2012

And so another year has begun, and I have still not become a better blogger. Oops. Good thing y'all manage to keep up with me over messenger and phone calls. Still I hope that this year will be a better year for my bloggerness. I am currently at home, enjoying my time with the family. I especially enjoy my scrabble tournaments with my mom!! (Especially when I win). They are oodles of fun, and we always manage to laugh. I had a great time going Christmas tree shopping with dad and then setting it up afterwards, and I am really excited to do some fun things when he has some time off prior to my departure (though what these fun things are or should be I really don't know) But spending quality time with my parents is what is important.

Of course I have also loved spending quality time with my sister, and my little nephew Joey!! And I miss them oodles now that they are visiting with the other grandparents, but at least their husky Lance keeps me company and for the time being I have named him Jacob!! Why is that you may ask-well he kinda looks like a wolf, and I have been listening to the twilight books so that is how that one came to be.

It is also great to see my friends again! Though it seems I have grown apart from some of them, I have come to realize that that is just part of growing up sometimes you just have to let go. This does not mean that I am saying goodbye to my friends, or that I no longer care about them, it just means that for the time being we are at two different points in our lives and we are not compatible, but it is possible that after some time we'll become really good friends again!! Time will tell and I will not worry too much about this, as I have other great friends still.

I especially have some really great friends waiting for me back in Bremen. Some of them anxiously hoping for my return :) this puts a big smile on my face, and tells me that I am in the right place with the right people around me!!! But for now I am enjoying my time at home!

I would add pictures, but it seems my camera has gone mia....If and when it is found I will either update this post or make a new one!

For now I bid you good night and a wonderful 2012!!!

Organized Mind Leads to Organized Everything

Having a Thesis to write, is by all means not an easy task. But as in length it is not too bad, it is not an impossible task either. So why has it been so hard for me to work on? Well after several weeks of doing only a small amount of work, I realized that I was going about this all wrong. I was setting my goals to high and unachievable. I mean saying I will edit this 50ish page monstrosity in 2 weeks seems rather a lot and I could no longer see the buildings behind the big mountain. Moreover, everything was unorganized because I did not have my own place to work in. Well I have returned to Bremen, I am working out of my friends room/going to the library with Meron who is in my program. So it was still really hard to get started and organize what exactly I have to do. Until I had my "aha" moment. Now I ca easily proceed and work. For this morning, my goal was to update all of my word documents-i.e. insert all of the changes that I made on paper. Having successfully completed this I feel like I have accomplished my goal. For this afternoon my goal is to take single paragraphs, not even pages or chapters because for some reason that is just too much, but no I will take single paragraphs and edit them asking myself the following questions: What am I trying to say? Why am I saying it? Can my reader follow my thought process without having read the books? Because finishing one paragraph is a fast and achievable goal. Moreover it will allow me to take a hard look at everything I have written and it will make me focus on my writing style as well as the contents. To some of you this may some like a harder more time consuming way, but for me it is exactly what I need. Small paragraphs one at a time. In the beginning with the first steps, I know that it will be time consuming, but it will get me back into the groove of things the information of what it is I am doing, and I want to be doing!!
I have also set myself another goal, and that is to fix my sleeping pattern. This morning I woke up around 9am which I think is a good time, and I went to bed around 11:30pm. I included a morning bike ride to the post office because tonight is Harry Potter :)!!! And i need cash to pay Steffi for our tickets! The workout got me motivated to work on my thesis and it gave me the energy I needed. So after my great workout I have been thesising!!!!
In a little bit we will be making a scrumptious chicken lunch, and then it is back to work for another hour or two before it is time for the last Harry Potter movie!!! I am so sad it is the last one, but I am glad that I will be going there feeling like I have accomplished something today! I know, that if I follow my organizational methods and continue morning bike rides I will finish editing in no time!!! or well in MY time!!!!
Happy Harry Potter Day everyone!
xoxoxo

Mir fliegen gleich die Löcher aus dem Käse....

...and other such silly things. Often you under-appreciate and take things for granted, especially your family. Perhaps, because you are so close to those you love it is also easy to get into little squabbles or find some of their ticks annoying but at the end of the day this is your family and you wouldn't want to miss them. My momma's visit was great :) specially our daily (sometimes forced) walks yay for walking.
Also being with Oma is great, though that is also mostly under-appreciated or it was until she went back to the hospital now that she is better I realize that she is not something to take for granted :)
I've been spoiling her, cooking tea when she forgets, cleaning the house, doing dishes YAY
mmh...other than that I am just figuring out my future, what to do, what to do????
I'm a really bad blogger sorry O.o
Mehbe I do better next time
till then
Love
Dom

pictures :)

Also-this is my most recent mug shot :D

On Going Home and Coming Home

As you know I went back to the States over Christmas. And quite frankly it was the most wonderful time-minus the procrastination and paper writing. It is wonderful to be able to go back home, where your parents are and just be at least partially a child again. Of course a lot has changed, after all for the first time I had been independent and living on my own, this somehow changes the dynamic of things..but at the same time it doesn't because to your parents no matter how old you are you are the child. Daddy does always say I'm his baby, and I will always be his baby even when I'm 50, and even though that at times is weird-there is something very soothing about knowing that you will always be someones precious child :)! It is something I used to never think about, and take for granted-but being away I do realize that I love my parents so so much and I miss them! The same of course goes for my sister-some things stayed the same, but it seems that we kept the arguing to a minimum, as a matter of fact one of the favorite things when I was there was us going and painting a picture for New Years! Also road tripping to Kentucky!! Awesome :) and now I get to be an auntie to a little well who knows but it'll get spoiled :D!!!!! Well once I am done with school and have a job, but still-everything changes but I think from going home some things will not! I love going home.
As for coming home-I missed my little apartment in Bremen.It is wonderful to come of the plane and have a friend waiting for you, someone who will take you home, wait for you to shower then go for food and shopping :)! Since I've been back I have seen all of my friends on many occasions and I realize just how lucky I am. I had friends in the U.S. but except for a fair few, which I will not specify, they were mostly fake-the friends I have made here are real, they care about my well being and that is awesome! I wish I would never have to leave, but graduation is approaching therefore I am writing my thesis and steadily applying to different programs as well as to teaching jobs such as teach for America. I am also considering the Peace Corps. We will see what pans out. For now I thesis write and enjoy my friends company. They are quite brilliant and always there for me :) I shall try to keep you updated
xoxo

Cologne-A little late ;)

So on Thanksgiving I went to Cologne for a DAAD tagung with my work. We had a workshop on writing for the Internet, including how to write blogs. Of course this would be for those who blog newsreports and stuff and actually want a lot of people to read their blogs. However, I will not bore you with the specifics on writing, as either you already know how to, or you don't need professional writing skills. :)
So instead I will talk about the more fun parts. As I already said we took the train to Cologne on the 25th of November. From the train station, we (my co-worker and I) walked to our hotel, which due to our lack of knowledge of where we were going took about an hour. I would complain about this, but really the exercise was nice, although carrying a heavy bag for that much is not so much fun. Once we arrived at the Hotel, it was time to go to dinner with the DAAD group. We ended up being a little bit late, however we were not the latest of the group ;)!
Dinner was awesome and yummy! Once the group leaders left, we finished up dinner, we had some nice conversation and a guy randomly bought everyone a glass of Kölsch since we let him have a part of our buffet. Post-eating, we decided to go out, as a group, get to know everyone. We started at the Christmas Market which was unfortunately already closed, and then we ended up at a random karaoke bar. Two of the group were even willing to sing so it was fun!! Since the workshops would start early the next morning, most of us decided to go back to the hotel and sleep.
On Saturday, after the workshop, which took most of the day but was awesome, the DAAD made sure that we would have some free time. With some of the kids of my writing group, we decided to go over the Christmas Market in front of the Cathedral, which in and of itself is impressive. But even the Christmas Market was quite awesome. We decided to eat some yummy steak on bred, and then looked over the rest of the booths. As we all had a long day, we decided not to go out, instead we went back to the hotel and watched a movie together. The Kite Runner, was a very good movie and we all ended up getting enough sleep, to get up early and be there for the closing remarks the next morning.
It was impressive how quickly we all seemed to make friends. Even now many of us still keep in touch on Facebook or on Skype. We are even planning on meeting up again! Cologne, even though only 3days, was quite an experience, one that I would love to repeat!!
XOXO

Obama Shoes and a Hat

Hey Everyone!!!

Its Winter up in here, and its cooooooold! brrrrrrrrrr
But I got new shoes, there from the brand called Bama, but when looking at the logo it totally reads Obama, so I got me some Obama shoes. They are super comfy and one pair is also quite warm so great for this Bremen Weather :)



One pair is a ballet flat, so good for wearing with skirts, which is currently my new obsession skirts :) I have no clue where that came from but I just love wearing them, even though it is getting to cold and my tights just aren't warm enough.



However, not only does it snow in this nice cold weather, it also makes it possible for me to wear hats :)! And after years of hating hats, because I just have too much hair and they look funny, I have learned to embrace my hair, and the wonderfulness of wearing warming, and stylish hats :)! I got a new one and it is awesome!!! Purple with a little bow

Oh and last but not least, I have finally found my favorite perfume. It smells great, and I love it!!! It is Vera Wang's Rock Princess and its awesome. It smells a little of Vanilla, and a little sweet-so it suits me! But that is perty much it!!!

Oh yeah and I went to Cologne, a Blog post shall follow on that asap!
XOXO