New beginning

Today is the first day of the new semester and it feels weird to be back in my university.
I have been lethargic all day yesterday, crying all night and was in a really bad mood this morning. I am a routine kind of girl. I like routine, I thrive on routine and it is always hard for me to adapt to change; however little it is.
I stayed in my pyjamas all day yesterday thinking about everything that happened in the last 2 months. It feels like an eternity. All the changes inside and outside, the travelling, celebrating Christmas, New Year`s, fighting with my body and mind, the creative wave I have been riding on, spending all this wonderful time with my husband, having soooo many ups and downs in my personal development; how can all of that fit into such a short amount of time?
And yet at the same time, I wanted to do so much more. I had planned on working and experimenting with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign etc., wanted to create a new wordpress website or even design my own website, clean my computer and organize my pictures. Oh well, I am human and can`t do it all.

Even though this semester just began, it migh be a short one for me. More about that in a later post.  

1/3/11 - because I am different! LOL

no, seriously...this was suppsoed to be more 1/1/11 blog post, but due to the fact that I had no internet connection (I know, it is getting old), I couldn't publish it!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!

I still cannot fathom that 2010 is over. It will take a long time until I have processed everything that happened in that single year.
Nothing has REALLY sunk in yet. Nothing.

If 2011 is only half as eventful, it will be a heck of a year.

I've had the best New Year's Eve of my life. Everything was just perfect.

Andreas surprised me with a trip to Frankfurt; the city where we got engaged in june. He found a restaurant a few months ago called BUZZANO. He'd go there from time to time with his business partners and always raved about the delicious steaks and the extraordinary concept of the restaurant. I was always a tad envious of him because it sounded so fantastic and when I saw their New Year's Eve menu, my mouth was watering. Andreas must have noticed and since he knows the owner of the restaurant pretty well, he was able to still get a table for the 2 of us.

After some drama at home regarding - you guessed it - the internet and not being able to print our train tickets, we arrived at the train station quite a bit stressed and unnerved. That changed the moment we sat down in the train and the excitement took over again.

We arrived in Frankfurt only about 8 minutes late (a round of applause for the Deutsche Bahn, please), found the hotel right away (hubby booked a room at a super stylish ne

w hotel, I was thrilled!), we got changed in record time and were at BUZZANO's at 8.30 pm.

I can't even begin to describe how delicious the food was.
I ate things I never thought I'd try. [Somehow, I forgot to take a picture of the dessert... probably because it was way too delicious!!! lol]

it is too late for me to translate the menue into English, so the picture will have to do. :P

We left the restaurant just in time to make it to the OPERNPLATZ (which is about 2 minutes away) and greeted the New Year right next to the place we had dinner after our engagement.

the first picture of Andreas & I in 2011

There were hundreds of people and the fireworks were beautiful, magnificent and magical. I felt like a little child; I was in a sate of pure bliss! :)

THIS WAS BY FAR THE BEST START TO A NEW YEAR!!!!

Thanks to my husband...

... I can now present you with an English version of our New Year's Greetings!

Looking back and ahead!

Andreas & I wanted to post this message yesterday, but - again - this certain someone sabotaged our plans and despite trying for hours and hours, we weren't able to post this card. But it is a beautiful card and I don't want it to go to waste, so - with a slight delay - here it is:

for my German friends and family [and for those who know how to use Google Translate... lol]


.... the English version got lost. :(