rain!

It was raining today. Only for about 5 minutes but I swear I almost did a happy rain dance.

this snow just beat the first snow

remember my glee about this year's first snow? Nothing against what greeted us today. Finn took the camera with her so you'll only be treated to camera phone pictures.






I'm totally in Christmas mood now and almost look forward to trudging through the snow to my parents' place to repair something on their computer. Damnit I love snow :)

snowdrops kept falling on my head

When I got up this morning to go to the bakery I was greeted by this year's first snowfall. While I was away getting bread, finn got up too and took some pictures of the snow herself. It was probably only 10 minutes after I'd left, but that was all it took for the roof next door to get properly coated in white.



Even though it was the wet kind of snow I enjoyed the walk down to the bakery and back. I even brought finn a little snow when I got home :)
I like snow. In the past two years it made itself scarce and I really really missed it.

weather's bitch

who says I don't learn from my mistakes? I do, but it's just no good!
Yesterday I got soaked. Literally. My pants felt like they had come straight out of the washing mashine, no spin-drying included, and I swear even my bra was soaked.

So today it's pissing down again, and the adaptive person that I am I take an umbrella with me. Guess what: sunshine and blue skies now. And I have to carry that stupid umbrella around with me all day.

I should have known. Umbrellas are evil.

I was a (teenage) office squatter

OK, I'm not a teenager anymore, but I can never resist a pop culture reference.
Point is: I'm currently occupying an office with a spectacular view. in fact all offices have a spectacular view here, because they're on the 8th floor. I like these huge window looking out over vienna's rooftops. especially in this autumn light it's magnificent. even in rain it is, but it's not raining today for the first time in a week I think. I like it here :)

My perfect year / Ode to a season

work is being really slow and boring today, and I have a lot of time on my hands to spend on the internet. so I finally went to 101cookbooks.com to check out a couple of recipes. It took about only two or three somewhat autumn themed recipes to make me yearn for the best of all seasons. basically it had me at caramel apples...

I love autumn. fall. call it what you will. it's just my all time favourite season. if I were to have it my way, the whole year would consist mostly of autumnish times. indian summer followed by a couple of golden gleaming months of autumn. leaves falling, pumpkin soup, lots of warm spices and teas, loads of slow food, fireplaces (if only we had one) and long walks in woods and parks and gardens, rooky skies. I really like wearing light jackets. I look good in jackets, but you can't wear those in summer and in winter you'll just freeze your ass of.
maybe top it all of with a wee bit of winter. But a proper one like we don't get them anymore, with enough snow to go for a sleigh-ride and a proper week of skiing maybe, ice skating, lots more of evenings with tea and fireplaces. No slushy, muddy snow (fuck global warming) and warm weather in which you actually feel stupid wearing your winter's coat or jacket. I want to freeze my ass of for a couple of weeks around christmas. But a couple of weeks is all I need. Then a bit of spring should be fine, but while at it may I ask for a lot of rain, please? or not. just keep summer to a minimum, will you? after that we can go back to the indian summer and start anew. Is it too much to ask?

Today the weather is very autumn-like (after all we're approaching September), and I've been hearing crows for a couple of weeks now (no, not just in my head, they're really there, outside my window) but I fear it might not last very long. It doesn't usually, not the last couple of years. I worry that there won't be enough autumn-time for me to annoy my sweetheart with every pumpkin dish possible (mostly because she won't let me), make caramel apples, spiced tea and all other autumn recipes I may find and take a liking to. Enough time and place for cosy evenings on the couch and warm lighting in the living room, time to use the melancholy to write, be creative. Oh my, I really love this season.