So goes the explanation to my recently increased attention to House M.D.

And man, is it really wrong if I totally understand Cameron’s obsession with House? Because I just… I… you know… I totally understand. So that one scene today when he was standing close behind her and Foreman’s question when he was gone about how her tummy was? It’s good he didn’t ask about my tummy.

Everyone is dressed so oddly I can’t recognize them
I can’t tell the staff from the customers

They Might Be Giants – Man It’s So Loud In Here

Like what I happen to be wearing the day
That someone takes my picture
Is my new statement for all of womankind

Ani Difranco – Little Plastic Castles

Tagged by Caitlin, so here I go…

What I was doing ten years ago

Ten years ago I was 14, the summer of 1995, so as far as I remember I had summer vacation and maybe just spent two weeks in France (on a farm near Quimper, Bretagne I think). Generally, when I was 14 I was teenager, so that should tell you most anything. I was the opposite of cool, I might have worn braces then and had absolutely no self-confidence. Then again, I had friends and most times was happy. I was just considered strange (and I guess for some good reason), that was that.

What I was doing five years ago

Five years ago I was still at the university in Bonn, switching majors as I pleased and therefore already doomed to quit. Back then I think it was musicology, sociology and folklore studies. Some time before I also took American language and literature, which I switched for sociology and about one term later I switched folklore studies to art history. At least you cannot say I wasn’t interested. And though I wasn’t your overly ambitious student I am always amazed when I look back at all the courses I took despite my laziness. Somewhere in between sleeping long and working as a waitress, I must have actually attended some classes. My husband was already my boyfriend and we spent most every day together and I was close to moving into my first own apartment (which I did in September 2000). Most possibly it qualifies as the best time of my life. And yes, sometimes I do miss it.

What I was doing one year ago

Oh, I would say, it’s all in my blog, but it really isn’t. Back in August 2004 I didn’t have one, although it’s close. Okay, so here’s what I remember. I was still at my old company possibly already preparing for my finals and besides that not really working, because we never had to. A lot of parts of the trainee were a joke really, but we could do as we pleased, which was nice until we started to be bored by the internet which is usually a bad sign. I knew Andreas for about two years and we’d become pretty much inseparable at work and at school to the point where people seemed to take as for one person. A very schizophrenic person at times, but still. I had moved in with my husband/back-then-boyfriend a year before and we were happily living back in my hometown and not so very happily trying to find a job for my husband, which proved impossible really, because we live in a sucky country (at least when you need a job). I also think that around that time the first bitch tenant stopped paying the rent. Happy memories all along.

Yesterday

Yesterday was Saturday, one of my favorite days of the week, because I don’t have to work AND the shops are open (again with the sucky country). We borrowed some DVDs from my cousin the night before and watched „Catch Me If You Can“ and „Mystic River“. Also I cooked some oriental dish with meat balls, tomato sauce and about a million different spices. It was a nice slow day and I only was bitchy when my husband emotionally forced me to go into town (my original plan of the day involved the couch and the TV only) and I was in absolutely no mood to buy anything, except that little cookbook for oriental dishes. Yummy.

5 snacks I enjoy

salt and vinegar chips
very sweet chocolate (preferably nougat)
sandwiches (which, the way I make them, do not qualify as a snack)
homemade muffins
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream

5 songs I know all the words to

Gulf of Araby (Katell Keineg)
You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon)
Paper Bag (Fiona Apple)

Oh, come on, guys, that’s a stupid question… I know all the words to so many songs, I can’t decide which I should mention here. Just go with those three, and know that there are many, many more.

5 things I would do with $100 million

Move to another country and buy a nice house. Also I would be very careful that nobody knows how much money I have, because I wouldn’t want everybody coming to me asking me for money and I also wouldn’t want to live under constant security because someone would kidnap my kids and hold them for ransom. That’s not to say that I would not give money to charity, I just would like to choose who to give it to by myself and stay anonymous. Also, I would go back to school.

5 locations I would like to run away to

France
New York City
Stars Hollow (I know it’s not a real town, but I don’t care)
Finnland
South England

5 bad habits I have

procrastinating (we’re talking big style here)
laziness
knowing everything better and/or always wanting to have the last word
carelessly spending money on DVDs, books and music
letting my plants die

5 things I like doing

listening to music
watching TV shows
reading
sleeping
cooking and looking at cookbooks and magazines, contemplating what to cook

5 things I would never wear

I would try most anything, it would depend on the situation and my current fitness.
I usually stay away from:

leather things (I don’t think I have anything made of leather in my wardrobe, if bags don’t count)
mini-skirts (if I was slim and had long legs I would probably wear them, though)
baggy clothes or anything too loose

Okay, I bet there are a lot of strange clothes out there, but these are the only things that come to my mind.

5 TV shows I like

Veronica Mars
Gilmore Girls
Arrested Development
Smallville
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and about 20 more.

5 biggest joys of the moment

Weekend, no work and all play.
Waking up with my husband sleeping beside me.
Even better: waking up on a weekend with my husband sleeping beside me, mistaking it for a workday at first, then realizing it’s the weekend and happily going back to sleep.
Receiving packages with good stuff.
Really good food.

5 favorite toys

my computer
my DVD player
my stuffed rabbit
my husband, because I can push all these fun little buttons
and recently Google Earth

Now I’m tagging
srah, Willful Exposé and Space Suitcase. And everyone who wants to do it, too.

Yes, I’ve finally made it. I voted in about 95% of all this year’s Tubey’s Awards at TWOP. The only categories I left out were those two or three where I had absolutely no clue about. Hell, I even voted for Best Mini-Series or TV-Movie just based on which trailer I liked most. It’s not like I’ve actually seen any of the nominees.

Basically I gave out all the good votes to Veronica Mars and Arrested Development with a few exceptions that went to Joan of Arcadia, Smallville (Best Bad Ass, come on…) and House. Most of the „bad “ votes went to Charmed, which I hated for most of its seventh season, so I seized the chance to put all the anger I have for this show and especially Phoebe out in the open. So, why did I keep on watching this show? I have no friggin‘ idea. And why will I watch the 8th season, even if it means screaming at my TV and/or rolling on the floor in pain because it just physically hurts to watch this show? I don’t have a single clue?

Guess that’s what addicted really means. Part of the attraction surely is that I can’t wait to find out how the hell they will maneuver themselves out of last season’s finale. Another reason might be that there’s always a very slim chance that this week’s episode won’t completely suck and make myself frown at every dialogue. And, of course, I am honestly looking forward on how they will end this show. I bet it will be classy, great and breathtaking. Not.

But there was even a good vote I gave to Charmed, category being Most Redemptive Character in an Otherwise Sucky Show from the 2004-2005 Season . Since Charmed is the only sucky show I watched last season, I had to choose a Charmed character. And since the only ones they would offer me was Phoebe (you gotta be kidding me, guys!), Piper, Leo and Chris (if I didn’t overlook something), I had no choice but to vote for Chris. Sure, he’s like a few months old, but he really was one of the few characters and the only one I could vote for that didn’t piss me off one time or another.

And now that I’ve proved a worthy TV watcher, I’m anxious to see the results starting next week. You can still vote until tomorrow at 11:59 pm ET. But if you’re not registered yet, you might come to late, because from my experience that takes some time at TWOP.

Is it possible to not love They Might Be Giants? I think not.
Thanks to srah’s mix for reminding me of that. There goes „Flood“ right to my iTunes playlist.

Okay, so just so you know that I am still alive and kickin‘, here’s the last five days in a nice easy-to-handle nutshell:

Saturday: Entertained my mother on the flea market, went grocery shopping, went to town and bought a new tablecloth, came home, had dinner at friends‘ place, came home, went to bed tired.

Sunday: Spent all day on the flea market trying to make people give me money for things I don’t want anymore and actually convinced a few. Went to bed tired.

Monday: Work, then some shopping. Bought a new pajama. Very cute. Came home, cleaned, got frustrated, cried a lot, then let myself be consoled by the husband and everything was well. Went to bed tired.

Tuesday: Work, grocery shopping, Italian cooking, watched „Secretary“, went to bed tired.

Wednesday (aka today): Work, grocery shopping, cooked dinner for the two of us and a friend, entertained the friend the whole evening, threw out the friend around midnight, decided to feed the blog, went to bed tired.

See a pattern here?
I will blog more once I find the time, but now is not it. But at least you get a slight idea what my life can be like when I’m not busy watching Gilmore Girls, that is when I actually have one. It’s busy and very stressful. But it can also be nice. Great sometimes. If I could just have some additional six hours each day to fill with all the other stuff I want to do, that would be really cool.

World, what do you think?

Oh, hey, the rain’s falling sideways. Now here’s something you don’t see every day.

I can only hope that my husband is currently NOT on his bike on the way home.

I drove! I drove a real car! Better yet, I drove my parents‘ car which just proves how much my mother trusts me. That may not sound very spectacular to you, but it is when you consider that I haven’t driven a car in about 4 years or more. Even more I think. And with teenagers not able to get their driver’s license until they’re 18, it’s not hard to see that I haven’t had that much of driving experience in my life so far. I never had a car of my own, so I always had to take my parents‘ car when I needed to go somewhere. But, however: I drove. And there were no accidents or casualties of any kind.

I now will see that I get to drive a little more regularly than I did in the last few years. My mother, by the way, agrees, so I guess the next time we’re going somewhere together I might get to drive a little. Yay me.

It also was important that I check if I still remember how to work a car, because we need my parents‘ car next weekend, if only for a very short way and we want to drive around when we are in the US in fall, so by then I need to have some more experience, because although I never missed it a lot, I love to drive. Also, we’re thinking about getting a car somewhen not too soon from now and I don’t exactly intend to wreck that car on my first drive.

So, yay for me again, because I still can drive.

When I read my last post again I noticed a typo and I thought something like: „What’s wrong with you, WordPress? You didn’t see this was a typo and tried to make it better all your own? Now, I have to go through all the procedure and do it myself? Where’s your pride?“

I keep forgetting that computers can’t really think. Stupid me. Maybe I get confused, because from all I know, they can be perfectly stubborn. Just like people.