blogmas #25

Yay! Christmas was yesterday and I know I had promised to post yesterday, but for me, it was more important to spend time with my family and have a good time than spending my day in front of the computer. But first of, here is the promised picture of our Christmas tree, which I decorated all on my own!!

 I'm really proud of what I did with it!!

Also, I got a massive present! Now, I know there is a person thinking it's, like, a trip to LA, or Chicago, because that indeed would be massive, but it isn't. 

No, instead I got an iPod. Yup, an iPod and it's amazing. I always felt jealous because so many had one, and I hadn't, but now that I have it's awesome. I literally cried when I unwrapped it, which is something I always do when I'm like really happy. Or around Christmas in general. Honestly, you should see me sometimes!! I'm just sitting there, wheeping!

Today we will just relax and in the evening we are invited to our neighbours, who will have a Christmas get together.

On the down side, though, my mom and I have to go to the hospital tomorrow, because my grandfather had a stroke yesterday. He's feeling relatively fine, though, but it's still something to worry about, seeing as my grandfather isn't the youngest anymore... We'll see...

Still, I hope you all have a great Christmas and lots of presents!

Until then, don't eat too much chocolate!!

About people being nice

Well... this is not going to be included into blogmas. It's just something I really need to talk about, or else I might explode. Because I'm livid. Livid, because some people are just crap. I'm talking about some people in particular, because they are currently ruining my Christmas with being annoying and unseeing. Really, isn't it much much easier to just be nice and hold onto things that were decided about two months ago?? I know what I'm talking about doesn't really make any sense, but I don't want to go into detail... It just bugs me to no end that people are so unsocial with things that are so unimportant. There really are things that are more important to think and fight about, but no, I and some other friends of mine have to waste our strength and time to defend ourselves and fight with others, only because they are behaving like crap.
I stop rambling now, or else I get even more riled up, but I just had to tell someone, and if this someone is my blog, then so be it.
Until then, don't fight, because it's Christmas!
Spread love, not hate!

blogmas #23

OH GOSH, it's been way too long a break I had from posting blogs. And I'm honestly really sorry. It was just so hectic in the last few days, because it's only one more day til Christmas! I spent most of the week shopping for Christmas presents and I also went to a birthday party of one of my very good friends.
Also, I suffered from really bad headaches most of the week, so I couldn't get myself to do pretty much anything. I'm soorrryy, though, because I had promised to blog EVERY day til X-Mas and here I am, slacking around.

But anyways, for me, it doesn't really feel like Christmas at all, even though the holidays started yesterday and I already got my first present from Mia and also a lot of cards from friends and family members arrived. The main thing that keeps me from getting into the christmassy spirits is the weather. I know I had posted something about me not liking snow or the cold weather earlier this month, but I still believe in a white Christmas. And currently it looks nothing like it. AT ALL. Really, it's warm outside, I didn't even have to wear a coat earlier when I went out. The weather reminds me more of March than of December. And I doubt it'll change in the next 24 hours, so snow at Christmas Eve is out of the picture this year.

Anyway, even though it'd be nice, Christmas is not only about snow and presents, but about spending time with your loved ones. Currently, though, I have the feeling that many people don't know the meaning of Christmas anymore, especially the children. When I grew up, I wasn't anticipating the presents as much as I was looking forward to seeing all of my family. Nowadays, though, the children only want more and bigger present and they completely lose sight of what Christmas is all about. Especially with those advertisements for stores in TV and radio. Really, a shop is making advertisements with the slogan 'Weihnachten wird unterm Baum entschieden' which tranlates into 'Christmas is decided under the tree', basically meaning that it's the most important thing to have big and prestigious presents, mainly electronics, for Christmas. Also, the adverts are almost disgusting, with children fighting for the best presents and everyone simply laughing about them in a merry way. As if Christmas was supposed to be like that. I don't like that, I really don't.

For today, my mom and I have planned to decorate the Christmas tree, because we always do it on the 23rd, one day before Christmas. I'll post pictures, I promise, in the blog tomorrow.

Until then, don't eat too much chocolate,
xoxo Annie

blogmas #19

Hello everyone!!
Today I'm back and I actually did something! Well, first off, I had school until 4pm, but in my lunch break, I went christmas shopping!! Wohhoooo!! I honestly had no presents yet, and I told myself it was about time to start buying some stuff for the peeps. I ended up spending way more than I actually intended to, but I know the people the presents are goint to are going to be happy about them, so I guess it's okay, no?!
Also, I spent my ENTIRE afternoon, well, the bit that was left after coming home from school, with putting together the last present for Mia. It took me, I'm not kidding, 3 HOURS! Listen, Mia, three hours! Be grateful, will you!!
So anyway, obviously I'm not going to tell what I bought, because that would be pretty counter productive in the means of surprising Mia, but I guess you understand... <3

So until then,
xoxo

blogmas #18

Hello... I don't really have anything to talk about today... This day was spent mostly on the couch, browsing the internet and watching TV... What else are you supposed to do at a wintery day, when it's cold outside and you are tired...

So here are some pictures, so this blog isn't a complete waste of time and space.
Until then
xoxo

blogmas #17

Today, youtube is being invaded by people being awesome and aware. Aware that there are things in the world that are less desireable and people who are really really horrible off. There are people living in this world deserving our help.
That's what Project4Awesome is for.
Project for awesome is a worldwide project created by John and Hank Green, and is placed on youtube. Every year on December 17 and 18, people post videos about charities on their channels, raising awareness that there needs to be done something for the people that are less well off than us. There are a variety of videos online for this year already, and I think all of them are worth watching.

Even if you are not able to actually donate to these or any other charities, knowing and raising attention about the problems many people in this world are faced with is very important and crucial to decrease all the worldsuck that is in our world. Knowing is an action already.

I'm not telling you to go out and donate money to charities, because frankly I don't either, because it's just not possible for me, but I encourage each and everyone of you to go out and watch P4A videos and get to know about ways you can learn to make our earth a better place. There is no excuse for not doing anything. You are a person living in our world, so it's our duty to help make this world a better place.

Know that you can do anything, as long as you want to.
Until then, DFTBA(don't forget to be awesome)

Here are two videos I really liked:

blogmas #15

I guess today's my lucky day. You wanna know why?
Well, basically, academically I'm not that good recently, with almost all of my term papers being average to bad, so I was shocked today.
This day couldn't have been any better.
I started off having a pretty good latin lesson, where I was actually able to keep up with everything and had translated almost the whole text correctly. I'm never really this good normally!
After my latin lesson, I had English. English is my best and favorite subject, but still I didn't anticipate the lesson. Why? Well, I knew we were supposed to get back our term papers, and I had a really bad feeling about this one, only because I had dreamt I would only get 8 points, which is a C. You know, for me, a C is really bad, because I hadn't been worse than a B in the last two years. So when I got paper back, I didn't dare look in it, because I was really really frightened my dream would come true and I would get a bad grade. My friend Laura ended up opening it, and promptly threw it back at my head, literally! I opened it myself and started to freaking cry. I didn't have 8 points, I had 15, which is an A+, the best mark you can get. Believe me when I say I was shocked. I was trembling and mumbling incoherrently for the rest of the lesson, not able to speak to anyone really.
The next lesson was really relaxed, because we started watching a movie, Slumdog Millionaire. We had read the book before and now am going to compare the two to each other. It was relaxed, because we had already seen the movie with my German teacher two years prior, so we basically knew what it was depicting. Still, after reading the book, my picture of the movie changed, because compared to the novel, it's really not that good...
After watching the first part of the film, I had a lesson of Biology, where we got a term paper back as well. I'm not that good in any of my science classes, so I was glad when I had 9 points, which is a C+. We mostly talked during the lesson about the upcoming exams, well, they're in May, but our teacher's are very keen on preparing us properly.
Then I had German, where there was a presentation of one of my class mates. We spent the rest of the lesson talking about the topic and didn't really do anything.
My sixth lesson, directly before lunch, was going really well, too, because the test we were supposed to have was cancelled. Like I said, I'm not so good at science, so I was pretty glad.

The only not so great thing about this day, apart from being soaking wet after walking home in a down pour, even though I had an umbrella with me, was lunch. I had taken an instant pasta dish, you know, like Ramen noodles, with me and the only thing I needed was hot water. So I walk into the lunch hall, look around and what don't I find?? Right, a water kettle. Believe me, I was pissed, because I still had lessons after lunch and I was hungry. And I'm cranky when I'm hungry.
Anyway, the last two lessons were gym and me and a friend where supposed to lead a lesson. We had prepared everything really well, and everything went great. We had prepared a little work out and after that introduced them to dodgeball, which is completely unknown where I live. We had a lot of fun, really! After the lesson I walked up to my teacher, asking for the mark and she said it would definitely be either an A or an A-. I was kinda stoked about it, because I'm not the best at gym, so any good mark helps me raise my semester grade!!

So that's it, that was my lucky day!
Until then,
xoxo

blogmas #14

Today I'd like to talk about Christmas episodes of TV shows... I haven't watched too many, actually but I wanted to talk about them, still.

1) Dr. Who christmas specials: OMG, they are awesome. I have the feeling that the Christmas specials arre better than some of the regular episodes, only because there are Santas and elves! I especially loved the episode between the first and second season, with the new Doctor sleeping half the time while the rest of London was attacked by some mad Santa Clauses!! On the other hand I didn't like last year's episode that much, maybe because I was still fixed on David Tennant as the Doctor, maybe because it just really wasn't that good. I don't really know...

2) Misfits' Christmas episode: It was awesome, hilarious and super exciting at the same time. I mean, come on, them giving up on their powers and a baby being born at Christmas Eve in one Episode, what is there more to come? I especially liked the fact that Nathan wanted to give all his money that he got for his power, it was on the A-list, after all!, to Marnie and her baby. Also very cute is that he got so attached to the little one and was a dad in like 0.1 seconds!! so sweet. Nathan's not just the annoying, vulgar guy, but really sweet at heart. Me likey!

3) Glee christmas episodes: Gosh, that's the reason I'm writing this post in the first place! I watched this year's episode earlier today and it was amazing! I laughed through the entire time it was in black and white, except for when Rory started reading from the bible. It was really well done, in my opinion, better than the first one, even, and that one had been great already. I was falling down my chair when I saw Noah and Finn being dresses as if they were from Star Wars! It was so hilarious. The only thing I don't like was the bratty behavior of Rachel. I mean, she had been really nice and getting better during the first episodes of season 3 and then she turns back into this high maintenance girl with one thousand wishes. I mean, she's JEWISH, she's not even supposed to celebrate Christmas or even get presents!
And I hated Artie, but that's common knowledge that I really can't stand him. He had PROMISED Sue to sing for the homeless people and as soon as there is something that gets him fame, he forgets all about it and doesn't care that there are other people that have more urgent needs than what he  has. Urgh, I just really don't like him, never have, never will. My best friend, Mia, and I call him Howie, because we weren't able to remember his name in the first season and it just stuck... Howie is stupid...

anyway, until then
keep on watching!

blogmas #13

I think we have reached a point where I can tell you a story. I kinda embarrassing story. About last year's Christmas...

Well, it all started reasonably nice, with the exception of me flipping out when I saw the presents I got(Glee season 1, Glee calender, CD from Freelance Whales!!!, etc.) So it actually wasn't that bad. It was rather nice and christmassy really.
But then, when everyone had gotten their presents, my mom announced that she had another present for me. I was like, oh great, more presents! YAY! My mom went out of the sitting room and left me with her best friend, who always celebrates Christmas with us two(I live with only my mom). She didn't take long to fetch what ever she wanted to get and announced her coming back in. Except it wasn't her, well at least not her alone. I know, you think she got someone awesome with her, like Darren Criss, who's just at the top of my head, for really no particular reason... Well, let me just tell you that it wasn't Darren Criss, or any other HUMAN for that matter. It was rather...

... a muppet. Yup, my mom had gotten me a pretty large muppet. Elmo, to be exact. I will tell you my reactions:

1)OMG
2)WTH
3)WHY?
4)I started crying.
Yes, I started crying because a freaking puppet. And it weren't tears of happiness. I was terrified! It is really large and scary looking, in my defense, even though it is ELMO!!

I love the muppets and especially Elmo. I know technically he's not a muppet, because he's from sesame street, but still. I now really love it to no end, but it's still slightly scary, that's why it's never in my room. Thinking about waking up in the middle of the night having this puppet stare at you gives me shudders!!

Anyway, I just wanted to share this christmas story with you guys...

until then,
don't get terrified!

blogmas #12

Okay, this is going to be very short, but I just wanted to tell whoever wants to listen that I'm not in the likes with technology. Really, I hate everything that is more intelligent that I am and apparently our printer is. Really, do you have to study physics or something only to change the cartridges?? I had to print my english assignment in blue, only because I was too stupid to figure out how to put the new clour in... Hrmmpf, I do not like that...

On a happy note, I wrote my last exam for the semester today and I actually knew more than I thought Ib would. I was still very bad, mind you, but I think I have at least one maths problem right... There's still hope!!

Until then,
xoxo

blogmas #11

Okay, so I really wanted to post something yesterday. I really wanted to tell you about my gift shopping trip. And I had planned to do it after reading a few pages of Mockingjay(SO GOOD). And I honestly wanted to close my eyes for only a little moment, but when I woke up it was 8.30... I was still wearing the big hoodie from the night before, for heaven's sake! I'm glad I didn't die of heat during the night!!

So I guess I have to tell you now...

It started in a huge chaos! My friend that I went with had texted me saying she would pick me up at my place at 9.45 so we could go to the train station by car. You have to know, it had started snowing the night before and it was like really bad outside. Knowing me, I would've fallen had I walked to the train... So I was waiting for her at 9.45. And I was waiting, and waiting, and waiting, but she didn't show up. I was really starting to worry, because the streets were icy and there could've been an accident. There wasn't. She arrived, like, 8 minutes before the train was supposed to leave, apologizing profusely. She had had to wait at the traffic lights for almost ten minutes, because they had been acting crazy and wouldn't turn green. In the end she followed the car in front of her driving at red.... So we rush to the train station, well, we rushed the good we could, and arrived at the train in time. So we hurry towards the platform and we are, like, a foot infront of the rails, when the barriers go down, keeping us from reaching the train on time. It really were maybe 10 seconds!! You can imagine how frustrated we were.

After thinking about what we would do, we decided against waiting for an hour to catch the next train and drove to the nearest bigger city by car. We actually didn't want to go there, because it doesn't have a Starbuck', but we really weren't in the mood of waiting.
And the trip there actually paid out well. I got soo much stuff, though most of it are not really presents at all. I felt kinda bad at the end of the day... Anyway, I got great stuff, so that's all that matters!

I guess I'll have to do some more gift shopping where I live, now, but that's okay...
I really just wanted to tell you about my adventure!
Until then,
xoxo

Blogmas #9

The most wonderful day of the year... I can't wait for Christmas, it's only 15 more days... Tomorrow I'll go gift shopping, and then it's almost time to celebrate. Time can't go by fast enough in my opinion. 15 more days...

Isn't that pretty? I ♥ Christmas...

BLogmas#8

I'm sooooorrrryyyyy.... =(
I'm a horrible blogger... really, I just couldn't get myself to write anything in the last to days... I got back to being sick and that meant sleeping the whole afternoon... And yesterday I had a workload of stuff to do for school, so anything else was pretty much not in the picture... okay, that's a lie, I watched the new glee episode... three times?=D I don't know if you know, but I'm in LOVE with Glee. Like, really very much. Angry Blaine was... RAWR!! =)

What I actually wanted to talk about today was my favorite books. I'm a big big book nerd and I spend a whole lot of money on Amazon to get new books. Here are a few of my favorites:

1) The Hunger Games Trilogy: BLOODY BRILLIANT, pun intended! I haven't finished Mockingjay yet, but I really liked the other ones. I would suggest everyone who likes good books to read them, preferably in English, because, for example, the German translations in almost every book sucks. Big time.

2) Books by John Green: I don't even have to take a specific one, because all of his books are amazing. Well written, funny, sad at times, with a whole lot of pop culture references? That's really all you need to have a good book, don't you think? I can't wait to get my copy of his latest novel, 'The fault in our stars'. OH, yeah, it'll be signed!

3) 'Anna and the french Kiss', by Stephany Perkins: SO ROMANTIC AND SWEET! I read it in two days, it was just soo lovely!

4) '13 little blue envelopes', by Maureen Johnson: Also, a really great book, along with its sequel, though I liked the first one better. It's cool to see a person travel because someone else wants her to... Might sound weird like this, but you'll get what I mean when you have read it. It's really cool.

5) 'Just don't fall', by Josh Sundquist: It's a little out of order with the other ones, because this is a biography of paralympic competetor Josh Sundquist. It's his story how he coped with his cancer and his life to success, even though he has only one leg. It's really emotional and inspiring.

6) 'Mr God, this is Anna', by Fynn: This book, this little book, has such a pretty message. I bought the book after beginning to listen to the audiobook, only because I wanted to have it in my hands and be able to highlight things. It's such an amazing book, even if it only tells you about a little girl, the most inspiring little girl you'd EVER meet. I can only reccomend it!

I think that's it for now. So some people could think now, why I didn't include the Harry Potter books. You know, Harry Potter's just not only a book to me, it needs its own category. It's a life-filling world of complete and utter awesome. There, I said it. Harry Potter's not just a book, it's an attitude to life.

Until then, keep reading!

Blogmas #5-AM I FOR REAL?!

Soo, do you remember what I posted, like, two days ago? Something about the weather being like it's in April? Yes, I said that. Well, I guess the weather decided to actually start to behave appropriate to the month. 
When I walked to school this morning it was raining. Like really badly.
When I was in school, we had a little bit of sleet.
When I went home from school, it slowly began to snow a little more than rain.
Now it looks like this:

 

It's a little blurry, because it's dark already, but there's about 2-3sm of snow

So I guess this is the first dnow of this year's winter. I'm not saying it is the first snow of the year, because about 9 months ago, it looked like this: 

   We had about 30cm of snow from November '10 to early April '11...

 

I'm curious as to what this winter is going to bring us. I mean, I'm not living in the coldest areas of the world and we still had two really hard winters in a row... 

 

We'll see...

until then, don't slip! 

Blogmas #4

Hello,
today, I'd like to talk to you about Christmas movies. I love watching Christmas movies throughout the entire year, even though some people think it's weird. Here are my favorites:

1. Love actually : I have seen this film probably 100 times already, and I still love everything about it. I'm not that big a fan of Hugh Grant, but in this movie he's lovely and dorky and really good. Also, the wedding scene? SO romantic!! I really love this film and am sure I'll watch it in the next few days again. It's soo great!

2. the holiday: I LOVE it! It's just soo sweet and romantic and I cry everytime I watch the film. It's just so sweet how Jack Black's character cheers up Kate Winslet's character, or how Jude Law act with the children. Mr. Napkin face is just soo adorable! Really, if you haven't watched it yet, please do, it's just soo lovely!

3. Home alone: I grew up watching it EVERY Christmas and it's just soo funny. 'nuff said.

4. Jingle all the way: Also a film I grew up with. I still have it on VCR, but it's so old I'm probably not going to be able to watch it... =( It's just sooo funny and sweet!

Also, there's a TV show I watch every Christmas season, because that's the only time it is broadcast in Germany. 'the secret world of Santa Clause' It's awesome, even though it's for like, pre-schoolers, but I still watch it whenever I stumble across it!!

I hope you'll have a nice rest of the day, I'll be on a really nice Christams concert at my church this evening. I'm going to love it, I already know!!

Until then,
xoxo

Blogmas #3

Soo... like I said, I was out sick the last few days. There's this thing that happens to me when I'm sick, you know? Yeah... I get bored. Like, really really much and when I'm bored I tend to be really moany and I literally nag the whole day. So to prevent me from getting bored, I browsed the webs, on the search of something to do that kept me from becoming really nasty to be with!

Now, anyone who knows me at least a little bit knows that I'm freaking obsessed with TV shows. Honestly, I love watching TV shows and if I like one really much, it could happen that I watch every season available in one go. Which is what happened. Yup. I watched, or currently am watching, an entire TV series, only to not get bored. I mean, I could do other things, like learning for school, because there are two really important exams for me coming up, or I could finish reading that one book that I should have had finished last week... OR I could do homework! I still have to write an entire chapter to hand in in my English class...

But no, I watch a TV show. In my defense, it's awesome. It's called 'Misfits'. It's british, which is a plus, it's science fiction, which is even better, and it's hilarious, which is the cherry on top. Seriously, it's amazing. The characters are so well written, I am laughing or feeling with them the entire time, which is really something I look for in a TV show.
If you want to, you can check it out! Like I said, it's A-MAH-Zing!


On a side note: The weather currently going on around me is reminding me next to nothing of Christmas. It's December, for heaven's sake, where's the ice and snow? It's weather like we have in April, APRIL! Come on!

until then,
keep on watching!

Blogmas #2 - I look forward to:

So... I had actually planned on blogging EVERY day in December up to Christmas, but I failed at the very first day. But it honestly wasn't my entire fault...Well, actually it was... Anyways, yesterday I was so sick I had to sleep the entire afternoon and wasn't able to do pretty much anything, so blogging was out of the window for me.

Anyways, I really hope I can make it up to you in blogging every day from now on. And because tomorrow's weekend and I'm still out with a cold and feeling pretty much like an elephant trampled over me, I'm pretty sure I'll find the time to write something.

So for today, I'd like to tell you what I look forward to the most for Christmas:
- cookies: I loove Christmas cookies. Not only eating them, but also baking. It's just a wonderful feeling to be in the kitchen for a couple of hours, smelling the delicious flavors of the different cookies and later be able to indulge in them. Be sure to read some recipes in later blogs!

- the calender: In Germany and I think also other countries in central Europe, we have a tradition. Every child (or whoever feels like a child!) gets a calender with 24 little doors, or presents, each present for the days from the 1st December up until the 24th. Most of these calenders contain little chocolate figurines, but you can also make the calenders on your own, with little presents varying from lipbalm to fluffy socks! Most of these presents could be found in a stocking, but we don't have that in Germany, so we compensate with the calender. This year, my best friend Mia have decided to give little presents to each other, so we have a little chocolate calender, as well as a slightly bigger one, with more personal little presents. I'm SOO looking forward to them!!

- the music: I am in love with Christmas carols. Personally I think there's nothing that can make the Christmas time better than the music accompanying it. It just makes me all fuzzy and... it's just lovely...

- snow: Now, I'm not a wintery kind of person. I really don't like the cold and snow is pretty much the last thing on my wish list. Except for Christmas. I think Christmas is only a real Christmas if there's at least a little bit of snow on the ground. It makes it all the more comfortable to sit inside, cuddled into a blanket, a cup of tea at your side, reading a good book and just feeling content. And that's what I love about Christmas: the content feeling that comes with knowing you are right where you belong to be: in the midst of your loved ones

So I'll see you tomorrow, I promise!
Until then, xoxo