Samstag (Saturday)

I’m a great procrastinator; however, I’m quite proud of myself today for getting out of the house before noon. Getting out, meaning throwing some clothes on, brushing my hair and walking two buildings down to the bakery and back. It may not sound like much, but this is big happenings for someone who several years ago would never be seen in public having just crawled out of bed. Times have changed. Necessity and cravings for baked goods prevailed. I’m still procrastinating, hence my writing and online surfing during the day. I usually do this at night. I promised myself I would get something done in the house today, but what usually happens is that I look around me, get overwhelmed, and then do nothing. I do something other than what I need to do. I’m a list maker, which is my little “trick” to feel like I accomplished something by crossing it off the list. But I know it’s a “trick” so it doesn’t usually work.

I hate cleaning or organizing when my husband is around. I don’t know why, but I don’t think I’m alone in this. It’s probably because he’s a take charge kind of guy and I’ll have to do what I say I’m going to do. Darn him! On the list is defrosting the refrigerator. I have mentioned before that I hate the refrigerators here. They’re too small. My freezer drawers are covered in ice and you can barely open them, never mind put anything in them. It’s an undesirable, daunting task, but this has been going on for far too long….but the sun is shining.

Even if it’s raining people are still walking about, which is why you don’t see many overweight German’s, they’re much more active as a whole. It still amazes me to sporadically run into 10 or 15 people while walking in the woods, even if they’re just walking to a Hutte, a restaurant or bier garten in the middle of the woods. You can order something to eat and have a beer and be on your way. I love it. My husband loves it too, the getting active part. He hates to sit around on the weekends and will chomp at the bit to get out walking or biking and it’s something that we can do together. I’m less apt to go walking by myself, but I will now thanks to my trip to the bakery.

By the way, this was published at 1:20 in the afternoon, which would be 5:20 am your time. I'm not sure what time you see on the blog site.

Have a wunderbar (wonderful) Saturday! Must defrost now…