seems like the tenth time this year. I'm getting depressed visiting all the other blogs of my fave bloggers who, as it seems blog as if there's no tomorrow. And I am always lef to wonder, where they get all their ideas from and why don't I have anything of value to add? Life has been busy. Work is busy. We bought a house and we will start our major home makeover on the 15th of next month. That's all I can think about right now. Between the hefty renovation and an even heftier workload at work as well as the Christmas holidays and the pressure of moving all our staff and paint the old place, there's not much of a breathing space. So I am enjoying every day without packin

obituary
I am sorry for not blogging yesterday but I am mourning. What am I mourning you might ask? I am mourning the death of NaBloPoMo 2009. That’s what. As of today (actually yesterday) NaBloPoMo is dead to me. I had a feeling that NaBloPoMo and I wouldn’t be friends this year and I will not make excuses. Although I would have quite a few at hand. Some of them valid but I’d rather keep them for another occasion. So I will follow into my friend Tara R’s footsteps and I will say it loud and I will say it proud: I post when I want as

stubborn little brat
So what happens when you're forced to work from home because there was a swine-flu outbreak in the office? You're starting to lose it. My marbles? Nowhere even close to me. Working from home because you want to? Awesome. Working home because you're forced to? Not so great. I don't know why this annoys me so much but I remember I have always felt this way.When I grew up in the GDR German Democratic Republic, we had an awesome schoolsystem. All the kids were cared for and if you didn't have parents that were able to stay home with you (which was true for everyone because in Socialism? Everyone had jobs (we will cleverly leave out that not all were very productive))or g

just a matter of time
It was just a matter of time but it has happened. Swineflu. It got to us. Today is the day that we were advised that all of us had to go and work home for the next couple of days. Effective immediately because someone in the team came down with the swineflu. Every case of the swineflu has to be reported. If you came in touch with someone affected, you have to report it. So this is what it feels like for the team at the moment:

mr. gorbachev tear down this wall
It was twenty years ago today, when I witnessed the wall come down. I was thirteen years old then. A normal teenager, born and raised within the confined space that was the German Democratic Republic. A so called democratic state that as it turned out was anything but. Not that I would have noticed or cared a whole lot back then. After all I was only a kid. My family lived really close to the border. So close in fact that looking out of the attic window in my grandma’s house the next town you could actually see was a small town in Western Germany. I remember playing in the attic with my best friend and we would look out the window and stare into the “West” and we wo