I think I didn’t sleep at all last night. First of all I had to sleep alone, which I don’t like at all. How do all you single people do that? I remember there were times when I could sleep alone, but somehow I completely forgot what that was like and now I wake up […]

For the next two days I will be alone. My husband leaves tonight for Munich where he holds a two day course in presentation and MS PowerPoint. Apart from the fact, that this is a great opportunity and also means some money we can always need, I don’t like him being away. So, just in […]

I called the registry office in Geldern today and they told me we have to send a short letter demanding a copy of the so-called ‚Familienbuch‘ of the boyfriend’s parents. According to the nice lady we spoke to in Leverkusen that’s all we need. The boyfriend already wrote the letter and we’re going to send […]

We did it! Wediditwediditwedidit! Well, we finally went to the registry office to get all the information we needed, which was close to nothing. Basically we have to get one document for the boyfriend, then show up with our IDs and choose a date. Oh, and don’t forget to bring the money. It’s not for […]

No, there has been no news on the marriage front since the last episode. Still I thought I might give you some more on this particular topic. So I decided to do the following: Ten Reasons Why We Should Get Married Unfortunately I could only come up with three good reasons and one extremely good […]

Today is Thursday. If you don’t know what I’m referring to: See here and here. This time, maybe? They’re closing at 6 p.m. Lazybones. Update: It’s 3:55 and the answer to above’s question is ‚Apparently not.‘ To be continued…

This would better be titled ‚How Not To Get There‘, but I’m too optimistic for something like that. It’s not that bad actually. We just didn’t go to the registry office last Thursday. We didn’t go because the boyfriend wanted to come to Cologne and when we got back it was too late. Like all […]

Yesterday I told Pi that instead of talking about getting married for nearly one year now we can as well go to the registry office and let them tell us what we need to do. I don’t know for sure whether he knew how serious I was about it. This is how serious I am: […]