A million miles through space and time

Today is a wonderful day.

( Livejournal is back -- here is my withdrawal diary )

The sun is shining, I'm planning on spending the afternoon in a chair on the lawn behind the house rereading Sean Astin's There and Back Again, I'll meet the girls in the evening, I've hopefully gotten rid of all the flour in my hair from the photoshoot yesterday (which was a lot of fun, btw, I probably can show you some pictures towards the end of the week), and I'm listening to Coldplay's new single Every teardrop is a waterfall on endless repeat.

Tomorrow, I'll meet Tine So. in Stralsund and we'll go shopping (and if any penguins go missing from the Ozeaneum in the meantime -- it wasn't me!). We'll also decide which holiday home to pick for our vacation in Sweden in September this week. I'm confident we will find one with an interior design that doesn't make me want to commit suicide within five minutes. Seriously, Swedes, you created IKEA -- you have to have a sense for this kind of thing.

On Thursday, I'll see Harry Potter 7.2 in 3D  with my mom (at least if the cinema is still playing it by then. Cross your fingers!), and on Friday I'll go back to Koserow to see a play ("Der Besuch der alten Dame" -- no clue what it is about) with my parents and Gocker.

Hope you all have a good week, too!

I'm done with the week from hell and I'm tired and lazy and HAPPY THANKGSGIVING, EVERYONE! Also, the answer to all of our celebration days seems to cook something and then watch Supernatural, as Cate put it so nicely. Or, in case of tonight, watch our Irish Lecturer putting together a session (traditional Irish music played in an informal setting aka pub, for all you non-Irish ;). If I'm not asleep by then, that's it.

Anyway, since I need to get going in half an hour again, here have some meme in the meantime.

1. My username is ______ because ______.
hope_calaris is never ever taken, no matter where I sign up. I started out with only Hope, 'cause that is awesome and meaningful all for itself, but then I "borrowed" Calaris from khalaris 'cause that's awesome as well and has a nice ring to it. Also, it's completely unique.

2. My name is _____ because ______.
Christine, because that's the middle name of my mum. I quite like it. To most of my family and friends I'm Tine, which means fire in Irish as I found out this week. Pretty cool, isn't it? Only Gocker is allowed to call me Tinchen and that only because I get to call him Gocker instead of Volker.

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
"Außer Haus", because I was 'pressured' into having an online journal when I moved out to begin my studies in Greifswald.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
"Die Welt", because basically my flist is my connection to everybody and everything I care about.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
The white garden bench back home! One of my favorite places in the world. Nothing compares to sitting there on a warm and sunny sommer's day, reading a book and enjoying the mild wind playing with the leaves of the lilac. "Thankful" is written in the icon as well, because a day like in the picture always reminds of me how blessed I'm with the life I have.

Ich habe es geschafft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nach stundenlanger (und ich meine wirklich Stunden) Arbeit habe ich endlich kapiert, wie man seine eigenen Stimmungsbilder ins lj kriegt. Endlich habe ich animierte Supernatural-Bilder! *macht den Freudentanz* *sieht wie Stef die Augen verdreht* Danke an Claire und lidi für die Erklärung ... hach, bin ich glücklich *grins* Und heute abend kommt das Staffelfinale von Supernatural und ich kann es dann genießen wenn ich es sehe, weil wir ja wissen, dass wir eine neue Staffel bekommen ... das Leben ist schön.

PS: Die Stimmungen müssen ab sofort nicht mehr unbedingt mit meinem tatsächlichen Gemütszustand überein stimmen .. vielleicht habe ich die Stimmung auch nur gewählt weil ich die Szene mag. *pfeif*