Sperm meets egg

What 15 Euros at Amazon will get you....20 OPK´s and 5

HPT´s

It´s that time of the month again, and I don´t mean a visit from Aunt Flo. No, it´s CD8 and according to the sperm meets egg doctrine it´s time to get busy, do the horizontal tango, baby dance, hump, or whatever it is that you care to call it. A year ago, if you had told me about people who go to such great lengths to get knocked up and that I would be one of them, I would have told you that you were crazy. Here we are, and while I know that it is possible to get knocked up from one brief encounter, I am not taking any chances now. I´ve read up, stocked up, and am ready to roll (in the hay) and will be doing so all this week. Now if you´ll excuse me, I have work to do...

Procrastination

Merriam Webster defines it : to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done

But I would prefer to call it making use of time in a more pleasurable/suitable way. I should be working on a lovely legal translation from English to German. Besides not being my favorite way to translate--it´s soo much more fun to do it the other way. Or that´s what I tell myself when I´m doing something from Eng->Germ. or conversely when from Germ->Eng. I find legalese rediculous, and sometimes the German is more straightforward, but only sometimes. As my husband said to me this morning, lawyers come up with great stuff like " the worker may use the toilet if the toilet suits the purpose of being a toilet." So instead, you see, I´m procrastinating, or using my time more suitably to blog. When I feel motivated, or the deadline for having the contract done looms, I will start work again. In the mean time, I will think about my x-mas decorations, going shopping for Christmas presents with the money I will get for having translated this said contract, and what color I should paint my toenails. Oh wait, I hear DH arriving with lunch, so I guess I will have to delay those pleasures, further delaying working on said contract.

bulbs and all that good stuff

In preparation for spring I have been planting lots of spring bulbs....I never knew that kneeling or squating close to the ground could be such an athletic activity, but today my thighs and butt are soooo sore. I haven´t quite finished, but my guesstimate is that I planted about 200 bulbs. I had a pack of 65 tulips and various packages of daffodils and hyacinths. I need to get my alliums in, but I think I´ll wait for another day....the thought of digging lots of holes 40 cm deep in our rocky soil is not terribly exciting. I didn´t realize just how rocky our soil was till I tried to dig a hole and heard nothing but crunch, crunch, crunch. DH is home sick this week, so he enjoy "supervising" this endeavor and I couldn´t wait for him to take a nap.

Speaking of DH, I can´t really say that he has been a baby, but he´s certainly needy. It´s been quite an adjustment to have him home while I´m trying to work. I love him, but I´m looking forward to his returning to work. I certainly hope that the anitbiotics kick in soon....

Time for change and other stuff

I´m pretty excited to watch the election results as they come in today. I wish I could be in Berlin for the big Democrat Election Party (now you know who I voted for) but I can´t since I have to work in the morning. I think DH and I will be staying up late and maybe getting up in the night to check on it. I´ll for sure check on it when I get up at dark thirty to go teach, but I want to know, and I want to know now!! I´m glad that my vote has been recieved and will be counted, but I don´t know if it will help....damn southern states that like republicans. I want to know how a state that elected Bill Clinton as governor and later as president could go to the republicans these last couple of elections.....grrrr. The state newspaper is called the Democrat Gazette for pete´s sake. Some things I will just never understand.

On a more domestic note, the landscape architecht is here today planting some trees in our yard (cause the 20 I already have are not enough....) and our yard is slowing taking shape. I can´t wait for them to bring our dirt so I can actually get out and plant all the bulbs I´ve purchased. I think I have about 100 tulips and 100 daffodils and several hundred grape hyacinths as well as regular ones to plant....lots of back-breaking work.

Halloween and other stuff

The lovely guests

The pumpkin carving contest with those crazy Krauts!

Unfortunately I don´t have a picture of DH or the other guests, but one them has promised to give me copies later this week, so I hope to be adding them...I wouldn´t want anyone to miss seeing Frankenstein or all of my handywork creating a graveyard outside. Yes, we had Ichabod Crane buried out next to the drive along with Casper and another. All in all it was loads of fun, and we discovered that NIght of the Living Dead is not really all that scary.

The "do"

So after much procrastination I finally went to get my hair cut and the color touched up...I hate going and it´s always so expensive...so after nearly running over a goose in the middle of the road who would not budge (another story) I got to this new hair salon not too far from our house. I enjoyed being her only customer for most of the time and having a nice massage to go along with it. I was sure it was going to be really expensive for the cut, color, style and massage, but it came to 45 Euros!!! I think it´s a screamin deal and am quite proud of the results. I asked her to make me about 10 kilos lighter, but that was not possible. So here are the results of which I am quite satisfied, if not proud. Excuse the picture since I took it myself

A glorious day

One of my favorite trails in the neighborhood
The house from the front, note the lovely "fence"and lack of landscaping

The path the landscape architecht managed to finish. Stay tuned for more landscaping adventures. Coming soon, November 4th....

Today was such a nice day that I decided to concentrate on getting things done out and about instead of spending time at home. This morning was nice and crisp, but it warmed up a bit as the day progressed, and Mr. Sun made a grand appearance, so I tried to take some pictures of our house and neighborhood. I went to the nursery around lunch time to pick out a Lilac bush for our yard and they had what I wanted, but not quite large enough to suit the paper pushers sitting in Moritzburg, so the nursery is trying to find a 6 foot version since the largest they had was about 5. After that I went to pick up some groceries and it was quite an exercise in self-control not to throw all the yummy looking things in the cart. Mental note to self, never, never go shopping around lunch time if you´re hungry!! I managed to control myself and pick out a nice salad for lunch and yummy yoghurt. This afternoon I went on another hour long walk and I am hoping to squeeze another one in this weekend with DH. (I read an article in Family Circle that people who walked 3x a week for an hour or longer lost weight faster).