FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

I rake my brain to remember what I have done (or rather not done) this week. I had decided to stay home and rest, to finally get fit again. It's been over a month now that I can't get rid of this bronchitis and I feel so terribly weak. 

So I sat in front of the TV or computer all day long, sometimes with the phone to my ear. Once I even went shopping and came back exhausted. But it's slowly getting better, I'm not breathless so quickly anymore, but the laundry has to wait a little more to be washed. 

View from my working place

On Wednesday, the only day it had snowed in the whole country, the black cat from the first floor had disappeared, and owner two girls were very worried. I took my binoculars went on the terrace and looked down on the snow covered lawn, but no black spot in sight. I took the opportunity and looked a bit into the windows around me, but most of them had their curtains closed. I called the girls and told them that it was now raining cats an dogs and that their cat would certainly hurry home not to get too wet. And I was right, 5 minutes later they called me that a black sponge had run into the living room ! They were so happy. 

On Thursday I had to take little Rosie to the pedicure, fortunately not to the manicure too ! For the first time since I live here, she must have felt something, because when I wanted to put her in the carrier, she disappeared under the armchair. Finally I got her out not very gently, pulling at one paw, but I was so out of breath, that there was no other mean. She sang like Whitney Houston the whole way long, and it took not even 10 min to cut her claws ! Then we went back, and there she didn't sing at all. She probably knew that we were on the way back. As soon as I arrived on my floor I let her out and she ran immediately to the right door and waited until I had opened the door. She would never go elsewhere ! Door open or not. I fell again in my sofa and realized that I was still not in my normal state which made me a little depressed. 

Home again, she in full shape, I half dead ! 

My week ended very nicely, Dominique came again for the weekend and we went to the cinema together. The film was very nice and at least played for 6 weeks, it was the last film of Tom Hanks "A man called Otto" which had been "translated" into French "The worst neighbor in the world" which I think is a better title then the English one.

 We both liked the movie very much, it was sad and full of humor at the same time; We laughed a lot !

After the cinema we wanted to go for supper in a nearby restaurant, but the water came down in buckets from heaven and the wind blow us away. So we returned home and had one of my frozen food, pasta with seafood and vegetables in a lemon sauce. Was very good. 

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HODGEPODGE MARCH 8

1. We're in to a season students call 'spring break'. Did you/your family travel over spring breaks when you were growing up? Tell us something about a 'spring break' you remember (from childhood or adulthood, either one). 

We had Carnival holidays, one week. Nobody in Germany went on holidays when I went to school. They all were too busy to build up the country again, there was no money to go on holidays and not many cars. I went to my grandma which was very nice and I have a lot of good memories, because she lived on the countryside and I lived in a city. 

These were the cars I remember to have seen on the streets !

Opel

 I think this "car" was called "Isetta"

   qqqqqqqand Fiats 500 or 600 were very popular. Was also my first car.

2. Last thing you broke? Was it a big deal?  

A "disaster" ! I dropped my ceramic cat sugar bowl and broke its head! So the cat's body without  head ended up in the trash together with the broken head of course. 

  

3. March 7th is National Cereal Day...are you a fan? What's your favorite? If not cereal what's your favorite breakfast? Your typical breakfast? 

Since I lived not with my parents anymore,  I never ate breakfast, I just wasn't hungry. But when Rick became more and more ill, the doctor told me that I should at least eat something sweet. I tried eating a bowl of muesli with fruits, grapes, blueberries or tangerines and got used to it. Now I eat it each morning together with a strong cup of coffee. 

4. Break ground, break of dawn, break down, break the bank, break one's stride, break the ice, break a law, break a habit, break bread...choose one of the idioms listed and tell us how it applies to your life currently. 

I think in my situation "break of dawn" is the most appropriate. I have to start a new life, standing on one leg and not on two anymore, as now I have this horrible title "Widow".

5. Where do you go to connect with friends and family? What do you like to do most when you're home alone? 

I don't have to go to a special place to connect with friends, I am not shy and people when they see me start to chat. Very interesting, sitting on a bench in a park or in front of the sea and listen to the life stories of people I had never seen before. I don't know where to connect with family, because we are already connected (or not) 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

All my hopes of warm and sunny weather, and leaves coming out disappeared when I opened the curtains this morning ! 

On the other hand it's good for me, because I have to stay home and heal completely this long lasting bronchitis (nearly 2 months, with up and downs) With the new medication I feel much better !