things i love monday

haven’t done this in a while. but i guess loving things on monday makes more sense than loving things on thursday anyway. but then again tilt sounds much better than tilm.

real vacations

what i mean by that is vacations from actual working as opposed to studying. this doesn’t mean that studying is not hard, it just doesn’t have as strict a schedule as working so you don’t notice the difference so much. at least that’s how i felt: as if this vacation to portugal was the first one ever that actually deserved that name. anyway, this vacation was in july and i meant to write a whole tilt about it but since it’s been three months already i will give you the short version of things i loved about portugal: grilled fish, being driven around in a car + talking + listening to music, winning at slots and black jack at a casino (as opposed to losing at slots and not getting a place at the black jack table and then leaving disgrunteldly) (we had both), excessive grocery shopping which is then transported home comfortably in a car, reading at the beach (!!!) (i can’t stress this enough!) and being rid of the compulsion to get a tan which means no more sunburns, no more sweating thanks to a parasol, no more being blinded when trying to read, no more snide remarks about „tu n’as pas du tout bronzé“. oh and i also love portugal, especially its old parts where things are starting to fall apart. the new malls and stuff i could do without.

the best part about this though is that my next vacation is just around the corner: i’ll be spending next week at sylt.

making recommendations

i know pretty much everybody loves giving advice or voicing their opinion and almost no one really likes to listen to these things. i guess i am like most people in this respect which means that is just makes my day when i get the chance to make a recommendation, be it about which make-up to buy, about which new music to check out, about which book to take on a vacation, about which movie to look forward to, about where to look for a new winter coat, about which recipe to use for making lasagna, about what to do when visiting a city i know… i don’t even know why i like it so much. i like to think that it’s because i enjoy passing positive experience and helpful bits of knowledge on to other people but probably it’s just about feeling important. a real highlight in this respect was when a friend recently asked me if i could do her make-up for her party. oh the honour!  i suppose it was also a part of the reason why i originally started this poor negelected blog.

noticing an improvement

isn’t it just the best feeling in the world when one day you realize that you have gotten better at doing something? often it’s hard to tell because these changes can be so slight, but then at some point it becomes noticeable. like for example when you manage to run faster after a while, or when you notice that not as much of your work gets corrected. i have had a couple of those recently and it just makes me happy to see that with hard work i can get better at things. what could be more motivating?

adding new blogs to my reader

it doesn’t happen often that i find a new blog which i love so much that i never want to miss anything that is written on it again. but that makes it so much more special when this happens. it always feels like adding a new person to my life and thus gaining access to a whole new world of thoughts and inspirations. so anyone who can recommend a great new blog to follow will really make me really happy. my most recent addition has been this magical and mysterious blog: deerlings & ghostthings
i have to say blogs like these make me feel so mediocre. i seem to have lost all my blogging-mojo – wonder how long i will keep keeping this up. after all what is the point of blogging once a month? then again what is the point of abandoning something that never really was anything yet. that would be like giving up. we’ll see.

mad men

great new show i just started watching. it’s about advertising in new york in the 60s. the outfits are great, the story is kinda dark and mysterious, i like the characters, and i like how ads back then were so different from how they are now but how almost the same thoughts and considerations went into them. it’s almost educational if you will. also i am torn between thinking that it must have been great to live in a time where you could drink and smoke as much as you wanted whenever you wanted to, where wearing dresses and false eyelashed everyday was nothing unusual and being appaled and disgusted by the way women were treated back then. i get now why my mother always says that so much has changed for women in so little time – she saw it all happen.

cougar

and i don’t mean the horrible-looking new show with courteney cox but the band. i found them because they will be opening for maximo park on some of the european tour dates. i like their instrumental indie music, reminds me a little of ratatat. but hear for yourself (beware, strange video)

what do you love at the moment?