I Surrender (The Official Moving Announcement)

You know what?
That's it. I'm done. I can't keep on writing double posts and moving entries and comments forever, so please...

The design needs some serious and urgent improving, but all 2004 posts (though not all comments) and all of this month's posts are already there, and I can't see why you shouldn't be there as well.

There would be http://herebesubtlety.com and that's also the link you should use when you update your blogroll or links. (Given that you link to me, which honestly... why shouldn't you?)

So, if you would like to leave me a kind comment, do it here.
It's a work in progress, but I'm spending all my evenings working as fast as I can and I wouldn't exactly mind a little patting my back from time to time.

I won't update this site anymore or at least I won't promise I will. But I hope I will see you at Here Be Subtlety.

Season Finale Anticipation Part I - The Aftermath

I didn’t shout, but I do have teary eyes still and am wishing it would be September already.

Honestly, I think Rob Thomas just attempted to kill me. Geez.

Now, when exactly can I buy the DVDs?

Season Finale Anticipation Part I

I made myself a gigantic sandwich. Now I'm going to pour a big glass of Orangina and then head to the couch and watch the season finale of Veronica Mars.

I guess that in about 45 minutes I will be shouting at my television with teary eyes and wishing it was September already. I'm torturing myself with TV shows. Another proof that something with me isn't quite normal.

That's How Much I Love You

So, If you were wondering, I am indeed moving my blog.
I registered a new domain. The name will be secret until I have set up everything nicely .
Then I uploaded all the Wordpress files and now I'm moving all my stuff over there.

Yeah.

It was supposed to be an easy routine, but somehow it didn't really work and I couldn't just transfer my entries from Blogger to Wordpress. So now, I'm doing it all by myself. Entry by entry. Carefully paying attention to every damn unimportant detail (in other words: timestamps).

I'm also moving all my comments via copy and paste and I don't even want to think about how insane that is.

But that's how much I love you. You and your comments.

...and my blog.

Unconscious Mutterings - Paul Simon Strikes Twice

1. Android - Robot
   
2. Revenge - Vengeance
   
3. Knight - in Shining Armor
   
4. Stranded - in a Limousine
   
5. Weakness - Don't let them blind you
   
6. Greed - Seven
   
7. Walter - Where is Waldo? (Do you know the books? And aren't they great?)
   
8. Dense - Thick
   
9. Sheep - Sleep (rhymes and makes sense!)
   
10. Propane - Yeah, whatever
    

Again, you can take part and have a lot of fun... just click here.

Throwing Money Out The Window (Not Literally And Not Really)

What made me order FIVE books today? Five! As in.. you know, FIVE!

On the other side I can only read so fast, so it just means that I might not need to order books any time soon (meaning: the next three or four weeks).

Just so you can share my anticipation of the next amazon packages to come, here's what I ordered today (in one of the moments when I definitely wasn't thinking clearly):

Father Frank by Paul Burke (because we saw it in a bookshop and the synapsis on the back sounded just great)
Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton (because volume 11 of the series is on my reasing list and somehow I have to read all the other books before)
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
Pompeii by Robert Harris
The last three are all on my reading list.

At the moment I'm still reading 'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood. It's very strange and somehow frightening. I can't believe I haven't read anything written by her before (anything mostly referring to 'A Handmaid's Tale'). It's never too late, though.

Sunday Random Thoughts

Today I'm strangely obsessed with my hair. I think it's because it looked so perfect today that I just can't get over it. I am one of those 'I have no control over my hair' people which isn't usually so bad because the worst that can happen is that my hair looks boring instead of great, but sometimes I wish I knew the trick some people seem to know and just be able to do something different with my hair every day.

And yes, I watch too much TV and somehow I still believe that those people in my TV did whatever they did by themselves and not had it done by some hair stylist each and every morning. So, why can't I?

Maybe that was also the reason that today I stood marvelling at that specially for brunette shampoo which I absolutely need to own, but (what did I expect?) costs 8 Euro a bottle. Yeah, right. But the commercials are so great...

And yes, I firmly believe in commercials. I also believe that you should reward good commercials and punish bad ones. That's why stopped buying that one yoghurt I really liked because I just couldn't go on buying a product when they hired (meaning: paid) some celebrity I hated to appear in the commercials. I haven't bought anything I knew I wouldn't like just because the commercial was great yet, but I thought about it and I just might do it someday. I decided that if I can be manipulated by the media I'd just as well surrender voluntarily. My understanding of dignity in a really strange world.

Which reminds me of the vegetarian thing I was wondering about for some time. See, we were at this 'Reformhaus' several times (sue me, but I don't know the English word for that and I am too tired to look it up) and they had all this vegetarian food that was pretty much meat-substitude. The thing that bugs me is that it says so. The actual slogan on the box was 'Just like meat'.
Now, I have never been a vegetarian and I think I would make a really bad one, but what I don't get about this is the following: If I decide to live without meat for reasons of health and/or respect for animals (I like the second reason a lot better and must honestly say that it is the only reason that makes sense to me, despite allergies)... so if I decide that I want to do without, why would I want to eat something that isn't meat but tastes just like it. Isn't that just a little but hypocritical?
Maybe I'm too cruel on vegetarians, but isn't the idea (or at least part of it) the act of foregoing, and doesn't eating some fake meat somehow contradict that idea?*

And now for something completely different, the fun fact of the day.
I noticed that I can wear pink. I look great in pink. Isn't that just awesomely scary?
It's also strange that it took me 24 years to discover that pink is one of the colors I look really good in, but then again I mixed red, pink and purple clothes when I was like five. In other words: I wasn't (and am still not) exactly a fashion expert.
I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that I'm a halfway snowwhite type. Halfway, because my hair is not black, but brown and my skin is not white-palish but more rosy-palish (and sometimes you-look-sick-palish), but all in all I'm close. So I already know that I red and black looks good on me and now I notice pink is great as well.

Which basically means that I've been wearing all the wrong colors for the last 24 years and need to clean out my wardrobe and get new clothes.
Out goes the money. Well, it always does, so that's not really news.

Now, that I've emptied my brain I'll make it a clear cut and just go to bed.
Good night. Me, I'll have one.


*Please notice that I am in awe of people that can truly live vegetarian, because I could never be so disciplined and I adore that. But as far as I know the vegetarians I know don't buy fake meat products. Tofu, maybe, but no fake 'tastes-just-like' meat.

Thinking About Moving

I have been thinking about moving my blog every now and then during the past few months. The most important reason why I would want to move is that I'd like to work with a system that's more flexible than blogger. I also would like to be able to include categories for my posts and a few things more I can't do with blogger.

I now might be close to actually 'doing' it. Since I have to get a little more into designing with CSS for work anyway I thought that it might also be the time to play around with my blog and make it just as fantastic (at least concerning the design) as all the other blogs I see out there.

So, does anyone have any advice for me about where to move (I'm flirting with WordPress right now) and how to do it right? I don't want to lose any of my posts and I would also hate to lose my comments (I'd rather retype then by hand), yeah, that's the scary part of moving my blog. Plainly spoken: I'd hate to fuck it up.
Any advice is welcomed here.

Also, I am going to register a new domain for that matter. I haven't thought about a name yet, so if you have a creative burst and know just the right name for my blog, feel free to tell me.

I'd love to hear your ideas!

More Fun Facts About Me

I just realized that I am not a chooser. I don't like to choose.
I'd rather have someone else do the choosing and then say 'no'.

Yeah, when I said that I wasn't complicated? There are always exceptions to the rule.

Commercial Break

Okay, I'm just watching 'About A Boy' and I was thinking...

If I wasn't married already to a cute German boy I would absolutely go for a British guy. I am thinking Hugh Grant or Robbie Williams or Alan Rickman (okay, Alan might be a little too old, but he could read me the white pages and I'd be in heaven).

See, I am not even that picky.

You Know He Loves You When...

He comes home and brings you this:


Just because he thinks you need a new one. Which I did, but I thought in terms of soon as in June.

So this one (see exhibit B below) can go away. Forever.


My life is literally brighter now.

If I Could Take Part I Would Be A Happier Person

So I just discovered this CD-mix swapping thing, because srah takes part and posted her tracklist and just when I decided that I would love to take part I read that for the moment it's limited to people living in the US or in Canada.

What? I make great mixes! I would love to get some! And are you aware that the postal fees here are much higher for oversea shipping that they are over there.

But still I thought that there might be people reading my blog AND living in the US or Canada AND wanting to take part in such a thing, so I decided that even though this experience is not yet for me, I might at least link to it on my blog. Somehow I think I can at least do that.

Check it out and maybe you think it could be fun, too.