Winter Nest

Okay here we go welcome to my Crib in Darmstadt! I try to vary my interiors or textiles according to the season. For example green and yellow in the spring, blue and turquoise in the summer and finally orange and red through autumn and winter.

Like often enough repeated my room is only 13m² small big but has just the right size and price for my taste. It's located close enough to the city Center but is on a quiet street with really good connections to the tram, various grocery stores and to my University. I share a flat with 2 other people, both of them unique and nice. For this room, a shared bathroom, kitchen, tiny hall, balcony and a basement room I pay altogether 220 euros per month. Including water, heating and Internet.

I almost always manage to snatch the week old flowers from work before they're thrown away! Lately I've also spent more time on decorating my walls with posters, photos, postcards and prints.. By the way do you still remember these posts 1, 2 and how my room looked like before?

Munchy Heaven

Wish it was my fridge but sadly it ain't. I'm looking forward to visiting this crib again some time in the future. Yeah dude, I just owned a whole blog post to your refrigerator.

I'm off to Crete now with my significant other so bare yet another blogging pause with me! I'll be back in a week :)

Midsummer Night's Dream

 

"Jack shall have Jill;
  Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well."

I was feeling slightly down about not being able to celebrate Midsummer this June in Finland with my friends but yet again my mighty knight rode to the rescue as the rest of Germany was keenly watching Football. For shits & giggles, like my darling would say, I dressed up pretty and headed with him to Havana Restaurant, where we then enjoyed cocktails and tortilla chips to each others company ♥

We then finised the night with a few episodes of  Lie to Me, a real cool american TV-series from a few years back. I highly recommend this series if you once liked CSI, The Mentalist or Dr. House. I promise you basic crime fighting through the means of science and psychology, with a predictable plot yet entertaining dialogue and the occasional manipulation tricks. Have a look if you've got the time!

On Saturday I found two tiny parcels crammed into my mailbox! What a lovely lovely surprise: my mom had sent me some Finnish sweets wrapped up in the local news from home! I just love random surprises like this. What's the big idea of birthdays and Christmas, when you could make the normal working days brighter with small gestures of love and care?

Super cool right?
Oh yeah, I recently visited a fleamarket in my neighbourhood and found a bunch of cool items again. I'll update that next time! Till then, wish you a Sunny Monday.

Waste Tip

I feel really upset at the moment and all because of dirt and untidiness.
I've been battling a longer time now with my roomies about the order and cleanliness of our flat. I don't care what they do in their rooms but I do think that everyone should work together to keep the shared square meters (kitchen, bathroom and the hall) nice and decent for everyone to use. Sadly my boys don't seem to agree..

As the two of them are against me, we don't have a set cleaning plan nor shifts at the WG. This leads to me nagging every week to one of them about something small & troublesome and me using an unlimited amount of time and work to keep things hygienic.

I came from work today and found things yet again a huge mess in the kitchen. I just can't understand why the hell it's so damn difficult to clean up your dishes and throw away the food you didn't eat!? Cleaning your mess, is part of the cooking process! Like wtf, if you can't remove your shit, then you don't make any!! 
You think I'm overreacting? Well I've kept my cool for some days now, asking them nicely to do their share, but when the same dishes lie around for over 3 days I'm starting to loose my temper.

I know they don't care and live totally happy and careless in this pig flat but what about me? Is my life, time and well-being so worthless to them? As if I had all the time and fun in the world to be their servant and work extra for all of us?  
This disrespect makes me want to puke!

I think these things have their limit and when their actions make other people cry again, we are over the boarder. At the moment we don't have any clean plates, knives, glasses or small kettles left. I had a friend over yesterday and cooking since last Thursday has been impossible due to lack of space and utensils. 

How do you think it makes me feel when my boyfriend tells me, that he doesn't want to cook with me in our kitchen anymore because it makes him feel sick? That his first comment when he enters the door is that it stinks in our place??? What are my options? How can I make these people to understand?

7 Days Ago

Having travelled all the way to Hamburg a week ago, I naturally had to continue the tradition and have breakfast with Lasse again. This is coming somewhat a habit in my blog isn't it? Being a woman huge fan of cafés, I had to have my way and set sail towards some unknown cutsy place in the neighbourhood of St. Pauli. Lucky for Lasse, we didn't have to look far but just around the corner to find Cafe Klatsch (meaning Gossip in English) where we let our behinds rest.

Happy go lucky, we arrived just before the rush hour and managed to snatch a tisch for two without a reservation!

The interiors of Klatsch are sweet but the prices sadly a bit too high for everyday Breakfast. We had to cross our orders from this insanely long list, which is a fun idea and the variety will surely satiate your tummy but it'll leave your wallet anorexic. Take care not to go wild when hungry! 

Then again.. I'd pay a bit extra for this comfort and company ♥

Frühstück at Hippies'

From Saturday evening till Sunday afternoon I visited my Darling in Marburg, whose crib was occupied with our favourite redhead: Lasse.

Shaun White? I'm trying to encourage him to keep his hair open like this.

Short but sweet. We had some official nerd time with playstation and this awesome card-slash-role-game called Resistance, that my honeyhon ordered lately from Amazon. We both played it with my friends when we were in Finland a few months ago, and totally fell in love with the Game. I lost. I can only recommend this superdouper past-time! Try it, buy it, it's insanely cool!

Naturally, the three of us had to find some tasty and cozy breakfast place on Sunday morning. Marburg is filled with cute Cafés, but on a rainy holy day, it's really hard to find any table unoccupied. We tried 2-3 places and were about to give up and return to Playstation and deep frozen Pizzas, though gave a last try to some hippyish left-wing Café on the way.

Turned out, we hit the Gold mine so to speak! The place was student-friendly, organic, had a satisfying breakfast menu and real nice and chilled music playing in the background. Score!

Café am Grün is situated right next to the River running through Marburg. Like Habibi, they organize numerous Hippy events to save the World plus offer their spaces to meetings and parties FOR FREE every day after half past eight. Be sure to check out their cake selection if you drop by Marburg anytime soon!

Wish you folks an artsy fartsy Tuesday! I'll be back with some Park Photos on Thursday the latest.

Easter Monday

http://www.may-cafebar.de/

 I visited my German family shortly around Easter last weekend. On Monday me, my boyfriend and my "best girlfriend" Lasse popped in one of my favourite Cafés in Hamburg for breakfast. I love the interiors, the wide wide Menu und low prices in this high-ceiling paradise in St. Pauli and would recommend the breakfast buffee on any day of the week. Travellers, visitors and homeys, do take the advice to check out this hut if you get the chance!

I was surprised of realising how much I'd actually missed Lasse haha. Skyping is not the same as seeing someone in person after all. I could've spent the rest of the day in the sofas of May with him and my boy! The joy was way too short-lived, however, as I needed to jump into Mitfahrgelegenheit in the same evening.

 If you need a freckled ear to listen to your worries, here's your man! You can trust Lasse to cheer u up, kill time, give you new aspect and answers skillfully in pretty much any issue on your heart. He's one of the people that made my time in Hamburg worthwhile and one of the reasons why I now concider HH my German hometown. Lasse is going to become an uncle sometime later this year and I tell you, Baby Bacon will be one lucky son of a redhead! ♥

 Hamburg treated me with her typical weather of spray rain and grayness, which infact makes Coffee Shopping a lovely and profitable sport.

Above you see the amazing idea of the people of St. Pauli, a Swapping Box in the middle of the street! Another man's trash, the other one's treasure. Bring by some non-important thing of yous and take a cool pair of shoes, a book or a sweater to brighten your days. Recycling in a nutshell. What a cute way to make one smile.

Goodnight muffins and stars.