Thirsty Thursday - Ohhh Bootylicious!

Linking up once again with Mar for Thirsty Thursday.

I'm so excited to share a piece of very, very shallow news: Yesterday I bought THE SHOES!! I've been visiting them in the store for a few weeks, trying to figure out if they are going to love me back, and then I just went out and got them with my birthday money from my parents.

LOVE

And because I'm an excited girl, I wore them to work today. Yes, it was torture but SO worth it (of course, I did NOT bring shoes to change throughout the day, that would have been SMART). I squeezed into my dark blue skinny jeans and paired the outfit with a simple grey sweater. And just as I was walking back in the office after getting my first cup of tea, I was greeted with: I've got to tell you that now, your butt looks so hot in those jeans! Why was that great? Because it came from a girl. Somehow, compliments about looks like that from a girl are more honest since they usually don't have ulterior motives.

Yes, it kind of made my day, to be honest  :-)

Channeling my inner Dorothy

Thirsty Thursday - Why I Got Home So Late Today (And Frozen Solid)

 

It's this time of the week again: Thirsty Thursday blog hop, hosted by the marvelous Mar.

Before I hop away today to enjoy some date time with the hubby (he picked episodes of Myth Buster for the source of entertainment tonight), I would like to share what happened today on my way home from work.

First of all, I was late. An hour late, to be exact. Since tomorrow is a public holiday in Germany, our office closed official at 4pm; but I am also on leave next week, so I needed to tie up some lose ends before heading out today. When I got off the bus I went right into the corner store to pick up some chocolate bunnys for the girls and some champagne for the adults at the egg dying get together at a friend's house tomorrow. By then, I'm seriously late. So I hurry up to get home when I see a friend from the neighborhood, whom I haven't seen in a few months. We stop and talk for a minute, until the topic goes to baby. She confessed that she had always wanted a third child. She has two girls a little older than mine and told me that she also had two pregnancy losses after her second daughter, one of them was at 22 weeks. After those losses she developed serious migraine head aches, as she still yearns for the third child that most likely she will never have. I told her that I knew hos she felt; she interrupted me telling me that I couldn't possibly known when I confided in her about the panic attacks that sometimes go on for days thinking about maybe never having the third child my heart yearns for. She looked at me standing in the cold, and then said: Oh my goodness, you DO know....

Here we were, the girl from Kameroon so far away from home, and the girl who has moved across an ocean twice. What are the chances that we two would ever meet? And what were the chances of such an intimate conversation in public, in the cold, in the fading light of a really crappy later March evening? Well, this is life, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Thirsty Thursday - Confessions

My thanks to Mar for hosting the blog hop!

I noticed something today as I was leaving work about an hour late: I miss girlfriend get-togethers. The other day, I happened to stumble in an unexpected afternoon with three other girls; we hung out, and several bottles of wine later (none for me since I was driving), I was elated.

Today, I closed the office with two of my co-workers, after which we spent some time chatting about the latest TV-shows, relationships, children, and whatever. I don't know if it's the spontaneity, which doesn't happen much any more with two little girls, or spending time with women my age without the little ones; not sure, but I enjoyed the time.

I know that Richard keeps telling me to take more time for myself; but to be honest, at the weekends I just cannot get myself to leave the girls alone. He deserves a break, and I need the time with them. Until a few weeks ago I didn't even miss time with my own friends, most of whom live at least an hour away. But ever since this afternoon I realized, that I need girl's time. Whether it is joking about motherhood, talking men and relationships, or just about TV, movies, and fashion (a bottle of wine doesn't hurt either).

Here I am at my first Linky-Party, graciously hosted by Mar and Chrissy!! I haven't tried it before, but thought why not to check it out. Going to go now, grab a glass of wine and check out a bunch of other blogs!!