Made It

As of this morning Germany made it to the next round. I followed yesterday’s game closely and almost lost it at the end. Once I got home I just had to watch the second half and it was exciting. I love soccer and I love the World Cup.

VA Problems

Lately the VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) has been in the news because of the stolen laptop containing data of veterans. Since the hubby just recently retired from the Navy it was of some concern to us, which is understandable. But overall we were OK. Since he also filed a claim with the VA there has been some paperwork coming from them over the last months. The other day we get two letter stating pretty much the same thing a previous letter already stated, which I thought was odd, but then considering it’s a government institution the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. And who would have though that they attached somebody else’s claim information to his letter. With Social Security Number and all. Nice, huh? So does somebody have my husband’s now? I hope it’s not the guy whose info we have because we know why he was discharged…

One Week To Go

Next Friday is the start of the World Cup!!!
The US boys are already in Hamburg, one of my hometowns!!!
I am not going to get any work done for a whole month…

Gone

Off to sunny Florida!!!

Ouch

found via The Drudge Report

Movie Night

Tonight is the night. The Da Vinci code comes out. Of course, I already know when and where I will be watching it tonight. I have been waiting for this ever since I heard about the movie being planned. I love the book as well as all the other books by Dan Brown.

And man, are some people upset about this. Did anybody every explain to them that it’s a movie? You know with actors and all? This concept is really great. It’s called fiction. Oh well. I guess there will always be people who feel the need to decide what I should be watching since I am too stupid to make my own decisions.

Carnival of the Recipes

Go over to PractiGal’s for some crockpot recipes tomorrow. I didn’t contribute but then again I don’t even have a crockpot. It’s on my list though.

Still Alive

I know I’m lazy ass but I can’t help it. Actually I’m a real busy ass lately but that’s another story.
I did order my new car…and then we cancelled the order…I guess they weren’t really concerned with a sale more or less.
But that’s OK because we bought a much better car. See, we thought it would be a lot smarter to have a fun car. We have a big family car that can haul things and stuff. Since I wanted a small car anyways it made sense to go with a two-seater. I love it. Now wait until I get a speeding ticket.

Send A Brick

Just came across this site and just had to post it here.
Go ahead and send a brick!

New Ride

So I am trying to buy a new car and in order to avoid any headaches I am doing everything online via e-mail. I thought it would be easy to just e-mail the dealership and say this is the car I want and nothing else. I made it clear that I only want this model with those colors and those options. I don’t care if I have to wait weeks for my car because I want it MY WAY and they have to order it. Well, think again. It has been over a week since I started this and just now I am staring to get good quotes. I am in contact with four dealerships since I want the best deal. I refuse to call Don or Tony or David or whatever their names are because I hate talking to car sales people. They’re evil.
Hah, speaking of the devil. One of them just outbid the others…..

Update: I guess we got it! We’ll go tomorrow and if everything goes well I’ll order my new car!!

Missed it

I missed my Blogiversary. It was March 28th. 3 Years! That’s a long time.
So, there you go.

Ouch

Guard Rail Impales Truck Driver

- via NBC 4

I did it

I finally booked tickets to go to Germany late this summer AFTER the World Cup. I had no other choice since my brother refused to change his wedding date. I’ll be there for 2 weeks. The tickets are so damn expensive that I have to fly out on a Monday (and miss the whole weekend) and come back on a Monday. Oh well. This will be the first time I am flying Continental. We’ll see how that goes. They are the only airline that has a direct flight to Hamburg from Newark, which means I get to fly out of Reagan National, which is great.

Other than that life is good and busy.

As a George Mason University graduate I would have loved to see them beat the gators and UCLA of course, but it shouldn’t. They did great. It was funny at our house since we usually are huge Gator fans, but mostly concerning football. Obviously GMU was my favorite but I was happy that the Gators got the championship.

Anyways, I hope I’ll be able to post more soon. I hate not being able to vent, especially now that it’s getting warm out side and all the tourists are returning to the metro….

Later.

Sweet…16

Go Patriots!
I am not into Basketball at all and never watched it, until now that is of course. Being a George Mason University Alumni makes me proud these days and I hope the Patriots go all the way!
And, I have found that watching Basketball is not that bad. They have enough breaks in there to where you don’t have to be glued to the TV non-stop.

In other news, I am off this week! To celebrate this event I continue to get up early and will move some furniture around today…wait, no that guys will do that. I think just me and the hubby can make s quick stop at a furniture store and walk out with a couch. It looks good though.

Finally

I finally got the OK to book my flight to Germany this summer for my brother’s wedding!!!! It’s about damn time.
They had to make sure that they were able to book everything and last night he let me know that it’s all set.
I am waiting for now though, to book anything because the tickets I find are over $ 1,000 and for some reason that kind of money is not what I anticipated to spend right now. Bummer.
But I am so excited. I get to see everybody again. I most likely will make a trip out to my grandmother’s. She’s at an assisted living facility now. She’s not walking but she talks every once in a while.
The wedding itself will be a two-day deal since they want to get married in a church too. See, in Germany getting married in a church alone is not official. You have to go to court too, so that’s what they’ll do on the Friday and on Saturday is the church wedding and the reception. Fun!!!

(Almost) one week

I feel horrible. Not always, but right now, especially.
It has been almost a week since I smoked a cigarette and while I feel mostly OK, this time of the day is the worst. I usually hang out with friends or at home at this hour and now I still do that but I can’t go outside and just smoke a cigarette.
It’s hard at other times to me too. I am a bitch in the morning because I can’t have a cigarette with my coffee. I use the lozenges so I can’t eat or drink while I am chewing or whatever you’re supposed to do with them, so I have to wait until I am done drinking my coffee and brushing my teeth.

But I am getting there and now I am at the point where I really want to smoke but I don’t want to fail. I hate losing. I already told some people that I am trying to quit and I can’t stand in front of them and admit that I failed so I am sticking it out.

It’s OK and it’s only going to get better. And to where nobody feels left out, the hubby is close to three weeks without smoking… I love you!!!

Done!!

Just got done with all the income taxes (state and federal). FINALLY. And I am pretty happy. Maybe that new car will be here sooner than thought. I just have to make a choice on what I want….
What a great week. Really. The hubby gets a job, and one that pays more than we needed. I get a pay raise (more than they Feds paid this year!!) AND a very unexpected bonus. And now come the taxes and I almost feel like I don’t need those $365 Million at all. But I did buy my lottery ticket anyway. (I just can’t get enough)

Cha-Cha-Change

And changes they are…
First of all, the hubby hasn’t been smoking for about two weeks now and I have completed almost the first 24 hours, but that’s not all.
We are finally a two-income family again. On Friday we got the good news that the hubby got a JOB!!!! We think he’ll start probably on March 1st.
The waiting is over and we get to stay right where we’re at. No moving to Floriduh or, as the last idea was, selling the house and buying an RV to travel the US for a year, which does sound nice, but having jobs and a house sounds nice…at least more secure.

Oh, and I got my passport on Friday as well!!!!

***WARNING***

It’s gonna snow!!!!

What’s the problem?

Actually there is none, besides the fact that I have absolutely no idea what to write, rant or link about.
Life as an American is really boring, so far anyways….
Oh well, it can get only better from here.
It’s finally February people, which means next month is spring!! I am trying to get spring to come sooner by doing my spring-cleaning early, but so far it hasn’t helped much. I’ll keep you updated on that.

Well, wasn’t that a worthy post?

Thank You!

I know I am late as hell, however I was busy trying to figure out how to be an American…well, not really.
So, first of all, thank you to everybody that left comments and congratulated me. That made me feel really special and now I’m acting like a stuck-up bitch all the time. So, thanks a lot!

Anyways, life is good. I applied for my passport last week and am waiting very patiently to get it ASAP. Other than that, life has not changed much…YET. Other than constantly reminding people that I am now an American I still feel the same…kind of.

What a day

Ok, I finally have some time to write a little more about yesterday.
I had the appointment for the interview at 8:20 AM. We got there at about 7:50 and by 8:30 I was called up. I guess the USCIS officer understood that my English is pretty good so I didn’t take any kind of English test. She asked me a couple of questions and gave me a sheet of paper with ten questions on it. I wrote down my answers and she checked them and said I passed. That was it. She handed me another piece of paper stating that at 3:30 PM the oath ceremony would be held and we left.
That gave us time to go eat a little something and get my step daughter’s birthday cake since she turned 18 yesterday. We went home waited for her to come home from school and went back to USCIS. I was already seated with the 58 other people who were going to become a citizen that day when a friend of ours showed up. He was trying to make it but we thought he wasn’t going to get in anymore.

Once everybody was there and all last formalities were cleared up the ceremony started.
They played the Star Spangled Banner and we all sang. Then, we all took the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance and then we said the pledge of Allegiance. I thought it was the coolest thing. Then it got “better”. They showed a video with President Bush telling us how much he welcomed us etc. And then came a sort of collage of pictures, but playing in the background was “God bless the USA”. Now I love this song and always have. I lost it and started crying. Great, huh? Just now I went to Google it and I found wav. file and started crying again.
After that each person was called to the front and we received our Certificates of Naturalization. We took pictures and hugged.
They had some people there who let us fill out forms to get registered to vote. I thought that was really neat since me and my step daughter did it together.

Then, to celebrate this special day for all of us we went out to dinner. We decided on traditional American cuisine and went to Don Pablo’s. Well, my step daughter picked it and I had steak so we were all happy!

Tomorrow we have a little party with some friends. Since it’s a big football day we kind of combined the two and the party starts at 4:30. But that’s very American.

All right, I better go check on the cup cakes I just made. The have stars and stripes sprinkles!!!

Almost Done

OK, I passed the test!!! It went really fast and I was out of there before nine. At 3:30 PM I have to be back to take the oath and that should be it.

Nervous as Shit

No, really. I am nervous. Can’t eat anything but at least I can still drink. Oh well, I’ll make. I always get like that. And I know that out of the ten questions I get to have three wrong. That’s do-able. So, now I really do have to go through all of my documents and find the ones I need for tomorrow. I hope it doesn’t take that long.

Comments

Ted mentioned yesterday that my comments didn’t work.
I did activate word verification and also the moderation feature a while back and I think that might have been too much. So, I just turned the moderation feature off but the word verification is still on. Let me know if there are any problems.

Joschka Goes Yankee?

I was surprised at first, but then again…I am not.

- via DW-World.de

UPDATE: Of course, David and Ray are right on it too. I am sure there will be more of a discussion there.

Crunch Time

Just two more days and I have my INS or USCIS appointment.
I am done with studying. Well, I am still looking everything over but that’s it. Tonight I’ll get all the “supporting documentation” out in case they need to see it again. I hope I find everything. If I need copies I can do that tomorrow at work and then on Thursday is the BIG DAY.
The only thing I am not looking forward to is waiting…and waiting…and waiting.

Clarification needed

OK, this is for people in Virginia and Fairfax County.
One question on the U.S. citizenship test is, “Who is the head of your local government?” Since previously it asks for the names of the Governor and the two Senators, I assume it must be the Chairman of the Board of Fairfax County. Or could it also be my District Supervisor? I guess, since the test is not multiple choice but oral, I can just name both, but I thought, a little input from others wouldn’t hurt.
Thanks.

Ask Me

I am studying for my Citizenship test next week, so if any of you have any quick questions about American history, I might be able to help.

Stuffy

Feeling just a little stuffy today.
Must be some bug going around because I hear a lot of people complaining about being sick. They better be staying away from me.

Not Fair

Well, I guess maybe a little bit, but I feel like I am the only person in this country working today. At least I was off all last week, but it feels strange to drive to the metro station and hardly any cars are on the streets. The metro was empty and is on a weekend schedule, of course. Once I was in DC I thought it was the middle of the night. The streets are strangely empty and once I got to my building it was locked.
Now I have an entry card but do you think I could find the swipy-thingie on the outside of the building? No sir! So I walked around since we have a door out back and I know how to get in there since that is the smoking area. I am tempted though to get back outside and try to find the swipy-thingie at the front door. I know I used it before. Stupid, I tell ya.

Oh, I almost forgot.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Back

We’ve been back home since Wednesday but I’ve been busy doing laundry, sleeping and going to get the second part of my root canal done!!!
Florida was great. Nice weather, nicer family and a wonderful Christmas.

I took some cool pictures out of the car. I like to call it Car Art.

The first one is of a Diner, called Angel's, we went to in April with my parents. It is really good.


Then there is a nice one of one of the many road signs. I believe that was when we were close to Palatka, FL.


And the last “good” picture is from our trip out towards Daytona. My mother-in-law is in front of us and she led through some kind of short cut.

Merry Christmas

OK. I’m all done and out of here!

Have a Merry Christmas and if I’m not able to post next week Happy New Year!!

Ready

We’re all packed and ready to go.
I just have to finish up here at work and soon I’ll be on my way to sunny Florida!
I can’t wait. I am so glad I got everything done I wanted to yesterday. And to top it all off we had a nice relaxing evening in front of the fireplace with some Christmas Music playing in the background. Just perfect.

Almost there

Just a couple more days and then I'm a whole week off!!!
It’ll be a little stressy tonight. I have to do some laundry tonight and pack too. The just a half day of work tomorrow and off we go!!!!
I hope that traffic will be OK and we can make it halfway down to Florida in about 6 hours and stop somewhere in South Carolina for the night.
I can’t forget the camera either. So many things to remember and so little time….

Tired

It seems the closer we get to “The Holidays” the more tired I get. My body is just craving the time off and refuses to recharge.
I so can’t wait to have some time off and spend some time with my family. In-laws, that is but it’s family just the same.

So, my parents were going to send us a package. This is one of the highlights every year. It’s not only the presents, but also the homemade cookies and all the other yummy stuff from Germany. So, one little stupid present they ordered didn’t arrive yet. So I told them to just go ahead and send the package since the little stupid present will in an envelope and then they can just send that later. Yesterday they informed me that they wanted to wait, which means I won’t get the cookies until next year. How stupid. So I was mad and grumpy and this morning my dad e-mailed me and asked if I was OK yesterday because they thought I acted weird and my mom was worried. She gets very emotional and all, especially around this time of the year. I told them I was fine and just distracted. I’m such an asshole sometimes.

Early Christmas Present

Went out this weekend and got a new digital camera. My husband and I are not getting each other anything. At least that’s we said. So we got something together.
We got the Sony Cybershot DSC-H1.
I love it.

Sellout

That’s what the WaPo calls former chancellor Schröder.
Go over to David’s Medienkritik to read more about it.

Done

All the present are bought and wrapped, except for one but that’s OK. Packages are sent and on their way to wherever they need to go and the Christmas cards are written and sent off as well.
It’s December 13th and I think that’s pretty good. Just one thing I HAVE to do is to find a hotel along I-95 so we can stay somewhere on our fun trip to Florida, but that shouldn’t be a problem. Hopefully.

OH, I should mention that my husband was the one visiting three post offices yesterday and not me. I guess a lot of people had the same idea.

I know

I have to post something. But I have absolutely no energy to come up with something witty and then there is that stupid time factor.
It’s a little hectic here lately but it’ll get better. Especially when I’m off for a week over Christmas. But then I won’t post anything either, because I will be in sunny and warm Florida while all you people up here in the North (or wherever you are) will freeze their “you-know-whats” off. I can’t wait.

Still Alive

Just incredibly busy with absolutely nothing. Does that make sense?
Anyway, life is good and there may be some Big changes in the future, so we’ll see.

Weekend

And finally we have Friday. I know I have been busy doping everything else but posting I thought, I at least have to give you some kind of nonsense blurb before I enjoy my weekend.
\So, here it is!

Nothing much going on here. Christmas Party tonight and Navy beating up Army tomorrow!!!

Over already?

This weekend started out so nice and it ended kind of nice too. It just went way too fast. Just as those things always go.
I think I’m still a little too doped up to fully function, but at least I’m awake.
A couple more days and I’m done with the meds and hopefully back to normal. By then it is fortunately the weekend again.
This weekend’s plan?
Christmas party in DC on Friday (we booked a hotel room!!!).
Army-Navy game on Saturday!!!! We’re still trying to see where we’re actually going to watch it. Preferably with a couple more navy people around.
Go Navy!

The Day after

I thought it would be way too boring spending my Black Friday getting stomped on and pepper-sprayed. So, I thought, how about some more excitement? And boy, did I have that.
Now I can truly say, I’d rather have a root canal than go shopping.
Funny thing though, my tooth has been hurting on and off for a while but I’m too cheap to spend money on that. So I let it go. Then, Thanksgiving night, I couldn’t go to sleep at all until I took a couple of Advils and so I went to get the root canal done. Thank God, somebody was working yesterday. But after all was done and I get all my prescriptions (antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and some nice pain killers), my tooth did not hurt anymore. Not all day yesterday and not today. I would have thought a root canal would ruin my whole weekend but I’m fine.
So, all you people out there that are too scared of a root canal. Don’t worry.

Home Sweet Home

Nothing like coming home and having friends over that are already enjoying a nice cold beer.
I love Thanksgiving!
Done with the wings and on to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Later

Must be a good day

So at first I thought nothing of the fact that so far the day seemed good. Surely something would come up that would ruin it and at least give me something to really rant about. But then I get the news that we all get to leave early and I’m starting to doubt my initial thoughts.
Maybe the good guy up there just wants to make sure I have something to be thankful for tomorrow. Not that I don’t have enough already.

Holiday Rant

Ok, I figured I go out with a big boom. Not really out, since I’ll be back, but who knows if I’ll be able to post something over the extended weekend.
So, to generate a little traffic, my husband suggested to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving (which I did below) and mention things like “penis enlargement” or “porn” or ”huge boobs” as often as I can, but I didn’t like the idea.

So, I thought a rant would be good. You know, just to pass the time and all. But then I didn’t know what to rant about. Today everybody seemed to be aware of me and the metro ride was OK.
Actually, so far, this day has been pretty good.

I finished reading "My War: Killing Time in Iraq" by Colby Buzzell. I really liked it.
You know, I was thinking, with all the books I read, I should write what I think about books and maybe give a little summary, but when I finish a book I feel like I don’t really have anything to say about it.
So, I’ll just go on to the next book, which will be “Do As I Say (Not As I Do)” by Peter Schweizer. I read good reviews and so I’m looking forward to reading it. Also, even though it is a hardcover, it still fits in my purse, which is a huge plus for me.

So, unless something happens, which will cause me to rant a little more, I think that’s it. At least for now.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Especially to all you travelers going through Washington, DC on I-95 this morning.
As always, I am glad I don’t drive on 95 and very glad I don’t live in Maryland today.

- via NBC4

Anybody Home?

You know how those little thingies (*) are next to some links on the blogroll indicating that they just posted recently? Well, for the last couple of days there have hardly been anything going on. I think it works because some still update but most don’t. IS everybody taking the whole week off?

Poor me, I still have to work.

I’m invisible

I’m invisible

At least I think so. This morning I was walking to the elevator in my office building and it opened and this one cleaning lady came out with her big cart. Well that dumb bitch didn’t think it was necessary to move at all once out of the elevator so I couldn’t get in and the elevator took off. What a dumb bitch! (I know I said that already)
So, then, once I get settled in the office get ready to go to kitchen and get some coffee. I walk past the conference room and there is something going on and I’m at the kitchen door and this lady, that I don’t know and have never seen, stands right in front of the kitchen door and doesn’t move! I’m like WTF, bitch? (Not really, but at this point I was kind of upset. Also, I hadn’t had my coffee yet.)
And just now, I was outside and I’m walking to the store. And I know that there are lots of people in DC and all but unless you have a cane I assume you can see. So, this guy walks kind of next to me and then passes me and then (kind of) walks right into me. Like I wasn’t just next to him? Idiot. It’s somewhat hard to explain because some people around here are just plain stupid and you think that they should’ve been killed by a car by now, the way they’re getting around, but this was obvious.
So, this is how it’s been today.

Hungry

I don’t think I ever was this excited about Thanksgiving. I just can’t wait to eat. Not that I’m not eating right now. Believe me, that would be fatal. Not to me but to anyone around me. But I keep thinking about all the food and all the choices and all the people we’ll be spending that day with.
One theory I have about is that since I never celebrated Thanksgiving until I came to the US, I pretty much have 18 or 19 years to catch up. Or I just like the food.
So, forgive me if the next couple of days evolve around how many days are left (2) or how I can’t wait. Of course, it helps having a long weekend too.

Three Days

What a great week. Only three days of work and then four days of eating like crazy. I can’t wait. I’m already hungry and think about turkey and green beans and sweet potatoes and apple pie and all that good stuff. These three days better go by fast or I’m going to be grumpy by Thursday.

Carnival of the Recipes

Over at Teds.
Scroll down a little to the “Non-Holiday Goodies and Yummies” and you will find my submission!!!!

Made It

Well, people it's Friday. A day, I thought would never get here.
Now I just have to get busy and hope this day goes by fast.

Ha, me too!

Married to a Sailor, that is.

Almost Forgot

With all the excitement lately I almost forgot to mention that maybe, just maybe, very very soon I will be finally an American citizen.
I got a letter this weekend asking e to appear for an ”initial interview” at the beginning of January. I have to bring all the documents and blah, blah, blah. But I also need to be prepared to take the English and Civics tests. Then they can decide right then and there if they grant me the citizenship and I can elect to take the oath that day. So, I need to study hard…well, I looked the questions over and they are not that hard. But over the next couple of months, if any of you have some questions about American History or something, I might be able to help.


Oh and BTW, this was post #800!!

Guinness Beef (or Deer) Stew

Just in time for Ted to host the Carnival of the Recipes I am posting the recipe for Saturday night’s Stew.
You have go to try this one. We substituted the beef for deer, but not everybody will have deer meat available so I am leaving the recipe the way it is.
Here it goes.

1/4 cup olive oil
1 1/4 pounds stew beef, cut into 1-inch pieces
6 large garlic cloves, minced
6 cups beef stock or canned beef broth
I cup of Guinness beer
1 cup of fine red wine
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
3 pounds russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 7 cups)
1 large onion, chopped
2 cups 1/2-inch pieces peeled carrots
Salt and Pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

1 Heat olive oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add beef and sauté until brown on all sides, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and sauté 1 minute. Add beef stock, Guinness, red wine, tomato paste, sugar, thyme, Worcestershire sauce and bay leaves. Stir to combine. Bring mixture to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, then cover and simmer 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

2 While the meat and stock is simmering, melt butter in another large pot over medium heat. Add potatoes, onion and carrots. Sauté vegetables until golden, about 20 minutes.

3 Add vegetables to beef stew. Simmer uncovered until vegetables and beef are very tender, about 40 minutes. Discard bay leaves. Tilt pan and spoon off fat. (Can be prepared up to 2 days ahead. Salt and pepper to taste. Cool slightly. Refrigerate uncovered until cold, then cover and refrigerate. Bring to simmer before serving.) Transfer stew to serving bowl. Sprinkle with parsley and serve.
Serves 4 to 6

Yummy

Tonight’s menu will feature a Guinness Stew, substituting the beef for deer (yepp, we know hunters). For the health conscious there will be a spinach salad with bacon and honey-mustard vinaigrette.
And to keep things at a comfortable entertainment level we will offer various assortments of beer.
I also heard somebody is going to bring over apple pie (!!!).
Once everybody is ready to burst will exercise some, playing pool.
I can’t wait.

And, if I ever get to it, I will eventually post the recipe for the stew.

Slow

This must be the slowest day ever. I swear it feels like I’ve been here for days. Every time I look at the clock only seconds have passed. I’m afraid I’ll be spending the whole weekend here.
Help!

Friday…again

Now, I am finally almost done with the workweek. Too bad today is my long day but that’s OK. the weekend will be that much better.

Today is Veteran’s Day and I want to thank each current and former service member for all that they have done to make this country the Greatest there is.
Thank you.

It’s Friday!!!

Not for me but for so many of the people out here. Well, to all of you…you suck.
Thank you. I just had to say it.

Bullshit

I am so glad that they started the whole Minuteman movement up here in NoVa. I still can’t believe they approved that site there in Herndon.

One very funny quote from one of the people “helping” the illegals says.

"They aren't criminals. They are just people who want to work, and they have not come to destroy. They have come to build and help out the community."

Sure. The last time I checked being in the US illegal was a criminal act so you’re wrong.

I went through INS and am still dealing with them. Paying all the money when I didn’t have any and all that stuff. So I have no understanding for anybody coming here illegally. Tough Shit. I’m not going to give you one dime if I don’t have to.

- via the WaPo

Did it too

I felt so under pressure from everybody that I just had to do it.

One more here and more about it here.

Super Me!

Got up almost two hours late and was only thirty minutes late to work. And I slept well too.

Mondee

And the new workweek started again. Bummer.
Lucky for me (and my grandma), I will be staying here. She seems to recover OK. She is starting to move a little and opens her eyes and seems to recognize everybody, so we’re all happy for her. Let’s just hope that this kind of progress will continue.

Other than that, not much is going here in my world.
Friday seems to be a holiday…but not for me so all you people, who are off suck.

That’s it for now.

can you get arrested for threatening someone?

I think you can. I guess it depends who you threaten.

i am not happy porn

Sorry. Poor guy.
I am not happy porn either.
???

It couldn’t have been any sooner

Well, the weekend is oh so close. Finally.
Grandma is doing Ok I Guess but I’ll hear more this weekend once my parents get there. She is partially paralyzed and can’t talk. She opened her eyes today and seemed to try to communicate, but we’ll see. My grandpa mentioned that it’ll be hard and that he’ll have a lot of work with her once she comes home.
I am glad I don’t have to go there, although I would have loved to see them all.
Let’s hope she’ll get better.

What a bitch

This is the very first time, that I hate living over here in the US. And that is only because it is so freaking far away from Germany.
Last Friday, my grandma fell and broker her wrist. On Tuesday she had surgery to re-brake the arm and put it back together. They didn’t give her full anesthesia because she is so old. Today my grandpa had to call the ambulance because she could hardly move anymore. They think she might have had a stroke and she is at the hospital right now to get checked out.
If I were to fly over to Germany tomorrow, it would cost me about $1600. Right. Next week would be more around $550. I hope I don’t have to go over there at all.
She’ll be 86 this weekend.

nbc4.com - News - Flying Manhole Covers Close D.C. Street

A little late in the year, but I started thinking that something was wrong, because I only heard one story about that this year. But everything is fine. The manhole covers are flying again.....

If you’re going….

Boo!

Is it that time of the year already? Since I don’t usually dress up..well, never actually have, I will help out in a not-so-scary way tonight at an Elementary School. I’ll help the little kiddos that are too scared get out of the haunted house so they don’t have nightmares. Compared to my hubby who will try and scare the shit out of them.

Word Verification

Maybe now, I won’t have all that comment spam anymore. Let’s see if it helps.

It’s coming!!!

It’s almost here. Just a little bit longer and the waiting is over.
What am I talking about?

(OK, now I wish I could hide the rest or else this wouldn’t make sense. Anybody know how?)

BTW. I was talking about the weekend…..

Back from the dead

Well, I finally made it back home yesterday and after a well-deserved goodnight sleep, I am back in the office.
I am so glad it’s Friday!
So, did I miss anything?

Light Blogging

Due to a severe case of an empty brain I have not been able to post anything at all today. My apologies to all who were expecting something.

I'll be GONE for a few days (back on Friday) for a very important business trip. Maybe I get bored over on the West Coast and actually post something interesting.

Later.

Strip Club Review

Well, I was going to do some “research” for that project tonight, but it all didn’t work out, but hopefully I get to go in the near future.
Instead I will be spending my evening at or in a friend’s hot tub….can’t wait!

If anyone is interested in sponsoring my research though; donations are welcome, preferably in one-dollar bills.

Thanks.

I want to live there!

Just read that in a local (Florida) newspaper.

WE HAVE 2 OR 3 bedroom MH, clean, close to prison.

Sounds good, huh?

Hmm. They must’ve been delayed this morning

I know VRE sucks. That’s why I stopped riding it. Metro costs as much with parking and they run every 5-6 minutes and I am on time once again. Lucky me, I live close to the VRE and metro stops.
Now, I get to complain about idiots riding the metro again, but so far all the idiots were fat and that’s boring.

Pigs

I would estimate that about 70-80% of people that are finding their way over here are looking for porn.
Just because one single person somehow made it here looking for free Danish porn.
Maybe I should keep posting about this and hope that one day more than 100 people get here and celebrate.
Too sad that they don’t come here because of the excellent content….

Damn tree huggers

Someone in Oregon won the jackpot…idiot.
But that’s OK. The starting jackpot is still $15 Million.

Inspiration

Where are you?

Chicken

So, you think prices for chicken will go down? If so, that’s what I’m going to be eating. Just when the whole mad cow disease thing started in Europe and all in Germany. Beef was so cheap over there; we had steaks almost every other day. We’re all going to die anyway.
Plus with all the high gas prices you need to find cheap food.

Could be me

When I’m hungry, I need to eat right then and there. No waiting at the microwave for me baby.

Blog Advice

If you want to increase the amount of people going to your site have a little post about this.
Porn just attracts all kinds of people. Sorry though, since I don’t really have any of that stuff here.
I could write some local strip club reviews, but coming from a girl, all you’d get would be which outfits I like and what the max height of heels I could stand.
That reminds me, a couple of weeks ago I saw a pregnant stripper well….strip. That’s just wrong.

Conspiracy Theory

OK, I finally have my own now. Well, I’m sure others have said this before but this is all MINE.
His is how it all began.

I did have funny thought though this morning while I was riding the metro. When I went to college (George Mason University) and I took English 101 (that’s right, I took the class for native English speakers and not the foreigners’ class), our professor was really into writing articles and such. So he encouraged us to write about certain issues and submit them to the student newspaper, the Broadside. Well, I wrote a couple of those about topics that interested me and that I felt passionate about but I never got published. OK, there are many students that don’t get to have their stuff published, I thought, but today I was thinking that it might have had something to do with the content of the things I wrote about.

That could be. But that's just me.

Oh and BTW, I am currently reading How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) : The World According to Ann Coulter by Ann Coulter, after just finishing The Official Handbook of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy by Mark W. Smith. Before that I read Let Freedom Ring : Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism by Sean Hannity and before that I read Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter.
Who would've thought?

free danish porn

I hope you found what you were looking for.
Or should I say:
Ich hoffe, Du hast gefunden, was Du gesucht hast.

(My German is getting a little rusty)

New Bond

Did anybody see him?

Who’s that supposed to be? That is not how James Bond looks like. Look at his ears! I want my Brosnan back.

PLEASE!

My chances just went up

I know, it’s getting kind of lame with me and the whole Powerball stuff, but I have nothing else to write about now, so just shut up and read!
This Saturday’s jackpot is $290 Million. And I have 100 tickets. Now, I didn’t turn all stupid and spend $100 on Powerball tickets. I only got 5, but my office decided it was time for a career changes and got 95 tickets as well. So, of course that won’t give me as much but still a pretty good amount to quit.

So, if you don’t hear from me after tomorrow, I might be a Millionaire (or I just don’t have anything to write about).

And Fridee it is!!

About time, if you ask me, but nobody every does.

I thought, I really need to write some profound, but as hard as I try, nothing comes to mind.
Well, maybe I have more later.

Not Again

Washington Monument Evacuated After Bomb Threat

POSTED: 2:34 pm EDT October 13, 2005
UPDATED: 2:47 pm EDT October 13, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Monument has been evacuated after a bomb threat was reported.

The threat was made by phone to D.C. Police.

Park Police are evacuating the grounds around the monument, but traffic routes in the area are open.

Security officers will search the grassy areas around the structure for anything suspicious.

The Washington Monument was evacuated Friday after a bomb threat. Nothing suspicious was found.

- via NBC4

UPDATE: False Alarm...well, they didn't find anything. Who would've thougt?

Hmmm…..

Now, I didn’t get any spam about this.

SPAM SPAM SPAM

OK, all you idiots out there.
I don’t need payday loans because I can (pretty much) manage my money. But if you have to plant some comment spam, don’t double post. IDIOT.

Damn

This whole lottery thing isn’t really working out.
Got to get more Powerball tickets.

No Comment

I just had to post this picture.

Cow Towles?

People spend way too much time online sometimes.

Want to read

I really do want to read, but there is this huge stack of things that I need to file and the checkbook needs to be balanced and….
So, what am I doing instead? Spending hours on the computer doing really nothing.
Is it time for a drink yet?

Trying it again

OK, after not winning the jackpot last night I am now trying for the $205 Million jackpot. I was close to buying scratchers, but I didn’t want to waste my money.

UPDATE: OK, I'll try again on Wednesday.

Spam me a Comment

Ok, this is getting really funny.
First the penis enlargement (no thank you, mine is long enough), then something about sex toys (no thanks again, I got enough), and now a “work from home” offer? Geesh people, can’t you do any better?