Nature

There was a tornado in Billings Montana yesterday. Apparently my dad had to hide in a bar while it poured rain and drive through 2 feet of flood water to get home and there was huge hail the size of golf balls. A bear mauled a scientist to death in Yellowstone and was subsequently killed. All I can hear is the traffic of city and trams passing by. Emily dickensen quotes suck today. Even the freakin Buddah is too serene for me. A single flower...blah blah. Anybody know any soul crushing harsh nature type poems or quotes??? Maybe something about the endangered sea turtles burning alive next to the oil rig? Is that like the miracle of a single flower?

The ancient Optiker

Instead of buying cheap lenses for my new glasses online, I went to see this weird old Optometrist (Optiker), I bought the vintage frames from last week. I found his shop on a shopping excursion with my brother's girlfriend who pointed out a collection of vintage frames on display, a light brown pair I had been pining for loudly, for weeks was amongst them. This optiker, Jürgen, has a shop in downtown which may not have changed a single bit since the DDR. Since I did find some excellent vintage frames I thought I would let the old guy make my new-ish glasses.

So I returned today with my cylinder, axis and sphere numbers to order my lenses. After about an hour of him puttering and mumbling through the dark and dusty recesses of the store, I haggled him down to just 30 Euros more than I would have paid online.

I am not rich. In fact I really need those 30 Euros. What was I thinking? Did I throw the money away because I love old musty shops and old musty people?

I wanted to sit in this old shop and give this old guy money to make me some glasses for my blind face. I suppose I was desperate for an authentic experience and this story is proving how eccentric I really am. In sharing this with you all I am not attempting to merely illustrate my many charming manic pixie eccentricities, although they are numerous. It is more or less only a story of a justification for a dumbass decision. A story of me alone in the world making a bad and strange decision all by myself. So to macro this micro a little: I make many strange and troubling decisions in life. In fact all you have to do is follow me for a block or two and I am bound to do something off key or merkwürdig. La di da, as she says, La di da...

Anyway, stats: I am 28, female, I have no real job, boyfriend or apartment. This gives my family and my mother in particluar many headaches. I just moved in with my estranged parent-land: Germany (I am a dual citizen baby). I decided to move to the same city in the East where my brother lives, Halle.

Anyway, stay tuned for more adorable and eccentric tales of a single (and American raised), woman making strange yet charming choices in Germany.

I also somehow talked old Jürgen into paying a deposit instead of the full price. I am not a haggler at all. I am very proud of myself today.

Chocolate of the day; Lindt, Excellence, 85% Cacao. It is excellent.