Halloween today and a year ago

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Sigh…It’s Halloween and I’m sitting on my desk at home….working :(
But, as I said, I wanted to upload some photos from Halloween 2004 last year (Perth) - yeah guys…it is in my memory as if it were yesterday…was a great party and I miss you all!
Hope all of you have a great party tonight!
Here the awesome party at Matt&Steve’s house last year. The pics are not good quality because I must save my space here, but anyway…enjoy the mood from Halloween in down under 2004:
EDIT: I moved all pics to my gallery.

Birthe and Corinna won the special prize (the Australian street sign “KEEP LEFT”) for the best costume! They dressed as Matt and Steve (the two guys on the first picture)…sorry that everybody knows your names now *lol*
What are your costumes this year????

Changes on :: missy cola ::

Hey guys,
my coffee break today was a bit longer, so I changed the template for this design here.

I changed the font color & size:
I like the gray for the font better; the black was too strong in my opinion.
Is the size now too small for you? …is somebody almost blind here? Veit?
…let me know!

Would you like “verdana” as font better? I wasn’t sure if I should change this font here…but I like it somehow…only don’t know how readable it is on different (bad quality flickering) monitors… please tell me. This is “verdana” by the way
Just for you to compare it with the other one. What do you say?

Comment: This is OLD. I already changed the font. To compare the following part is written in the old font (not exactly in the same old size…I cannot show it better):

I changed the sidebar organization:
I still want to remove the underlines of the links…don’t know how yet.

And I changed the comment section!
How do you like it with the new comment system? Before it opened a new website when you clicked on “comment”, now it is integrated in my main site. Do you like it better?

And I changed the outlook almost everywhere
Yeah, my perfectionism came through I guess. But I think all multimedia students have this gene in them…haha!!!

I use the browser “Mozilla Firefox”, so I hope that this site works with different browsers as well? I haven’t checked it (bad bad I know) but tell me if you see strange things or if something isn’t working! Please! Thx.

supplement:
Ahhh, the design looks a bit different on the MS Internet Explorer. There are ugly little dots around the main writing field I mean, they are bigger and just different ini design as with Firefox. I know that blogger recommends Firefox.
And the head title looks different; it doesn’t fit in one line…
So please use Firefox! Is much better browser (the best) anyway - why?
Guckst Du hier

Broken

…car. Mine. Was driving today and felt a weird shake and sound. Thought it’ll be better not to drive any more. Then I thought maybe it was a marten who chewed on some of my cables?
Nooo, after I brought it to the garage of my confidence they said a few hours later that there is a part of the cylinders broken; something has to be changed.
Hmm, my car will be repaired till tomorrow afternoon. I hope it won’t cost me much.
This is the first time after four years of owing it that something broke. Good car

Not only the car is “ill”, me too, I think…My throat was very dry in the morning and I felt the flu will visit me soon =) Then I made a hot milk with lots of honey.
Hope it is not becoming worse. I cannot miss a single day without working and writing for my thesis
In the end I decided not to go to the Halloween Party on Friday or/and Saturday (yes, there are two and I’m invited to both of them). Too bad, but I don’t have time anyway and among people who spread out their bacteria (he he) I’ll definitely have the fall-flu that is going ’round at the moment.
A shy friend from THE Halloween country of origin said to me a few days ago, Halloween is only “drunk fun in a costume” Ok, na dann!

Yeah, it is! Why not? I’ll miss it this year :/
Just remember the crazy one last year in Perth
Maybe I’ll upload some pictures from last year here? Will be hard to choose the best ones though…I’ll see if I have time.

Would be nice to know what YOU are doing for Halloween this year…I mean, what costume you’re going to wear or whatever your plans are…(or simply nothing? running away? hiding?)

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Food, Mood & Anja-two

Good morning,

I said that the photos of the fish dinner from last Tuesday would follow - here they are:
Fried bread cod (my dad said it’s name is coated cod? Don’t know…you know what I mean ;-))

Together with the fish we ate fried potatoes (from our garden). A little bit oily but good together with the fish:

We used a new fry pan this time (titan-coated) and it was superb Nothing burnt (like last time the skin of the fish).

My skin really says thank-you-thank-you-thank-you for all the good fish and lots of Omega-III. Normally I must take omega-III pills against my dry skin…now my skin says *yeppee*!

The dinner was yesterday.
After it rained the whole night, last night, together with hail and storm it was beautiful and sunny today.
So I came back from grocery shopping and saw that super nice color of the sky and the leaves of my oak tree. I ran inside to grab my camera to show you these pictures:

I didn’t edit it in photoshop; it is like it was…beautiful. What do you think?

Here two more where you can see first a look into the garden and second where my study room is (nice view out to the oak) and where the other rooms to front are. Again: no editing!

What else?
My best friend Anja (yes, the same name and the same crazy as I am, also blond but green eyes and one year older than I ;-p) visited me today. She was in Egypt for a week for scuba diving (she has a nice tan) and wanted to show me her holiday photos. I said that I don’t have much time because of the thesis but we didn’t see each other for a loooong time so we had a quick coffee & cake chat in the afternoon. I made another apple cake with apples called “Boskop” from our garden. You can see our freaky coffee-&-cake-session now..haha:

The apple cake is even better than my last one [see 1st post]
When I have more time I can write the recipe(s) down here; somebody interested? Hmm, we’ll see…
I like food, did I already tell ya…lol. Maybe I should combine it with photography…together it is food photographer
My dad said the last time, when I took the pics of the fried fish that I will be starved when I’m done with the photo series…no, I wasn’t. Since I started last year in Perth with documenting my meals (I know I wasn’t the only one *wink-to-Andyman*) I never stopped doing it. Don’t ask me why; I like to do it. I just like it, because (maybe) I like FOOD!
Okay, enough from that…talk to you later. Bed time now. Cya & gn8

Haett der Hund nicht ge…

…schissen, haette er nen Hasen gehabt (German saying).

Ok, all vegetarians please read the next post, but not this one here, ok? Thanks.

My mom wanted to try something new and bought ready prepared wild rabbit meat (frozen).
It was not too bad, although it was a little bit hard not to think of sweet rabbits during eating…anyway, I ate it.
After the meal my mother asked me how it was and if I bit on a piece of bullet. A W-H-A-T??
Yes, you’ve got it right…a piece of bullet! You ask why? Click on the following pic:

Sorry that it is in German, but those who don’t understand, here my English translation for the fat red letters on the package:

“Hint: Wild rabbits are shot and in spite of the greatest care there might be pieces of bullets in it.”

*gulp*

Ok, no more wild rabbits for me please and thank you mom, that you asked me, when I was done with eating *grrr*

Okay, topic changes now from rabbit to FISH!

Congratulations to my dad! Why? Because we’ll have cod the next weeks for lunch and dinner :)
Yesterday he came back home with six fresh caught cods and one (same fresh) ale, today he came with three cods. You must know that it is raining like hell here since a few days and it’s pretty windy as well…and now think of my third post…(best weather).
Remember the small nut shell of boat with that we went out to the fish traps? He did this the last days alone (steering and doing get the nets out and all) and said that he almost went overboard because of the rough weather!! (*gg*)
But for Thank God (or whoever)!…he made it and we’ll cook some of the cod tonight - yummy!
Here the proud proof:

…and a closer view - Ladies & Gentlemen, I proudly present German cod:
(I said NOT for vegetarians!!!!!)
Pictures of the dinner tonight will follow

Last but not least another photo that has something to do with fish (& food).
This was my dinner last night. The paste on the bread is hummus (weaving to Megan!), I got to know it in Australia last year, through Megan. I love it now

Did I already say that I love food? No, ok - now you should know.

Well, now it is your turn! A game…yeah!! What a great idea

! Guess how this fish is called!
! It is typical for the (Baltic sea) coast here, especially for the towns Eckernfoerde and Kiel!
! And the smoking changes its original name to a new name!
! But be careful of the trap - you might think of the false one!

! You may take the telephone joker or the 50:50 joker or ask the Google audience!

If you think you know it, please make a comment on this post.

The winner will get a special postcard of Germany signed by my dad the great fisherman and me the great daughter who can eat heaps of fish

Excluded from the game are family members (sorry Schwesterherz) and people from Eckernfoerde and Kiel (too easy for you guys, sorry).

3-2-1-GO!