Some Like it Hot

So I have updated the new software for wordpress, and I am currently testing it out. I promise I will upload some pictures sometime this weekend. I have a lot of photographs to sort through.

Yeah, I am sure you have heard that a million times, but I miss all my bloggy friends, and all my other friends as well. Sorry the winter blues had me hard. I mean I have been living in california a little too long and well it was a shocker when the temp dipped. I had to readjust to the temperature and the fact that I still can’t really talk in German, and so my interactions with anyone not speaking english is rudimentary, and short. There isn’t many people near me who I can talk to and coupled with it being cold I have been in the house, cooking like mad, forgetting to take photographs of anything, and basically being blue.

But don’t feel all sad for me I have always been getting out to the city on the weekends, and the chocolates here are amazing, and not to mention the french fries! Man they are like crack! DH is loving the beer, and I do have to say I hated beer in the states, but I love the beer here. Well so far I like Hefeweizen, and umm…variations on weizen.

Christmas was awesome here in germany, and yes I went to Stuttgart Weinachtmarkt (Christmas market) yeah it rocked. I have a lot of pictures to upload so, maybe the next couple of posts will have mainly pictures. YAY!

Also Fasching was interesting we ended up seeing a local city fasching which was great for us as it ran through our fresh market on sat. Yeah I got feather tickled by a masked person. I will write about that later. Lets just say it was a really nice celebration locally.

I also found a four story bookstore in Stuttgart and they actually had some books in english, which I am happy about.I am contemplating getting a small book on baking german breads, but it is all in german. Maybe that will help with my language skills; at least the reading and writing part. This bookstore also has a lovely coffee shop Holanka indoors that makes wonderful cappuccinos. There is another one located near the Rathaus in Stuttgart too.

I am also addicted to a german cooking show called Essen und Trinken I am trying to pick up german by watching cooking shows! It has helped some as it has tuned my ears to hear german and I do pick up a word or two, but the jury is still out. The cooking show is interesting, with two older hosts and that seem animated. I like the fact the camera gets ups and personal and you can see them chopping and cooking. It helps when they give directions and I can pick up verbs, nouns etc. . There are other cooking shows but I can’t seem to pick up anything as the camera is further away from the actual cooking.

Well I probably should stop typing now since I had a glass of beer and with my allergies are feeling the effects of it greatly. Drunk typing is not a good type of sport. I have problems typing normally, so I will sign off for now.