I have been thinking about moving my blog every now and then during the past few months. The most important reason why I would want to move is that I’d like to work with a system that’s more flexible than blogger. I also would like to be able to include categories for my posts and a few things more I can’t do with blogger.

I now might be close to actually ‚doing‘ it. Since I have to get a little more into designing with CSS for work anyway I thought that it might also be the time to play around with my blog and make it just as fantastic (at least concerning the design) as all the other blogs I see out there.

So, does anyone have any advice for me about where to move (I’m flirting with WordPress right now) and how to do it right? I don’t want to lose any of my posts and I would also hate to lose my comments (I’d rather retype then by hand), yeah, that’s the scary part of moving my blog. Plainly spoken: I’d hate to fuck it up.
Any advice is welcomed here.

Also, I am going to register a new domain for that matter. I haven’t thought about a name yet, so if you have a creative burst and know just the right name for my blog, feel free to tell me.

I’d love to hear your ideas!

Okay, I’m just watching ‚About A Boy‘ and I was thinking…

If I wasn’t married already to a cute German boy I would absolutely go for a British guy. I am thinking Hugh Grant or Robbie Williams or Alan Rickman (okay, Alan might be a little too old, but he could read me the white pages and I’d be in heaven).

See, I am not even that picky.

He comes home and brings you this:

Just because he thinks you need a new one. Which I did, but I thought in terms of soon as in June.

So this one (see exhibit B below) can go away. Forever.

My life is literally brighter now.

So I just discovered this CD-mix swapping thing, because srah takes part and posted her tracklist and just when I decided that I would love to take part I read that for the moment it’s limited to people living in the US or in Canada.

What? I make great mixes! I would love to get some! And are you aware that the postal fees here are much higher for oversea shipping that they are over there.

But still I thought that there might be people reading my blog AND living in the US or Canada AND wanting to take part in such a thing, so I decided that even though this experience is not yet for me, I might at least link to it on my blog. Somehow I think I can at least do that.

Check it out and maybe you think it could be fun, too.

I just realized that I am not a chooser. I don’t like to choose.
I’d rather have someone else do the choosing and then say ’no‘.

Yeah, when I said that I wasn’t complicated? There are always exceptions to the rule.

I really need to have this thing checked out.
I just had a wild coughing fit under the shower and I can still feel it trying to start again and it’s not funny.
I have the doctor’s appointment on June, 2nd and they’re going to ultrasound my thyroid gland. How fantastically weird is that? I believe that after that there’s not much they can check out.
I’ve had my lungs x-rayed and a doctor shove a tube through my nose into my esophagus (try to avoid that if you can, because it’s just as icky as it sounds) and nobody found anything. I’m counting on my thyroid gland now. As strange as it may sound, I just want to know that something is wrong with them, because then I would be able to do something against it. Right now I’m just having coughing fits and I have no clue where they come from. I really need some part of my body to point the finger.

‚So it is you have been bugging me for the last three days, huh? Had your fun for a long time, didn’t you? Well, it’s over now, honey, that much I can tell ya. O-vah. For good.‘

PS: I had to look up all the medical terms. Although I am smart I’m not a genius. Or a doctor. Or both. The German terms are Schilddrüse and Speiseröhre. Cute, huh?

Srah asked:
1. What’s your favorite food to make? To eat?
2. What would be your ideal job, and why?
3. Tell us about your worst travelling experience.
4. What do you like best about yourself? (Feel free to make a long, train of thought list)
5. Tell us about something you bought and later regretted.

1. To make… well, I usually like to try out new things, which is why I subscribed to a cooking magazine and eagerly await it each month. (And once again I’d like to stress that I am not kidding.)
I love to make cakes, because it’s just a whole lot of fun. But I don’t bake a cake too often because I don’t know who would eat it if I did.
I make a mean pasta salad as well. Anyone care for the recipe?
To eat… that really depends. I love sushi, that’s for sure, so that’d maybe be it. I also like fried noodles with vegetables and chicken and the pasta salad I mentioned before. I especially like food that I can play with.

2. If I only knew. At the moment I am content where I am, working as a software engineer with additional foreign languages involved tasks. I sometimes dream of being a teacher, but I’m not exactly sure if that would be the perfect job for me. If money wasn’t the problem I’d just say working as a dolphin trainer. Just because I think that would be really cool. Or with seals.

3. That would most likely be the school trip to Italy. Mostly because I felt out of place most of the time. It wasn’t really bad, but it wasn’t good either and I really can’t remember any really bad trips I made. I am also too influenced by holidays in France to find Italy especially interesting. Go France.

4. I always sound arrogant when I say something like this, but I really like that I am smart. Yeah, I know. But on the other side I think I can say that without feeling too bad.
But I also like that I am not complicated and hardly ever moody. You usually have to fuck up big style to get me annoyed and you on my shit list. (I think it’s fair to mention that there are few totally random little things that will get you on my shit list immediately. And most times I don’t even know what they are until it has already happened.) But in general I am very easy to get along with.
I try to not to make this list too long, but I would also like to add that I like my very good taste in music. I am just really happy to have that.

5. When I was cover-CD-shopping in New York (meaning I bought CDs only because of their cover) I made one bad choice and ended up with a Hard-Rock-Death-Metal-Whatever CD I never listened to. I wonder where it is now. But I think considering the loads of CDs I bought there it could have been worse.
There are also some clothes (most bought on flea markets or at H&M) that I hardly ever wore. But I can also say that now I hardly ever buy something I won’t wear. It seems that I’m still able to learn from my mistakes. I made it a rule not to buy anything at H&M, because this is where most of the never-wore-again clothes came from.

Since this is a meme, you can take part in this wonderful fun, too. If you’re interested in being interviewed by me, here are the rules:

1. Leave me a comment saying „interview me.“
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. They will be different questions than the ones above.
3. You will update YOUR blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

I think I may take courses to learn how to sew.
Then I’ll be able to sew my own clothes or at least repair the torn ones I’ve got and woould like to wear again one day.

And then I will start to learn how to make quilts.

The thing is, I’m really not kidding.

No, seriously, where? Because I don’t remember having one.
I think I must have some spare time because I remember being amazed by the two latest episodes of Veronica Mars and finishing Emma and the third volume of the Dark Tower series, but apart from that… there’s not much.

I also remember going to see my aunt with my parents and my husband and I do remember spending the whole Sunday afternoon outside and enjoying the first of May being a perfect summer day, but I also think that’s where I left my weekend.

I also remember ideas for writing for the blog, but as it is they all went with my week. Or they’re just spending some time outside because the weather outside? Is amazing.

That much said… what the hell am I doing inside? Because as some of you might remember, we do indeed have a balcony. One that’s filling up with herbs for that matter and will be very soon filling up with colorful flowers.

Yes, that’s my reason for again not saying anything amazingly interesting. The weather here has turned from constant raining to no-jacket-required and bright sun shining.

And we do have a balcony.
Facing south.

I have trouble organizing my life right now, so please excuse the short ransom posts and be prepared for a lot more of that sort to come. I just can’t sit down a write a real long blog entry right now.

But let me tell you this… I think it was yesterday on my way home that I suddenly had these thoughts (again) about how happy and how incredibly lucky I am. I wrote about that before (but am too lazy too find and link the entry), about realizing that my life has been always going right.

Lately I was thinking about it again. I guess it’s a little bit because of the wedding. Another big thing in my life that just went smoothly and made me all happy. And here I am, married to a wonderful sweet man at 24, living in our lovely apartment and having a job I actually really like. I wonder what will come next. Because I know that somehow I had a thing to say with all the good things that happened to me it also feels like it all was just handed to me to enjoy and I wonder if it comes so easy for everybody.
I guess not.

And then I remember these lyrics…

Some folks‘ lives roll easy as a breeze
Drifting through a summer night
Heading for a sunny day