Oh Happy Spring

This was Tuesday morning around 05:45 - there is light, yay, you can see where you go and, my, such beautiful colors!
Spring.... !

Spring...

... Where Art Thou?

Most of the snow was gone, but over night... it came back, pic taken this morning! Not much, but enough to make one moan, it´s enough!

It´s the longest winter since 138 years, they say in the news.
Florists loose their plants - no one buys them, where would you plant them?
Asparagus... there is none.

The building industry is literally freezed.
Unemployment is increasing due to the weather, or rather not decreasing.

And, quite frankly... people are pissed by the weather.

On my way back home, into the looong weekend today:

Last year this time, just so you get a clue why we´re fed up with winter:

The city wants to spend 9000 € on flowers to plant. Just... not yet!

Somehow it doesn´t feel like the Easter-Bunny is going to show up. I´ve heard he´s striking or/and in negotiation with a certain Mother Hulda...

There are road signs giving a speed limit down to 40 km/h due to toads crossing. Well the toads don´t have a calendar, it seems, they don´t know it´s spring, I didn´t see any this week.
Birds who came here leave again direction south, they find no food, insects aren´t available, either.

Forcast over Easter... Cold, snowy.

At least my flower made me smile:

Spring is coming, some day...

Happy long weekend everyone!

Cherry, Cherry Lady...

Oh, don´t google that, don´t. Ever.

If you don´t know - as Ingo thinks (or maybe hopes) - the "band" Modern Talking, you´re blessed, kinda, musical-wise.
Keep it that way.

Astonishingly it didn´t keep me away from purchasing this cherry-clock:

Yes. Just yet another clock! :-)

Bro states we´re "obsessed" with clocks.
Nah. Six clocks in the kitchen (alone) is no obsession, no?
I´m a kid from a watch-maker-Mum and a watch-maker-Dad, so what do you expect?
As a kid I hated the ticking sound.
Now it calms me.

How do you feel about clocks?

Do they show you how precious moments pass by or do they comfort you? You don´t care at all?
Time... Time is important to me.
Well. This is the kitchen in a whole:

Glas-pics and a glas-clock.
In our place.
With me... being no good with glas, actually!

This is what I had for lunch:

... a pickled egg (one of the few things I can "cook").
(Moe always has pickled eggs, ya know?
Hehe :-)

We had a company meet-up with dinner yesterday. Buffet.
Met Team-Leader who grabbed a soup.
I said ""Soupé? :-)" - "That´s SOUP!!! :-)".
Yes. We are Simpson´s-fans! :-) LOL!

Well.

It´s so sunny outside.
Wanna go out and play???

-7C this morning - warmed uo to -3 now (MINUS!) Gahhhh....

The sun tries to do a good job, the snow falls togther like a blanket.

Fingers crossed for the real spring, soon!
Can´t remember a winter that long :-(

At least sun. and yummy food (see last post) on the stove!
Happy weekend, take your precious time! :-)

First Day Of Spring

Does this look like Spring to you?

This was March 16th last year...

In mall Citypoint they have a little "easter-land" for kids:

Little Niece so´d love it, here you can paint and she loves to paint:

Bet the new mall Schlossarkaden has another great theme for kids.
But, alas, it´s too dang cold to come over with a wee one who takes every cold she can get.

So, instead of feeling the joy of spring we felt more like a warm cabbage last weekend:

It sure was very, very yummy, maybe I ask for another one this weekend.

You know, I kinda start wondering if George is causing all this trouble?

He seems to feel fine, pic taken this arvo:

George, stop it, or I will seriously strip you naked!!! You´ll look like any other fir tree, I´m not kidding!!!

What else is worth being mentioned? FB eats up all the tiny but still to me funny pieces and I never look back there. So, here goes:

(Pic: Egg-warmer at Sunday brunch)

I can announce I have the cleanest chocolate-smelling-lipstick in town.
Got this lipstick, loved to wear it for a few days, then it was gone. When I got my jeans out of the washing-machine... hey, still works fine!

Monday in the city, barely +1C outside, yet I counted more than 5 shops with the doors wide open. Permanently during opening hours. Hello???
And don´t you think it´s cold inside, oh, no, staff is wearing thin clothes :-(

And kids having ice-cream???? Huh? "I scream"...

And funny to end with, a note from last Friday, proofing I needed a weekend:
Gah, don´t you hate it when your mouth is faster than your brain?

Yesterday my colleague said to us (I´m the only woman), you have the choice, either I get my clothes off or I open the window.
Immediately I said, open the window!

He´s good-looking, it was just... it WAS too warm.

Luckily everybody laughed.

Hasi Says Hi

Monday we went - as usual - to the city.
Ingo decided he needed a haircut, so I went to Graff, the most dangerous place in town, to kill the time.
Not for long, though, inside a felt 25C (plus) - hello, outside it´s minus-temps, we customers wear many layers of warm clothes!

Well, I came out with this Easter-Bunny. Isn´t he too dang cute? (Ingo doesn´t think so at all, but who cares??)
When I took this pic (snow, in the snow, still!) I realized I could´ve used one of the gift cards I got from boss and friend, but I forgot.

Forgetting, btw... I ordererd a book about how the brain starts to forget from 40 years of age on. The book was delivered twice (my fault/the system´s fault?) and... I forgot where I put it. Tragic, I tell ya!

Wanna see how cold it is over here?

George:

And the table he lives on:

See the icicles? Brrr!

My hair is like straw, too, due all the heating. A while ago I had some spray that helps combing the hair after a shower. It was empty, I didn´t find the stuff anymore. They only have expensive, combined products now.
But I really found staff who could help.

Yes, it´s from the kid´s-collection (pink princess), but it works. It has to, it comes with "natural magical nut-extract" (maybe I´m nuts, too? - ah, nah, you call it witch-hazel, we call it Zauber-nuss, it really does exist!).
My hair now smells like chewing-gum, but, as said, it works.

Gah, would you like to see a pic of this morning, 05:15? Mine is the red one...

Nasty, nasty, nasty.
Though, at least this is snow.
Monday morning it took me some 10-15 minutes to scratch the car free from several thin layers of ice and - I was nearly at work, having some 30 difficult km behind me, when I found myself on ice and the lights went red. The driver in front of me panicked and if it wasn´t for a driver´s training I took with Bro a few years back... I might´ve (very likely) bumped into him.
Please, winter, go away!!!

This is a (kinda arty) pic from Feburary!

I want sun! No snow!

The bucket for a proper spring-cleaning is hands on ready to go, too, literally!

Let´s hope this is the last tough winter-week and Hasi and George meet each other again when there is green gras and fresh flowers!

I Am Bad

Going to bed together, waking up alone.

That makes me plain freak out.

Pic: Brolly is crooked, just like me.

When Ingo was sick I so often asked myself if he´ll still be alive when I´m back from work. No kidding in the end and I´d go another way today.
He slept in another room back then.

Still.
Or because I just freak out when I wake up alone after we went to bed together.

Anyone with me?

It makes me cringe.

We went to bed together on Friday. I´d set the phone to 08:30. Gosh, that´s haven, usually the clock goes off 04:50 for me!

I woke up at around 6 - alone.

Don´t you love it the most, too, when the warm body of your loved one is beside you, some body-part touching you, maybe an arm wrapped around you?

I was alone.

Why???
"Mean" me had been snoring. Bad persons do that, right. He said he´d tried to wake me. Nah, he bumped me way too gentle in the side - I never woke up.

I know what we´re talking of - do you know that problem?

My Dad slept in another room cause he couldn´t stand noises - thanks again for giving me those rotten genes!!!

I try my best wearing ear-protection. Doesn´t work well, but helps.

Well, I woke and asked why he´s gone?
He woke and got mad.

Just yet another worthy weekend gone.

Yes, a whole weekend.
I was doing the dishes, talking to myself, in anger - no one else was there - he said he doesn´t want to hear me anymore and that was that.

I could go on about rules like screamimg for me frying eggs without the drawing-off air on and now... rules... rules.

Sunday morning, 04;something, I woke alone by no surprise, but so damn sad, No chance of a warm ...he´s not just a person, no.
Weekends are the only chances we have in this busy lifes, right?
That´s what we live for, huh.

You say, a whole day to make up!
How...

Missed out on the warm-body-part.
Sometimes - like now - I fear it´s not just that.

Yah. Not a happy post, I know. Life got me just yet again.

Dad would´ve turned 75 on Friday, kinda kills me, too. Not even Bro remembered.

Maybe I just ask for too much.
No arms around me when I sleep. Maybe I´m just too old.
(insert a "nooo, he sure loves you" here....)

We´re Bad, Are We?

Well, we´re not really bad, certainly. Bad is German for bath/bathroom.

And we just had to get rid of this:

We never ever took a bath, always just a shower. So we made sure this huge, old thing gets some fresh air!

We didn´t even have to pay to get rid of it, someone "stole" the ole tub!

And we were left with this:

We finally got a board:

And got rid of the chaos.

The ugly white had to go, too:

Let´s hope this was a good idea! We changed to...

And finally yesterday they finished the shower. It had to dry a day, but can you guess how much I look forward to take a shower tonight???

Ingo did a great job with the yellow watering can - we needed not even 5 litres of water to wash my hair!

We got rid of the door finally, too.
Who needs a door for the bathroom anyways?

And I finally, finally have a cat!

And we got a new lock for the door of the flat and balcony.
Let´s hope the burglar doesn´t go for the students opposite us but decides to take the arrogant neighbour´s.