One sheep, two sheep

Just a random pic…

Old habits die hard

Besides working a 40-hour-job and oversleeping like crazy today, I still find it hard to just go to bed on time.

So I guess that means time for a new pic.

Life Signs

I pulled a muscle while wii bowling and nipped my desire to have children in the bud. But I survived Easter, that’s gotta count for something!

All good things come to an end

I got a real job now so my dolce vita is over and there’s one more reason I really should be asleep at this time. Sucks, that my body doesn’t seem to know that yet.

Why am I not asleep today?

The answer is simple: It’s Friday!

So I just went to the most ridiculous korean karaoke bar ever with some colleagues. Instead of the real music videos they just showed some weird asian videoclips behind the text, drinks were absurdly expensive and the atmosphere non existant. After four hours of waiting and listening to weird people mutilating innocent songs, I was about to go home, when finally one of my songs came on. So I stood on stage, already wearing my coat, singing “You’re so vain” by Carly Simon. It was bad.

Something to laugh:

Note: It gets funnier around the fifth time watching.

Who stays up late?

I just read on the internet (and if it’s on the internet, it’s true!) that people with high IQs are more likely to stay up later at night. There – you got your answer.

Very brief Oscar Recap

It’s 6:12 a.m. in Germany. Probably time to sleep. Or get up for normal people.

This year’s Oscars have been given away and there were no great surprises. The Artist was the big winner of the evening with best movie, best actor, achievement in directing, costumes and score. Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer won as expected. Only Meryl winning was a pleasant surprise against all odds. Some unimportant trophies for Hugo, one for Midnight in Paris’ screenplay, one for the screenplay of The Descendants, Rango got best animated movie and A Seperation made best foreign movie.

Some people complained about Billy Crystal, while I had to laugh quite often. At least it was so much better than last year’s James Franco / Anne Hathaway debacle.

Highlights were the performance of Cirque du Soleil (seriously, I only knew the name, I never knew how AWESOME they were) and Zach Galifianakis mispronouncing his name.

My predictions weren’t that bad, not my personal record but still 18 out of 24 which is rather satisfying.

On another note: On my way home from watching the show I realized that there was a 6 story apartment complex where a hole had been for as long as I can remember. So either I didn’t notice a whole construction site building a house next to mine over the past few months or they built it in the 7 hours I was away watching the Oscars. It’s probably the latter.

My late night Oscar predictions

Every year I make Oscar predictions and tonight they are the reason I’m not sleeping. Since they often turn out pretty good, this year I’m sharing.

This is who I think will win, not who I want to. I’d rather have Meryl Streep winning than Viola Davis. And I’m still mad that Michael Fassbender and Leonardo DiCaprio aren’t nominated at all. Also I think while The Artist is a really nice movie, it’s highly overhyped. And there should be a lot more nominations for Drive.

What are your predictions?

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• The Help
• Hugo
• Midnight in Paris
• Moneyball
• The Tree of Life
• War Horse

Not asleep again

It’s 5 a.m. and I’m wide awake. This sucks because I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow (well today) morning for my tonsillitis which decided to not go away. So I’m lying in bed, chatting with my friend in Sydney (yay for friends at the other end of the world who are online when everybody else is asleep), waiting to get tired.

I’m wondering if my doctor’s appointment is going to be as successful as my last one, when my doctor basically asked ME how to treat me. Well, let me just say that I wouldn’t have gone there in the first place, if I knew how to treat myself. I’m a frickin’ graphic designer! I could paint you a nice picture of my purulent tonsils, but I need you to tell me what to do about it. And since my health insurance is really really bad, I pay a lot of money for advice like that. So looking forward to tomorrow. NOT.

How I went for a walk with a car battery

First of all, I have been asleep a lot lately. Credit goes mainly to my tonsillitis, which made me a whiny and above all tired bitch. I’m back on track now, so it was about time to mess up my body again.

Since I’m selling (or better trying to sell) my car, I needed a new battery. So the buyer can like… drive away with it or something. My big task for today was to change it.
I removed the old one alone by myself (which basically makes me a motor mechanic) and then drove to the hardware store to buy a new one. Since – I’m sure you have figured out yourself – my car couldn’t drive, I had to take the subway. And because an old battery doesn’t belong in the normal trash you can just bring it along and give it to the people at the hardware store, which saves you money and trouble. I might just have underestimated the weight of a car battery. Which is exactly one third of my body weight. Try carrying one third of your body weight with a sharp edge in a backpack around Berlin!
When I figured out that this had not been my smartest idea I was already on the subway so returning was out of the question. I then arrived at the store, saw that all their batteries were immensely expensive and that ordering on the internet (witch shipping and everything included) was way cheaper. And since I’m a cheap person, I turned around and drove back home.

And now I’m in pain. My back hurts, my stomach hurts, everything hurts.

So in the last 2 weeks I’ve been blessed with an upset stomach, tonsillitis, self-inflicted (I accidently typed elf-inflicted at first, which would be so much cooler) paraplegia. I’m obviously on a lucky streak…