Just another day

September 29, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized 

Today, I got to know my dog walkin’ buddies better. There’s Joerg (the doctor-aura guy), who is actually an SAP expert. They apparently don’t make as much in Germany as in the US, I dated a guy in Richmond who was an SAP consultant and he had money coming out the wazoo. Anyways, Joerg is the owner of Fritz, the husky-mix who is Charlie’s love buddy when there are no females around. Cigarette guy is Thomas, the owner of Senta, who Charlie LOVES. Toothless guy is Norbert and he says he actually has three teeth. He was a Klempner, which Leo.org translates as plumber, but he described it more as a guy who can fix and/or build most anything around the house, including the house (like a handyman, but with more skills and training). He owns Sparky (a shephard mix), Paul (a little black dog), and Alte Oma (“Old grandma”). Alte Oma is so endearing. She’s 22 years old (and he has the papers to prove it)!!! She’s blind, but throws fits if she doesn’t get her daily two hour walk with the pack (she also makes the Brötchen round every morning with the little dogs). She’s so sweet and funny. If Norbert is handing out treats and doesn’t get around to her fast enough she calmly, but assertively, starts barking in five second intervals. The picture below unfortunately doesn’t capture the happy look she always has on her face. She positively glows sometimes. It’s cool.

“Alte Oma”

I then came home to enjoy a meal of Thai meatball soup. To make this, you first fry a couple cloves of crushed garlic and some chili-in-garlic-oil for a few seconds, add chicken stock, Thai meatballs, then vinegar, fish sauce and sugar. In a seperate pot, boil thin rice noodles until cooked, then drain and run under cool water to stop cooking process completely. Put some noodles in a bowl, top with preserved cabbage, fried garlic and cilantro, then add soup and meatballs. It’s super yummy! All/most ingredients can be found in a decent-sized Asian market, although I have to substitute Vietnamese meatballs, but they’re close enough.

Thai meatball soup

And courtesy of Stacy, I now know that I am 24% white and nerdy. Apparently this has something to do with a new Weird Al video, but my lame dial-up connection doesn’t allow me to download videos and I don’t think Weird Al ever made it over here, I haven’t ever seen one of his videos on MTV or VIVA anyway, so I guess I’ll never know.

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6 Responses to “Just another day”

  1. Anonymous on September 29th, 2006 1:22 pm

    I’m 18% White and Nerdy!
    Can YOU speak Klingon?

    Lynn

  2. Christina on September 29th, 2006 2:27 pm

    I can’t speak Klingon, but is it really unusual to have beaten every level of Minesweeper??? And who in the 30-40 year old age range didn’t pretend to be in a lightsaber fight at some point in their childhood? And I never pondered whether Kirk or Picard was better. It’s no contest. Picard is the man, no need to think about it. ;-)

    I braved the half hour download time to watch the video and it’s hilarious!

  3. rita on October 2nd, 2006 7:31 pm

    i’m 22% white and nerdy. never pretended to be in a lightsaber fight — not even when i was little, east-block-kid that i was. but no question: picard. he’s got the nose and the accent!

  4. Christina on October 3rd, 2006 12:00 am

    Alte Oma is really awesome. I would love a dog just like her too (in addition to Charlie, of course).

    And I just spent the day (before going to see Superman) watching Star Trek:TNG season 3 episodes. I love Patrick Stewart. He’s so frickin’ sexy. Man, I may have to watch X-Men tomorrow to satisfy this superhero/Patrick Stewart fixation.

  5. Migraine Meister on February 14th, 2008 7:11 pm

    Hi Christina! I was actually just reading your blog’s “Charlie history” and saw that you found cilantro in an Asian market - I have been craving cilantro for the past week so badly and wondering where I could go to get it. Is the Asian market the only place you’ve found it? Thanks for your help!

  6. Christina G on February 20th, 2008 10:09 am

    Sorry for taking so long to reply. In Berlin, I often found cilantro (Koriander) with the potted herbs in the regular grocery stores. Here in Regensburg, they usually have it with the cut herbs at the Globus, but I’ve never seen it at the other supermarkets. In Potsdam, they’d have it at the Real in the Stern Center every once in a while.

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