Crazy dog person? // Perception of love

Whatcha'll doing my crunchy cookie crumbles? It's Lou.

It's been quite hectic and busy lately.. Uni's started again and even though I'm not obliged to go (since I'm going to move to Berlin in august) I want to.. I mean I spent money on that semester, might as well go there from time to time right? No better place to play Pokémon on your phone than at Uni ;)

Yesterday was my brother's birthday and therefore I went home to spend a couple of hours with my family and puppies, which brings me to the intention behind this post: My changed perception of love. 

I had quite a traumatizing experience yesterday when me and my brothers were walking the dogs. They're both drop-dead adorable, friendly and calm- most of the time. We always have them on long leashes so that they can run a little more freely. Then, all of a sudden, one of my dogs pulled like crazy, rushing past the hedge and then started biting another dog that had been behind the hedge apparently.. I don't know why he did that, he wouldn't even let go when we tried to get him away from the dog. I'd never seen or experienced such a behaviour in one of our dogs before. Nothing serious happened, the other dog didn't even bleed. Still, I got so scared and I was shaking.

When people asked me if I know what love was, I couldn't really find an answer. I mean, everbody's got an image of love, right? Being able to be yourself around your significant other, feeling secure and safe when somebody's around. Of course your family falls into that category. But it's way more than that. It's the little things, happening every day in your life that you so easily tend to take for granted. I remember when one of our dogs died how devastated my family was. Still, I was younger than I am now. When my dog showed this strange and aggressive behaviour yesterday it took me back to that time. What if the dog had actually fought back and bit him to death? I felt so helpless and just burst into tears, which I hadn't in such a long time.

 I think that only pet owners or even only dog owners can relate to what I'm trying to say here. Dogs love you unconditionally. Once you adopt them their lives revolve around nothing but you- you become their everything. They wait for you when you're at work, want to be played with and sleep by your side. So, even when you're having a really bad day, don't take it out on your dogs. They don't have anything to do with what's happened in your day. I'm saying that because I felt so guilty when our dog died. Times when I wouldn't say hi to him when I came home, ignoring him. Being really pissed when mum wanted me to walk him. I so wish I could go back and treat him better than I did. At the end I didn't even say goodbye to him when I went to school, came back and he had died from a stroke while I was gone.

I'm not saying that a dog's love is the purest and most unconditional there is.. but- for me, it's a gift that you should appreciate. I love my two puppies.

Stay strong xx

Lou

Color doesn't matter // Spontaneous American Apparel Shopping-Party

Hello, it is I, Nara, arisen from school and dark-circles!

So, school's pretty much got the best of me, spending most of my time there! Finals are coming up - meaning a lot of dance-practices and acting rehearsals... There isn't really much energy left for the rest of the day. And I haven't even really started working yet! I guess it's gonna become worse then.

Anywho - Lou brought home weirdly looking bananas, small and reddish. They are supposed to taste a little bit like raspberries:

Well... They don't. Taste like every other normal banana. Lou was a little disappointed, he had hoped for some special, yet magical flavor! Doesn't that teach us yet again, no matter what we look like, aren't we just all the same species (aww, loads of love for the world!)

Apart from differently colored fruit, I stumbled upon a poster from American Apparel on which it said that it was shopping-night! They also indulged us with free drinks, snacks and live DJ, so I just had to grab a friend and check it out.

A few years ago, I didn't really like American Apparel, it just didn't really make sense to me to spend money on simple/basic clothes which I could also get at other stores for less money.

But now since I am 1. older and 2. trying to be more observing about where things actually come from, I find American Apparel is a great brand! They design and make their clothes in the US in human-kind conditions and fair salary. This is definitely something I want to support.

Unfortunately - I still am a student, so my monthly budget is limited. My friend and I both found a pretty dress, but we decided not to buy them. We just have no occasion to wear them.

But we left the store with a smile, the music was great, we had apple cider and my mind was opened up a little bit more today :)

I know the picture sucks, I didn't have the time to take a proper picture! Can you forgive me?

Hopefully you had a nice day, too!

First day at work // Diets are hard

Hello, it is I, Nara, arisen from exhaustion and my first day at work!






So sorry for not blogging so much lately, life's crazy! School started again, you need to have social contact once a while (sooo unnecessary ;) ), do other stuff... There is just no time for anything.
And now it's just going to get worse - Lou and I both had our first day at work!

I spent five hours at 'Gröninger' today, an underground restaurant where they brew their own beer. I have been there couple of times when I was younger and I liked the atmosphere a lot back then (though I didn't have the possibility of drinking their nice beer), so I decided to just give it a try!

And it was a lot of fun, my colleagues are really nice and funny, we share the same humor, we matched pretty well. Also the costumers are all really nice, they all come to our restaurant to have a good time and have fun, it doesn't really feel like work when you serve them!
It is still pretty exhausting though, carrying around beer isn't the easiest thing to do. Plus, it wasn't even full today and I was running back and forth a lot... So I guess there is more to come!

The rather sad part is, as already mentioned, the restaurant a basement, so you have no idea what is going on outside. There could be a hurricane happening and you wouldn't know.
And we had nice weather today, which I found out when I was done with work and of course it was dark by then.


Anywho, looks like this is how I am going to spend my weekends, serving people beer! (Isn't that just a dream come true)
I still have another job interview next week though, as an animator for ecological kid's birthday-parties. Really curious how that's going to turn out!

This is what a good friend of ours bought us. I find it adequate.

Take care folks!

Future plans // DOM!

Hello, it is we, arisen from anger and frustration.

Sorry for not posting for such a long time, but we've been running from a to b to f to g and weren't able to find a minute of peace.

AND our internet is a bitch. Don't we all know this problem? How is your connection in other countries? 'Cause in Germany it just sucks. Things like this don't happen in Asia. Grr.

Our weekend was quite pleasant. Despite the disgusting weather we went outside and fought like strong independent women..kind of. Since Nara is unsure about her future plans (who isn't..) we decided to attend an open campus day at the KLU in the Hafencity on saturday. Being able to get lots of free food was reason enough for Lou to join the party :D Unfortunately we forgot to take pictures of the beautiful building, but maybe Nara will be able to take a lot of pictures once she's enrolled :D 

In the evening a dear friend of ours came to spend quality time with us lonely souls. We had a blast laughing at anything, even at the grocery store we were goofier than 3 teenage girls after a Westlife concert ;) The next morning we headed out to the Hamburger Dom which is an anual fun fair at the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg. We had a stroll in the rain (duh, Hamburg- actually it was hailing, even..) and ate some unhealthy food! Then we went to a café and discussed important life questions. We actually planned to go to another café which offers so many cute pastries, but it was crowded like walmart on black friday y'all. :D So maybe next time- then we'll be there with our camera ;)

Hope you're having a splendid time wherever you live- 

Lot's of love,

International Happiness Day // Late St. Patricks Day

Hello, it is I, arisen from nail-polish smell!




Although it is the international day of happiness today, unfortunately nothing really special happened. But you can be happy about that, too I guess!

And since my nail-polish was slowly starting to come off, it was time for home-made manicure

So I used Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer - King of Greens and Missha Lucid Nail Polish. That green dot-like thing is supposed to be a clover, it was my first time painting something on my nails (maybe I should ask Lou next time, he's freakishly good at painting). The theme was supposed to be happiness/luck, but it looks more like a St. Patricks Day manicure... Well, still good enough!

How was your day of happiness?

Drunk Chocolate // Karma's a bitch

Hello, it is we, arisen from shame and cookie dough...

Of course, after having a post called "We should start a bakery", something bad was bound to happen in our kitchen... It was not pleasant.

But nice things first, my Prima Vista teacher (sight-reading) gave me a Mon Cherié for full attendance! Drinking alcohol by eating chocolate, what more can I desire? (Unfortunate timing though, still trying to keep my body healthy...)

Anyways... We tried making cookie-bowls today. They were supposed to look like this

    

We don't know exactly what we did wrong, maybe we used too much butter on the pan or whatever, after two minutes in the oven, it kind of looked like this

 Not really what we were going for... Still tastes nice tough. At least something!
After brainstorming what we could do with - we shall call it dough - we just decided to make a huge cookie out of it.

 Something like this was bound to happen, since we never ruined anything since we moved it. Everything worked just perfectly fine before, so it was just a matter of time.
But taste is the most important thing, so at least we didn't fail too hard.
And we don't want to spoil you guys with too pretty photos, there isn't just beauty in the world!

Lou's back!!! // Maybe we should start a bakery

Hello, it is we, Lou - back from Berlin - and Nara - jumping up and down, happy that he's back!

Berlin was so much fun! Meeting friends, hanging out, ordering food, partying..., and all that jazz! Also, I had a meeting with the head principal of the school I may want to attend starting this summer.. It's sounds pretty cool, but I don't really wanna leave Hamburg anytime soon.. I hate big life decisions, can't there be one answer, hidden in the clouds? Or in food?.. Ah food.. Food IS the answer! I might have myself a slice of that delicious apple pie Nara baked a few days ago! Anyway, I had a really good time. Unfortunately I'll be working again tomorrow (booo..), but I just wanted to share this little piece of happiness with you! 

A friend from Taiwan who I met when I was working in Japan (yep..) sent me a really cute letter! Now isn't that something you'd wanna  come home to after sitting on a bus for 3 hours? :) Especially when people around you were eating weird smelly food in a bus with no air-conditioning? Haha

I'm so gonna write her back! Love getting letters, how about you guys? Lots of love.

School has started and as I already mentioned before, I wanted to treat my body a little bit better. So I whipped out my few recipe books and looked for something healthy and mouthwatering.

I found this bread, which looks pretty healthy to me. I've never made bread before, I was a little intimidated - CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

And it turned out pretty well :) I don't know whether it's eatable yet, but I'll definitely try some tomorrow for breakfast!