Filed under: Our Goings On | Tags: antique, art nouveau, bazaar, geomterisch, Germany, jungenstil
The antique hutch that we purchased at the bazaar the weekend before last was delivered yesterday morning. I’m really excited about it. I cleaned it as soon as John left for work. Today, I gave it another good clean inside the drawers and shelves and started putting things inside.
I really like it. I’m serious.
I got all the information I could about the piece. Apparently the style is called Geometrisch Jungenstil, which is Art Nouveau in English. It was made between 1903 and 1907 in either Darmstadt or Munich.
And finally, here are two pictures of our lovely new dinig room hutch:
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| From SoJo Blog |
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| From SoJo Blog |
This weekend has been incredibly stressful. As I mentioned before, I’m taking a graduate-level statistics class, and I’m in Unit 2 of 4 for the course. It’s already way beyond my comprehension level, so completing the homework for this unit was frustrating to say the least.
John decided he wanted to make a nice dinner for me on Saturday night. That way I wouldn’t have to worry about cooking or taking the time to go out to eat. With the second option, we’d probably only get a semi-decent meal anyway.
He made chicken cordon bleu and a bacon and brussel sprout hash. Neither of us had tried brussel (Brussels, brussel, brussels) sprouts before, and the dish he made was awesome! He served dinner with a Spätlese wine (white) that we got at the bazaar last weekend. It was such a great treat. I’m a really lucky girl!
And this is more for my own memory (so I can get another bottle sometime). The wine is Friedrich Daudistel 2006 Grauer Burgunder Spätlese. The bottle also says Horrweiler St. Rochuskapelle. Rheinhessen, trocken, dry. D-55457 Horrweiler, Honiggasse 8. Telefon 0 67 27/12 36. I hope I can find another bottle!
Here are pictures from dinner:
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| From SoJo Blog |
(notice he even lit a candle!)
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| From SoJo Blog |
great presentation!
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| From SoJo Blog |
we weren’t dressed so fancy for our gourmet dinner, but that made it even better…we were comfortable!
Finally, I’ll leave y’all with a photo of the sunset from sometime last week:
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| From SoJo Blog |
I think I must be getting used to the cold. I walked to and from the store today without a jacket on and it’s 41 outside. Granted, the sun is out, and I would not have made that walk without a coat if it had been cloudy, but STILL! It makes me laugh when I think about it, because I was talking to my sister last week and she referred to the temperature in Dallas as freezing when it was 66 and rainy. It was funny to me, because I used to think the same thing, but now if it was 66, that would be a wonderfully warm day.
Alright. I have to get back to statistics. I will be so glad when this class is over!
Filed under: Our Goings On | Tags: bazaar, Christmas, election, engagement, shopping, wine
We stayed up all night on the 4th to watch the election results come in. Barack Obama was declared the winner and President-Elect just after 6 AM here, and we stayed up until about 6:40 AM listening to McCain’s concession speech and Obama’s victory speech. It was a historic night, and I’m really glad we stayed up to watch it all unfold.
It was really neat to see everyone’s reaction when the results were announced. I know that some people were also very upset, but I hope that everyone will be supportive now that Obama is going to be our next president. I know that won’t happen, because not everyone was supportive of Bush, but I wish people respected the presidency as much as they used to.
Anyway, John took Wednesday off from work so we could recover, but it’s really taken through this weekend for us to get back to normal with our sleep. He also has Monday (today) and Tuesday off from work for a long Veteran’s Day weekend holiday. We haven’t done too much. Today the big thing was that I cleaned my keyboard. Neat, huh?
But really, this weekend has been great. I had given one of my best friends permission to call me any time of day or night under one condition…that she had gotten engaged…and SHE DID!! She called early Sunday morning, and I’m so incredibly excited for her!
The other exciting thing we did this weekend was go to the Christmas bazaar they held on post. Vendors from all over came to bring furniture, antiques, crafts and food. It was a lot of fun. We walked around for about 3.5 hours and bought a bottle of wine, the most amazing cheese I’ve EVER tasted (it’s from Holland) and some chocolates. We also got a nutella crepe, which is one of my favorite treats.
Sunday afternoon, we went back to the bazaar, because we had really liked one of the vendor’s antiques. We ended up getting an amazing 100-year-old dining room hutch. It’s being delivered later this week. I can’t wait to get it and take pictures to show you guys. This is the first big piece of furniture that John and I have gotten together. Of course we have also bought a bed, kitchen table and desks, but they’re from IKEA and won’t be long-lasting. Hopefully this will be. It’s already been around 100 years! The guy who sold it to us says the style was only used from 1903-1907 and it’s either from Darmstadt or Munich. Very cool.
After we made that exciting purchase, we went to see <i>High School Musical 3</i>, which was actually really good. Both John and I thought it was the best of the 3 HSM movies.
Yesterday night, we had dinner at home and watched TV. I had a glass of red wine with dinner and another with some of our new cheese. Too bad those TWO glasses gave me a headache from about 9:45 last night until about 3 this afternoon. Geez.
Today I spent the day “shopping” online. I had no idea what to even ask for for Christmas, because I don’t go shopping much anymore. After digging through Anthropologie, Urband Outfitters, GAP and Amazon.com, I have a pretty good idea of some things I would like to have. It was fun to go shopping even if it was from my computer.
Oh, and since I’m posting on her birthday, “happy birt” to John’s younger sister, Sarah!
It’s 6:04 AM and I’ve been out of bed since 5:25 when John’s alarm went off. I’ve been up since 4:30 when my fan woke me up. It’s going to be a long day, because we’re staying up to see the election results. We should head to bed around 5:30 tomorrow morning. It looks like we’re in for staying up for 24 hours (though I’m sure we’ll both take a nap this afternoon followed by a big cup of coffee this evening).
Originally, we were going to go to a party at the Westin in Frankfurt hosted by the US Consulate. It was an all-night election party beginning at 10 or 10:30 PM. We changed our mind yesterday morning and cancelled our hotel reservations. We decided it was better to save the money. I’m sure it would have been a neat experience, but Frankfurt is an hour or so drive each way (think Austin-San Antonio), and the added cost of food, hotel, and driving while tired didn’t sound so appealing to us anymore.
Instead, we’re having our own 2-person election “party” here tonight. We’ll probably just snack and watch TV until the election is decided.
What else has been going on lately? Um, well, Halloween just passed. I made pumpkin bread for it last week. John took one of the loaves to work at the men in his office really liked it. One of them told me thatnot only was it delicious, but it was a perfectly shaped loaf. I got a kick out of that. He also called it orange Halloween bread. I think I’m going to call pumpkin bread orange Halloween berad from now on. It’s such an awesome name.
We didn’t go out for Halloween. It was rainy and gross, so we stayed in and watched a not scary movie. I think we watched Smart People. It was only so-so. The movie kind of dragged on and it was only 94 minutes long. While I’m on the subject of movies, I want to suggest you watch Love and Other Disasters. We rented it a few weeks ago, and I thought it was awesome. It pokes fun at rom coms (romantic comedies) while being witty and ironic.
All right. Time to go do something with my day. I wish that something was sleep (at least for 1-2 more hours)!
Hi everyone, happy Halloween! I’m sorry it’s been a week without a post. I started my statistics class on the 20th and have been busy trying to make my daily monetary goal with ChaCha, taking care of the house and making meals AND staying up with schoolwork, so I haven’t had time to update the blog. I will get some pictures up soon from out weekend with Michael Ann (on Oct. 18th) soon.
Ok…it’s Friday night at 8:15 PM on Halloween and I’m doing schoolwork. Yay! Hopefully I can get enough done and be able to go out for a litle bit later (just to the bar on post).
We noticed that the fall colors were already disappearing. This is happening much earlier than last year. We decided that the plants are mad because it got cold and then warm again, and as a result, Germany (at least where we live) looks more like a Texas fall than a beautiful German fall. Since the colors are fading fast, we took a drive into the hills to capture as much color as possible.
Once we got into the hills, we noticed that the bottoms of the trees were still green, but the tops had changed color. Now everything is just brownish or barren (it’s been two weeks since we took these photos). This is a big contrast to last year. I got to Germany on November 8th and the foliage was still vibrant.
Also, I want to note (for those of who know about photo editing) that I did not enhance any of these photos at all. The color is just as my camera captured it, and it’s pretty accurate.
One final note, I took all of these photos while John was driving, so the framing, angles, etc. aren’t idea, but hopefully you’ll get a good picture of what it looks like around here (or did 2 weeks ago).
We’re still here, I promise! I’m sorry it’s been just over a week since our last update. I have been trying to make a daily quota for ChaCha, because we’re trying to save for some stuff for our apartment and every little bit helps. As a result, I haven’t had time to blog or respond to emails for awhile. I’ll get back to everyone ASAP. Seriously.
Just two quick things for now - one, Michael Ann came to visit us form Mainz today. We didn’t know her beforehand, but my old roommate Laura put us in touch. Michael Ann used to go to the Austin Stone, but she’s now doing mission work in a town about an hour away from us. We showed her around Heidelberg and Scwetzingen today. We went to the Heidelberg Schloß, the Hauptstraße, the PHV commissary (woohoo! hehe) and the Schwetzingen Kaffeehaus for dinner. It was a great day.
Second, we finally got decent curtains for our bedroom! You all have no idea how exciting this is for us. We had an interim thing up to block out light that was ugly and bothered us both a lot. Now that we have the curtains, it makes such a difference in the room and makes it feel much more home-y for us.
Oh, and last weekend, we took a drive and photographed a lot of the fall foliage, so I’ll get a post together with that stuff soon. The leaves are falling off the trees much faster than last year, which is crazy. The color change happened so fast and then it was basically gone. Today it finally cooled down and stayed cool. Lately it’s been 40-65 or so each day, and today it was 34-58. Nice.
