I have planned this for a long time and now I will start. There’s this whole list of blogs on the left. Yes, these are truly blogs that I visit most each and every day.

But why should you?

Here’s why you should pay a visit to Caitlin of ‚unglaubliche caitlin‘:

I will start with a little bit of history.
I started my blog last October, mostly out of boredom. I’m pleasantly surprised, by the way, at how well it turned out to be. If everything I do out of boredom would turn out to be so good I wouldn’t be bored anymore, but I digress.
I don’t even remember why I chose Blogger. I guess there must have been some blog I surfed on that was also made via Blogger, so I just clicked the link and signed up. I made some entries for my profile, also including my favorite musicians. Katell Keineg always comes up when I’m asked for that. So, on Blogger you can just click on any of the favorites and you get a list of all the bloggers who also included it on their profile.

So I clicked on Katell Keineg. For a reason I still don’t understand, nobody in this whole wide world has heard of her. At least I haven’t met someone before. I have met someone who knew Lori Carson and someone who knew Jane Siberry, but that’s about it.

Caitlin did know her. That was intriguing enough for me to start reading her blog. She hadn’t started blogging but about two months before I did. She was nearly my age. From what I can tell from her blog she was born one week before me.

I was a lurker for some days until she practically urged me to comment on one of her posts and so I did. So, basically that’s when we met.

What can I say about Caitlin? I’d like to make it easy for me and just send you there to see for yourself. But I think I shouldn’t get away that easy.

Caitlin’s blog is one of the most honest blogs I have found so far. As she talks about her struggles, her wants, her fears, her desires and everything I find myself thinking that I may not ever be able to write entries like hers, because I would never be that honest to myself, let alone the rest of the world.
She lets me take part in all those things that happens in her world without compromise. Although it’s a blue world sometimes, it’s mostly a world like – I would say – yours and mine, and then again it’s like nobody else’s but hers.
I’m running out of words here… just go and explore for yourself. It’s definitely worth it.

What? You’re still here? What the fuck are you still doing on my blog?
Go here!

Jeez.

Maybe I’m just really self-centered and extremely keen on getting comments, but whatever. In the end, it’s up to you.

In one of her recent entries Caitlin wrote about how despite reading my blog there are a lot of things she doesn’t know about me.
So, go ahead and ask me! All of you.

I will try to do my best to tell you most everything you would like to know. In the very unlikely worst case I might tell you that I just won’t answer your question, and you can draw your own conclusions from there on.

Apart from that I have plans to write about several things I consider important esperiences in my life. Things that made me who I am or things that I always come back to in my mind.

Yes, my blog is on the list for Round Three of Michele’s Scavenger Hunt. I feel so damn special, I can’t believe it.
I’m also really happy because I figured out my clue immediately. I will give no hints though, so don’t bother to ask or bribe me. It’s too much fun to be spoiled.

So, whoever surfs in on the hunt, take a look around and have fun.

Also, I promise to post a picture somehow connected to one of the clues, once the game is over. I bet you’re all pretty excited to see it.

Somehow I always served as a private video rental for friends and family. I have top choice, offer good costumer service including recommendations and I’m really cheap.

Just a moment ago a friend rented ‚Meet the Parents‘, ‚Sleepy Hollow‘, ‚Cruel Intentions‘ and ‚Sex and the City Season 2‘.

Did he pay? Hell, yes! I call two bottles of my very favorite ice tea my own now. Now we’re back to the olden days where money was not yet invented. What for, anyway? Why should I want funny slips of paper when I can get something to drink!

DVDs, anyone? I also accept Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream (but no Cherry Garcia or Chunkey Monkey) and invitations to sushi. It’s your choice.

When I had my job interview for the traning I just finished I was asked what I would consider my most important successes and my worst defeats.

I told them I honestly couldn’t tell them any defeats. It’s true, in my whole life I never had a defeat that I would label as ‚really bad‘. Sure I didn’t always win, I wasn’t lucky every day, but there wasn’t one point in my life where I wanted something really badly and didn’t get it.

Of course I’m not the world’s most ambitious person, so I never went for goals like ‚Be the best one‘, ‚get a degree faster than anybody before‘ and things like that. There were things I wanted, but didn’t get, but somehow there was always another door open which was pretty much as attractive as the one that just closed.

I mean, look at my life. I live in a beautiful apartment together with the man I love, I just finished my traning, the job prospects aren’t completely bad (yet), I have a great family, I was always able to pursue my interests…

In short, I’m damn lucky.

To maybe be continued…

In fact, he just disappeared for a long time, didn’t age, changed his gender, somehow faked his birth certificate so now it says that he was born in Iceland and changed his name to Emiliana Torrini.

If you don’t believe me, just listen to her music. On that CD, if you please. He made another one before, but used a lot of electronics, so that I wouldn’t blow his disguise too soon. But now he revealed himself. And beautifully so.

Current mood: Confused. For very different, not connected reasons.
Listening to: Snow by Emiliana Torrini (aka The Not-So-Dead Nick Drake)

I’m now officially not a trainee anymore. Today I had my orals and now I’m done. Done. As in… done basically.

I’m really tired and exhausted. For one thing we ran around with two laptops, two folders, one poster-size sheet of paper for Andreas and a beamer and I dragged us all the way to Karstadt to get a frickin‘ brownie just to realize that they don’t sell them there anymore.
Apart from that, it’s getting really cold here. I guess the temperatures I’m moaning about are nothing compared to, say… Chicago, but for us it’s fucking cold. Also, I had to do a presentation, so naturally I was dressed in a skirt with nylons and pumps and that’s not exactly what you want to wear when it’s a few degrees below zero.
Bottom line, I was not exactly the happiest girl on this planet.

Anyway, I’m done. Did I mention that?

As I am tired (which I think I already said as well) I will not go into a lot of details here. I will do that tomorrow or whenever I feel like reliving the memory. Now is not the time.

But I don’t want to keep you waiting for the answer to this morning’s question. The red blouse…
So I started to dress up for the presentation. I wanted to wear my favorite skirt which is black with a border of red and orange flowers at the bottom and just really beautiful. Only problem is, there’s not so much that goes with it. All in all I can wear the red blouse or my black pullover. The latter was on the laundry list and no can do. So I went frantically searching for the red blouse. I looked in every drawer and the wardrobe but it was nowhere to be found.

Then I remembered where I left it. I took it off at my parents house because my mom had bought clothes for me. She got that super nice pullover, which was perfect, especially for cold winter days and I decided to put it on and forgot to take my red blouse back home. So when I knew where my red blouse was I also knew that there was no way I could wear it today. (Did I mention that my parents are in Australia at the moment? So I couldn’t even call them and have them bring it over.)

So, that’s where my red blouse is and that’s why today I wore the dark violet one which is fine, but does not go with my favorite skirt. Bummer.

I still looked pretty good.

Man, where is that red blouse when you really need it?

Stay tuned for the answer.

Did I just write ‚relatively urgent‘ in a text-message to the boyfriend? That’s like that one stylistic device whose name I never remember.

But that’s just me, the uncrowned queen of relativization.

Yes, I want to talk to you. I really want to talk you. I have something important to tell you. Also I have a very important question, that I need an answer to as soon as possible.
But, please, take your time…

According to dvdsoon.com my copy of ‚Garden State‘ has been shipped.
It’s now on its way across the ocean, so I guess I will be able to watch it soon.

And that’s all thanks to you, blog friends, because you all kept talking about how you finally watched ‚Garden State‘ and it was such a great movie until I couldn’t help but had to find out what the hell you were talking about. Then I watched the trailer and then I had to order it.

And again one of my ‚Am I the only one…‘ questions:
Am I the only one or does Natalie Portman remind anybody else of a younger Julia Louis-Dreyfus in that one scene where she tells Zach Braff to do something nobody else has done before?
Maybe the way my mind works is just really strange.