... and suddenly you got a training husband ...

lol the other day I watched "King of Queens" the episode where Carry has a working husband and Doug is jealous because he hasn't ... at the and it turns out that Deacon is Dougs working husband lol funny one.

Anyway from today on I have a training husband. B. and I go to the gym since August. When I started I had some personal traing with a woman. She is very funny so we started to small talk about what I am doing for living and what my hobbies are. She even went to a Big Ben concert and enjoyed it.

So today we went to the gym. B. had trouble with his membership card and when I signed in he had disappeared, so I went to the changing room. When I came out he wasn't in sight so I went to the course ... he wasn't there ... the course started I was all on my own. When I came out of the course he came to me and told me that he had trouble with the membership and that he got some things done and that we would go home now. So I headed the changing room again, when that personal training women shouted after me. She told me she had talked to my man where I was and we were joking around about that.

When I came out from the changing room I had something to do at the counter and she came again to me and looked worried. She asked me if everything is alright because we hadn't done the course together and why B. was leaving just like that not waiting for me and that he had looked peeved bla bla ... I was thinking "What is going on". I told her that everything is alright and she shouldn't be worried lol

But so fast you get a training husband lol

A picture of the training couple:

Hugs
/J.

strange me ....

I did it again .... I decided to buy something and realized that they stopped producing it lol. This week while I was training for the run I'm gonna do next week I decided I should get me another MP3 player for that run, because my ipod touch is just too big for that occasion. Then I had the idea to puchase one of those little ipod shuffle since my music is converted to itunes anyway it it would make things easier for me because of I buy a regular MP3 player I would have to convert the files in MP3 first. So after the training I went to the store, but where they had those with clips months before ...(they were almost throwing them after you around X-mas) ... nothing was left. I realized that there was a new generation of ipod shuffle so obvioulsy they took the other ones out of the program grrrr.

Now I spent the whole morning with finding them online and finding one that would be here in just some days. This is better said than done since it seems that they are either way to expensive for a thing that isn't even recent anymore lol or I found strange shops where I'm not sure if the thing I ordered would ever reach me.

I think I have to go for a regular MP3 player and I will have to spend the time with putting MP3 files on it. damn it!

Have a nice weekend
/J.

Another long week .... and full of food

This week seemed it would never end ... although we had just 4 days of work, since Monday was holiday in Germany because of Easter. So I came back to work, after my small holidays (took 4 days of my rest holiday from last year and got 10 free days ... nice deal huh?) with the intention not to go into the stress life again and leave candy and sweet stuff aside since I had eaten far to much during Easter ....

My colleague was sick so that was the deal with the stress free time and my boss and another colleague brought cake and candy so even that itention was destroyed after just 3 hours at work on Tuesday. I went to the gym on Tuesday evening .... Ben cancelled our traing .... he is gonna suffer for that lol ... being at the gym felt good, even if I ran only 2 km this week at the gym ... the day after my whole body was aching. I hope that's the pain the muscles come from, otherwise I will be destroyed lol and will hate me for that waste of time hehe. Otherwise I worked quite a lot this week. So not that much to report.

Oh I made a new years promise ... don't even remember if I wrote it here but either way I'm looking for a new Church to go to. So I think I found one. Will attend the service there this Sunday and see if I like it. Would be so cool if they even had a choir. I long so bad singing in a choir again. I will keep you updated on this progress.

Tomorrow I will go to the gym again ... after that rehearsals and after the rehearsals Mary will have her house warming party in her new apartment. This is gonna be fun I think :)

That was my short update! Have a great weekend :)
Hugs
/J.

Murphy's law ³

Last tuesday I had really bad luck with the public transport when I was going to my training. I went to the subway with music in my ears and reading a book. I went by subway quite a time when it suddenly stopped at a station. I was wondering why it took so long to go on and heard someone talking. when it was said something again, I took my earphones out and heard in the last minute that there is an emergency one station after and that this train is getting back in the other direction. So I grabbed all my stuff and jumped out of the train, realizing that there were standing hundrets of people outside already.

I had to wait there for like 20 minutes seeing subways arriving and going back in the other direction. Then finally someone said that we should go upstairs and wait for the bus bringing us 2 stations further to enter the subway again. all people went up. now those hundrets people were standing on the street waiting for a bus. we didn't have to wait that long when a bus arrived. I was confused since this was the wrong direction , but still all people were jumping into that bus and since I didn't want to miss the possible right bus I did too. when I finally had a seat the woman next to me said that she asked the driver and that this bus is going 2 stations in the wrong direction and then right so I thought well at least I have a seat so waiting 10 minutes more is alright, when the dirver said that this bus is going back the whole way .... so all the people were jumping out again .... so did I. then we all changed to the other side of the street, when a full bus passed us. I was waiting there again some minutes, when a man walked by and said that this is not the right place for waiting, so all the people ran to the end of the street, where the next bus just closed its doors in front of me. I was swearing again. not long after that a security guy came and said that the subway is going again .... all the people went down again .... so did I. But guess what, I just saw the train departing when I entered the gate. so I had to wait of course another 10 minutes for the next one to arrive ....

So that was my Tuesday afternoon...

Funny looking back at it but not when I was right there!

Hugs
/J.

.... more about yesterday...

So well, after I switched off the computer the day was quite interesting as it continued, since I could make some home improvement from 8:00 am on. I got an angle grinder from my colleague since I had a marquee on my balcony since I moved her. It was from the tenant who was living in my apartment before me, so when he moved he told me he had taken down that thing when the house and the facade were refurbished. He said it just has to be installed again .... which wasn't quite the truth as I realized later on when I and some friends wanted to install it again. Since the facade got some isolation it didn't fit anymore and that guy was just to lazy to bring it to the dumpsite. So had it laying on my balcony not able to move it, since it was even to heavy for 3 people and it was like 4 meters long so it had to be in parts. So I did it yesterday which was quite an adventure since I never had handled an angle grinder before. It was heavy and I was a little afraid about the sparks that were jumping out while using it. But I managed it. Then I wanted to bring those parts to the dump down on the street where a neighbour saw me and threatened to call the police when I put the things there. So what to do I brought them down 7 floors and was not even thinking about getting them up again ... so I tried to fit them in my cellar, which didn't work, so I had to find another place where I put them now until the carbage collection takes place .... need to make a call tomorrow, wondering how much it will cost.

After that was done I took a look at my now so big balcony. This thing took so much space eventhough it was just laying on the floor. So this success made me thinking what to do next. It was n't that difficult since I had been to IKEA the week before and bought some more cupboards that needed to be installed on the wall. I had just some time so I did that next. When I finished that I had just some time to eat a bun and then I headed to the sport where Ben was waiting for me. We were training like 2 hours and had a lot of fun. After that we went to his place and waited for Mary to arrive since it's just 2 weeks until our next concerts and rehearsals had to be done. So we were working on new steps and choreo, quite frustrating for me since I wasn't able to co-ordinate my bands lol. I know that it sounds weird but it was just like that.

So I was home at 1:30 am, a lot earlier than usual, but it was good that way since I needed some sleep.

Quite a busy day I can tell =) But I still had today to relax.

Hugs
/J.

The past days were not that easy ...

So, how do I start this one now without sounding like a total idiot lol a lot of thing happened the past days which turned my little world upside down ... two of my closest friends (a couple) were talking about getting seperated, which knocked me down totally last Saturday. I just came from the gym exhausted and then I got that message ... felt like being torn apart, since both are very close friends of mine ... what would someone else normally do? I just want them to get along again and don't split up, but that's not in my power actually .... so I spent the Sunday with thinking what impact this will have on my life ... a huge I can tell ... even though I won't give details ... so that was my Sunday basically.

Monday I spent a long day at work. I planned to have 2 days of at the end of September and now I'm working my ass off to get things done until then since there is a big project I have to complete until then. The project is the service charge reconciliation of my properties .... which is semi exciting. I like this part of my job, which is due once a year but it's also a very stressfull period. Either way I have to get it done until 20th september, my personal goal is end of august, which I won't make, that's what I can tell you from the status of today ... but you never know.

Yesterday I went to the gym again .... which makes me thinking of that I haven't written down, that I was insane enough to sign up for a 6-km-run. Yes you read right I will join the big event in Berlin on the 09-09-09 which is a company run. I never run more than 2 km in my life and that was back in school. Even there I almost collapsed at the end so this is gonna be a real challenge. I will be very proud in case I will make it. So now everytime I am at the gym I'm also training for this run. I made 6km on the cross trainer yesterday hoping that it is sort of similar to what will expect me in 3 weeks ... I will have to prepare some good music lists on my ipod I guess ....

Today long day at work again .... tomorrow work until 5 and then I will head the gym ...

what a life lol
hugs
/J.

First training at the gym is done

So yesterday I had my first personal training, which was quite an experience but a lot of fun. I got to know things about my mussles that I didn't know and did you know that I seem to have coordination. I never knew that, since I usually feel sort of out of order when I'm doing the first things for a new choreography for BIG BEN. So that was quite encouraging to hear, especially when I think that there is some new choreography waiting for me this saturday. Ben told me, he told that already but I didn't believe him, so now that I have a more professional optinion on that I will believe him in future... Good news was that I didn't have any aching mussles today, which was quite surprising.

Today I had my very first training with Ben, which was quite funny and now I finally have hurting arms ... next unit comes on Saturday. So now I gotta clean up my bathroom, since the washing machine comes tomorrow. This is quite exciting, actually lol ...

C ya
/J.

Long day tomorrow

Today was not that interesting, besides that I'm still grieving that I didn't get a Macbook lol, so I rather write about tomorrow.

Tomorrow I will go on a small businesstrip to Leipzig, where I have 2 buildings I take care of. I'm working with those properties for half a year now, but have never been there, so this is gonna be interesting. So I will have to get up at 6:00 a.m. usch to be in Leipzig in time, the first appointment is at 8:30 a.m. After that we will go back to work in Berlin. In the evening I will have my introduction training in southern Berlin at 8:00 p.m. so I will go there directly from work. I bought new training trousers and my bag is almost ready, so that I won't miss anything. Just hope I think of that bag when I leave the house that early tomorrow. lol

So that's what I will do tomorrow, just the main parts, because I'm sure there is a lot more then just this to do...

have a nice day ....
/J.