no longer a sushi-virgin

posted on May 15, 2008 – 3:22 pm

last night, my colleague [and awesome private therapist to talk to] J and i went to have sushi after work. it was my first time and i was a tad nervous, but not really. cause i heart fish and seafood. we went to a place just around to corner from work and had the “all you can eat sushi”. we sat at a table with an “assembly line” next to us. the line was covered with plexi-glas and there was a little sliding window for us to open and grab whatever came by and looked good. it’s a really cute place with the “assembly line” kinda worming through the room and tables right and left from it. and in the middle there’s a guy preparing fresh sushi the whole time.

what can i say? i’m hooked, man. i loved it. now, don’t ask me what i had because half the time i really didn’t know but most of it was delish. they had a huge variety of sushi, some deep-fried [not breaded but in kind of a dough] things as well and sides of vegetables. my favorite side-dish was definitely an awesome tasting whole-leaf spinach. it was kinda sweet and tasted like peanuts. yum. all coming by on cute, tiny plates in small enough portions to try almost each and every single one… which we pretty much did. i even had tuna in one of those rolls… oh and when we both thought we couldn’t eat another crump of anything, they magically started desert-time on the “assembly line” with fruit [pineapple, banana…] deep fried in some that dough and vanilla ice-cream. double-yum.

overall not as healthy as expected [thanks to the-very few!-deep-fried goodies we tried] but definitely more than i had expected. also, i can’t believe i waited 31+ years for this… all of it accompanied by great conversation [even though that was frequently interrupted by yells of “oh, what’s that” and glances along the line…] for 20 euros total [including drink and tip] was a great evening. we already talked about going for their all you can eat lunch some time, which is even 5 euros cheaper :)

sun is what makes life worth living ...

posted on May 13, 2008 – 12:46 am

… among other things of course. but the sun - i’m loving it and sucking it in. every. minute. of. it. because really, we’re in bremen, germany = who knows how long this awesomeness that has been the weather lately will last? there’s one downside to the summer being here: i’m still too fat to fit in most of my summer clothes and it’s not as easy to “hide” under clothing as it is in the winter BUT i’m workin’ on changing that, so whatevs…

C and i are enjoying a four-day-weekend again because today [monday] is pfingsten in germany and tomorrow miriam & rob [who are in germany right now] will come to bremen so we took the day off to spend it with them.

on friday we got our new table to complete the “new” kitchen. so we took out the old set, cleaned and set everything up so we got to enjoy our first breakfast at the new table on saturday morning.

first breakfast in our "new" kitchen

then in the afternoon we went to the city to enjoy the weather and do a little shopping…

my hometown

afterwards we bought flowers to finally get the balcony ready for summer, which is what i did sunday morning while C went to check out a swap-meet. it’s nice to have it all done now so we can enjoy the weather on our balcony [or sit there in the middle of the night blawging like i’m doing right now…].

new plants

i met a few of the girls at the river last night for a couple of beers, which was nice and C got to watch baseball in peace without me whining about how boring it is for a change ;) today we cleaned around the house and relaxed. i actually took some of the paint i had left from the frames and colored a shelf in the kitchen, which turned out really nice as well [at least i think so]

another "spice up apartment task"

and then tonight we went out to the city for dinner [i had an amazing lamb-steak. yum!] and walked back home. it’s been such a great long weekend again - mainly because of the weather. it makes such a huge difference so i really hope it’s here to stay! i’m LOVING! it.

SPF \

posted on May 10, 2008 – 2:44 pm

SPF i know it’s saturday already but c’mon, the weather has just been too nice to get online. and better late then never, right?

my music on the go :)

this was my biggest “souvenir” i got on our trip to cali last november. i went with the 4GB ipod nano and even with [almost] all the music on it that i own, and some of C’s, it’s still not full… you can also put videos on it, which is not very useful [because the screen is tiny] but kinda fun. i like my cute little toy :)

sooo, did you play?

a thirty-something year old german, in love with an american. blessed with the best friends one could ask for, a big brother, a little sister and a crazy cat. this is about me trying to put together the pieces to the puzzle of my life between countries, languages and cultures. topped with the craziness that comes with being all "grown up" more »
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