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Yesterday we went to my great-grandmother to celebrate X-mas. We had lots of fun and even sang a little after exchanging the gifts. Than this morning came the shock: My aunt called us to tell us that my great-grandmther died last night :-( It was probably her age as she was 99 years old however we are in shock as she was doing fine actually and we thought she´d at least hit 100.

After all she had a last very nice X-mas. However you won´t hear from me for a while as we have to prepare the funeral in the days to come and more of the stuff that comes with it. We want it to be over by new year so we can make a whole new start in 2009. I hope there won´t be any funerals in 2009 for me :-(

It´s an almost dear tradition...

..that I fail at doing x-mas pics every f*cking year. While I was very pleased with the result of my outdoor pics from last week I totally dislike the ones that I tried to do indoor today. I saw decent indoor pics without any lightning in my photography books - I just can´t do them cause it is too dark in my aparntment. I need lightning stuff. So as every year: No X-Mas pics. Oh well, maybe next year they´ll be some, but as I know my luck I´ll fail next year, too. Maybe I´ll get ill or something. The most frustrating thing is that THIS year I bought me a cute little Santa outfit as a bargain. One can tell I´m damn frustrated. :-(

at least I packed all the x-mas gifts today cause I wated to use them as props ;-) So no last minute packing this year...

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Hi everyone!

We just got home from X-Mas with my family yesterday and today we will go to Johns. We had so much fun until now so ´m positive it will go on...

This was Johns and my first X-Mas that we spend together (before he allways had to work X-MAs eve and I allways go home to the family in advance to have some extra-time with them. We went to a beautifull X-Mas market at the 23rd and got nice presents for his parents and two nice litle feather fans for me (I´ll never find out why someone would sell feather-fans in his tea-shop, but it must have been destiny since they happened to be the last ones left). 24rth was a real hardcore-programm:

First visiting my father and his family with potatoe-salad and sausages and some cookies. The men played chess and I cuddled my cute little niece Kassandra. Than at 3 pm John and me took off to my other half of the family and went to my great-grandma, her son (my grandfather), my aunt, Mom etc. There we ate cake and drank coffee and than we all got our presents. Mom tells me every year not to be disappointed cause "it´s not that much this year". I think she allways means it serious, but so far I never was disappointed. I got a nice cuddly blanket, many, many new books on Vintage fashion and vintage lingerie, The new Boss Hoss album (the special edition including live DVD), a Scrubs DVD from Season 4, the first season of Rome and a compilation with the best of Max Raabe.

The New Year weekend will be a DVD weekend for sure! Originally we planned a pirate weekend with yummy food, rum and coke and all three parts of Pirates of the Caribean, but a Roman weekend is just as cool!

We left yesterday in the afternoon to go back home. After all it was a fun time (eventhough mydear relatives start to tell every X-Mas the most embarrassing childhood stories to everyone that can´t escape in time)

Back in Düsseldorf I realisd my mail-box was full of stuff, too! Some cds sended by Benji in Switzerland (We know each other since 10 years of something and he´s one of the nicest guys I know) and the photo-cds sended in by Guchot and Majana and there is so much good stuff on them!!! I havent had so many photoshopped photos to choose from in AGES. When I find some time I´ll upload them and add them to the blog :-) But for today my parents in law to be have priority ;-)

I hope you all had a very merry X-Mas!!!
Sari

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Hi everyone!

Tommorow I´ll leave to go to the Odenwald where my family lives (and there is the original Frankensteins castle -no kidding).



They got internet there this year, but as X-Mas will be busy I doubt I´ll have time to stop by for some blogging

See you later aligator!

Photos of the Odenwald:





Frankensteins real castle that inspired Mary Shelley:



Another castle just in my Moms neighborhood:



In our neighborhood, too - the remains of a big Roman house:



10 Minutes by car: Michelstadt where the complete old-town looks like a time-travel to medival (fortunetly hardly any bombs in WWII that´s why almost all the old buildings stayed)



Historywise a extremely cool place.... But if you look forshopping and party it´s not exactly THE place to go ;-)