A Day in the Life...

A friend of mine reminded me that I'm horrible at updating the blog. This is true. It's mostly because I have nothing exciting to say. However, I decided I would take her advice and update. For those of you who have been dying to know, I will give you an inside look at my day. (Stewart's day is, of course, very different).

I'm not necessarily a creature of habit, so my days constantly change. They may also change depending on where I live. At any rate, here is a smattering of what I might do in a day:

• Clean the bathrooms
• Make the bed
• Wash, fold, iron, and put away clothes
• Put together a contacts database
• If I can remind myself, I also have some cross stitch I want to finish
• Wash, dry, and put away dishes (or just load/unload the dishwasher)
• Dust
  
• Check my e-mail
• Facebook
• Make and eat food
• Study/practice German
• Clean the kitchen
• Update my movies to see, books to read, and wish lists
• Do logic or other math puzzles
• Talk to my mom on Skype
• Watch a movie
• Listen to music
• Play the piano
• Read
• Search for new recipes and enter them in my database
• Shower
• Sing
• Move songs from the external hard drive to the iPod (which is a ridiculously long--and sometimes tedious--process because it requires listening to them to see whether we even like/want them, in most cases)
• Walk to the store (and shop, of course)
• Sweep
• Watch TV shows on the internet (specifically "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "So You Think You Can Dance," "Star Trek: The Next Generation," or "Who's the Boss")
• Vacuum
• Walk in the woods
  

I don't do all of these things every day (nor do I do them in that order, necessarily), but I have plenty of things to occupy my time. So, in case you were dying of curiosity, there you have it. Doesn't it sound awfully mundane for living in Germany?

Back in Berlin

We made it back to the starting point...literally for now. We are back in Berlin and staying in the same house we lived in before. However, we're only in this apartment until Sunday. It's so nice to be back here! The country is beautiful and peaceful, but it doesn't compare with Berlin! I'm very grateful to be among people who aren't so ridiculously anal about how clean your apartment is! I wouldn't call us the cleanest people in the world, but we're really not that dirty either. We mostly have paper clutter (since I'm a teacher and Stewart is a student/prospective professor). I think people in the city just have a different mentality. Life moves a little faster for them, so being super clean is not as important. Hallelujah! Believe it or not, a person can breathe here!