Jack-O-Lantern & Pumpkin Pie

I made pumpkin pie from the pulp I got from the pumpkin I carved yesterday. I mixed the eggs too much; they were suddenly so fluffy that the mixing bowl became too small. I had to fill half of it into another bowl and still had to be very carefully while stirring the rest ingredients in. The pie was sooo yummy but may be a little bit too sweet. Next time I will use less sugar. Did you know that the word pumpkin is derived from the French word pompon?

Strawberries in October

It’s autumn here too but we still got strawberries in our garden. Not as sweet as usual but really yummy ones.

In September I told some of my friend about strawberries I painted. Now I took a picture of the painting to show it to you.

As you may have already noticed I really like strawberries a lot and the con of winter is that there aren't any strawberries. Nobody wants the tasteless strawberries, which traveled half around the world just to make them in winter available for us. They are way too expensive too.

First I thought about a different title for this blog something like "Strawberries, Dragonflies and Sunflowers" but I liked Polarbear-O-Rama more.

Infa

Today I visited the infa. It’s a fair for nearly everything. Every year they have a special theme this year theme was cooking. As I lifted the lit of a really tiny pot from “Le Creuset”, asking myself if someone would actually use it, I found a bunch of gummy bears hidden inside. I love gummy bears! So every time I passed that pot I lifted the lit and grabbed a couple of red bears! Yummy!

exmatriculated

This morning I got an email to inform me that my diploma is ready to be picked up. So I left my office and went to the university. First they postponed our graduation ceremony from mid September to mid November and now they cancelled it completely. I am so disappointed! How can they cancel a graduation ceremony? Anyway I went to the faculty office where I got my diploma. It was not like I expected it to be. There was nothing special, not a single glimpse of solemnness! It was more like buying a stamp.

E-Addys

Why do some people change their email address all the time? I write an email and wonder why nobody is answering me. Weeks later I go through old emails and find out that they changed their email address month ago. Am I supposed to check if the email address has changed each time I get an email? Why do they change it at all? It’s not like when you move your address change. I am still using my first email address from 1999! Well sometimes it might be necessary to get a new one for some reason. So can’t they just tell everyone? I don’t blame someone for changing the email address but for not telling me and expecting me to notice by myself.

My dictionary

I have this really big dictionary. “America’s best-selling” it says on its cover. But its index is kind of stupid. For example you open it at “L-M” you will find the page with “mask” – “mast”. I expected the beginning of “L” which is 68 pages ahead. Would it be a proper index and I would be looking for “M” I would open it somewhere between “L-M” and “N-O”. Now I newer know where to open and I have to go through more pages. I wrote the publishing company and asked if I just don’t get the big clue. They just said something about a big new innovation. They were really proud of this bullshit. How about we invent a completely new alphabet! Next time I buy the British dictionary, they may drive on the wrong side but they know how to index dictionaries.