Good morning Lounge

It is Friday Wednesday!!! My last day of work for this week :woohoo: I came to work this morning packed. My small suitcase, my camera, my purse .... and a portable grinder :rofl:

Yesterday after work I went to a home improvement store to get some things. Now, when I came back and wanted to switch from the tram to the underground the station was closed. Great .... our chancellor Angela Merkel was in town. The station I wanted to use is right beneath the European Central Bank. Police was all over the place. I guess she was there before giving a speech to the public later on.
It was really annoying ....

Picture of the Day (Sweden again. My mom looking at the sea)

and he just got up to brush his teeth. Before I turn the computer off, I thought, I'll post "Good Morning, Miss Honeychurch", and beat you to it, but as you can see I missed the boat by ~15 minutes. Where are you going with your little suitcase?
Are there trees near this shore in Sweden?

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You can take over tomorrow and Friday :)

I am going to visit my mom till Sunday (not in Sweden but in the Black Forest :) )

There are trees near the shore in Sweden, just not at the Island Farö.

I hope to visit mine this summer. She is 94 and lives 4358 km across the country. I wish I could hop on a train to see her!
My brother spent some time in Norway and was invited to stay with a family in their summer cabin with walls each made of three 3' diameter trees- thick log cabin walls!
You say good morning, now I say good night. Have a pleasant mini vacation!

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YAY! :woohoo:

I am so glad this week is almost over... Friday can't get here soon enough.

Enjoy your long weekend! :bounce::bounce:

I am doing the passport application today so I fully expect it to show up tomorrow :rofl:

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Ohhh ... the passport story again :rofl: Let me know where you will have found it :D

Believe me, I will enjoy my long weekend :D

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Can't go away without your grinder ;)

Hug Mom for me and have a great time!! :D

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Nope, have to have my grinder with me :)
My mom's bf needs it.

I will have a great time, that you can be sure of :D

It's my Friday too!:woohoo:

Well, I'm not packed, but all my stuff is out on my daybed next to my suitcase. When I get home after work, I'll just throw everything in and I'm off!

I'm trying to get projects done at work before I leave and yesterday I was there until almost 6:00 p.m. and had even skipped my lunch break. That's just crazy. Now you know why I am so looking forward to this vacation.

You are going to have to much fun at your mom's. Will our brother be able to visit too?

Fabulous picture!

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I wish you a wonderful vacation!!! :hug:

My brother won't be coming. I actually haven't spoken to him since my b.day in February. Nothing unusual.

have a great vacation. Be prepared to be bored with vacation stories when I get back! :rofl:

I'm using up all the perishable food before I leave, so for breakfast I'm having a salad! ;)

I understand about your brother. Months and months go by and I don't hear from my siblings. I invited my sister to visit when I moved to my new place (a little over a year ago), but she hasn't found the time yet. She lives 45 minutes away. :shrug:

to get bored by you :rofl:

I had to finish up my perishable food the last couple of days too. But I am only gone 4 days. Gave my plants on the balcony more than enough water, I hope they survive it.

tomato plants in while I'm gone. Last year I left them outdoors and the soil dried out. They did not like that. I think if I water them well and leave them indoors, they'll be okay. I leave them by the patio door so they get plenty of sunshine.

Gotta head out for work now. So wishing you a great day (a fast afternoon), and wishing you a super time at you Mom's.

See you in June.

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Sweden looks like my kind of place! :D


I spent last night cleaning. All I have to do now is my kitchen and bathroom and take out the trash. I also watched my shows. :D


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The part I've seen of Sweden impressed me. No idea why it took me so long to visit Scandinavia :shrug:

I am proud of you. I was puttering around last night, re-filling my dishwasher and letting it run so that there isn't any life developing I don't want. Also watered my plants on the balcony and packed my suitcase. And watched TV :rofl:

Did you like the shows? Anything I need to know? Is anybody leaving the show?

but it looks like someone might on NCIS. I doubt it though. I'm not telling you anything else. :D

It sounds like you did a lot too!

when Leon, the new director, split up Gibb's team at the end of the season 5.

I had to make sure my balcony plants don't die while I am gone the next 4 days. I watered my tomatoes a LOT!!!

it's a similar situation at the end of the show, sort of.


Well, that makes sense. You did just plant them. :D

of season 6 or 7?

They are showing season 6 here at the moment.

Exactly. I do wanna harvest some tomatoes in the next few months after all.

it was pretty good too.

then I know what to look forward to.

Last Sunday they showed the part when McGee was in the females prison

I'll have to look it up online.

I'll watch it tonight. After I clean my bathroom. :D

now that I found that site I might gonna watch the upcoming shows in English :D

I bet all the characters will sound different. :D

they try to find people with voices similar to the actors.

:D


I don't know why, but I always kind of figured that they sub-titled the shows, not dubbed them :shrug:

of NCIS :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Do3mKST8k

Sometimes I wished they would do it. Some countries are doing that. Sending the movies in the orginal language with subtitles. But Germany dubb them.

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The characters will sound different. :D



One of the things I learned in undergrad is that sub-titling is actually better for your brain. It's easier for it to make sense of the written words. With dubbing, your brain is constantly trying to match the dialogue up with the mouths, and it wears out your brain and pulls you out of the story.

to learn another language.

YAY!!! Now you can come to Germany :D

I wish you a wonderful time with your friends!!

We talk Monday again

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And yes, Sweden is on my list of places to see!

Have a great time with your mom.:)

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Sweden is definitely worth a trip :D

Thank you, I know I will have a great time. Any plans for your weekend?

We're having some unstable weather so that will influence what I'll be doing. But my usual, walking the dogs, going out on my bike, later in the canoe with the dog. Working in my garden; today I have to mow the lawn and weed-whack.

Maybe a cookout tonight.:hi:

paddle too? :hide:

Mmmmm ... a cookout :9 What do you plan to cook if you do it?

will not paddle. She will sit in the bow and look for coconuts. She loves coconuts.

The cookout will be barbecued pork ribs.:9

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bbq pork ribs?? I'm on my way ..... :7

Do you like baked beans and macaroni salad?B-)

saying you don't pay taxes just for the enjoyment of being inconvenienced...:crazy:

i had something similar happen back in college -- I was in a rush to get somewhere and traffic was stopped for about 20-30 minutes for Al Gore's motorcade (he was VP then)...

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I should, shouldn't I? I had to wait another 6 minutes till the next tram showed up. Took me longer to get home than expected.

At least B*sh never came to Frankfurt. Then the whole city would have been in lock-down.

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All ready to go? Even with portable coffer grinder, nothing like being prepared! :thumbsup: Darn politicians! :P

I'll bet that you can leave a little early? :evilgrin:

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No reason to leave before 4pm, my train goes at 4.50pm. Enough time to get to the train station.

Like I just told Blue_Tires, I am glad B*sh never came to Frankfurt. I wouldn't have been able to get anywhere.

No reason to leave early! :cry: Hope you have things to do waiting for the train. :P

I have a book to read. Actually two, just got the catalog for the exhibition I went to last week. And I also can watch Keith Olbermann on my iPod. Once I am on the train I will take a nap as well :)

since you have a 3-hour ride, plenty of naptime. :boring:

The forecast is some rain for our 3-day weekend, but no major storms are in sight. We need a good rain-free long weekend!

I fall asleep the moment the train leaves the station :rofl:

Only some rain would be better already than last weekend, huh?

The whole village was a mudpit and the rain wouldn't quit, even after I ate my spinach, called to the fairies, burned incense, threw salt over my shoulder, tried an un-rain dance--nothing worked. :( But, the show went on! :applause:

that the un-rain dance has to be done naked? :hide:

well, no wonder it didn't work! :P :rofl:

Enjoy your long weekend! :hi: :loveya:

Lonely, stark, desolate photo. I like it. :thumbsup:

Lucky you...last day of the work week.

I set up my vacations for the summer. I will be taking some days off each month. 2 in June at Father's Day. 3 in July for 4th of July and one in August for my birthday. :woohoo:

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Thank you :hug:

YAY!!! Good for you. I will take two weeks in August and one week whenever my grandma is coming :)

Father's Day is tomorrow here in Germany.

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That is a beautiful picture of the sea. That is going to be my daydream for today - instead of being in this boring office I will instead travel to some distant, exotic island and have margaritas with a cute cabana boy!!!

Thanks!!:toast:
backtoblue

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That is a great daydream. Always glad to be of help :D

Security for political leaders everywhere tightened as a result of the assassination of Olaf Palme, didn't they?

Here in DC anything can be closed at any time.