Random Thursday. Music I never get tired of...

Hallo meine Lieben,

hope your new year is going great. I am linking up with these lovely ladies...



Today I want to talk about...

I love music. Period. I don't want to live without music. I love to listen to music when I feel good, when I feel sad, when I need distraction or when I just need some motivation.  I have been to many concerts in my life, David is a great musician, I play saxophone and a little bit of bass guitar. I am not very musical but music is a part of my life that I don't want to miss. 
So here you go, some of my all time favorite songs that I never get tired of. And I really mean it when I say that I never get tired of these songs. I can listen to them 50 times in a row and still love them and need more. 
Tocotronic - Die Welt kann mich nicht mehr verstehen

Oasis - Whatever
Suede - Can't get enough

Refused - New Noise
Robbie Williams & Jonathan Wilkes - Me an my shadow

Kula Shaker - Tattva
The themes of my favorite shows when I was a kid. 

Moneybrother - It's been hurting all the way with you, Joanna
Minus The Bear - When we escape
Ash - Kung Fu

Maximo Park - Apply some pressure
Oh well, I don't want to bore you but there are many more songs that I never get tired of. 
What are the songs you never get tired of? When do you listen to music? Do you play an instrument? What was the last concert you went to?  Have a wonderful Thursday!

Ten On The First Tuesday Of The Year. Porcupines, books and goals.

Hallo meine Lieben,

happy new year! Frohes neues Jahr! I hope all is well and you had a nice New Year's Eve and  have no hangover now.
I am linking up with the loveley Lin from Linny's Vault  and Amber from Glitter And Dirt for the first time of the new year. How exciting.

1. I won a Starbucks gift card! Thank you so much, Lin! You absolutely made my day! I rarely win anything so this was so cool!

2. This is my 211th post. Very exciting. I still haven't written the second part of my favorites of the year 2012 but I will do that at some point in January before it gets old. Also David wants to share some of his music wisdom with you guys. 

3. I am pretty sure that porcupines are the cutest animals ever. See here. I hope he does not care about the stupid hat.  If I ever live on a farm I will adopt a porcupine that needs a new home. 

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4. I feel like changing the design of my blog. 

5. I still need to buy an organizer for 2013. I am always so chaotic and confused that I need something where I can write all my appointments etc. down. Or the year will be a huge mess. 

6. Sometimes I just feel like hiding from the world and not talking at all. 

7. I am finally caught up on The Mentalist and now I am sad that I have to wait until Sunday to see a new episode. I am in desperate need of some new episodes. I started to watch Bones a couple of days ago. I like it but not as much as I like The Mentalist or Castle. Tonight I finally want to watch some Criminal Minds. 

8. I started to read a couple of new books. One of them is "The keeper of lost causes" by Jussi Adler Olsen. I wanted to read that forever and now I finally started and love it so far! I just need more time to read. 

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9. One of my goals for 2013 is to read more books than I read in 2012. That's not a motivation problem, just a time problem.

10. I want to wish you all a wonderful and happy 2013! I hope all your wishes will come true! Thanks for being there!

Have a great first day of the year!

Sunday Confessions. Plastic hair, rain worms and sweaters.

Hallo meine Lieben,

I am linking up with the wonderful Alyx from Every Day Is A New Adventure for the last confessions in 2012. 



Confession #1.
I don't really care that much about New Year's Eve. I don't care if it is 2012 or 2013, I don't really have any resolutions, there are just things I want to do that make my happy. But that has nothing to do with one year ending and the other one beginning. 
Confession #2. 
When I see a rainworm on the sidewalk or the street then I stop, pick the rainworm up and bring him/her to a safe place. I really like all animals and I can't see them in danger.
Confession #3. 
I am pretty sure that Patrick Jane's hair (the main guy from The Mentalist) feels like plastic because that is what he told me in my dream a couple of nights ago.

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Confession #4. 
One of my friends is pregnant and her doctor says that the baby will probably be born July 13 which is my birthday too. So I am counting on that baby to be in time!
Confession #5.
My next big project is to sew my own sweater. I got literature about sewing and now I just need to figure out how my Mom's old sewing machine works. 

What are your confessions? I hope you will have a wonderful New Year's Eve and an even more wonderful 2013! Thanks for being there, friends!

New Year's plans and hopes. Random Thursday.

Hallo meine Lieben,

I hope you all survived Christmas and got some nice presents. I also hope that your holidays were not stressful at all, you got some good food and you laughed a lot. 

I am linking up with some wonderful ladies....




... and the topic is...

To be honest I haven't really thought about this topic yet. 
I have never really been a fan of huge New Year's Eve parties so my evening is usually pretty relaxed. There is one thing that I do every New Year's Eve. It is a tradition and it never gets old. 

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Dinner for one. I don't know if that's popular outside of Europe (David did not know it.) but I watched it the first time when I was a kid with your parents and I never stopped laughing about it. I watch it at least twice every New Year's Eve and I laugh as much as I did the first time. It is just hilarious. Please, watch it if you don't know it. You won't regret it.  So yeah, this is a must every year. Same procedure as every year, James. 
As for plans....hmm...well, I guess the usual. Be succesful, earn money, be nice to people, be a good person and so on.
But there are some little things that I want to get better at in 2013.
I want to get more involved again in animal rights acitivism. I miss doing that. I would love to be able to offer a dog a new home. And a blind cat. That would be my dream. I would love to go to more demos, write more about animal rights, donate more money. Things like that. 

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I also want to find more time to be creative. I miss that too. I just don't have much time right now, not even in the evening. But I need to make some time for that because it makes me feel good. I want to sew my own clothes, I want to build my own book shelf, write a book...things like that. 

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I want to spend lots of quality time with David, the pets and my loved ones. I just want to try to be as happy as I can. 
What are your plans and hopes for the year 2013? Enjoy the last days of 2012!

Frohe Weihnachten & Merry Christmas!

Hallo meine Lieben,

I want to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and Frohe Weihnachten! I hope you are having a great time.

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I think this is the perfect day to say thank you.

Thank you for being there, thank you for taking the time to read my posts, thank you for giving me your opinion, thank you for being my friends, thank you for being so wonderful, thank you for supporting me, thank you for making me smile, thank you for letting me be a part of the blog community, thank you for entertaining me with what you have to say or show, thank you for inspiring me.

Thank you for being so wonderful!

Frohe Weihnachten!

Sunday Confessions! Spiders, Steve-O and an engagement.

Hallo meine Lieben,

happy last Sunday before Christmas and happy Vierter Advent! I hope you all have your presents by now!

I am linking up with wonderful Alyx from Every Day Is A New Adventure for some more confessions. The second last confessions for this year.



Confession #1.
When I find a spider in one of the rooms I bring him or her into the basement because I don't want the spider to be outside in the cold. They can all stay in the basement where it is warm and go back outside when it is warmer.
Confession #2.
David is recording some new songs and I have to say that he is so damn good. I could never do anything like that.
Confession #3.
My sister-in-law got engaged yesterday and I am so excited and happy for them. And I can't wait to celebrate their wedding!
Confession #4. 
Steve-O really touched my heart with his short film. Please watch this video.
Confession #5. 
The weirdest thing I have heard this week is that only good people with guns can protect you from bad people with guns. Yeah, that's the solution! More guns. And so good that every person with a gun has a sign on his or her forehead that tells you if the person is good or bad. 
I hope you guys are having a wonderful Sunday!

All things Christmas....Random Thursday!

Hallo meine Lieben,

are you having a nice week? I really hope you don't have any Christmas stress. Did you get all your presents? Or are you still searching for some?

I am linking up with these wonderful girls....



and this week's topic is very christmassy.

I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of Christmas since my Mom died. It is just always so depressing to not have her anymore because we always prepared the Christmas dinner together, put up the Christmas tree together, watched Dirty Dancing together...and so on.  So yeah, Christmas, not my favorite day.
But I don't want to ruin the topic. 
So last year I had a pretty cool Christmas! My first American Christmas! It was a wonderful experience. It was funny to do the presents on December 25 and not Christmas Eve like we do it in Germany. But I had a wonderful time with my American family! We ate a lot, played Wii, watched movies, talked a lot. It was a great relaxing day!
And here are some things that I associate with Christmas.
... lots of eating.
... watching movies. Especially Love Actually, The Holiday and Dirty Dancing. 

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Also, David introduced me to so many American Christmas movies. It was awesome. We made a very long list with movies that I need to know and we watched all of them. It was so much fun. 
... being lazy. Sleeping, reading, TV and so on. 
... being thankful for the wonderful people in your life. 
... have a Christmas drink. I am still German. 
One time when I was a kid my bunny Knuffi tried to eat the Christmas tree....the end of the story was that he knocked down the whole tree with all the decoration. Knuffi was fine though. The tree did not hit him!
What are your Christmas traditions? Have a lovely day!