Cola and the keen observer of human nature
I met a friend of a good friend two days ago. I talked to this guy the first time and was very surprised that I obviously left a good mark.
During our talk I got a call from another friend on my mobile. After finishing that call he asked me for my parents jobs. I said “huh? what? why” and then I told him. He said “yes, I knew that you come from a good (bourgeois) family, I can hear that”. I was surprised and laughed.
He explained that I use good speech and words that not everyone uses…I have a exalted (gehoben) expression when I talk, because I use words like (in German:) “da muss ich erst noch Rücksprache halten”. He also said that my gestures and my behaviour told him about my good family ‘background’. How I welcome people, how I shake hands, how I generally talk. Crazy. Unspeakable. Then he said with being safe he’s right, “you had a good childhood, right?” and this time I said, hmm, what is good and what is bad, ok I never get a beating (Schlaege) by my parents, so I guess it was ok. He said, ok but the first important years when you were young were good, right? I nodded. Again he said that he can see that.
Damn, scary and very surprisingly because nobody every talked like this to me.
Maybe not the best idea, but I told Nathan about it and the first thing he said “he probably has a crush on you”. Sigh, why do men always think in these structures? I’ll never understand it. The guy has a girlfriend anyway and I probably never see him again (he lives in Berlin), so…it was just an interesting chat. I told N. that he is an artist, too (just tried to calm him down, like “see, he’s also an artist as you, so he can’t be a bad guy” *g*) but I guess men are not interested in more information about guys who impressed their girlfriends.
When I came home I couldn’t resist to tell my dad about this, let’s say, positive rating. As I expected he had a big grin. Yeah, it is also a compliment for my parents. Well done. Good that nobody in the world wide web knows about my +#?%$§!&& (wild-n-crazy-rough) teenage years and that my parents thought that I’ll end up walk the streets or sleeping under bridges and so on. Yeah, looking backward makes ME grin now.
More about my US “top spots”
A few days ago, I already made a similar quiz to find out more about the best American city for me to live in *silly-me*
A much better (and higher quality) quiz (my opinion) is Find Your Spot, “the best way to discover your perfect hometown” concerning living in the United States as well. The quiz was recommended in one of the America forums that I discovered online and where I sometimes spend my time to find THE special tip(s) *g*.
The questionnaire is quite long and some of the questions are very detailed and others are not easy to answer.
The result is just amazing, because New Mexico comes first and repeats itself. That’s funny because it is a hot topic in the long-distance-romance of planetcola and sirNatey at the moment.
See my quiz outcome here and comment on it if you like:
Arachnid-Plant-Cake Mix
For my sis(ter) who asked for a picture of my banana tree plant, which recovered pretty well from being almost dead in spring this year. The trick is: giving it rain water instead of tap water and put it outside during summer, where it is warm and humid and it can look like this one:
For Arachnophobics (and Maren, hihi), my new inhabitant that I met yesterday on the curtain of my front door in the hallway:
For gourmets and food lovers (like me), my baking tray apple pie (?right name?) with marzipan icing – Apfelblechkuchen mit Marzipanguß:
rating: very delicious, I like it better than my last one.
American cities that best fit me (quiz)
Somehow I came to these blog things games again, through reading another blog.
I wanted to know this (actual personal topic):
American Cities That Best Fit You:
80% Austin
75% Honolulu
70% Portland
70% San Diego
65% Atlanta
(source: Which American Cities Best Fit You?
http://www.blogthings.com/whichamericancitiesbestfityouquiz/)
Hon, no Santa Fe, better Honolulu (which we already had in mind *fg*).
Cool, Portland (Maine)…not too far from my hon’s home.
Hmmmmmmmmm…….now you (they person behind the initials NAS *hö*) need to make the quiz as well and we could see if something matches…yeees?
Hold on, I’m coming…I’ll take my boat…
and I only have a few thousand kilometres until I’m over there…
N8, I saved MY answers to the American cities questions. If you want to do the same we can compare, hehe …
Sep 14, 2006 • English & Funny & Natey&Cola & Visuelles •••• 1 comment »E.T. and Heide Simonis
Hey ya, I just came home from work; my promoworx, you know.
I worked for a VIP event in Schoenkirchen near Kiel, where they reopened a wellness and spa gym thing, called MARE. I welcomed the (very important) guests and met, amongst others, Heide Simonis. Heide was the prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein from 1993 til 2005. In the moment she entered the room I thought, (omg) she looks kind of wasted…and tired, old and…just not was fresh as she looks on TV. Well, I never met a politician or a VIP so close, except for Peter Lustig from the TV series “Loewenzahn“, whom I met in Eckernfoerde a few years ago (biggrin). Sorry, I zone out. Hmm…Miss Simonis, why is she here, I thought, and by the way: what’s up, Heide? Long time no see! Where was the current prime minister, Peter Harry Carstensen? Not invited? Not arrived? Not interested? Nothing to talk about? Simonis talked about her Unicef commitment and who could also thank the MARE team for donating 1000 Euros for her Africa project. Good, but a lot of blablablubb. That’s my rhyme for the night.
I still wonder why my oculist said (two years ago) that I don’t need to wear glasses. I drove home when it already was dark (around 10:30 pm). On the way from Kiel to Eckernfoerde weren’t many cars, but a strange vehicle driving right in front of me.
The moving vehicle was very narrow (maybe 1 meter width) and had an abnormal hight (~2 meters) but had an egg-like form; it had many red back lights (in a form of a diamond, to the right, to the left, to the top…) that I thought, it can’t be a car, but it can’t be a motorcycle either. What the h** is that? I felt uneasy. I shook my head because I really thought my eyes are that poor. Then I drove wide-eyed *glubsch* to see better. I tried to drive closer. I still couldn’t figure out what was driving in front of me. I couldn’t overtake. I then had thoughts like…s**t I need a small digicam in my tiny handbag that is always with me, s**t, in the best moments you cannot save/share what you see…is the thing from this world though?…and all that…you know, weird irrational fantasy-real-mix female thoughts. Breeeaaaathhhheee…the “thing” turned into a left lane and I could ‘overtake’ on the right lane and risk a look at it: huh? you want to know? It was a huge motorcycle or a home-on-two-wheels that had so many back lights that it should be forbidden to drive with it, because it could confuse tired Cola’s on her/their way home. Unfortunately I couldn’t really see much of it, because it was too dark, but it had the length of a car and a really big bum (butt, Hintern). I guess it doesn’t look that spectacular at daytime, but anyway, I really was kind of excited that it had my attention for the whole 20 minutes drive home.
Bedtime.
Yours sometimes extra-terrestrial planetcola
Fisher woman Cola is back
Did I say in my last post that the summer is almost over? Summer is back…at least a little bit. I was very warm today, about 24 Celsius. And then there was the call of a fisher friend of my dad who said that the inner harbor of Eckernfoerde (yes, I’m still here) is full of fisher boats…that means: good chance to catch some FISH.
It was past 6 pm when we took our motorboat for a short drive just a little bit outside of the harbour and we came back at 8.30 pm. At that time it was already quite cold, I only wore my fleece pullover, because when we left it was warm out, but quickly after the sun set it became very cold. My fingers were numb. Not too numb to take some pictures, though *g*
The weather was perfect, here some impressions of the scenery:
Then the sun began to set slowly
einfach schön!
We didn’t catch very much, but proudly I can say that I caught 4 herring and my dad 3, hehe. Makes 7 middle up to big sized herring. Once I had two big ones at once on my fishing root. Heavy fidgeting! I lost 3 fish during reeling it in, too bad!
Hey Nathan, if you read this, my dad really caught fish with his shitty fishing root, unbelievable. The reel is broken but he says that the fishing root is the same since he bought it. Well, the herring now is in my fridge (gut, cleaned and salted) and we want to eat it tomorrow for lunch; together with 3 cods that he had in his fish traps the day before.
Yeah yeah, like last year, the fishing season is the best in late summer 
Good for me to get some fresh air as well, because I my best friend is my computer at the moment.
(ehm, I don’t know why there is so much white space in the post here, I use a new plugin to show the pictures from my gallery. This is also the reason why I can’t send newsletters at the moment, because my admin editor preview and all the field below are missing…weird. I need to fix that somehow.)
Sep 11, 2006 • A-life & English & Germany & Visuelles •••• 0 comments »Food and weekend telegram
Hi out there,
summer is almost over and I thought the greenish summer wallpaper (blog background) needs to be changed. I feel like dark red at the moment; warm and chocolate-like.
Food is always a good topic, because I made another apple pie a few days ago, for my best friend’s birthday. No time to post the recipe here, but I’ll write it down here, if you’re interested. Here is the pie:
The next day my dad came with a few cods and an eel pout (aalmutter) that he had in his fish traps. He cleaned and fried them, I cooked some potatoes and made a carrot salad, ready was our dinner. The fried fish looked like this:
I think I already adopted an American habit: pour vinegar over (almost) everything. Nathan told me that they pour vinegar over French fries (ugh) and vegetables (I forgot which). I now found myself poring vinegar over the carrot salad and I really liked the taste! I never had the idea before…only used lemon on carot salad. My dad ate the salad as if he really liked it, too. Almost finished he asked me if there is lemon in the salad. I said, no, vinegar and he immediately put the dish away and said it is too much for him; too sour. Ooops!
Yesterday I went to my best friend’s birthday party. I was amazed how perfect everything was organised. I said to her: “hey it looks like your second marriage”. You must know that my friend is perfect in organizing parties, including a great decoration. This time the party was outside in the carport, which was added a long party tent (with space for at least 50 people). Something that went past me is the karaoke game called “SingStar”. My friend and her boyfriend had 4 DVD’s with songs and a play station that they wanted to connect with a TV (for picture output) and stereo (for the audio output). Good that they invited the multimedia tech spezi girl…me Well, they didn’t know how to get it started and it was on me, if the “party attraction” runs or not. We carried the TV, the stereo, the play station and everything else needed outside in the carport. A few cables in here and there, an adapter for the TV and it worked. Easy (fortunately *g*).
The difference to normal karaoke is that the original band sings in the background (with showing the original video) and on top of the screen you have visual tone level bars so that you better know how how the melody goes. In the end the program spits out a rating how you sang.
The “SingStar” was running the whole night…sigh.
I was at home at 3.30 am. Before I went to bed I called Nathan (for him it was almost 10 pm). We talked for a little while…til my feet and my butt became warm (it was freezing cold at the party in the tent). Slept only six hours.
Now it’s already late again (1.27 am), time for another phone-date of N. and me. Only 1ct/minute to the States at the moment. Pre-dial 01024, 010058 or 01078 (wink at Maren).
The UK art punk doesn’t like Paris :)
Yeah…normally, I wouldn’t write about this…ehem…
but since my beloved is an artist and this cd has something to do with (guerilla-) a-r-t.
The obviously well-known (or at least now well-known) crazy artist Bansky did “his special a(rt)dd” on 500 CD’s (and in its booklet) of Paris Hilton’s new CD (huh, didn’t even know that she made a CD, no comment) and distributed them throughout UK in different stores without the buyers knowledge. I think it’s a cool gag..ehm art.
The making of has (of course) already reached the movie share platform “Youtube.com”, so you can watch the quite amazing (it seems to be so easy) video called “Paris Hilton Punked” here. Because I don’t read gossip magazines (maybe only if I’m at the hairdresser, what is once a year) and because I don’t watch gossip news on TV this stuff here has not hit me yet. Sorry, if I’m kind of late with this stuff, but it caught my eye during searching for something completely else.
I think it is funny and I wonder if the guy..ehm artist got a punishment for his changing and “fill up” of CD’s.
Watch the movie and let me know what you think!
(sources: found here who found it here and the beginning post was maybe here where it already was posted on July 10th 2006)
Sep 7, 2006 • English & Funny •••• 0 comments »In the wrong place at the wrong time
The (world-) famous Australian crocodile hunter Steve Irwin (don’t say you don’t know him) died today through a stingray attack!
Death through a stingray attack is very seldom; in Australia it only is the third accident with stingrays where someone died.
Australia lost its craziest inhabitant, who was probably better known than the prime minister…(I guess you don’t know his name, don’t you?).
Well, Nathan and I went to the Australian Zoo in Queensland in 2004 where we (also) watched a show of and with Mr. Crocodile Irwin. I knew his TV show “crocodile hunter” from the German TV, but the live show in his Zoo was not that fascinating (my opinion). Of course, television can make more out of everything 
But, now, the most famous man of Australia, as it is said in one of the online newspapers, died doing what he loved best…being together with dangerous animals. If you want to read more about it, you can follow the story online in the German magazine “Spiegel” and in English on the website of the australian “Herald Sun” or choose one of the several “croc hunter is dead”-articles at news.com.au.
When I was in Australia, I went swimming…accidentally with reef sharks and a ray at the west coast, with a stone fish at the east coast (that was scary), with 4 wild but harmless dolphins at the east coast in Queensland (that was awesome!) and probably lots of other creatures that I didn’t see
On land I saw two spiders, one on our tent in Byron Bay at New Years Eve and this one here in front of a hostel in Exmouth. Click here, it is better to see on this photo.
The only time I got (I’d say ‘badly’ *g*) hurt was when I walked through the jungle-forest in the wet tropics in Cairns. I stepped on a poisonous leaf…yeah a LEAF, you heard right!!!!! It hurt so bad that I only could limp to the next rock to sit down. Thousands of tiny stings/spines were in my foot but you couldn’t see them and therefore you couldn’t pull them out. The tour guide said that it’ll hurt for about 3 weeks, that’s normal – 3 ??!! Well, there were 20-30 people in our group, some of them even walked barefoot, but I had my flip flops (thongs) on and twist my ankle right in that moment when the leaf is right there to “attack” me. It’s always me…
Well, in the end I think I could have had a worse time in Oz…*g*
Sep 4, 2006 • Australia & English & Visuelles & Well-informed •••• 1 comment »Free fixed phone calls to Germany and abroad?
Yes, it exists! Where? On the Wold Wide Web of course
I found something very useful on the couchgelaber weblog that might interest especially my German friends, if you don’t know it yet.
Stephan from couchgelaber mentioned the service called “peterzahlt.de” (means: Peter pays) where you just have to type in your home phone number (it works only with fixed phone lines, not mobile phones) and the phone number of the person you want to call (also available for some other countries [@Maren: USA as well, also mobile phones, juchuu]. A few seconds later your home phone rings.
A voice tells you that you will know see weather information and some ads on your screen. Then it puts you through. You can talk for 30 minutes for free. It will disconnect you automatically, but you can always reconnect. The only thing is that you cannot close the browser window during the call and you cannot put another browser window on top of it, you need to leave the peterzahlt.de window open for receiving the advertisements.
Good thing that you use your fixed phone that is (I guess) wireless…so you can walk around. You don’t need to click on the ads, as other services wanted it some years ago (I remember web.de did this 10 minutes free call thing, but you had to click on the ads every 20 seconds…annoying and confusing…).
No headset that is plugged into your computer and no need-to-sit-on-computer during the call. Wow, I think it’s great. I already called phones in Germany and (of course, hihi) the States. In the States you can call also the mobile phone, in Germany only home phones. Works fine.
Grrrr…..unfortunately the service is overburdened (it was foreseeable) since today. I wanted to write this “hey there is this great service” post already a week ago….damn.
Now, there is a message on the site that says they already connect 100.000 people per day and they need more server power. It means that the service is paused, but they will be back latest in mid September, when they have the new servers running. So, keep watching the site where “Peter zahlt” !
Hey, if anyone from my friends in Hamburg is tonight at the Altervergnuegen in Hamburg…I will be there as well….working for deltaradio….but incognito, in casual clothes…would be cool to meet up!
By the way, if you see a guy in jeans wearing a black shirt, you need to ask him if he is the “deltaradio cash kumpel” and if it’s the right guy, you get 1000 Euro cash! Immediately. Honestly!! That’s the game that we are promoting tonight and the next days…
Petra?? Call me if you’re there…I must go now…have to be in Kiel in 40 minutes.