dark rainy day in Geneva

...the first until now. Listening to Louis Armstrong in the car for atmosphere...

You definitely have too thin walls when you know your neighbour's alarm tone.

Finally the big day to clean the new appartment arrived and perhaps tomorrow I might even move in. Still no furniture yet, hopefully there will be a max 2 weeks delay and I will have it. Already planning the housewarming party...thinking of having it for the Romanian National day, 1 December, or to have it in a wknd close to that date.

learning curve 3, about beer

This learning experience is about beer: i have finally found out myself that one can open a beer with anything. In my case, the candle holder. This leads me to believe that: 1. i am a hopeless alcoholic since I bought beer to drink by myself in order to sleep :); 2. that my cousin is a genious because he can open a beer with anything, but this probably takes a lot of practice (that I don't have) and an amazing desire to remove any obstacle between him and the alcohol...

In my case, this was a 30 min exercise of walking around and trying to find an edge that i can use to open the goddamned beer, since I took all my kitchen stuff to the new apartment already...

The only good thing about this whole learning experience is that the beer is effective :).

another link of today

did not read the art, but like Mr Djuvara's hat :P

http://www.contributors.ro/cultura/intre-neagu-si-samuel/

about Mondays

thank God it's Friday! :)

Because it seems there was a perfectly good reason why Garfield and myself positively hate Mondays:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/02/facebook.breakups/index.html

34 or learning curve 2

Y-day evening we have been on the wine tasting boat and I have written down the assessment for 34 wines (and tasted around 40, but who's counting :) )...mostly French reds, but the highlight of the evening was in fact a German Wuertember Riesling Eiswein Nr 9 HJ Lenz from 2004. That is a fantastic wine and I am thinking of ordering 2 boxes. Unfortunately it only comes in 37,5 cl...

There were maybe 4 or 5 that I've rated 5 stars, but a few other good ones as well. I have learnt that sometimes wine needs time to mature. That does not sit well with my tendency to want EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW :). I am learning more and more things since I've moved to Suisse.

Moreover, I have already made the IKEA list for the furniture that I need to buy and the bar table and bar stools are among the first items that I need to get :).

In a different note, I am now in the process to do some research for some dress shopping opportunities for the maid of honor (or made of horror) for Gloria's wedding. We are supposed to have a girls' night out in and around Geneva to go dress shopping. I am thinking neighbouring France but also north of Italy (Milan maybe?) with Gloria, Ema, Nora and Annick.

Yeeeey, looking forward to it! and also looking forward to having my friends over to visit in my new huge appartment as soon as I am settled in by the end of November :). Need to think about organising the housewarming party...and also need to start thinking where to spend my winter holidays this year. It seems up to now that I will most likely spend my holidays in my new MSR home :).

PS: Happy happy bday Gloria! and big hugs to Peter from Maria from Geneva :P