hi from vacation-land

home is great. vacation is awesome. here's stephen colbert talking about austria. (you have to watch to the end!)

from home to home.

i'm so ready to see this again...

photo diary: studio time!

i had no idea how much hannes liked red and orange, until i saw the studio.

"aufnahme läuft..."
(not really)

zuhören!

sadly, there's no photo footage of me making weird gestures in front of a fancy mic, or when i got down on my hands and knees and BEGGED that we do it again. perfectionism is both helpful and dangerous in cases like this! the point is, that was ridiculously cool. and these two are the best.

grateful.

for family, who puts up with me, despite also having the best dirt on me.

for friends, who make me laugh and let me cry.

for teachers, who have taught me how to read, sing, and even how to teach.

for students, who have made me realize what a gift it is to teach and be taught.

for cookies that make my whole apartment smell like cinnamon, and enable me to be the 'cookie fairy'. no joke.

for the internet, because how else would i stay connected?

for this city, that still knocks me on my butt in disbelief, at least daily.

for my health, and the healthcare to keep it that way.

for the music i get to spend my life being a part of.

for the love that has so saturated every part of my life that i hardly know what to do with it all.

for life...because even with all it's mistakes, it's better when you're really living it.

it's a day-maker.

krankenheitsbestätigung: magenuntersuchung. wha?

yeah, that's right...deutsch.

so, national blog posting month has eluded me once again. i know, i know, you're all so invested in my daily posting of whateverifindontheinternet, because my null-zip-zero-zilch desire to write lately seemed to suck all the ideas out of me. what can i say? and on a day like yesterday too, which was choc-full-o' teaching and singin'.

and this morning involved that 'magenuntersuchung'. no worries, everything's cool. but nonetheless emotionally scarring, and has left me without the desire to do much of anything. i don't do well at the doctor.

but so now, while i'm waiting for these christmas cookies to bake, i found this photo of my sister (whoicannotfreakingwaittosee) on facebook, and it melted my heart into a million pieces. adorable!


there's the sun-bathing puppy-bliss. there's that one sock creeping out over the kinder-birkenstocks of our youth. let's not even mention the purple pants. and if you look closely, there's her little toddler tongue sticking out, clearly enjoying this little conversation.

i'm related to that cuteness. holy moly.

confession.

i skipped my long run today. boo.

my knee was screaming at me.

any ideas?

1/2 marathon on december 12th.

i'm not concerned...yet.

but in other news, glorious glorious brunch!