How To Win The Nobel Peace Prize

I took this test recently…

You are a Model Citizen of the World

You care deeply about the world, and you do everything you can to help. You feel like the injustices in the world are your injustices, and you fight to fix them. You have a deep appreciation for the differences that make up the world. You feel like you have something to gain from every culture and country.

Are You a Citizen of the World?

… and looking at the result I think I would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, too – since it now is being awarded for not much more than good intentions and nice words *lol*

Take a look at the previous Nobel Peace Prize winners and you will see that they all worked for years, sometimes decades, for peace and change and some even had to suffer persecution for their efforts before they were awarded this prize – none of them received it in advance and for almost nothing!

Autumn

It is finally here – even though sometimes in our area it still feels like summer – and this deserves a new layout. I also received lovely gifts from Annette and Lori – thank you :)

Day of German Unity

19 years ago today, Germany was reunited. The video shows the events in 1989 which eventually led to this:

Last Day in September

Tomorrow starts the last quarter of this year - really don’t know where time went!

My next “duty” will be to prepare our garden for winter, but as long as it is still warm and sunny here (which I appreciate, of course) I don’t think it is good to cut down the plants.

The ticks are also still active, I was bitten by one last weekend – don’t know how this happened, I really take care that they don't crawl on me! Anyway, I tried to remove it myself as I have done several times with Yaris, but the tick’s head still stuck inside. So on Monday I had to see a doctor to have it removed – and this resulted in a little surgery, because it was so deep inside. Now I have got a band-aid on my right hip and have to check whether a large red spot will appear, because that would be a sign for borreliosis. Then I would have to see the doctor again to get antibiotics. Luckily just by the beginning of September I had received the last shot of my TBE vaccination, so I should at least be protected against that nasty illness.

Time Flies!

It has been already one week since I posted here – I can hardly believe it! Where did time go? However, it is still summer here, even though officially it’s autumn, so I have an excuse ;)

It is certainly not Twitter which keeps me from blogging, even though it is very interesting, especially to follow some tweets of organizations, etc. It is very different from Facebook where I usually only accept people as “friends” who I know at least from somewhere else in the virtual world. Also I found many people there who I knew from the past and some who I thought about often and wondered what had become of them. On Twitter I did not find many people I know, but there it is not important. I use it primarily to get information and as it takes only minutes to read through all this and “filter” the interesting tweets it is very convenient and takes much less time than I had thought.

Tweet Tweet

Since Tuesday afternoon Yaris is not our only pet any more – we have now also got two budgies named Fitzwilliam Darcy and Henry Tilney. They are very beautiful little birds, but they like to quarrel a bit from time to time ;)

The second new thing is that after thinking a while about it I have now got a Twitter account. I was just curious how it worked and I’m not sure yet what exactly will become of it, but I will certainly not spend a lot of time tweeting. I still prefer Facebook and blogging, although I’m a little lazy even with that at the moment – I guess it will get better once the weather gets ugly ;)

Patrick Swayze (1952 - 2009)

This morning I heard on the radio that he had lost the battle against cancer. I find this particularly sad because he was one of the few celebrities who despite having been one of the “sexiest men alive” he remained married to Lisa Niemi who had been his wife since 1975. The video below shows the couple dancing – very beautiful:

Sunny Days

Summer does not seem to give up yet - the past days were sunny and according to the weather forecast there are more to come :) The temperatures are a little lower, though, which I prefer - I don't like it very hot. However, autumn / fall is behind the corner, as one can see on the trees - the leaves are getting brown or red (which is a beautiful sight) and start falling off. Also during the night it gets quite cold.

In about 3.5 months it is Christmas already - can you imagine *s*

September...

It’s getting colder now, especially in the mornings and evenings, and summer finally seems to come to an end. We had good one this year, even too hot for me sometimes. After such a summer I’m not sad when it gets colder again. Now I’m looking forward to cozy days inside :) I think every season has its advantages and disadvantages, and none is better than the other!

A New Month...

... deserves a new layout - hope you like it :)