Silent Night

We live off of one of the most tourist laden streets in Berlin. It was recently covered in the Berliner Zeitung, if you read German, you will note that it talks a lot about the noise. I wish it was true that the snow would buffer the noise, unfortunately it does not. But it looks absolutely beautiful.

Today was spring cleaning day and I am almost sure that I lost three layers of skin to the bleach that I scoured the kitchen with. We're moving at the end of next month and I am starting to get those compulsive cleaning tendencies.

I am also tearing through everything I own and throwing things away like I can only take one bag with me. I am sure that the Red Cross will be thrilled to have collected some of those early 2000 semi-formal outfits today... and roommate Sarah's belts.

And tomorrow is Tuesday, meeting day. I have left the last two Tuesdays with some cravings and urges that felt similar to alcoholism... I think I was just not made for 10 hours of meetings. I am not sure what I was made for. So until I can offer a better suggestion, I figure I should keep up appearances. That or get fired.

AJ is feeling sicky. She's not getting very much sympathy from us. We told her to go to bed or stop whining. DON'T FREAK OUT, I made her a yummy dinner and am trying to talk her into going to bed so she will feel better in the morning. I'm not all bad.

(this is literally a picture I took from my window sill, and if you recognize that dome in the background, it is the Bode on Museum Insle... the same one in some Bourne movie that boys get really excited about.)

(addendum b - AJ wanted me to mention that the two men talking to the all-white-blur with a white umbrella are attempting to perform a transaction. I live off of the street where the high class prostitutes work. It lends to the noise of my street, their brothel is in the middle of my block and they click past all night long. You can imagine what the judges, doctors and lawyers that live in my building think about that. Ahhhh Berlin, a culture fusion.)