So, here is an update from my week. (I had vacation):

Visited with my psychologist on Monday. He is cool. He told me that I needed to go back on (and stay on) the medicine. He said I didn't do anything wrong, it was all the stress from work getting to me. My body isn't able to fight off the stress without help. I will call him again next week. I started taking medicine again on Mon. He said I would be feeling myself again in 2 weeks. I know Th. is glad to hear that too.
Dr. S. also told me that there are people that have diabetes and arthritis that MUST take medicine everyday of their life, in order to function. The only thing is, its my brain that doesn't process the stress without the help. He told me not to be too disappointed for too long. And I am really not. Now I know. I need the medicine.

AND I also found out that I eat horribly. We met with the nutritionist last week and I mostly only eat sugar. So, we are changing that now too. (I couldn't spell nutritionist...had to look it up on www.dictionary.com...hehe)

Oh, IT SNOWED IN LOERRACH WHILE WE WEREN'T HERE!!! I wanted OUT of Bischofsgruen because they predicted snow from Wed on. In Frankfurt, where I was visiting E., it was just cold and rainy. But apparently it was super cold here! All my plants were still outside on the balcony. I brought them in when I got home.

I really do not like Deutsche Bahn (train service) today. I tried buying a ticket to get from E's apartment into Frankfurt, to get the train to Basel. The machines do not accept 20 or 50 Euro bills. Guess what I had...so I get on the train and hope that no one is controlling for tickets..........................you already know what happened. I get in the last wagen on the train and there isn't one train person, not two but 3 (!!!) fuckers waiting to control if everyone in the wagen had a ticket. So, instead of paying 3,60 for a 25 minute trip into Frankfurt, I paid 40!!!! I really don't like them today. I tried to explain that I was from out-of-town. I had no idea that the machines don't accept 20 or 50 Euro bills, but they were such Asses! WITH A CAPITAL 'A'.grr
Then when I finally got to Frankfurt, I stopped being so mad when I saw Starbucks!!! :) :) A grande vinalla Latte makes everything better. :)

That is about everything going on with me. Th. is getting home sometime tomorrow from Belgium. He has been in 4 countries this week: Germany, Holland, Belgium and (tomorrow he will being driving home thru) France. I was in the normal 2 countries for me: Germany and Switzerland. :) :) :)

catching up

Hi all,

Ok, just want to update on a couple of things:

First: Work

(We have a name for the co-worker that I have so many problems with: Noodle-head. She will be referred to, from now on, with this name. :)

So. It was only us this week at work. Noodle-head early shift, me late shift (Early shift: 6:30 - 3:30 and Late shift 1:00pm until 10). Mondays are bad days at work. We have to process all the production that went on through the weekend. Production even ran yesterday, a national holiday (with no celebrating...more on that later). So that means, on Monday Oct. 6th, I am actually processing 3 days of production. Ugh. But do-able. Thank God its me working and not Noodle-head. I came into work last Monday to chaos. I couldn't walk to my desk because of all the plastic boxes in the way. Noodle-head doesn't know how to clean up after herself. There were 5 EMPTY boxes placed here and there that she had not taken back downstairs. The plastic trash (after we have proofed the parts, some cannot go back onto the palettes. So we have trash) was over-flowing. And who cleaned up? Yahoo! You are so freaking smart: Amber! I also found out that she had 4 boxes of number signs that she had not brought back into the production hall. Who did that? Me, of course. So I spent my first 2 hours at work cleaning up after her. I asked her later how it went (overall, what happened...problems, annoyances, etc.). She replied: 'Stressful'.
DUH!!
So, I told her it was time for her to go home. That is late shift's job: to ask early shift how it was, then ok, I am taking over production, you start getting ready to go home. Her reply: "I would like to work more this week so I can go home earlier next week." WHAT!!?? I was speechless.

Here is the deal: her husband works at the company too, only on the metal side in Loerrach (we work plastic side in Weil). She wants to work longer (doing nothing) so she doesn't have to work as long next week, so she can see her husband. WTF!!??? They are now on opposite shifts for the next few weeks because we switched from working every-other-week shift change to 2 weeks early shifts and one week late shift.

I had a talk with her on Wednesday. I told her she needs to go home when she is supposed to, because there isn't enough for us both to do. I told her that if there is still product to be processed that she can give it to me and I will finish it. NOW I need to have another talk with her because, she is not doing the paperwork. She has time to do the paperwork, then she should give the finished paperwork to me and then asks me put them on the palettes. Jeez!! This kid is killing me!

Second: National Holiday (Oct.3) German Unification Day (when the Berlin Wall came down).
There are no fireworks, no parades, no celebration. It is just a day off from work. Then, everything is running again on Saturday. There were all kinds of politicians on the TV talking about it. There was one HUGE concert in Berlin, in front of the Brandenburger Tor:


THIRDLY: October 3 is K.B's Birthday!!!
HAPPY HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY K.B.!!!!!

I don't think there is a fourth. When there is, I will type again!
later gaters!

Crazy 8's

I was tagged by M.C. So here goes:

8 Favorite TV Shows:
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. My Name is Earl
3. Germany's Next Top Model with Heidi Klum
4. Desperate Housewives
5. Cartoons (Flintstones, Jetsons...I finally found the cartoon channel in English!!)
6. NCIS
7. House-Lifting (only with the S.C. crew)
8. Designing Blind

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. El Camino (Socorro NM)
2. El Sombrero (Socorro NM)
3. Chili's
4. Joey's (Organic Pizza place here in Loerrach)
5. Mykonos (Greek in Loerrach)
6. Tchopon (Afghani in Loerrach)
7. Burger King
8. Pizza Hut

8 Things that happened yesterday:
1. No work (Oct. 3: the Day of German Unification)
2. went to the gym
3. cooked
4. cleaned
5. washed/folded laundry
6. unloaded/reloaded dishwasher
7. Shower
8. watched TV with Thomas

8 Things I am looking forward to:
1. H. and M.'s wedding next week
2. Eating dinner with H and M tonight
3. Tuesday (because that means Monday is over)
4. M.H.'s 30th birthday party
5. My co-worker I.B. coming back from vacation
6. starting quilts for the L. Family
7. celebrating with R and K, when the FINALLY find out whether it is a boy or girl!
8. going to the gym next week (at least twice!)


8 Things on My Wish List:
1. losing weight
2. cruise/cool summer vacation
3. building a house
4. babies (some time...in the future)
5. living in the States (??)
6. A President-Elect that will change the negative image of America (here where I live, America is a joke because of our current President. I hope the candidate that wins TRIES to work for better relations with foreign governments.)
7. My accent to go away when I speak German.
8. having my family visit me here.

:)