The rain is falling...

Holy cow... this is what I call some serious rain... Basically it started raining Sunday night and hasn't stopped ever since. CRAZY....

Other than that we're doing fairly well. Things have calmed down and we decided to just keep looking at all the bright sides in life. What else can you do anyways...

This weekend it's off to the Windy City (Chicago) and we are very much looking forward to it! Never been and only hear good things.

... and I keep listening to the rain... on and on and on...

Scared by the unknown...

Over the last couple of weeks mostly not so nice news came our way. Nothing life-threatening... but we've rarely ever felt so unsteady and nervous before.

We just got back from a trip to Germany. We had been looking forward to seeing dear friends and family sooo much - and then we were so shaken up by the recent developments that we never really enjoyed the time there. Coping with the unknown and unsure while living out of a suitcase and not being at home is harder than I thought. And although we knew our surroundings well... it's just unsettling when you feel like you have nothing to hold onto really...

So we returned home and go on a day-by-day basis right now. We're trying to keep the good spirits and positive thoughts up and running and we put much effort in the smiles and deep breaths:-)

I tend to get nervous when I don't know what might turn up behind the next corner. As spontaneuos and relaxed and open I am... the unknown scares me when it could turn my life up-side down within the blink of an eye...

So for now.. we just have to wait and see...

... and breathe...

The smell of the air...

Many of you know that I am not an ocean-fanatic. And yet, I love living by the sea. How come? Well, I guess one thing is the opportunity of taking long walks on the beach or just sitting in the sand and watching the waves roll in and out in their eternal back and forth.

Another - and I wanna say more important - reason is the smell of the air you breathe when you're around the ocean. I cannot get enough of it! Being on the beach or close to the water for only a few minutes is enough... and everything seems to be tainted with this scent of the ocean. I LOVE it..:-)
I keep telling Nick that if he could make it happen that I could always smell this scent I'd love him even more... haha.

To me, this particular smell represents only positive and good things. It reminds me of all those lazy summer days of the past. It reminds me of clear and clean air. It brings back only great memories. They don't even have to be related to the ocean... but the scent simply reflects the pureness of the moment... the newness of each spring that comes around every year and with it new dreams, new experiences, new memories, and new hopes...
If there was a way I could capture this scent in a bottle.. I'd do it... but I guess, I will have to return to the sea over and over again... which is not half bad;-)

Fruehlingsgefuehle

Nachdem wir vergangene Woche noch ordentlich heizen musste, ist das Wetter seit einigen Tagen einfach ein Traum. Die Sonne lacht, die Luft ist angenehm firsch, eine Brise weht vom Meer herzueber und man kann das Draussen-sein sehr sehr geniessen! Einzig nachts wird es schon fast ein bisschen zu warm...

Gestern bin ich den ganzen Nachmittag im Garten gesessen und habe das einfach genossen:-) Dabei hatte ich einen alten Bierkrug mit Eistee gefuellt - und habe an "die gute alte Zeit" gedacht - denn der Bierkrug war vom Richtfest 2004 am Pariser Platz - na, ihr Ex-Kollegen/innen.. ihr erinnert euch noch ;-)

Das Leben ist schoen....

Temperature is rising...

... yeah yeah yeah... I cannot wait till we're getting into those double diggets (celsius) for good. I don't need 30C (anything above 75F), but man... it's been way toooooooo cold for my taste lately...

Anyways...Yesterday, I almost had a face-to-face (or should I say bumper-to-bumper) encounter with one of those american drivers who apparently won his driver's license in the lottery... I LOVE 'EM... I'm going onto Butler and this idiot in his rusty-blue old Cadillac is right behind me. He's so close behind me that I cannot even see the hood of his car anymore. I was not in my greatest mood as it was already so I kept thinking: If this a-hole is kissing my behind, I am gonna kick his... I keep checking my rearview-mirror and can totally tell that the idiot is doing everything but paying attention to the road. I already had this imagine in my head: He bumps into the back of my car, we stop, we get out of the car and I will just yell at him from the bottom of my lungs... HA... that would have been one hell of relief for my shitty mood:-) But he managed to change lanes and eventually left Butler without hitting me. Good for him...

I keep phrasing my Disney-report in my head... haven't really gotten to it yet. It'll come, it'll come - as well as pics will come.I promise.

But for now, I have to get going with my Dreamweaver studies....

Cheers :-)

Sun is shining....

.... the weather is sweet, yeah
Make you wanna move your dancing feet now
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know, yall, can you understand?
When the mornin gather the rainbow, yeah, yeah
Want you to know, Im a rainbow too now
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know, yall, can you, can you, can you understand?
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet now
Make you wanna move your dancing feet, yeah
But to the rescue, here I am
Want you to know just if you can, here I stand, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Can you understand me now, baby? Do you believe me?
(Bob Marley)

...when I just looked outside... these are the words that came to me immediatly :-) Live is good... it might be clouded sometimes... but at the end of the day it's all good.

I had a wonderful time with my friend over the last couple of days. Long walks on the beach, a trip back in time to Disney and great talks made life even better.

Now it's back to the usual and I am trying to get organized. I hope to post a little story about the Disney trip we took withing the next couple of days... so stay tuned.

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To my english speaking friends: Don't get mad at me... but the blog will be bilingual...

An meine deutschsprachigen Freunde: So hier und da wird's sicherlich auch ausserlaendiesches geben - sprich: Ich werd mich auch in der englischen Sprache ueben.

Either way.. have fun und immer dran denken, nicht alles zuuu ernst zu nehmen:-)