Happy Merry

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Belated Christmas,
Hope it was grand

tomorrow I'm going snowboarding with Johnny and some friends from work, so if I don't make it back

I love you all

For True

my love for you - it's out of this world.
Everyday- But especially today, I'm making wishes for you.





(even though we all know your birthday is in November)

real shit, shit to make you feel shit

Cause, I mean. it's about to get serious in Vienna. Leesquared

it's beginning to look a lot like...

your Christmas cards won't make it in time.
From my purse to your mailbox in 2 days...probably not. But they're in transit.
Just like Johnny will be in a few hours now, not even days. OMJ

(if for some insane reason you're reading this and you don't know who my Brother is, he's only some mega talented awesome dude )

I'm trying to make a mental list of things that NEED to be done when he gets here.
Problem one. 5 am.
I'm still setting my alarm to wake up at 9:30 every morning so I can chain lock the door and the interruption is unwelcome.
Oh ya, did I mention that I was kinda sorta almost burgled?

Luckily my bedroom eyes have got more of a 'take one more step in this apartment and I'll eff your shit up' look.
haha. maybe not?
either way. crisis averted, new lock installed and maybe a few protective spell chants around the door.

Last night I got some seriously good face time with some very beautiful people. I love love love you all. skype is possibly one of my most favorite inventions. Drinks with coke as a mixer, not so much.

Ok. it's well into the day and I should start getting this place ready and maybe buy some groceries so my Big Brother doesn't starve.

Last minute Christmas wish - It's be nice if everyone out there could just take a minute and throw some good vibes and positive energy in to the universe - I'm certain they'll find their way to the right place.

reinsomniac

I've reconnected with an old friend.
it seems
these aren't like the nights mornings, where I'm sitting up right and singing along to some lovely tune into my overfilled glass of wine.
this is good old fashioned toss and turn 4:37 am
maybe it's the detox, the recoup, or the fact that I've just barely been up for 12 hours.

none the less.
here I sit to kill the time

Christmas, like always is coming faster than expected. remember the pre-climate change days when it started snowing in October, so you really got a chance to build the anticipation?

When John comes IN ONE WEEK!!!! we'll hit some mountains where I can get eaten alive by a snowboard for a few hours before waving my white flag of defeat and spending the rest of the afternoon making snow angels. purrrrrfection
I'm beyond excited to share this place with someone else. It's really just too much to keep to myself. I really look forward to sharing it with all of you after the fact through Johnny's lens.
Also gonna to see Oma and Lienz in Winter, and maybe get tatt'd up.continued purrrrrfection

For all the lovely things I have to say about Vienna, the shopping sucks. I've spent the last few hours drooling over clothes online (read: internet porn for girls), it doesn't really help to know that its all out there, but I can't have it.
I think that the new year has a well needed trip to Norway in it as far as my wardrobe is concerned.
I know I was supposed to come here and kick this habit, but hey...A girls gotta eat...or something.

I miss a lot of things, especially this time of year....but right now, I'd kinda kill for my feather head band and other dangly heart earring.

too much?

Blame it on the time of day


Oh and I guess I've kinda neglected any actual/factual updates on my life here. Work is great, it's been pretty busy and other than the other night where I'm pretty sure I was suffering from some form of pneumonia (that was miraculous cured by a little more sleep, a little less rock and roll) I've been having a wicked time. - Special shout out to Big Tune Shifts with Eva where the dance party is just part of the service.
Everyone though, is just great. it's the perfect little mix of culture and personality, good times and hilarity.
More than anything it's a really lovely and loving group of people who have formed a kind of home away from home feel and it's amazing. I could go into detail about all of them, but I think that's a bit invasive/creepy.
My room mate is super sweet and though I don't see her much with our conflicting schedules, it's fair to say that we get along very well, and are gonna throw a big jam here soon, haha.

and with that, again, I'm a very lucky girl to have fallen so neatly into this bubble.
or maybe to have been pulled here.
either way.


(picture from my work christmas party)

Ho Ho Ho

this love, it's Big

The really great thing, about how much i'm loving my life right now, is how much my love for all of you has to do with it.

This Christmas, I'm the luckiest girl in the world, cause I get to hold you all in my heart and it means the world.



































If you're not part of this photo love, I'm sure you know I love you, and we probably just don't have any pictures on my laptop.

xx

Hey Disney World, Take a back seat

Vienna is the most magical place on earth at Christmas.

I don't mean to brag. but I mean...

Big News!
Johnny is coming on the 22nd.

double magic

December 5th was Krampus and Eva's Bday

looked a little like this:

Happy Birthday DJ Daddo!!!! Xo

'Tis the Season

Birthday Mania.

Happy Birthday Christopher

I can't even start to type out all of this Big Love.

you and me. soon. even if it means contortions and fedex boxes




I ADORE YOU

one of us is gonna be here and one of us is gonna be running

while my outsides are aching
my insides are buzzing
bubbling, leaking out to keep from exploding

even in this state of mush and congestion
I'm inspired and ecstatic

possibilities and enegry running through my veins
past the combating cells
on a wave of it's own

catch me if you can

second star to the right and straight on till morning

the reflection in the mirror today had a lot to say this "morning"
I'm closer to 30 than 20
recovering from a night of drinking and rocking home at 4:30 is not possible with 5 hours of sleep and weeks of malnutrition and lack of exercise (side from food stair runs)
I mean, you know you're out of shape when the simple task of reenacting the "cool rider" scene from Grease 2 leaves you sore for days.

grander efforts at self maintenance need to be put into effect pronto.

step one: buy (healthy) food
step two: eat food
step three: stop walking the sun home from the bar

it's a start...

in the meantime, anyone know the cure for jaundice?

Mama is back for 2 days!!!
it's gonna be all kinds of dress shopping, Christmas market strolling, Glühwein/Punsch drinking, makeover, movie watching, cuddling, giggling, goodness.

I haven't changed coordinates in weeks, but somehow I'm farther from home

If you were starting to wonder....

...where that sucking sound was coming from, it turns out it's from my fingertips.
holy blog suck batman

I'm just saying, so you don't have to.

Travel stories, right.
well. this is really the best I can do,
Eurotrip Cliffsnotes:

We started in Munich,
Oktoberfest is just like the CNE only with big beer halls and people dressed in dirndls and lederhosen. We went at about Noon, drank a stein (1litre) and a bit of beer and I was in bed passed out by 6pm. nuff said?
Munich doesn't have much in the way of awe inspiring monuments, they have the Rathaus-Glockenspiel which would have been mighty impressive in 1908, but in this day and age of in- your- face- holy- shit- did- you -just -see -that technology it's kind of a snoozefest, the building itself looks amazing at night when it's all lit up and magical.

Our Second Day we went to the town of Dachau to the Concentration Camp Memorial Site it was this really miserable grey day, which put you right into the place. The kind of place you could spend hours just sinking into, going through a revolving door of emotions, pathetic efforts to imagine yourself in the bare feet of the prisoners that suffered and died there for over 10 years. It's unreal and unimaginable even standing in the middle of it.


We took the overnight train from Munich to Firenze (Florence)
here's a piece of solid advice, when taking a night train, spend the extra money and get a cabin with bunks so that you can actually sleep on the 9 hour ride, rather than sit up awkwardly and have to listen to strangers use outdoor voices to get to know eachother until the sun comes up.
Arriving in Florence was an absolute highlight of the trip, we got in at 6:30 am and took a taxi through the city as the sun came up. Everything was covered in goldust. After we dropped our bags at the hotel we roamed the streets and watched the city wake up, this is the kind of place that seems to have been unaffected by time, it's weathered and aged, but still maintains the integrity on which it was built, narrow cobblestone streets, markets, churches and the best gelato of all time.
other highlights: The David, Birth of Venus, View from the Piazzale Michelangelo.

We did a day trip to Pisa while we were there, it's worth it, not so much for the tower, or the food but for the combination of history.

I'd go into detail about stuff, but I could never do it justice, I wouldn't know where to start or stop, it would be painfully long-winded and completely amateur.
Here's something you won't see for yourself or read about on wikipedia, on the train ride to Pisa, I fell asleep, as I do on any moving vechicle, that I myself am not driving. I woke up at one point to hear shouting in Italian, it was a sob filled yellethon. I realized that it was a girl on the phone and I could only understand her saying "no" over and over again, sometimes with a comanding tone, and other times as a plea. I turned around to see who was causing this dramatic interlude just as the girl hung up and chucked her phone out of the train window.
It was pretty much all I could talk about for days.

Rome is Rome,
Amazing, jam packed with history and religion.
The first day we stumbled upon the top of the Spanish Steps just in time to see the sunset over Rome
Day 2- Saw the Pope, ya...the POPE...no biggie, he says "what's up, and keep on keeping on"

as you can tell, I'm fading. this was never gonna be an all in one go anyway.
aka: To Be Continued