Kiwis Corner

So I’m back home again. Feels good to sleep in my own bed, on my own pillow under my own cover.
It was wonderful to see my friends in Bakersfield again, I loved San Diego Zoo and Sea World, Las Vegas was crazy and The Blue Man Group was incredible! I can’t wait ’till my brain has slowed down so I can start sorting out particular memories from the crazy, tangled pile they are in now.

It’s good to be home with my friends again. But I miss you Kadin. We had so much fun!

So now I’m home again. It’s nice to be home, but… I think we might have had WWIII in the livingroom while I was away…
  I started my happy homecoming by cleaning the boys cage. It was needed. Old kebab mixed with excrements smells pretty awful.

My travel went pretty well, and I got home one houre earlier then expected. Here comes the sucky parts:
The middle age men behind me on the bus to the airport, who were loudly talking about what kind of roofing that was best on different types of houses. The whole trip.
The guys behinde me in the check in line, who somehow refused to understand that you are not allowed to bring more then 100ml of liquid through the safety controll.
The strike on Skavsta airport that delayed my luggage with 30 minutes (we landed 25min early, so it really wasn’t to bad time plan wise. But sitting in a crowded, hot and badly ventilated room for an extra 30 minutes sucked).

The Deine Lakaien concert friday was really really good. No more comments on that.
  But I’m still stunned by the excessive amount of bad taste gathered in that one concert hall! I mean, crushed velvet cloaks? Fake corsets in cheap PVC? Fat women in TIGHT lace shirts? Good lord… And the man in front of me 
wore a tartan trucker hat.
  After the concert Juliane and me went tango dancing. Fionna and her friend went home. I had such a great time! I LOVE to dance, and I can watch people dance for houres.

Saturday was Fionnas birthday party. It was fun, and I really like one of their friends who’s called Heike.

Now I’m gonna make some tea.

I will start with the sad thing.
Hickory died today. She passed away silently after her surgery this afternoon. I was sad when Snork passed on, but I will honestly miss this darling more. After Madam she was my favourite of all of Linas rats. Tears are rolling down my cheeks as I write this. Good bye Hickis. You were a great rat. I hope to see you when I get to the other side, and that you won’t have forgotten me by then.

 
Otherwise I’m fine. We had a great day in Hamburg yesterday. I’ve seen so many beautiful houses and wiews, visited so many shops and once again my feet hurt when I got home.
At about seven we had dinner at a great pizza place, and then we went to Reeperbahn. It was quite beautiful with all the neon lights. But there were sexshops and tittie bars every where. Really. Every third sign advertised some kind of sex-buissnes.
We went in in one, called Boutique Bizarre. It was really really nice, and the staff was very good. I got some new clothes for Dekadance (so now I can go again), and a dildo. The G2 from Fun factory, in turquoise. It is now named Heinrich. I just have to wait ’till I’m in the mood so I can find out if he is as good as he is claimed to be.
Earlier that day I got some really nice Absinthe too. I’m very much looking forward to tasting it!

Today we just stayed in Bergesdorf. We needed a nice and relaxin day. We took a walk through town. Juliane needed to get a pair of shoes to the shoe maker, and I needed warm stockings for tomorrow. We also went to a store that sells knitting-stuff and I bought some really nice yarn to make a scarf when I get home. The color is fantastic, and it’s amazingly soft! I also bought Cuandole, so now I don’t have to go shopping anymore if I don’t want too before I go home. Just the sausages for Nidde, but that will have to wait ’till last minute.

Tomorrow is the Deine Lakaien concert, and after it we’re going tangoing. I hope I get to dance some, I love to tango!

Today me and Fionna went to Lübeck. Now my feet hurts, but my stomach is filled with lovely marzipan… We looked at four churches, the Holstein gate, many many beautiful houses, an old boat, the marzipan museum (wich wasn’t that very impressive), and tried to find nice postcards wich were harder then we thought. We wrote postcards. We ate marzipan ice cream and bought marzipan. We had a really nice day!

I forgot to write that we practiced with the David Hasselhof choir yesterday. But since we are olny three people, it’s not much of a choir yet. But we will be… Oh, we  will take over the world!

I got up late today and took a nice shower before hitting town. I got a little lost but found my way back easily. I was looking for a special store but I didn’t find it so I went to the grocery store in the mall instead.
Since noone speaks english I successfully did all my grocery shopping in german (thank you Juliane for writing a bi-lingual shopping list). It was a little hard to tell the lady at the meat counter how much I wanted, but I did pretty well for someone who’s never studied german and who’s never been to germany before. When I was going to pay it turned out that the didn’t take visa. The bank in the mall doesn’t either- they only take master card in their ATMs. So I had to run out to another bank, get money and run back again.
Fionna and Juliane really liked the kalops and the rolls! And the book I got Fionna for her birth day!

I called Nidde tonight. We only talked for afew minutes, he was going to bed. He has to be at work at 4am since they are gonna upload something so they have to do it at a time when there’s not much traffic.
But I’m seriously wondering if our relationship will survive the Idiot Customer. I really really hope they’re done with him soon, becaus if Nidde keeps on beeing cranky and angry and not in the mood for cuddeling and caring for our relationship when he gets home from work every day for the next six months I don’t know if I can take it. Especially if he can’t let it go on the weekends.
Maybe I should call that customer and have a serious talk…

I’m worried about Lina and Hickory too. Hickory has a tumour and will get surgery on thursday. Lina is very sad and that’s understandable- I would be too! But since I’m not in Uppsala to check in on them it feels pretty bad for me. I wish there was something I could do except call and text. I’m gonna call her on thursday.

Last night when I was so down I texted August, and he was awake. So I called him and talked for a while. I felt alot better after that. Thank you August!

Now time to sleep! Lübeck tomorrow… 

One shoudn’t watch sad movies and write e-mails that reminds one of sad stuff when one are abroad with noone to hold them.
So now I’m sitting here all emo and alone (Fionna and Juliane are sleeping since they are getting up EARLY to go to work tomorrow) and wanting to go home. And Nidde blew me of on MSN becaus I asked him about how he is. And since he’s really frustrated with work and he told me some of it he had to log of and think of other stuff before breaking another key board. I didn’t have time to tell him about my emo-ness.
Atleast the moon outside my window is very pretty.

After yesterdays adventure we decided to have a slow day at home today. We ended up taking a walk and getting some ice cream since the weather was so wonderful- 25°c and sunshine! We had spinache soup for dinner, and then we wached Lost and delerious.
Bad idea. Very very beautiful movie, but also very very sad. So now I’m sitting here alone with noone to cuddle with, being all emotional. An e-mail I wrote earlier reminded me of some bad stuff from the past, and it’s not really helping either. But I’ll be fine. I’ve managed worse downs before.

Tomorrow is Fionnas birthday, and while she and Juliane are at work I will do some shopping and surprise her with saffron rolls with marzipan filling and kalops. (Kalops being a very swdish casserole with meat, and I have carrots in mine too)

 

Now some useless surfing of the web to cheer me up! 

We started the day slowly with tons and tons (liters and liters?) of tea. Around noon we went out for ice cream. Me and Juliane bought some birthday presents for Fionna since it’s her birthday on monday, and I don’t think she notices. We were very sneaky… (Not as sneaky as Nidde, but he is sneaky de luxe). After gift-shopping we went to the ice cream parlour. The walnut ice cream wasn’t very good, it was too sweet. But the Cherry Mania! OMG! The ice cream was a little tangy, and filled with chocolate covered crisps and sour cherries. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. We followed Juliane home and left the gifts, and then me and Fionna went for a walk in the Bergesdorf forrest. It’s very very beautiful in there. But also very very confusing. Wich ended up in us getting lost. We came out of the forrest in Wentorf, but we didn’t know that. It took us another houre walking and asking for directions ’till we found out where we were. Wich was 25 minutes by bus from where we live. But we found a bus stop and could take the bus back wich was nice since we had been walking for something like three houres if you only count from when we started walking in the forrest and not the shopping/ice cream walk.
We went back to the Oktoberfest-ground so that I could buy a quarkbelchen before going up to Juliane to make dinner.

The evening were spent looking at pictures, talking, drinking more tea and teaching me how to knit. I knew the basics, but I can really use some practice… And learn some more techniques. But now it’s way to late, so I’m gonna go brush my teeth and get in bed with my knitting and a book!

 

Today I’ve been exploring Bergesdorf. It’s very beautiful here! It’s a pretty small town that is now a sort of sub urb to Hamburg and Juliane and Fionna lives here.
I went to se the castle, wich is pretty small and made in brown brick. But the garden is beautiful, and the roses are still in bloom! There was a really nice farmers market too. I bough a mohnschnecke, and I’m in love! They look like flat cinnamon rolls with icing on, but they are made with some kind of poppyseed and marzipan filling.

In the evening we went to Bergesdorf Oktoberfest. Nothing special really, some rides, a couple of beerstands and some foodstands. We bought a kind of pastry called Schmalzkuchen. It’s small deepffied dough pillows with powdered sugar on. It’s similar to a kind of pastry that my mom makes (but she uses regular grainy sugar to cover them in) but I don’t know of anything similar in english. The closest is doughnuts but it’s not quite right…

Tomorrow Juliane and Fionna are coming with me and will show me around some more
 

My first impression of Germany is: brown brick. 95% of all the buildings I’ve seen today has been built with brown brick. Conclusion: german architects likes brown brick.

Otherwise it’s been nice so far. I haven’t seen very much yet. But tomorrow I’ll go explore Bergedorf and get lost some. I’ll start small, in the neighbourhood, and take Hamburg another day. It’s really nice to see Juliane and Fionna again!
And I’ll buy some postcards tomorrow and send people.

Otherwise my day pretty much sucked. It started allright in the morning, but Skavsta is the most boring airport I’ve ever been too. And I’ve seen afew. Also, the walls in the bar was painted PINK. BRIGHT PINK. Awful! Must be to make people drink more. Now- time to get in my pyjamas and drink a last cup of tea before bedtime!