inspired by the new look of my diary i changed the look of my site as well and I LOVE IT! so that's pretty much what i did after work and during my lunch break yesterday. i got home around 8 p.m. - quite hungry - and that's why i didn't get back here last night ... but here i am today ;o)

tomorrow is good friday and on sunday & monday is easter. and that means in germany: 4 days off!! i like that. especially since the weather is really nice here. my bosses went on a short trip until tuesday so we decided to kinda go home around 4 today. i will go buy flowers and stuff for my balcony then so i have something to do tomorrow. i think i can take the chance now - it's almost the end of april and even here in bremen we shouldn't get frost any more, right? I CERTAINLY HOPE SO!!!

every year around this time when winter is kinda over i ask myself how i even got through it and why i still live here and not in a place with a shorter winter - let's say closer to none at all! i love to wake up, hear the birds and feel the sun shining outside. no wonder people are in a better mood when it's nice out! I AM!!!

now the plan for this long weekend is, besides taking care of my balcony, to go to a soccer-game on saturday with a few people (haven't been to one in years ...) and afterwards to the big easter-fire at the river. relax on sunday and on monday the family (meaning which is left ...) will meet for brunch at my sister's. so it'll be an okay easter. even though i have to say that those holiday-family-things are still kinda tough because it's so different without my mom. i mean we really try to keep those traditions up and everything but my mom was always so into it. for easter she would seriously still hide our gifts around the house and we'd have to find them and stuff like that. this year there probably won't be any gifts at all ... oh well, i just have to get used to it but i realize that there are always times where it's gonna be harder than at other times. i guess that's never really gonna change ...

as to my vacation-plans: I DON'T KNOW YET - of course. chris hasn't given me the okay to book yet and if that doesn't happen within the next couple of days i won't go at all. michi told me that her and tini are planning a short trip some time in june, and then maren and nina both might not go on vacation with their men this year so maybe we'll plan a week together or so .. i'm just really tired of begging chris for an okay so i might come in june. he either wants to see me or not. and i need vacation! (quote: »we will see ...«) i should have listened to nina in the first place and not have gotten all excited about the mille lacs-cabin plans and all the rest of it. i am just more dissappointed than i would have been anyways ... well, i should listen to my girls more often anyways. even if it's difficult - especially when it comes to men-women-issues - to do what they think would be best, but their always more objective and just don't want me to get hurt ... so i will keep that in mind! - yeah right, kim ;o)

oh and, have i told you that i plan on going to bamberg from may 1st thru may 4th? anyway - the train would cost 94 euro and i just found out the other day that a fligth to nuernberg would cost 91 euro and that's only 50 km away from bamberg. so i tried to get a hold of mimi to find out if she can get a car to pick me up in nuernberg. but even if she can't i might still do it and take a train from nuernberg to bamberg. even if that would cost like 10-15 euro more than the train all the way from bremen - we're talking 5 hour train ride or 1,5 hour flight ... so what would you do, hm? ;o) as a matter of fact i will go to the lufthansa-site right now and book a flight ... see ya ;o)

oh, and you guys could REALLY sign my new guestbook! it's so empty ;o(