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Sonnenwende

Heidrun's Flowing Mead

About Me


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Janine
Birthday: Aug 28, 1981
Birthplace: Indianapolis
Current Location: Outside of Bochum, NRW, Germany
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'5-5'6. Too lazy to measure myself
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Indo-European
The Shoes You Wore Today: Haven't gotten that far yet...
Your Weakness: Weird and pointless crap.
Your Fears: Hmm.
Your Perfect Pizza: Pineapple, chicken, and onion.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Get back to the US for Christmas and drink it up with my sister and future BIL.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Shut up
Thoughts First Waking Up: Oh why can't you sleep for another hour, kiddo?
Your Best Physical Feature: Feet
Your Bedtime: 10:30-11pm
Your Most Missed Memory: Hmm.
Pepsi or Coke: Diet Mountian Dew. Too bad they don't have that crap here. Oh well.
MacDonalds or Burger King: Rally's.
Single or Group Dates: Depends on my mood.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Is there that big of a difference?
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Oh no, of course not, never...
Do you Sing: Yep
Do you Shower Daily: Yep
Have you Been in Love: Yep, and still am.
Do you want to go to College: Been there, done that, got the degree.
Do you want to get Married: Been there, done that, got the Heiratsurkunde.
Do you belive in yourself: Yep
Do you get Motion Sickness: Depends
Do you think you are Attractive: I'm not the ugliest troll to ever walk the Earth.
Are you a Health Freak: Not a freak, but I do care somewhat.
Do you get along with your Parents: Not really.
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yep
Do you play an Instrument: I did.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yep
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Nope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: With my husband.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Nope
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nope
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Nope
In the past month have you been on Stage: Nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope
Ever been Drunk: Oh yeah.
Ever been called a Tease: Yeah
Ever been Beaten up: Nope
Ever Shoplifted: Er, on accident once. A toothbrush. Lock me away.
How do you want to Die: Quickly
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Ha! If I only knew.
What country would you most like to Visit: Iceland, Norway, Mongolia, New Zealand.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Not important.
Favourite Hair Color: Not important.
Short or Long Hair: Not important.
Height: Taller than I am.
Weight: Bigger than I am.
Best Clothing Style: Style...?
Number of Drugs I have taken: Enough
Number of CDs I own: Eee, too many to count.
Number of Piercings: Zero
Number of Tattoos: One
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Blah
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My Interests

Concerts, open air festivals, current events, Baltic and Norse Mythology, astronomy, botany, zoology, history, political debates, linguistics, biological psychology, boozing, homebrewing, hiking, canoeing, and international travel.

Music:

Skyforger, Menhir, Subway to Sally, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Schandmaul, Kulgrinda, Faun, Stille Volk, Blutengel, In Strict Confidence, Nile, In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dying Fetus, Dead Kennedys, Wesley Willis, The Causey Way, Vader, Equilibrium, Amon Amarth, Bathory, Odroerir, Whodini, Satan's Penguins, Regan Youth, Mucky Pub, Peter Pan Speedrock, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Lords of Acid, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, Jack Off Jill, Therion, Tiamat, Theater of Tragedy, Atalyja, and lots more...

Movies:

Spaceballs, LOTR Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Alexander Nevsky, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Matrix, Das Boot, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Jurassic Park, Leon, Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, 13th Warrior, Donnie Darko, The Quick and the Dead, The Princess Bride, Gladiator, Ghandi, Being John Malkovich, The Mission, Like Water for Chocolate, and so on...

Television:

Simpsons, Mythbusters, Extreme Engineering, Little Britian, Family Guy, Strangers with Candy, Grounded for Life, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Modern Marvels, Unser Traum vom Haus, American Dad, asst BBC specials.

Books:

Lithuania Ascending : A Pagan Empire within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345 by SC Rowell, The Northern Crusades by Eric Christensen, Wolf and the Raven by Diana Paxton, A Field Guide to Stars and Planets by Jay M. Pasachoff, The Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker

My Blog

Meetups and dogs and onion festivals

So, I decided to stop being lazy and start looking for other mothers here for tea and crumpets. I found two and we are supposed to meetup on Thursday. I hope they don't flake out on me. Wouldn't surpr...
Posted by Sonnenwende on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:03:00 PST

My due date is today

My due date is today, but it seems there will be no kid today. My husband thinks it will be born on Tuesday or Wendesday. I tend to think next Sunday. At anyrate, the soonest I can be induced is March...
Posted by Sonnenwende on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 06:38:00 PST

March 2

Today is my first due date, going by my LMP. However, we are going by the ultrasound and that is March 12. I will always be confused by that, because my periods were always regular 29-31 day suckers. ...
Posted by Sonnenwende on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:28:00 PST

Donnerstag lives up to its name

Today we had the first thunderstorm of the year. It was nothing too impressive as it was only about 50F today. However, lightning and thunder were present and it was a tantalizing spring tease. It is ...
Posted by Sonnenwende on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:09:00 PST

Dust mites

I need to post a pic of my stuffed dust mites. They are so cute, part of a promotion by some anti-allergen company. Right now, they are sitting on my speakers being awesome.One of these days, we shoul...
Posted by Sonnenwende on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 03:23:00 PST

Quiz I stole from my sister...

120 THINGS ABOUT ME...NO LYING! BE HONEST!(001) Your gender: ----> Female(002) Straight/gay/bi?: ------> Straight(003) Single?: -------> Married(004) Want to be single? -------> Nope(005) Your birthda...
Posted by Sonnenwende on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:46:00 PST

E-Bay Day

I love e-Bay. E-Bay has saved us over 400-600 euro just in the past two months. Just a few of the things we bought...*A very gently used solid Fir bed. It is in fantastic condition.*A barely used set ...
Posted by Sonnenwende on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:49:00 PST