Kitchen

The kitchen on our floor didn’t look good at all when we bought the house. The colors were bad, the floor was bad and (what you fortunately can’t tell from the pictures) it smelled bad.It was something like this:

Since the kitchen is now close to being finished, I recently I got some sort of approval from the powers-that-be to make pictures. I personally thing it’s a huge improvement :-)Part of the kitchen:

Holidays

First of all, song of the year as chosen in the “A State of Trance” weekly show by Armin van Buuren. I can imagine trance is not everyone’s cup of tea but it’s a nice catchy tune: “Gaia – Tuvan” (click the Play icon to listen).

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As most people this time of the year, I am in vacation but not much relaxation so far. First week we had a little special somebody visiting and among other things we visited “Sensapolis” and I got the do a bit of ice skating.

“Sensapolis” is an interior entertainment park in a huge building somewhere near Stuttgart. It’s a lot of fun for kids of all ages and it features things like a giant spaceship, climbing wall, science center, a Fairytale castle, a pirate ship, tree house and many more. The picture gallery shows you a bit of the place.

During this time we are also working (again) at the house, doing remodeling and other things in the kitchen and bathroom. Freya’s brother is visiting and since he knows a lot more than us at this kind of job (he does this for a living) we kinda “abuse” the poor guy. The kitchen is one of the things we inherited from the creatures who lived here before and it was in dire need of renovation. When it’s done, the ugly brown will be gone and it will look “really pretty”, as Freya puts it. And I completely agree, will post some “before/after” pictures once it’s done.

And of course I am still studying for my Cisco CCIP certification. I am supposed to take one of the exams on the 31st of December, I just hope I will be done by then.

In the meantime, Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year! ;-)

Kitchen almost done

We just got back a short while ago after another work day. The kitchen from the first floor is almost done. Tomorrow we will completely finish the walls and the ceiling. Then we just have to paint white the tiles (they are red now!) and then we can start putting in the kitchen furniture.

Since we had to work on the walls and ceiling today, we used these white protection overalls which you put on on top of your clothes. We both looked like two white sacs, those things have no shape at all. But at least they protect you from paint, etc. But we are making progress. And we are spending money left and right unfortunately. I ordered a fridge from Quelle, it was kinda cheap, free shipping and for a small fee they pick up the old one too. Which is EXTREMELY good since the old one which was in there is very very yucky. I also ordered an infrared heater to test it. If we don’t like it, we have 4 weeks to send it back. Otherwise, many trips to toomBaumarkt and the like.

And since what you fear most still catches up with you, I had to go to the dentist these days. I am afraid of dentists, I hate them. Unfortunately I think it all started when I was a lot younger, because of a dentist who was working with my mother at the same clinic. She’ll have to excuse me when she reads this, but the woman was a total failure as a dentist. Mrs. Roxana, I think. Yes. I remember that once she removed a tooth and after that she took out the nerves with some sort of long drills and no local anesthetic, without any kind of concern for the patient and the pain caused. Brrr!

Anyway, after being also threatened by Freya (“You will go the dentist or else …“) I went to one of the dentists in our village. It was better than I expected. The guy gave me a local shot and then I felt nothing while he worked. I aprove of local anesthetics, I think they are the best thing since sliced bread. I still have to go there several times but I am not so horrified anymore.

And as a good news, the girl with the nail salon finally paid her rent! It’s kinda cool to finally see some black entries (incoming money) in the online banking thingy and not only red stuff (payments).