Don't it make your brown eyes blue

what I am referring to, is the weather. Today it is rather a sad affair. But yesterday it was wonderful. At least in the part of Germany, that I live in.
Therefore, I had some todo with my thesis. It being, that the weather was so nice, I didn't want to sit at my computer. But I did. In the early morning. And I wrote about 7 pages all in all. So now I have written half of it, plus 2 pages today. There will have to be added the answers to my questionaire and I will have to give my advice as to what they should do, but other than that there are only 18 pages to be written. That is very nice.

As I might have written - or not - I started to get up at 5.30 am and going to bed at about 9.30 pm. It worked fine until monday. Yesterday I didn't make it before 5.45 am, today it was 5.35 am, when I got up. But the thing is: I did get up. I didn't give up, saying: I just can't do it. Because I can do it and I proved it.  Plus: I get a lot more done now. Yesterday I was well with my thesis, had some blood taken, helped a new neighbour, did my sport, read something interesting, went to the dentist, got something knitted. So that was good. Today I will meet a friend and we will find out, where we will be working for the next couple of years. Meaning: before the end of our apprenticeship on August 31st and after. And then we will drown our sadness in a cappuccino. :-) Or party for our happyness with the same beverage. We'll see, I will tell you, some of it.

Due to the aenesthetics (or however it is written correctly) at the dentists I had a numb lower lip, so when I brushed my teeth yesterday evening, I had some problems to get the water into the washbasin. I looked more like a fountain, because the water didn't come out in a strait line. It looked funny, but I had just thoroughly cleaned my bathroom, so I had to wish over that part again. :-( Whatever, it was the work of seconds, so it is done. Now, let us see, if I can get the above mentioned song, that is not about the weather and/or something happy with brown eyes. I DO NOT OWN ONE OR BOTH SONGS

And the happy song

Sunday, sweet sunday

... with so much to do. And I did not do much of it. Well, I did work on my thesis and went to service. But I didn't wish the floor in my bedroom or worked on my tax-report.
On the other hand, I went to a film about future or rather actual developments in genetechnology and that was really frightening.
There are people in the world with the idea, that they want to have children, that have a special trait. They are either very sportive or intellectual or whatever. But in my personal world of ideas, that is just wrong. Sure, they have a predestined goal and know, what they can do,
but someone predestined it for them. They had no choice in the matter.
O.k., so there are already parents in the world, that predestine their childrens life, but in this new scenario, genetechnology emphasizes it. Only: the emotions of a person cannot be worked on. One of the people, who spoke in the film said, that it can go wrong. You may want a basketball-player and you do get a tall boy, but he is only interested in collecting stamps. Because that is more to his liking. And liking - I think - belongs more into the world of emotion.
In the next film, called "Fountain of Youth" it was about people not growing physically old. Only in years. I find that just as horrible. Even if you grow up withouth any of the now known illness like Alzheimers, Parkinson or Dementia or other, more physical problems, you grow older. So everybody has to work longer, because how else could pensions be financed. And - that's what the guy from the other film, who talked in this one, too said - you grow more and more apart from what it is like to be a child or a teenager or any young person.

Also: either of the aforementioned developments would only to be had by the rich. The poor would not be able to "buy" them. So you have two thirds of the world living tradionally and the rest buying youth and health. And it is not usually the nice people, who buy youth. So they are likely to tyrannize the poor. Somehow it seems to me, that the times would come back, that where in the industrial revolution. There where those who needed labourers and those who needed labour and the latter had to suffer for it, becaus there were so many, that the former could pick and choose.

It would perhaps not be quite as bad, certainly on a higher level of civilization, but it might as well be much worse.

I felt reminded of the part in gullivers travels, when he is with the people, who do not die. They just got older. And he did not describe that in a way, that anyone would want to experience it.

So, whatever you think about eternal youth: it is not my cup of tea, I only want to get as old, as I am destined to get. Without any human methods to make my time here longer. I already have to live with the fact, that I can't stop working earlier, as I had planned and instead will have to work until the age of 67 or even 70..... Well, maybe I have to work parttime... :-)

To get back to the head of this post.... Well, not completely. I couldn't find a good version of the song I had in mind. But this following on THAT I DO NOT OWN at least reflects the sort of sunday I like best. :-)

Good Girl

Yesterday and today I was a really good girl. Got up at 5.30 am, then washed and breakfasted and worked on my thesis, for about 1 1/2 hours. That is my attention-span. In that time I got quite something done though.

Afterwards yesterday I ironed some clothing, had a machine with washing running, did most of the dishes and cleaned some stuff up. Then I went to get my massage. On my way I met a former colleague. Then went to see another one and exchange some audiobooks. On the way to her I met yet another one and made a date to meet after her lunchbreak. Then I went to my massage, after which I went to visit yet another former colleague. On my way there I passed the office of an aquaintance and with the colleague I visited was yet another former colleague. On my way back to the second colleague and dear friend, I passed the office of two former colleagues, so more chat. Then I got to chat with my friend and after that I went into an office in quite another building to get some mail. I had planned to be off and away by 2.00 pm, but it was 2.40 pm in the end. After all this meet and greet I was so tired, that I fell asleep at about 3.30 pm and only woke at 7.30 pm, because the neighbour below me had guests and they where talking VERY loud. Well, it was good to get up. Then I did some more reading and e-mail-checking and a friend called. I went to bed at about 9.30 pm and of course I did not sleep much, on account of my extended nap.
Still, I got up at 5.30 am again today, worked on my thesis for 1 1/2 hours, made doctors appointments, cleared some stuff out of my hall, hoovered it, cleaned all the doors, wished the hallfloor wet and then did the dishes from breakfast. Then I was a little tired, so I read. After that I went to a place, where you can donate books you don't read anymore and can't sell either. Then got my hair cut, looked at dishwashers, fridges and dryers and went home again. This time I was faster than I thought. So I went to do sports half an hour earlier. I was there for about an hour, had a shower and a peel-off mask and a little snack. Then I played on Facebook and now I write here. Pooh. No nap today, but an early night I should say.

I am keeping this up, because I get such a lot of things done, when I get up early and don't plan too extensive. It is very nice to get a lot done. It is unusual for me, but very nice.

And so, I shall find  a couple of films to support a good feeling:

BYE

(I do not own these films)

Going on

Since I re-started writing here, I decided to try the more regular approach. Well, as I wrote "try". But just now I will, as I have been good and worked on my thesis, after the funeral. It was a very touching ceremony. My parents, my sister and my big brother were there as well. And since we grew up in that congregation and rather can be distinguished as our parents children, we were recognized. Though I didn't recognize everyone, I must admit. Anyway, it also meant, that we actually knew a lot of the people who came and even though we did know the man who had died, we learned quite a bit more about him. He did certainly leave a big mark in the congregation and a very good one as well.
Since I am convinced - after reading Anita Moorjanis book about her NDE - that he is in a place, where he can see and here everything that is going on here, I am sure, that he will have liked it. He might have been a little embarrassed about all the very nice things said about him, though I doubt it. Not, where he is now. Alive for sure. Or so I think.

Well, after being driven home by my brother, I sat down to work on my thesis and I got quite a bit done in about an hour. I also was lucky enough to get a link, that is very helpful for my thesis. Good thing that. I am rather proud of myself. I am even contemplating sport, but actually only contemplating and if I see it right, it is raining, so I think, I rest with contemplating. There is a video - since I am in the habit of posting videos here - by Raymund Fendrich, an austrian singer, called: Es lebe der Sport!
(Long live sports). Going on: Er ist gesund und macht uns hart. (It's healthy and makes us tough). He sings it in his dialect so "hart" sounds more like "horde" and therefore rhymes with sport.
I wrote it for couch-potatoes, who watch sport on the telly and know all about it, except how to do it themselves. Well, I don't even like to watch it on the telly or anywhere, but I would call myself a couch-potatoe without compulsion. :-)

As always: I do not own this video. And also: I am not in any danger to evolve into something like the ladies shown here. I don't know how others think about bodybuilding in general, so the fact that I won't ever look like that can be seen as a neutral fact.

All the best to the readers!

So sorry

But I have been really busy with my thesis. And when not, I went out of doors. Therefore, I did not write here. But now I am back. Isn't that just swell? Yes it is.
Right now here, where I live, the sun is shining and the mood swings up again. In a little while I will take the bus to my parents and have lunch there, as I am invited. :-)

I will look out for some photos for a presentation.  And play at Ludo with my Mom. And then work on my Thesies for today I only printed something out and that was that. Not even remotely enough.

On Monday it is sports again and then work on the Thesis. Plus I'll sit on the balcony, if the weather is nice.

Tuesday I am singing at a funeral. A friend of my parents died recently and I grew up with him as their friend. So I knew him all my life. We will sing an irish blessing. Very beautiful

In german, the text is about the same, but the melody is a little different. We sing the german version, since we do live in Germany and it is a german funeral. But it really is lovely, so you get that, too....

In this version they don't sing it, but we do: There is a line saying:

Be for more than 40 years in heaven, before Satan realizes, that you are dead. It is a fun part or at least a nice part.

At any rate. It is lovely And everyone deserves something lovely, whenever there is a chance. :-)

Oh, I just found a version by Kathy Kelly, from the Kelly Family, with the above-mentioned line: it is the second part of the third part: look at the ladies of the choir, when they sing the refrain after it: they smile. It is a happy line:

And on this happy note I leave you to prepare for my lunch-date...

Long time no read

and I do apologize most sincerely to my reader. But I do have a good reason: Last week I had to write three exams, of which one was truly gruelling and horrible. Though I do have small hope, that I passed. I do not want any more.

Anyway, after these three exams I decided, that I need at least a short vacation. This was to last until Tuesday this week, but since I am now in Thesis-mode - meaning my Bachelor-Thesis - and I had some ideas plus wanted to make some contacts, I decided, that I would do a bit there and did. But otherwise I have been blissfully lazy.

AND I did watch the crowning of King Willem Alexander. I missed the abdication of Queen Beatrix, now Princess Beatrix, which is a shame. But I saw all the rest and it was very fascinating. Especially, that 255 Persons had to personally swear an oath on it. Without the King, that is.

I also found out how to play sims 3 in spite of Windows 8. It is not all that hard really. Though I couldn't explain it properly in english, I must admit.

AND I resumed my ayurvedic life. I am not so good yet on regular times, meaning, that I can easily go to bed and sleep by 10.00 pm, but I find it hard to get up by 6.00 am, when I don't have to. Yesterday I managed 8.00 am, today only 9.30 am.  Ah well, I will work on that. At least I get to bed relatively early. It is a start.

Also, I went to sport again, after about four months. First I couldn't because of my dreadful cold, than I had problems with the finger, that I had cut into at the beginning of the cold. Then it was too cold or I was too tired or I did actually learn very hard or it was to late when I remembered, or there was something on the radio. So: I couldn't be bothered. But I had decided, that with the all new of May, I would go back to sports as well. And I was. Though for only about an hour, a little less I fear. But I was on the bycicle and on the stomach-torture-thing, something for the back and on the treadmill. So I did start and promptly gained weight. Probably shot up due to some command from hell to keep me from sport. OR I have build excessive muscle-material yesterday..... No, hell is more probable.
Anyhow: I am going back there tomorrow. I won't be fobbed off, right now is a good time to do it. :-) Chakaaa.....

And in that vein...

Or as the U.S. President Obama in his first campaign said: YES! We can!

Or Bob the builder: Can we do it? Yes we can... :-)  (I own neither the video-caption, nor the picture below)