Initiated and Submitted

Feb 9, 2012 ~ filed under: Blog & English & Natey&Cola ~ 0 comments »

As of now, February 9, I initiated the domain transfer to namecheap.com. I have changed the domain name server from my old registrar (godaddy) to the new (namecheap), which should insure that my site has almost no downtime during the process. When this is done, I’ll connect the site with a new hosting provider.

I am so excited that I’ll soon be able to blog from home, I could go

Ok, calm down…the birdie on the other shoulder says. You’re not there yet. Who knows, maybe the new hosting provider, which is the more important part than the registrar, will screw it all up as well? There are so many ways how one can screw up. You never know what you get. That’s the world we live in.

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Tonight we celebrate a little bit. The heartman submitted his phd-Thesis (Doctorate) and the missy is already very proud that and how he has endured the last, today exactly, four years writing that research paper with all those (mostly ridiculous) problems he had to deal with at the university in Perth Australia. Finally, he/we can close THAT book and move on with our lives.

We were planning on going to the movies to watch “The Grey”, but missed the show and are now watching “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” on (rental) DVD.
When I was younger I was kinda scared of the first “Planet of the Apes” movie. (*g*) Let’s see how I cope now – all grown up (you’d think, but I don’t).

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Please make the missy happy and take part in the poll and vote – in the sidebar. So far no one has voted. Sniff sniff… big-cola-tears and sad-face and a hanging-head and big-blinking-eyes asking you for ONE click.

[thanks]

Australia Influenced

Feb 7, 2012 ~ filed under: A-life & English & Natey&Cola ~ 0 comments »

Why do men never listen?

We are at the beach, mr.Natey and I and a few other people we don’t know. There are quite a few people in the water, but somehow I don’t feel comfortable. Not only because it’s winter. No, something isn’t right.

All of a sudden I see shadows in the water. They are about an arm length long and quickly moving. Sharks?

I am pretty sure, but mr.Natey doesn’t think so. He wants to go into the water. I say “Please don’t go, there are sharks in there.” He’s going a step forward and I’m now whining: “Please don’t go. I promise you I’ll cook you dinner every night until the rest of your day, but please don’t go into the water!” I’m totally frightened, but mr.Natey thinks I’m overreacting, as so often.

Then I’m going a few steps back and see all those sharks lined up on the shore. They are standing on their back-fin and they organized themselves from small shark on the left to humongous and extremely large (2-story-house tall) on the right. A line of about 6 sharks, all shapes and sizes. They are kind of smiling at me and the other people at the beach.

Nathan, oh why, is going towards the shore and is lining up next to the largest shark with his back to the ocean. He’s like “Look at me, I’m not afraid, I can even stand next to the biggest sharks and it’s all fine.”

Then, all of a sudden, the humongous shark smirks and swings his left fin, which is about the size of an American-sized van, and hits and pushes (or rather smashes) mr.Natey way far away into the deep and dark ocean. No one would survive that hit. Not even a mr.Natey “hero”.

Why do men never listen to their missy?

[image by C.Haugen]

Today a little picture quiz

Aug 14, 2010 ~ filed under: Deutsch & English & Natey&Cola & PiColaQUIZ ~ 3 comments »

This is a though one. Even my needed a looong minute to solve this. Good luck! The ones who already know…

Good things in life are sweet

Jul 1, 2010 ~ filed under: Delicious & English & Natey&Cola ~ 0 comments »

Tootsie roll, Reese’s cup, 100 Grand, Hershey’s kisses, Butterfinger, Reese’s (peanut butter) pieces, 3 Musketeers, Almond Joy….

Can you follow me? Does everyone know what I am talking about?

AMERICAN CANDY and CHOCOLATE….! I didn’t know that I love it that much! I think I never had it really or I never knew what Nathan grew up on…never really knew which chocolates came from England and which from the States….but now I am hooked!!
Yes, wow, a real competitor to my beloved German chocolate sweets.

Nathan and I were (almost) fighting…no actually we have been fighting over this bag:

A little bit of everything ‘American chocolates’.
It was a little gift from my manager who recently came back from a short holiday in the USA.

You should know that I am not very good at sharing when it is chocolate. When I received the bag I had a night out and Nathan stayed at home. He asked me, if he could have a few pieces. (!!!!)
Pardon? Hello? I just got this bag, don’t even have time to look at it, because I’m going out, and he wants a piece BEFORE I even get to it? NO! Hell, no, how can he even be so brave and ask?
Well, this caused the first little argument. Haha.

I needed the right moment to take the bag of sweets on my lap, and the right moment to be in the mood for it to eat some. If you know what I mean.

Mr Natey didn’t like this at all. He said I was mean, very mean to say he could not have something from this bag which had all of his childhood favourites in it. He said I cannot leave it lying around, not eating anything. Mean mean mean. *giggle*
How about a bit of self-control Mr CandyPopcornOholic? :P
Well, I didn’t say he could not have anything forever…just for the moment, no.

In the end (I gave in and) he had his first piece before I had my try.
BUT…HE KEPT ASKING FOR MORE AND MORE!!

We argued…a lot…other people argue about important things (like which TV channel to watch, lol), we argue about who can have which kind of chocolate and in which time frame. I mean, if I didn’t control “the USA bag” we would have eaten everything in one go. I want good things to last. My man doesn’t understand why and for what I want to save them for.
Well, maybe to keep the delicious moments for longer than just one or two days? Especially when we cannot just go to the next shop to buy more of these….they don’t sell them here.

I am so bad. I just remembered that it was ME who grew up with a sister and who (should have) learned to share things. Nathan is a single child…but so well behaved and so patient when it comes to sharing. I tell ya, for sure this earth’s chocolate has led to civil wars back then. I am sure! Evil stuff…

I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY HE WAS SO MAD AT ME….mad for the awesome chocolates. Because – they – are – so – goooood! Australia can go home. England can go home. A lot of countries can go home. American old school chocolates are just so very delicious and special in the taste. How could I have missed trying them the last two time when I was in the States? *wondering*

The Hershey’s kisses with the white chocolate and the cookie pieces in it are just to melt-away! So tiny but so good.
The tootsie roll reminds me of “Toffee” from Germany. Reese’s pieces are so much better than M&M’s (they look the same, but the filling is peanut butter instead of chocolate).

Who would have known that I became such a peanut butter fan?

I haven’t had Nutella for over two years now. Can you believe it?

That is what happens if you live your life with an American cowboy.
Just weird how his mother said to me once that he never had such a craving for sweets? He is madly involved in the choco-sweetness business.

You might not believe it, but we have had the choc bag for a few weeks now and there are still around 12 pieces in it.

Tonight we were a lovely couple and shared an “Almond Joy” chocolate bar. What a joy!

Yesterday we went food shopping and guess what we saw? A long bar of “Tootsie Roll”, “3 Musketeers”, “100 Grand”, and another one that I forgot the name of; all next to the check-out of an IGA store.
This is brand new. We shop there quite often and they never had those. But now, just now, after we had this American chocolates bag. Weird!!!!

Noong haw

Apr 17, 2010 ~ filed under: English & Natey&Cola ~ 1 comment »

Ngoo lây gûh duh.

A bit of Shanghainese, which means ‘Hello, I am here.’ The circumflex needs to be 180 degrees, but I don’t know how to do it with this (Mac) keyboard.

Or simply :P 你好，我回来了。(Hello, I am back.)

Shanghaiboy reached Perth Airport after a long day of travelling from the far lands of China back home to Australia. Exhausted and tired he got picked up from the airport at 11.30pm last night. But before falling into the freshly made bed he gave me a few of the more to come little presents from China! Ohhh…photos will follow. So pretty…!

The mister’s luggage is still in China and will be delivered tomorrow morning (hopefully). Somehow he has no luck with luggage travelling WITH him. Maybe he has just bad luck in picking the good airlines, although this time he could not choose the airline, because the university did. Whatever happened, the luggage with more gifts will be here tomorrow.

However, I am glad that the airplane brought him home safe, after reading that only a few days ago a Cathay Pacific airbus had an engine failure and only landed safely at Hong Kong’s airport (only eight people injured, it said) because the pilots were doing a great job.
Happily reunited: