This weekend I....

... was working, which is quite a boring issue to talk about.

... wrote my first blog post for a blog post series, which will be published tomorrow! I´m so excited :)

... I had a fantastic dinner at a beautiful restaurant in my town:

The place:

The restaurant is located in a beautiful historic building, which was used as a private residence around 1901. The building was restored to a high standard and a neat perfectly fitting winter garden was added.

The menu:

menu

starters - wild garlic butter and quark of goat´s milk

Prosecco with raspberry syrup

„Sateé Goling“- pork in peanut sauce with basmati rice and veggies

Variety of domestic fresh water fish with watercress risotto and a foam of mustard

 

Goat´s milk Panna Cotta with a dust of strawberry and pistachio ice-cream

Nothing more to add to these pics - it was deadly delicious!

I´m linking up with Sami, Sarah and Syn today, visit their blogs!

Friday´s letters

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Dear Friday, I can´t believe it´s you again. This week went by so quickly.

Dear life, this week was quite challenging. It seems you´re exploring my limits in almost each part of you. Let´s see what we can fix up during the next week, ´cause my mind really needs a break of all of that analyzing, thinking, making plans, thinking them over, making new plans and finally reject all of them.

Dear letter box, the results of my second state examination will arrive on Tuesday. May you just eat the letter if it´s no good news?

Dear work, I´m feeling guilty to dump you all the time for spending my time online, doing some shopping, surfing around, chatting with friends, blogging. But the next hours will be just the two of us. Promised.

Dear blogging friends & readers, good news - spring can´t ignore us forever!

April Photo A Day 2013 Challenge

I read about Chantelle´s Photo Challenge on her blog a few weeks ago and was curious about the result of it ever since. As March was quite busy I started my first Photo A Day Challenge in April. Let´s see what this month´s picture wall will look like in 30 days :)

This is the challenge:

These are my April pics:

Good Friday´s letters

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Dear Berlin, though we had to fight with adverse conditions like snow, rain and unfriendly hotel employees we had a good time. After so many years "Dance of the Vampires" is still my favourite musical and it was great to see it once again. But we definitely will choose a better time for our next vacation :)

Dear evil triangle, I know who you are pointing at *LOL*

Dear April, please take away the snow. Can´t stand it anymore. I can´t believe it´s still snowing at the end of March.

Dear Easter weekend, any plans? How about finally reading a novel? Doing a bit of baking?

Dear luck, thanks for your help this week! What a nice surprise to win a scarf at some sweepstake and win a few bucks at lottery next day.

Happy Easter weekend to everyone, enjoy family time, easter egg hunting
and lots of delicious food & pastry!

xoxo, 
Bridy

Happy Birthday...

Happy Birthday to one of my best friends!

 

Thank you for each laugh, each exam, each coffee, each peach cake, each travel, each of the thousands of messages, each tear, each statute book, each happy moment, each girly talk, each minute just feeling comfortable around you, each thought about how to lacquer our nails, each advice concerning my criminological seminar paper & that you still talk to me after that (LOL), each paleo recipe, each legal debate and each day we shared together.

Thank you for making my life so much better, just because I know there´s
a message waiting on facebook for me each morning :)

Thank you for a friendship so easy-going, funny and unconditional and yet I know
I can entrust every thought and every concern to you. 

We are just before leaving our life as students and junior lawyers and as so many people are telling you that studying will be one of the best times of life, at this stage of my life I can agree. Not because studying law was so much fun, but because the three of us met.

SayingGoodbye.Friends.Family.Plants.Work.

Saying Goodbye.

Saturday morning I did what I should´ve done so much earlier. And I only did because I was forced in a certain way. I said goodbye to my ex´s parents. Because it was his mom´s birthday and there was no way to avoid at least calling her. But as I recognized myself postponing this day on and on, I worked up the courage to go there. Finally. And it was a good decision. It was the last final thing to do to let go this part of my life. And of course saying goodbye hurts. It shows what you´ve lost. But I´m ready to go on with my life. I´m ok.

Friends.

Saturday noon I met a friend to go to a flea market of the local rotary club. It takes place once a year and it seems like everyone in town is just mad for bargain hunting that day. But to be honest: Lots of trash. We bought some cookbooks and I found that little frame from the pic above. Guess I will try to make some DIY-project. Probably this lace earring frame I´ve seen over at Emily from The Freckled Fox.
I really enjoyed the time with my friend, we went out for Sushi afterwards, did a walk with the dogs and just talked for hours. He was working 500km away for the last year and just came back, so we had to regain lost time.

Family.

Saturday evening I visited my aunt. Some monthly get together with other friends of her. We´re really close, so I could tell when she opened the door that something was wrong. Strange thing, ´cause I can´t remember seeing her like that ever. She got a result from a preventive breast cancer check-up that morning and they need to make further medical examinations to find out if something´s wrong. And though I know that it might be nothing serious or nothing at all, I´m worried to death. I just can´t stop it. 

Plants.

Sunday I finally managed repotting Aaron´s plants, finding the right places for them at my place. Hope they don´t mind irregular watering times, because unfortunately it happens that I´ll forget about it for three weeks. You can guess that I´m the biggest fan of Seramis granulate :)

Work.

Sunday evening. No chill-out movie watching for me, three files are still waiting to be read and dealt with. But therefore I´ll finish this working week on Wednesday evening and spend some days with friends in Berlin. I´m sooo looking forward to that days!

xoxo,
Bridy

Friday´s letters

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Dear much needed sleep, I can´t wait. After working half the night yesterday and getting no break today I´m really looking forward to curl up on the sofa, covered by several blankets, with a big cup of tea and my dog warming my feet. I´m note sure if I´ll see more than five minutes of the movie I picked out, but anyways that´s my perfect Friday evening this week.

Dear friends, I´m still overwhelmed by your support. And I´m feeling bad, because I must be the worst friend ever for the last years. No matter how long it´s been since we talked for the last time or even if we´re not close at all, all of you send so many beautiful and caring messages, take me out for dinner, spend time with me and show me that I´m important to you. Thanks again!

Dear apricot, you´re definitely my favourite spring color!

Dear weekend, you promise two days of meeting friends & family, fun activities and sun! Glad you´re finally here!

Dear fostered plants, I hope you like your new home. Don´t you ever dare to wither or get yellow leafs! I want to give you back in good shape someday.

xoxo,
Bridy