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** German Chat ** Alle sind willkommen. ** Frühling läßt sein blaues Band ...

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MmeLindt · 10/03/2009 13:11

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Wieder flattern durch die Lüfte
Süße, wohlbekannte Düfte
Streifen ahnungsvoll das Land
Veilchen träumen schon,
Wollen balde kommen
Horch, von fern ein leiser Harfenton!
Frühling, ja du bist's!
Dich hab ich vernommen!

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Für Deutsche und nicht-Deutsche, Goethe-fans und Gottschalk-fans, für Herzschmerz, Heimweh und Heimatgefühle.

Alle sind willkommen.

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MmeLindt · 19/03/2009 11:50

LOL at ZZzen's tester paranoia. We know what you mean. I think that examiner would be correct, but what do I know, I learnt to drive in Germany.

I like the thought of getting an invite from the examiner for giving him a laugh.

Did you read that Natasha Richardson died? What a shame for her and her family. How strange, that she was fine after her accident.

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admylin · 19/03/2009 11:54

It's quite scarey how accidents lik ethat happen with skiing isn't it. Although she didn't really have a bad accident, still must have banged her head really hard.

First and only time I ever went skiing in France the police/slope guards dragged a body down tied onto a sledge in a body bag right infront of me on the learner slope. Needless to say I am not into skiing.

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 11:58

I was just thinking the other day actually after speaking to a mum who takes her dd on skiing holidays, it might be nice for dd. I am always (desperately) half looking for a suitable sport for her. Soemthing she'd like and not find too difficult. Apart from swimming, I just don't seem able to find anything that works for her

Not skiing then either

admylin · 19/03/2009 12:02

It's difficult to find something to suit isn't it. My 2 were so good at Aikido but they don't want to carry it on. I'd still like them to though. Can't force them.

Dd might try volley ball tonight. Can't convince ds to go along too.

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 12:15

dd might be trying baseball come summer. I don't see it personally. She is not very coordinated so ball and bat games are not that easy for her. If they actually teach it, it might help her along but if it is more practice games, I think she will feel she can't do it and want to stop.

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 12:16

actually I also can't frankly be bothered with it since it would be early on a Saturday morning. Oh come the day they go to all these things on their own and your role is just forking out cash when needed

admylin · 19/03/2009 12:20

One reason why I am quite pleased ds isn't into football is that I don't have all the games to go to at weekends.

Handing out cash is something I have had to get used to here. One or the other needs money most days for something at school, Schülerzeitung, postcards (yes, a charity sold cute animal postcards in dd's school) lunch break, trip here trip there,!

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 12:45

Think that's everywhere these days admylin. Do your dc get pocket money? Anyone? Dd doesn't yet. I wonder if it would help teach her that you cannot always have things any time you want.

You see dh always buys her so many "presents" without there being any special ocasion or anything and I think it has not been good for her. I have tried asking him not to do it but he always does and actually he got annoyed that I asked him not to do it. For instance if they go somewhere at the weekend, she will always come back with something new she doesn't need like a cuddly toy or a lego package. She has too much as it is and really I think if you have less, you take better care of what you have.

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MmeLindt · 19/03/2009 12:47

We don't do pocket money yet, but I am wondering when to start.

Have just put DD to bed, she is just knackered. I will definitely keep her off tomorrow too, have spoken with her teacher.

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admylin · 19/03/2009 12:51

My 2 get money but not regular pocket money as such. They do know how to save though. I think alot of their awareness came from our student family life. They saw how I counted every cent to buy the basics!

Thank goodness ds is past the age of wanting loads of toys and lego stuff so he keeps coming out of his room asking if it's OK to get rid of this or that! Dd is a border line messy so she would buy and save any old rubbish she could get her hands on but we're working on that. Really she needs a room for drawing and craft stiff, a room to exhibit all her collections and a teenage bedroom to have friends round (at the moment she has to hide certain collections which are not cool enough to be seen by certain friends!)

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 12:56

dd just HOARDS stuff. I think the more rooms she had, the more she would fill. Dh is just the same. I occasionally grab a bin bag and run riot when I have kicked them out somewhere.

admylin · 19/03/2009 12:59

I'm the opposite, I like everything to be minimalistic except for books, but even they have to be lined up on a book case. If we hadn't moved so many times we would have walls and walls of books by now, sigh maybe one day eh!

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 12:59

btw anyone know how Ernest is getting on? I've missed her lately.

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 13:00

I think the Japanese have it sussed admylin with those totally minimalistic uncluttered rooms with practically nothing in them but a rolled up futon and a table.

How do they DO it?

admylin · 19/03/2009 13:02

Was also wondering about Ernest. I know she just had a holiday from hell with all her dc getting ill while away in a hotel. Maybe she is recovering. TheGabster must be at her new place, maybe cleaning and scrubbing everything otherwise she might have heard from her.

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 13:06

hope it works out well for them. Hard to make these decisions, isn't it? You never really know what lies ahead and whether you'll regret the move or not.

They both sound totally practical and organised. I need ernest to come back now and again so I can scare her. Makes me feel all powerful and grown-up.

You know girls I told you I was dolling myself up to impress the hairdresser? Seems it didn't work that well, she gave me an unasked for kind of a bob and I look about 12 years old.

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 13:08

Neighbour even said to me: "God you look like a little girl with that haircut".

Not that she was mistaking me for God you understand.

I really hate it, was bad enough when I was 16 trying to get past the bouncer into nightclubs. Never thought it would be a problem at this age though.

admylin · 19/03/2009 13:08

I'm off to meet dd from her photography club, saw your mail ZZZen - thanks. Very wise.

Telling h today that we're flying. Flights back are also booked from my parents end so now I have to get a few Easter treats together to swap for Cadbury mini eggs in UK (atlast an Easter with unlimited access to mini eggs)

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 13:13

get it over with admylin maybe then you can get on with looking forward to your trip.

Cheeky devil you mentioning Easter eggs on here when I'm trying to lose weight. Well wishing I would lose weight without actually eating less or moving more IYSWIM.

Sounds to me like your dd has settled in well there with her friends, activities and everything.

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MmeLindt · 19/03/2009 17:48

ZZzen,
Sounds like my kind of diet. I am going to a wedding on 18th April and I have nothing to wear that does not require shedding 5kg (at least)

Slightly panicing now, especially as I cannot seem to motivate myself to stop eating and drinking. I am active enough, it is just the food food food.

Are you going back to the hairdresser? Or to a different one? Do you think that you could get something done that will make it look better or are you going to have to live with it until it grows out? What does your family think? Is it really that bad? You could post photos here so we can snurk help.

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ZZZen · 19/03/2009 19:13

I know, I know, I can't stop eating a pile of junk all day long at teh same time as I am thinking: I don't fit any clothes! I have to lose weight and then I just eat a pile of chocolate biscuits. I am not usually this bad, I am quite sisciplined about food as a rule. So i blame it on the stars. What can you do?

The haircut is fine as a cut. The problem is my face. I just look like a kid somehow. I need a more adult haircut to counterbalance my face. I have that kind of little girl face they liked in the 20s anyway but with a bob it looks a bit well I think goofy. I mean I am sure she thought I look that type so the haircut would underline it IYSWIM whereas in fact I have spent my life trying NOT to look like that type.

You need a photo to get what I mean I suppose

ZZZen · 19/03/2009 19:14

disiplined not sisiplined!

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MmeLindt · 19/03/2009 21:07

My friend has just left, after bringing a bottle of wine and a tube of Pringles.

Diet starts again tomorrow

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taipo · 19/03/2009 22:04

Step away from the Pringles, ML!

ZZZen, I'm having trouble picturing you as a little girl Actually I always looked very young for my age until I hit mid thirties, then I seemed to age overnight and think I look distinctly middle-aged now.

ZZZen · 20/03/2009 08:59

funny you know, I am feeling so overweight and just with this haircut and my neighbour telling me I look like a child and everything, yet when I took dd to a course yesterday, I had this man traipsing around all over the place after me flirting like mad.

So must look better than I thought or he was really on a testosterone buzz or something. I am so out of practice with this kind of thing though that it took me a long time to figure out what he wanted!