updates and a new BM contributor

by Vienna on July 23, 2010

I am so glad that my summer break is finally here. I can relax a little bit and focus on the things that entertain me like reading and writing. In these six weeks, I also like to cultivate my new-found interest in gardening but perhaps, I should postpone that until next year because my husband and I agreed to finish the house’s interior first before we beautify our small garden. I am not complaining at all as there are other things that could easily occupy me like blogging, taking photos, and facebooking. :-)

My husband told me that I spend so much time in front of the computer and I know that I can really be so excessive with it sometimes but I hope that he can see the positive side of it. When I am in front of my laptop, I am not spending money (haha!) and he knows that when I go out, I spend money and I spend A LOT.

I really want to get in to blogging again like in 2007 and 2008. I want to be earning from my blogs again so I really want to build them up now. I feel sorry that I am taking so much time from our “supposedly” quality time with each other and spending it on my online activities but I badly want to work as much as I can on my blogs. In September, I’ll be going back to teaching and that means, I’ll be very busy again. I will also be studying this coming semester so I am not sure how much time I could spend on this particular hobby. Probably zero.

So now, I want to prepare my blogs for the time that I can’t tend to them. For this blog, my friend Lamielle will help me out. I know she’s got a lot of things to say about intercultural marriages because she’s in one. She’s a busy bee because she’s taking a lot of classes like yoga and German, and on top of those things, she’s pregnant but she said she’d be able to put up a post or two for this site. I think that would be nice.

And for the other blogs, I have to manage them all by myself. I plan to create posts and just schedule their publishing dates.  I hope I can do that before September. For now, let’s look forward to Lamielle’s posts on this blog.

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the tension is gone

by Vienna on May 24, 2010

Dear Schatz,

It’s more than a month since my last letter. A lot has happened since then but I am glad that the changes were all positive.

I am glad we had that talk. I am glad that you listened to me. I am glad that you understand me. I am glad that from then on, you are trying to change some things.

I listened to you too and I also understand you so I am also now trying to change some things.

I specially appreciate your effort to spend more time with me in the last weeks. I appreciate your effort in helping me more with the house work. You were already helping me before but as you know, this place is more demanding than our previous flat.  I also appreciate that you consult me now with everything you want to do with the house. In return, I am trying to minimize my work related tasks to have more time for you and for other things like cooking and baking—things you so want me to learn.

And I am glad that all our efforts are working.

We’re more relaxed now. I hope this will continue.

Ich liebe dich!

Kussl,
Schatzl



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a whole new insight

April 1, 2010

Dear Schatz,
I am super glad that I have a week off. It’s good for me. A week off my stressful work is really a blessing to my wilting soul and should be celebrated by just being lazy. Yes. Being lazy—sitting around, doing nothing, eating when I am hungry, and sleeping when I want. I feel [...]

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something’s brewing

February 24, 2010

Dear Schatz,
The last weeks have been physically difficult for both of us and to tell you honestly, I haven’t been coping well emotionally either. I probably just can’t handle such stress that is why small things easily get to my nerves and I am becoming too touchy too.
I don’t remember blogging about us fighting or [...]

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Painting Buddies

February 5, 2010

Dear Schatz,
So we finally sold our financial souls to the gods of Austrian real estate and bought ourselves a house.
Well, not exactly a house because we share walls with the neighbors. I don’t know how to translate “Reihenhaus” in English but the internet says it is a “town house” so town house it is. I [...]

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the first open letter

November 11, 2009

Dear Schatz,
This is my first time to write an open letter. Pardon my lack of subtleness   but I just have to mention that that means, even if this letter is addressed to only one person (and that is you), it can be read by anybody.
I should’ve posted an entry on this blog long time ago [...]

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Our Song

September 21, 2009

As you might have noticed, I changed the theme of this blog. I’ve been using the old one for about a year and a half and I thought that this blog could use a face lift. The project of installing a new theme entailed digging in to our wedding pictures. I needed to look for [...]

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