[ Miss Lily pouts. I wonder if her facial expression is genetical or if she just copied "the look" from me.
My Papili told me I am the pouting master of the family since I was her age. *g*
Must be the French part of our heritage. But since I have a master degree in pouting I can cope with this cute face. Bad mommy was not softened by this look. I put paid to her little explorer drive. The fish filleting knife was not handed down to Lily. Well, okay... I must admit I gave her my favorite necklace to play with instead. And my watch. Oooops.  ]

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21-365: Pouting Princess
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[ My fit of cleaning continues. I guess I should see a doctor soon. *g*
Today on my list inter alia: washing and brushing Jersey's dog bed.
Her pillow got the same treatment as well as the lady herself: showered and brushed.
While she loves getting brushed semi-daily with the rubber grooming glove and the daily treatment using a bristle brush is okay in her book, she simply hates the slicker brush.
However, our diva calls in spring and gets rid of her winter coat, so the hated brush had to come to operation, right after bathing time - two haters in one day.
I guess now I am officially on the lady's shitlist. ]

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20-365: Now smells like apricot
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[ Now it's official: Today I was bored to death. A clean house is not necessarily a sign of a broken computer - the mac-family is alright *knock on wood*.
An instable internet connection can also kind of force you to do housework.
I climbed mount laundry, I ironed (!!!), I evicted all dust bunnies.
Every room looks so... tidy... shiny... neat.
Besides that, I feel like I earned a medal or batch or piece of flair (hey there, facebookies! *g*) for
7-days-of-crockpot-cooking-in-a-row.
No, wait. It's 8 days to be exact. Dinner will be ready in a few minutes. Today serving:
Ham hock and cabbage à la Ian T. Healy.
Great. I'm starving.]

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19-365: Bon Appetit
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[ A long while has passed since I last dumped the contents of my bag. This is the crap I carried with me in my black Friis & Company leather bag today. Beware. It's a huge bag. Lots of crap inside, including:

1.) Moleskin. I love to draw while waiting somewhere for something.
2.) My wallet. Not much inside. It's new. Got it from a clearance sale. YAY!
3.) Hugo Boss "Deep Red" - One of my fave scents for the last decade or so.
4.) Dior foundation stick. Covers everything. Busy stick this week. Crap in a hat...
5.) SanDisk 4 GB memory card
6.) Labello - one of my essentials. Need a new one week by week.
7.) Huge bottle of Fiji water. Can't exist without.
8.) Energy drink. The lame non-bubbly type. Better than nothing. Had a rough night.
9.) Canon Digital IXUS 75. My good old back-up friend.
10.) New glasses. Looks like someone took seat on my Armani's. Well, ƒ*çk.
11.) Huge earrings.
12.) Business card case.
13.) ESPRIT pen.
14.) Pylones pen - adore their colorful stuff.
15.) JIL SANDER Pure Length mascara, colored black.
16.) My meds. Should take one now.
17.) Battery for said Canon.
18.) ESPRIT style mints.
19.) Keys for house/mail/car/gym on a keyring.
20.) 2GB memory stick.
21.) A dice. I bet 20 bucks Luis threw the dice into my bag...
22.) L'Occitane face lotion. Rarely leave house w/o.
24.) My iphone. Newest app: Avatar. Who guessed it? *g*
25.) The ipod remote. Should be in my car right now.
26.) Icebreakers - not a huge gum person, but I love these.
27.) Dior Addict High Shine lipstick, colored mauve 382.
28.) Little blue pouch - inside: 5 medium sized secrets. I do not enjoy being a girl. Not this week.
29.) L'Occitane shea butter.

Things you can't see because they simply didn't fall out when I dumped my bag: Hair clippy, ESPRIT passion style plasters with sparkeling Svarowski rhinestones, a mars bar, head set for my mobile, my cell phone itself... no, wait a bleeding minute (what a terrible moment for this adjective) - where the heck is my cell phone??? I guess I left it at Jens' place. Now that's annoying-as-ƒ*çk. ]

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18-365: WIMP
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[ Sunday = "Girls Night Out" with my boys. *g*
The super cute AIDS-Federation Teddy 2009 "Freddy The Teddy"
is a gift given to my by my dear friend D.
Freddy's bros are waiting for you at D.'s bar. All you have to do to give one of them a new home is donate to the AIDS foundation while your there.
I know, I know... Chances to get there are little for most of my visitors...
So, if you're interested in a teddy - just mail. ]

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17-365: Freddy The Teddy
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[ Do yourself a favor and watch this spectacular beyond words film in 3D.
Still kind of speechless. Now please excuse me while I pack our bags and move to Pandora.]

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16-365: Avatar 3 D
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[ Been to another mall today. It's a fairly new mall opened by the end of last year. One of Luis' kindergarten teachers told me she loves shopping there. I guess the main reason for my experience is the day has already been pretty crappy before I decided to give it a try: It seems this mall is just not made for me. I wanted to get a little extra for my MILs (Hey there, Uschi!) upcoming birthday, visited every shop inside, got hungry, searched for food, longed for Asian cuisine, finally found a Thai Street Kitchen, was shocked by the prizes ( EUR 16,50 for eggrolls - go figure), ended up at the Golden M restaurant, had a disgusting "Big Rösti" Burger, found myself buying a new dress for me (comfort shopping), declared the suite next to the beautiful fountain in the pic to be the only place worth a short stay and went back home.

Lessons learned:
Never go shopping...
... on  a crappy day
... being hungry
... and frustated
... when you're feeling you need to end a friendship!!!

Have you ended a longterm friendship lately? If so, are you willing to give advice? See, I'm still unsure if this is the right thing to do, or if I'm just overreacting. If you're willing to help, please mail and I'll narrate. Thanks in advance.]

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15-365: Shopping Failure
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[ Back in 1998, while my parents, the ex and I were on a vacation in the Dominican Republic, we also made a trip over the border to Haiti. It's been the first and only time we've been to "the other side" of Hispanola. We were taken with the beauty of Haiti on the one side, but also couldn't get over the poverty of the country and people - and their hospitality granted. Besides many unforgettable memories I brought this little blue painting home with me. The artist, a young Haitian, painted it especially for us. Whenever I passed the painting it made me smile and I crossed my fingers for the boy to able to implement the dreams he was talking about on the beach...

While preparing dinner yesterday evening, the news reported about the earthquake coming over Haiti with a catastrophic magnitude of 7.0 M, centred about 25 km (ca 16 miles) from Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. According to the International Red Cross as many as 3 million people have been affected by the earthquake, with as many as 500.000 deaths likely. The series of aftershocks, mostly come with magnitudes 5,0 and 5,9. In addition to major landmarks, the hospitals were significantly damaged or destroyed. The streets are full of hurt, bloody and homeless people,
without food and water, desperately searching for their family and friends in the chunks of concrete that buried the city.
Port au Prince looks like a theatre of war...

We can't imagine what these people are going through. We have a roof over our heads, there's plenty of food and fresh water - and, most important - we have us. Our "problems", be it finacial worries or relationship problems - you name it, now seem to be so insignificant and small.
I feel ashamed to even have complained about them.

Our hearts go out to the poor people. They are in our thoughts and prayers. We also donated to the International Red Cross. But still... it feels like not enough by half. ]

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14-365: Prayers for Haiti
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and filed under world affairs.

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[ We are pretty sure our Jersey will agree to being the dog in this household is not the worst position... ]

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13-365: The Jamon Serrano Incident
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[ Inspired by FB status updates by my dear friends Anndi and Mo, I felt I couldn't live a day longer without a crock pot. Sometimes a girl has to do what a girl has to do - my very first crock pot was ordered the day before yesterday.
After the order was placed I kept on waiting not too patiently, hoping to survive another day or four or so without said pot... erm... I mean crock pot.
Chances were little the pot would arrive until Saturday.
See, the streets around here still make me feel like living in the middle of winter wonderland instead of a surburb of a huge city (no one with brains will name this metropolis, honestly... although it is huge enough to be one).
I bet you can imagine my huge surprise when the ubersexy UPS man delivered my crock pot today.
I could have kissed him. I would have kissed him if I hadn't been too curious to try out my new slow cooker. Instead of kissing, I rushed inside, opened the fridge and grabbed some food greeting me from inside. Original plans involved cooking Anndis world-famous Guiness Beef Stew, but since I didn't do the necessary grocery shopping I went for sauerkraut, apple sauce, lightly smoked pork loin, bacon and Mettwurst.
After all ingredients were tossed inside and a few spices were added, my new best friend (the crock pot, not the UPS guy) did the rest. When I came back home from the kindergarten, the whole home just smelled delish. Meat and veggies have never been tastier!
I see a lot of crock pot cooking coming to this household...

Special thanks go out to Anndi, Mo, Desert Songbird, Tisha and Ian for all the yummy recipes and tips they sent my way. I will try and enjoy every single recipe.

Speaking of Ian... Happy Birthday, babe! Have a great day!!! ]

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12-365: Crock Pot Cooking #1
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[ A few days back I posted a pic of my little snowman. Both him and I agreed "Size Doesn't Matter".
We were wrong. Sometimes in life size does surely matter... especially when it comes to a weather front like "Daisy", coming along with loads of snow.
I was also informed there are other times in life where size also does matter.
*insert innocent facial expression HERE *
However, LilSnowman is happy to be tall enough to still being able to watch me blog from the patio. ]

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11-365: LilSnowman - The Disclaimer Version
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After we got round about 15cm (ca. 6 inches) of fresh snow yesterday, Captain Luis was finally able to ride on his sleigh this evening. It was fun seeing my kids having fun in the snow, all three of them *g*Yes, this is my humble try paraphrasing Frank acted like a 5 yo - and I loved it.
Boys and their toys…
Speaking of toys… the sled in the pic belonged to me when I was a little one. MaPa handed it down to Luis and Lily last week. I couldn’t resist to ride it - and it felt as if the sleigh recognized it’s former owner’s behind immediately… although said behind somehow seems to have exponentially biggified over the years.

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10-365: Schlittenfahrt
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