>..well technically it is not spring yet, but have an enchanted little preview. 
Sssshhh… don’t wake the little hatchling.
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>To get rid of the soreness in my muscles (Tai Chi last evening *g*), I made an extended round through Bergedorf after I finished weekend shoppings. I found a few nice things to add purriness to my home.
First I have an older sight to show, I finally took a picture of my little starlights on the drawer in my snoozecorner:
Then during the week I found these adorable fake plants:
So this is what my kitchenwindow is currently looking like:
Today I found a 100% transparent shower curtain, whee! (Into my shower falls not much light, the more light gets through the curtain, the better.) The curtain has goldfish and Zen-looking stones printed on, pretty neat:
And when I looked into the flowershop just to ogle all the pretty springplants that would not survive with me indoors anyway, I overheard the sales-lady saying to a customer: „And here we have a Zombie plant in a glass, very stylish.“ This caught my immediate attention, LOL!! She repeated it several times, but she meant a „Zamie“ (Zamioculcas zamiifolia).
In one point she was right, though- it looked extremely good in a glass – so good that it was allowed to come home with me:
And since I like symmetry, I got a glass for my resident Zamie (resident evil? LOL) as well and transferred it to it. Am now curious if it will like it in there. They look very good, though:
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>Starting with the hooray! *g* Finally, after taking a break around the holdidays, I am back to my little „I wanna loose weight“ programm. After a hard fight (that bloody kilo did not want to leave me) I can finally announce the next noticeable number- good bye kilo 25!
Now on with the „argh“- of course I tried to dig out some memory from my brain about the Tai Chi moves… To my great surprise (and slight horror, LOL!!) my *body* has forgotten nothing, as soon as I start a move halfway correctly, it falls into the correct movement. But my brain is a complete disappointment. I totally forgot what comes where, so to speak, LOL!!
Trying out to recapture what could be remembered I ended up in a hopeless tangle, LOL!! Well, I will be watching Tai Chi vids all weekend (blessed be the interwebz!)…and seek out professional help:
© Ailanreanter (I made the drawings and animated this years ago)
A Ringwraith doing a Tai Chi move.Edited to clarify the picture above.
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„Wheeeeeeee“ kinda sums it up!
First surprise in the morning- my head librarian offers me to try out her highend office chair. (In the recent boss-employee talk, I had told her that I get an achy back from my current chair) So I sit and within half an hour all „ouchies“ are gone. I bring the chair back and and praise it muchly and she says, well, then she will go see what she can find for me. Goodness, I am getting not only a new office chair but also possibly a great one.
On it goes. When checking my emails around midday, I find an announcement by Amazon, that finally the fourth volume of the Green Rider series by Kirsten Britain is going to be published very soon.
Blackveil
Of course I had to pre-order it ASAP! Looks as if I will spend my holiday practising (see below) and reading…And then, also at midday, I had sent mail to my Tai Chi teacher from some years back, to inquire about a new beginner course starting in March.
Not only does she welcome me back most happily after years of absence, no, I am also invited to skip the beginners and go to an „intermediate“ course instead. And that means that I could theoretically start just today- as is, I am starting next Thursday.
I am so happy I could explode, LOL!! I should have done this years earlier!
Now this means some hard work for the next days, though, LOL!! A lot of stretching exercise will have to be done in order for me to survive next Thursday evening. *snickers at self*
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>Here’s the promised picture of the new curtains
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>Today I found a new set of curtains for my kitchen, yay! They resemble a bit the ones I got first, currently they are hanging to dry on my balcony door. As soon as I have them up tomorrow, I will take a piccie.
This beautiful sight I found yesterday afternoon- it almost looks like a map with continents and many spread out isles, I think:
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Here you can even see the rooftops if you squint:
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>I am having very purry Christmas so far. Seeing the parents, getting yummy food, sitting together, ogling the big tree at the parent’s place. If I had whiskers, they would be standing on end now.
But I have the „Cup of Purr“, that I got from Vile, and this one, filled with hot chocolate, kinda sums it up what I feel.
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>Today we *really* got a load of snow… here’s part of it on my balcony.
And it still snows. ==^==^==
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>Mmmh.. am happily stuffed with seasonal cake and my parents have just left from their traditional Advent-coffee-time visit.
They had a very pretty pressie for me, too, it made me all purry and still does:
Hope you all have a nice third Advent today!
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It snows!!!
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as well as my replacement for the zombie-Chrysanthemums outdoors.*g*
In other news, I am unearthing the seasonal decorations. Have already prepared the little outdoor-lights and oh wonder, they even work… Soon they can be used. *looks forward to it muchly*
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>…well, not yet, but we are getting close. *g*
I changed the layout of this blog to a wintery-layout:
http://ailanreanter.blogspot.com
(Which is totally incorrect html I see, juuust great. Why do they publish layouts that are not meeting the standards? I will probably change it to something more correct..)And I got a little „Christmas Cactus“ (Schlumbergera)- what looked like white with a soft rosé touch turns out to look like salmon, LOL!!
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>Today I found a beautiful little park behind one of the churches that I can hear, when they ring the bells.
And it is a near perfect park for model horse photography! Go here for some examples:
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>Now, no worries, we are not snowed in or anything. But the nights are nearing frost in temperature and it is time to prepare the balcony plants for winter, so that they make it safe into next year.
So today, they got their last big fill of water, from now on, they are kinda on diet, LOL!! Also today I went and bought new jute sacks to bundle them up in like I did the years before- this will be done tomorrow, then.
The hydrangea had to be moved, because a) her table is not frost resistant and had to be taken in and b) the place in the livingroom window she has now is warmer than the corner she inhabited before.
(She should not get any larger, or she won’t fit anymore… o.O)Moving the plant and the table resulted in nice autumn-wintery re-decorations indoors, too.
The other windowsill got the lantern back:
And the table of the hydrangea was scrubbed clean and can now serve a very decorative purpose in the corner behind the door. During the heating period, the door is mostly closed, so what’s behind it is visible. And so I thought I could make the corner pretty.
(No worries, that plant is fake)Where I bought the jute sacks, I found this pretty light, too and really could not resist at all:
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>There is something in my Chlorophytum, isn’t there?
Yep, a severe kind of an infestation with „plueschicus investigativis miniaturis“, LOOL!!
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>Now that I have the first number to go brag about with, I post the story of my belt. *g*
Here is my favourite belt and its holes tell the story of how my first serious attempt ever to loose some weight is going- as you can see, well so far:
It took 35 days to get rid of ten kilos, but then I am doing this the healthy way, not with a 0-calorie diet, so to speak. I am aware that this progress might slow down – especially since all those nice gingerbreads and chocolates are lurking ahead, LOL!!
But to keep me determined, and my weaker self at bay, I post this ticker:
not only for all to see here in the post, but also in the sidebar to the left, right there in the journal. This will make me less inclined to fail my own good intentions. *g*
Everybody welcome to nag if there is no progress after a reasonable amount of time, LOL!!
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>Yesterday, Mum and me were busy with getting the door of the small storage room in the kitchen back from the cellar, clean it and setting it back in. This is what it looked like when we were done:
And finally I can use my little blue wardrobe-hanger-thingy for something- in this case to hang my kitchen-towels on it.View of the kitchen window on a sunny day- and the ivy which is assimilating the windowsill.
The ’sprinkleplant‘ makes a stalk:
What is that? An attempt to blossom or is it making an offshoot to spread itself?
