Merry Christmas / Frohe Weihnachten

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I sincerely hope 2010 is better than 2009...Here's some info about Christmas in Germany: Weihnachten (Wikipedia).

All the stores closed down around here by 1pm to 2pm today and won't reopen until next Monday. Yes, if you're outside Germany, you actually heard that right. No cough medicine, mashed potato mix or the onions you forgot to buy today. Not for 3 1/2 days. (Well, if you live in a major city you might find some little things at the main train station,but not much else is open.) We barely made it to Kaufland in time today. Wheh!

And I still can't get into the idea of putting up the Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve. To heck with that. If I'm putting that much effort into something, that baby's gonna be up for at least a week before Christmas, lol. (But we don't have one up this year anyway. Just not enough time or a place to put it amongst the unfinished mess. We've been bad, so I guess Knecht Ruprecht might come by tonight *shudder*...)

P.S. If you want to read some really crazy Scheisse, check out that link on Knecht Ruprecht. I'm glad we didn't have this in the U.S. The scariest thing was Gremlins and A Christmas Carol.

The sniffy pink stuff

Not long ago, the husbunny came home from the grocery store with a new kind of toilet paper. It had pretty pink flowers on it and.... wait.... wtf?....*sniff*... it was scented.

Um, is this really necessary? I can understand the desire to keep an air freshener near your toilet, but usually you wouldn't rub the air freshener on your crotch, lolol. And for good reason. Irritating chemically-produced scents and dyes aren't something most people want to rub on their crotch... unless they're into something that I really don't want to know about.

And you know what? Now I know that I was right all along. I can only advise you to not rub air fresheners on your crotch. Even when they're disguised as toilet paper. Seriously. You've been warned. ;)

Ok, Wolf is back

The Situation Room has reappeared for its usual 1 hour at midnight on CNN International as of this week.

No more 'Situation Room'?

WTF? Suddenly our one hour of The Situation Room on CNN International at midnight went *poof*? It's not on anymore?! F***ers! (Ok, so I was getting extremely sick of Wolf Blitzer's annoyingly raised voice, but come on now!) At first I thought it would just be a week long hiatus until the US went back out of Daylight Savings Time, but no, it's not on after the time change in the coming week either.

So now it's just one hour of AC 360 at 4am and Larry King Live at 11am (when they don't interrupt it with 'Breaking News' because someone sneezed, which strangely happens several times a week between 11am and noon, after which CNN International is compelled to interrupt the program to talk about how they have nothing to show us about the alleged sneeze ..... for 30 effing minutes ... or however long it takes to sufficiently ruin Larry King Live on whatever day I actually find the guests interesting).

Hoppy Halloween

Well, it's Halloween again. We have nothing Halloweeny going on this year. Was going to carve a jack-o-lantern and put it out on the balcony railing just to freak out the neighbors, but no pumpkins in our 'hood.

I'm surprised how each year I feel really bummed out about the lack of a real Halloween here. I always liked this day, maybe even more than Christmas (it's less stress, after all, and only inundates you for a week or two instead of months). It's costumes and candy, but it's also ghosts and goblins, creepy sound effects, Thriller, autumn leaves lighted by the spooky glow of a jack-o-lantern, the unknown and all that gives you a little shiver up your spine. And that stuff freaking rules.

I know that I could create my own little Halloween at home (boring) or try to seek out a party somewhere around here, but it's not the same is it? I'm in Germany. I mean, it's sunset right now at this very moment and it doesn't mean crap to anyone.

What is Halloween evening without little kids in costumes all over the sidewalks with hollow plastic pumpkins in their eager, candy-greedy little hands???? Nothin', I tell ya. Nothin'.




P.S. I guess someday I might actually post again like before. And someday I'll actualy restore all the colors to my blog so the text in the sidebar is visible, etc. Someday. But why mess with the color black on Halloween?