It’s very exhausting to be constantly nervous. And it doesn’t get better, it really doesn’t. Actually it’s getting worse. But don’t be worried, so far everything is quite okay here. I can only hope it stays that away.

Waiting right now is just driving me crazy. I keep telling myself that it’s totally normal, that everything is and will be okay, that it doesn’t mean anything at all, damn it, and it still is driving me crazy.
It doesn’t help that the husband has a job in Frankfurt from Monday to Thursday for the [...]

You can have an amazingly good time at McDonald’s if you just try hard enough. Or maybe you need a nice enough McDonald’s. Who knows.

Thanks to all of you for your comments on the apartment hunting post. It really was helpful to hear - or rather: read - your thoughts and experiences.
We’ll see what happens now. I’m pretty optimistic, but that’s just my usual self. This is a big step for us and hopefully everything will turn out fine. [...]

Is it possible to find the apartment on the third day of apartment hunting? I mean, we’re not looking for something to rent. We’re looking for a place to buy. Which is a huge decision and I can’t help but thinking that you should spend months looking at places before you find the right thing. [...]

Remember more than three years ago when I actually tried to get a bit of workout by running. You don’t? Well, that’s not your fault, it didn’t actually last long.
But now it started again. Only now I actually have a reason to run. My company’s trying to get us all to sign up for a [...]

Booked a much-too-big-for-the-two-of-us apartment: Check.
Booked the flight: Check.
Bought a traveler’s guide: Check.
Got all giddy about going on vacation to a town where there are still dairy bars, for heaven’s sake: Check.

A friend at work is teaching me how to correctly talk in lol-speak. I think I am a very good student, although using bad grammar and wrong spelling on purpose kind of confuses my mind to the point where I’m not sure what I am actually doing and why, dear god, why?
I think my best [...]

Me: Oh. I think we can’t go on the 21st of the July.
The husband (rather sleepy): … Huh? … Why not?
Me: Because that’s when the new Harry Potter is released.
I mean, seriously. We really can’t go then, right?

Did I say we were planning to fly over to America this year for our vacation? Well, there’s been a change of plan having mostly to do with my new job and me refusing to do anything that involved extensive planning.
So the husband and I started arguing this evening over dinner about where to go. [...]