amazon.de

I ordered a hair straightener from amazon.de on Wednesday and sent it with the free shipping option. Today, my buzzer rang (which was exciting all in its own) and it was my package. Amazon.de is my favorite! Too bad it's not in English and they don’t have the same selection as amazon.com because rations are low and I’m on my last granola bar and the hot tamales are long gone.

Today for lunch I had a veggie wrap and it was really tasty with good vegetables although it randomly had peanut butter in it. It also had sweet chili sauce so maybe it was an attempt at peanut sauce but I promise it was peanut butter. Still good though and I’m considering another for my 4PM if they have any left.

The initial plan tonight was to go out to dinner and then home to catch up with everyone I’ve been too busy to respond to this week but then my desk neighbor, Antje, invited me to go ice skating with her and another coworker, Stefan, at the building next to our office. Good thing I wore socks today! Stefan brought us some treats for the night... They were roadie bottles called Flic Flac which resembled Lychee flavored liquor.


The rink is on the roof of the nHow Hotel. The hotel is music themed with unique decorations and also the rink is pink! They had these little penguins to help if you dont know how to skate and we also enjoyed some some mulled wine, or Glühwein as they call it here.

   

On my way home I stopped at a currywurst place recommended by Antje and Stefan. I still stand by my assessment made to Jessica that currywurst is a chopped up hot dog with ketchup on it. But it was tasty nonetheless and so were the frites.

My first week at work is over and so far so good. Granted, I’ve barely done any work but I am excited to come back on Monday and also I think my New York friend Randi will be at work so I’m looking forward to that too. One interesting thing to note is that I have poured myself a coffee probably 6 or 7 times and I’ve MADE the industrial sized pot of coffee about 4. Maybe I need to work on my beverage consumption timing or this is my initiation. Next time I go to the US I’ll bring back some delicious Irving Farms or Caribou and see how they like it.

PS I forgot to mention that yesterday I saw “rats” on the subway tracks and they were so little and sprightly they were almost cute and also a cockroach could take one down in one gulp

PPS here’s the photo of the coffee shop in the Möckernbrücke u-bahn stop, as promised. See, it’s shady not at all