Posts Tagged life
July 22, 2010 at 11:27 am · Filed under Daydreams & Nightmares, Doings of the Day, Family & Friends, Still Life & Memories, Travel Log ·Tagged life, People, summer
We are going to visit our friends in South Germany in the summer holidays and I want to share with you my absolute favorite moment whenever we visit them:
I wake up in the morning to the chirping of birds and I can hear the lovely mother, Maria, rummaging around in the kitchen downstairs making breakfast. I sneak into the bathroom, trying not to make any noise because everybody else is still sleeping. When I come down the stairs, I sit down at the kitchen table and Maria has a hot cup of tea and a piece of her freshly-baked cake ready for me. (Maria and her family eat homemade cake for breakfast, yummy!) By the time that I finish sipping on my hot tea and eat the last crumbs of the delicious cake, everybody else will have smelled the mouthwatering scent of tea and cake . They come down the stairs and sit down, read the newspaper, have breakfast and talk about what we are going to do that day. These are moments of total peace and happiness to me.
Looking forward to seeing you guys!
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December 12, 2009 at 12:05 pm · Filed under Quotes & Queries ·Tagged life, time
Remember that nothing has to change in the world for us to transform our own life experience.
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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November 30, 2009 at 4:13 pm · Filed under Daydreams & Nightmares, Doings of the Day, Life in the City, Still Life & Memories, Strangers I Know ·Tagged kids, learning new things, life, they make me laugh
I had to go to the post office today. In front of me in the lineup was a mother with two boys, one still in a stroller and the other one about 4 years old. It was a busy day so there were lots of people and we had to stand outside for quite a while. The post office had one of those fancy automatic doors with motion detectors. When the older boy stood in front of the door and moved, it of course opened. He looked at it. Then he stood very very still. The door closed again. He snapped his fingers and the door opened. He turned around and looked at his little brother and he looked back with utter amazement. The boy turned around and snapped his fingers again. It opened again…. and again… and again… and again… until the mother rushed the boy inside.
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November 10, 2009 at 5:43 pm · Filed under Doings of the Day, Note to Self, Still Life & Memories ·Tagged life
I have this habit of accidentally finding my Christmas presents either the month before or in December. I hate it, because I spoil it for myself and everybody else. Today, for example, I had to put my grandma’s toaster back to where it belongs and I saw one of my presents…. I knew it was for me, because it was a backpack I showed my mum. It was from a second hand store, and when I went there and the backpack wasn’t there anymore I was quite disappointed. Do you see what I mean? It’s so annoying. Grrr!
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August 28, 2009 at 7:55 am · Filed under Daydreams & Nightmares ·Tagged life, observations, rambling on, why don't they ever sleep?
We live right in the middle of the city, but I still love sleeping with my window open. I love to hear the occational car passing by and the people talking and laughing right below my window. I love listening to them. But yesterday night I had to close my window at about 1 o’clock because a gang of probably not too young people were starting to sing to “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys, and you can image that that isn’t such a good lullaby.
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August 18, 2009 at 4:43 pm · Filed under Doings of the Day ·Tagged life, Lists, observations, psychology
My day consisted of lost of fun stuff that I do maybe once a year:
1: eating a slice of the best Italian leftover pizza in the world for breakfast
2: watching “Singing in the Rain” while eating the pizza (at 11 o’clock in the morning)
3: cleaning my room (ok that’s a lie, I have to clean my room at least twice a year)
4: making myself a very exotic Chinese/Indian dish (rice, fried vegetables and a very delicious sauce made of peanutbutter, onions and coconut milk)
5: getting out of my jammies at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and putting on my brothers favourite Bob Marley t-shirt (which is of course much too big for me) and going to meet my mum in our favourite café… the t-shirt earned me a few stange looks, but hey, who cares 😀
… uh… okay… I just noticed that cleaning up your room doesn’t really count as fun stuff, but at least I got to throw away lots of the junk in my room
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