September 28th, 2009 22:48
Hmm. According to this interesting website, this week (30 weeks) the wee kid is like to a large cabbage.
Amusing.
If she only weighs 3 pounds, why have I gained 20?????
And off again
Well, tomorrow we’re off to Budapest. I’ve never been to Hungary and I’m really looking forward to it! I found super duper cheap plane tickets just a couple weeks ago and so we decided on the spur of the moment to spend our 5th anniversary, which is Saturday (Ahhh! 5 years?!?!) , incidentally, the last anniversary that it will be just the two of us for a looooong time, by taking a mini-break as Bridget Jones would call it.
We’re staying in some little place on the Pest side of the city (that makes me laugh). Free breakfast, yippee! I love free breakfast.
It’s so cool to be in Europe where all these old cities/places are so close! it’s only 1.5 hours flight from Zürich. man, I’m going to miss this geographical tinyness when I’m back in Oz.
It’s a bit inconvenient to be going to what is i suppose the spa/sauna/hot spring capital of the world while being pregnant since pregnant people aren’t allowed (as usual) to go into really hot places like jacuzzis and saunas. And normally I like to toast myself until I turn bright red and get woozy and collapse. That’s my idea of a good time. Nevertheless I’m sure there will be plenty of interesting things — foods and sights and charming architechture and interesting ex-communist paraphrenalia — to thoroughly amuse me even if I can’t steam myself silly.
And right after we get back –
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comes to visit!! And shortly thereafter…
Germans go home!!!
So, after some long-time and fair degree of unhappiness on the part of the Swiss (who, as it need not even be said, strongly dislike Germans) because many Germans, who for some un-identifyable reason *really really like* being naked in public places, come regularly to Switzerland in order to go naked hiking, which is forbidden in Germany, a solution has been reached.
I just wanted to see how long and confusing I could make that sentence.
Anyway, Germany has just opened its FIRST naked hiking trail. 18km of nakedy Teutonic goodness.
So now the Germans can stay where they properly belong, in Germany, to take it all off, and the Swiss won’t have to fine any more people, right??
What is this?!?!
Man, I leave Brisbane just for a few months and miss all the weird stuff.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/naked-romp-officers-stood-down-20090923-g2di.html
Duties!
Arrgh, I received in the mail, a couple weeks ago, and have been dutifully ignoring since then, a largish packet of information which informs me, as far as I can tell, that I have to vote.
There are just a bunch of little papers, that ask questions on them, and I have to answer Yes or No, and then either deliver them in person or some other way (presumably through the mail).
The problem is, I don’t understand the questions! obviously I don’t want to pick Yes or No arbitrarily, and while they have helpfully sent lots of documentation on everything behind the questions, it is all in political/technical/financial German and I absolutely can’t even begin to read it. And it is *long*. And in small font.
For instance, there is one question having to do with new (?) regulations for the Canton Zürich Reformed Protestant church. It comes with a helpful informatory booklet that is 74 pages long, and contains 254 articles!! I couldn’t even get through page 1!!!
I can’t not vote: that would be shirking my duty as a good citizen and they’d probably come hunt me down like they do when you put the wrong kind of garbage in the bin.
There’s a date on this packet of information: 27th September, which confuses me, because isn’t that a Sunday?? Anyway, we are leaving for Budapest day after tomorrow (the 25th) and won’t return til the 28th, and so I need to figure out how to read these booklets and figure out where to send my answers pronto…
Bleh. Why did I wait so long to start looking at this???
Chüechli-Büechli…. teeheee
So, because the Öpfelchüechli have been haunting me, and because both and ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
and
Best of all? It comes with a FREE Chüechli-Büechli!!
I am terribly amused. I can’t wait til it gets here.
(Read: recipe booklet for little cakes you can make with this pan.)
For nerds
I think this is hilariously funny.
A perl program for the 99 bottles of beer song, that is shaped like beer bottles!!
Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!!
Yum
Yesterday was a public holiday just for Zürich: Knabenschiessen, which means something to the effect of little boy shooting. (The little boys are doing the shooting, not being shot.) It’s basically a shooting competition and a fair. We went down to the fair in hopes of seeing the shooting competition, but couldn’t work out where it was, or you had to pay to get in, or something. Anyway, instead we walked around the fair, Zaubi went on one of those spinning on 3 axes rides and I stood around and watched because pregnant people aren’t allowed to do ANYTHING FUN.
Pregnant people are allowed to eat, however, and we ate delicious junk food: fresh made hot Chnoblibrot (garlic bread), gebratene Mandeln (hot roasted & sugared almonds, like the NYC ones, but even better), and Öpfelchüechli (apple rings, deep fried and covered with cinnamon sugar and vanilla sauce). These last were so good I nearly fainted in delight.
Ridiculously delicious.
Anyway, I was looking up Swiss public holidays the other day so I could see what they were. I found this page. Scroll down. According to the Catholics, Mary was only pregnant for 17 days!!!
Lucky Mary.
Szplug!
Ten thousand thundering typhoons!
Someone outbid me on the diapers.
I’m going to wait and be rotten and try to ninja bid them.
I doubtlessly need 25 diapers more than they do. Grr. 
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