Confessions of a Wandering Gypsy Princess

So we spent this morning talking about our upcoming trip over breakfast and then more coffee. A couple of weeks ago we decided to come up with an alternative plan for our trip in case we decide that we don’t feel comfortable going through Africa. My partner is really afraid of my [...]

Now I am running away to the gym, the sweet thing about the gym is that is has a sauna.  Oh how I love thee! Particularly on cold winter days.  And despite having a few days of fantastic warm, spring like weather, today feels like there was a backslide into winter.  But before I run [...]

As insurance is a big discussion in the apartment at the moment (trying to get one that qualifies me for  a work permit as that is often the biggest factor in having your work permit rejected, and the one I have now expires soon), I found out that Germans have insurance for EVERYTHING.   Ok [...]

I love Alix. She always knows exactly what to say and when to say it. And she sent this poem recently, and I love it so much I wanted to share. It is Jack Gilbert’s poem “Failing and Flying”:
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It’s the same when love comes to an [...]

So after writing that post (and posting the pic of my baby, German added by my geeky yet adorable partner), I realized that the middle of February is Valentine’s Day.  And that hee hee whoops, I made plans for the day not with my partner, but with my friend Liana.  And not even like we [...]

If you read my postings over at Sticky Apple Kisses.com you know that we have an old DDR Simson Schwalbe in the restoration process at the moment. I should be ready to own the roads of Stuttgart sometime the middle of February. Or a little after (I am in Madrid from [...]

Apparently my case of the crazies every month can be cured with a dose of progesterone.  If I believed it I would go for it.  Last week I almost slaughtered my partner when he didn’t even offer to carry one of my two very heavy bags up the stairs for me.  Although I do believe [...]

This is it, then I am off to watch a movie.  In German.  Blaaa.  But go to this site to grow your own peppers.  Why do I care?  Because peppers is a running joke in this house.  I love peppers, and in Canada, at least in Newfoundland, they are freaking expensive.  For 3 decent red [...]

Growl, as soon as I wrote that post I remembered that two things on my list was not done today. ( I KNOW, I have become a lister. Really, someone hold an intervention!!!!) Insurance and renewing my library books. (I have become quite boring in my old age. [...]

In what is probably rock  hard proof I have spent too much time in Germany, I now decide how good my weekend is (was) based on how productive it was.  At any time any one of my friends is welcome to come here and drag me kicking and screaming anywhere that involves lots of booze [...]

I swore it would never happen. I would never be one of those. Those addicts. In fact in the past I have angered my friends by my refusal to join the club. To give into peer pressure. To be always pushed towards committing, to be always reachable. I [...]

As always the lovely Alix has wonderful comics to pass on. I wanted to post this sooner, but just like I have been wanting to post my meme tag over at sticky apple kisses, well work has started again. Which means I have 2 hours off per day, and by 9 pm I [...]

In a flash of Sherrie style brilliance I lost my glasses in the ocean on my second day of vacation in the Dominican Republic. I fell over a slimy seaweed infested rock, smashed the case they were in (why I just was not content with my sunglasses I dont know, but I [...]

As I vowed to do yesterday (ahem), I have taken up the sword of meme that Flowers On A Friday graced me with, and will share 7 random (yet true facts about me). So here are the rules:
1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 [...]

Today was a full, yet exhausting day.  We hit the motorcycle convention (and came away still thinking the F650), went to see Oma (in hospital and doing fine after an operation) had supper, and went to go see a German film that translates into No Ears Rabbit.  Its suppose to be a romantic comedy, but [...]

I am such a bad person!  Despite promises to fulfill a meme (and full intentions to do so) AND despite a promise to finish an email to my darling Alix, I am abandoning all!!!  Whats even better than a present  of a gold chain?  A night of beer with Samara!!!  And so being a flake [...]

However!  Just because we are relatively stationary does not mean that we are looking for land for sale yet!  We are still planning a big trip, another reason why its acceptable to have a couch made out of two mattresses instead of a sofa bed.  We did look at sofas beds, of course, and we [...]

For a couch in our living room we have two mattresses with a throw over it. No, it is no fancy couch, but we do have a reason for it! While traveling both myself and my partner have often relied on the kindness of others to host us while in cities. (Outside [...]