Advent, Advent (2) Wolfsmale and Tiger

Friday the next two packages went out.

The white tiger envelope goes to Australia to Emma. Her art is wonderful and I´m glad I´m in a Moly Exchange group with her. It wasn´t easy buying moleskines and then deciding to let go of them again. ;) I´m glad I´ve got a substitute.

Dorin gets the second package. Actually he was suposed to receive it later, but another gift I ordered hasn´t yet arrive at my place. Dorin asked for Cookies with an erotic twist. Currently I don´t have a lot of time, so I sent him Kamasutra chocolate instead. Then I found his wishlist on amazon, so I could send him a book too.

Anyone wanting a gift, just comment here or at the Advent post and maybe you´ll be the lucky one next week. And please don´t forget to send your address to my email address (see my profile).

Wonderful day!

Somehow men just don´t seem to understand. Yes, I love sex and yes, I love eating too. But when I´m done with eating (food) I usually don´t want anything else.

Today was a wonderful day after all. First I received a coupon for a nice store where I got myself some chocolates. Then today evening I went to see a movie (Lars and the Real Girl) which I had won tickets for. And after all I didn´t go alone, but my "Ausgeh-Freund" (dating-friend) went along. It always nice to meet friends - specially when you haven´t seen them for some time. After two cocktails (Boy, I am drunk! I´m just not used to drinking any more) I went back home, walking on clouds and eating strawberries dipped in chocolate.

Surprise!

It´s after midnight and Benjamin just presented a box to me. I immediately guessed the right content: Chocolate from my favorite Chocolate store in town! I have a weakness for special chocolates and these are just delicious. Each and every piece is made by hand in the store, using only organic ingredients. Delicious! That already made my day. Thanks Benjamin.


Update:
More nice things today: breakfast with a very good friend (she also gave me a Moleskine sketchbook), snow, browsing (and buying) books in the comic shop next door with Benjamin (I have never been there before, because I knew I wouldn´t be able to stop buying comics), flowers from another friend, Plasticine figures from my daughter, movie coupons from my MIL, sister and Benjamin, an anonymous present (I have no clue from whom) etc.

Amsterdam - Day 1

The first day I was quite tired - going to bed at 2 am in Munich and getting up for Amsterdam at 3 am. Still I enjoyed walking around the city and had 12 hours of sleep my first night at the hotel.

I went to a famous coffe shop. It used to be called Chocolata and they used to make wonderful chocolate pralines with a kick ;). But now the shop has been taken over by Abraxas. They do not have all these pralines, bonbons and chocolates anymore, but at least they did have delicious brownies and muffins.

The most important item on my to-do-list was to go to this comic store. It is Europe´s first antiquarian comic shop and it has a great selection of comics in many languages. The Lambiek Stripantiquariaat is as great as I had expected it to be. I could have spent hours there and it took me a long time to decide which comics I would buy for myself. They had so much more phantastic books, but I just didn´t have the budget for that.

These are the 3 comics I got for myself:

• Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
• Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
  
• Alberto by Daniel Bosshart

So far I have only had a look at Alberto. It is a beautiful comic without text. Only in the beginning you can read a page of the journal of the only character of the story. I´ll update that later.

I Have Been Tagged! (2)

I have been tagged by biteyourowntail.



8 (food) facts/habits about myself:

1. Last year I read the sentence: "eat mangoes naked and lick the juice off your arms." I haven´t been able to forget the sentence and find it very stimulating .
2. Ice cubes are a great invention. They make me hot and cold at the same time! ;)
3. My favorite hiding place during my childhood (in India) was a tree in the backyard. Whenever I wanted to be on my own (sometimes to eat a whole piece of "stolen" chocolate from my mom or a mango or to read my books) I climbed up the high tree and had some peaceful hours to myself - specially as no one knew about it. When I was 19 years old I returned to India on a trip and saw the tree. It was huge and I didn´t know how to get up there. I must have been fearless as a child.
4. I love fruits (pomegranates, cherries, mangoes, strawberries, ...).
   
5. I just have/had to try crazy and unhealthy food stuff: green ketchup, strange looking and strange tasting asian sweets and desserts (I could die for japanese sweets).
   
6. My favorite courses of a meal are starters and desserts. I don´t mind omitting the main dish.
   
7. My favorite tastes: spicy or sour. I love any kind of spicy food so I favor Asian food, Mexican, ...
   
8. I´ve tried everything from worm to sharks to turtles to snails to lamb balls to ... (a long time ago). I´m open to almost anything... but I don´t ever want to try something living
9. To sum all 8 facts up: I LOVE EATING! :)
   

The rules:

1. post these rules
2. each person tagged must post 8 random (... hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3. tags should write a blogpost of these facts
4. at the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5. go to their blog and leave a comment telling them they're tagged
   
   

I´m tagging:

This time I´m not tagging anybody. But in case anybody wants to be tagged by me, please let me know. I´ll draw a pic for every person (not more than 8) who sends me a link to his 8 fantastic facts.