{"id":1198,"date":"2016-02-20T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anniwhere.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2016-02-20T07:24:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T13:24:27","slug":"its-winter-oh-no-spring-nope-winter-never-mind-es-ist-winter-ach-ne-fruehling-ne-winter-vergiss-das-wieder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anniwhere.com\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"It’s winter. Oh no, spring. Nope. Winter. Never mind\/ Es ist Winter. Ach ne, Fr\u00fchling. Ne, Winter, vergiss das wieder."},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that in recent years Valentine\u2019s Day has been becoming bigger and bigger in Germany \u2013 purely commercial of course \u2013 but it\u2019s nothing compared to what it is here. Walmart has almost as many aisles devoted to Valentine\u2019s Day as they have for Christmas. Everybody gets you to try to buy something to give to your Valentine and the kids get showered with candy at their Valentine\u2019s Day parties at school. Everybody around me has been talking about their Valentine\u2019s Day plans for weeks, yet they all complain about the lengthy waits at restaurants and how unnecessary it all is. Adam has know what I think of Valentine\u2019s Day since we met (\u201ca bunch of commercial bullshit\u201d is how I phrased it, I believe) and we didn\u2019t\u2019 do anything last year and weren\u2019t going to this year. Yet he came home with flowers last Sunday ^^. Now I will never refuse flowers, but couldn\u2019t help but laugh. In his defense he said 1) he just wanted to get me some (can\u2019t argue with that :-)) and 2) he had told some people at work what I had said about V-Day and they told him to \u201cbetter get me sth anyway\u201d. Lol.
\nWell he got a single chocolate heart from me, because I wasn\u2019t going to pretend I didn\u2019t know it was Valentine\u2019s Day and everybody here goes crazy over it.
\nAt least everything Valentine\u2019s Day in the store was exchanged for everything St. Patty\u2019s day on Monday already ^^.<\/p>\n

Ich wei\u00df, dass der Valentinstag in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahren auch immer mehr im Kommen war \u2013 rein kommerziell versteht sich \u2013 aber das ist alles nichts im Vergleich zu hier. Walmart nutzt fast so viel Verkaufsplatz f\u00fcr den Valentinstag wie f\u00fcr Weihnachten. Jeder versucht dir zu verklickern, dass du etwas f\u00fcr deinen Partner kaufen sollst und die Kinder kriegen ohne Ende S\u00fc\u00dfigkeiten bei ihren Schul-Parties zum Valentinstag.
\nJeder in meiner Umgebung sprach seit Wochen \u00fcber Valentinstags Pl\u00e4ne und beschwerte sich im gleichen Atemzug \u00fcber die unn\u00f6tig langen Wartezeiten in allen Restaurants und dar \u00fcber wie unn\u00f6tig die ganze Aufregung generell sei. Adam wusste seit dem Anfang unserer Beziehung, was ich vom Valentinstag halte (\u201eEin Haufen kommerzieller Mist\u201c trifft meine Aussage ungef\u00e4hr) und wir haben weder im letzten, noch in diesem Jahr irgendetwas Besonderes gemacht. Dennoch kam er am Sonntag mit einem Blumenstrau\u00df nachhause ^^. Zu Blumen w\u00fcrde ich generell nie nein sagen, aber lachen musste ich trotzdem. Zu seiner Verteidigung f\u00fchrte er an, dass er mir 1) einfach welche mitbringen wollen (was kann man dagegen sagen :-)?) und 2) dass er seinen KollegInnen von meiner Aussage zum Valentinstag berichtet hat und die ihm empfahlen mir \u201ebesser trotzdem was mitzubringen\u201c. Lol.
\nEr hat von mir ein einzelnes Schokoherz bekommen, da ich ja nicht so tun wollte als w\u00fcsste ich nicht was f\u00fcr ein Tag w\u00e4re und dass jeder andere hier deshalb durchdreht.
\nWenigstens war am Montag alles Valentinstags-Betreffende in den L\u00e4den schon den St. Patricks Day-Sachen gewichen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"2016-02-15<\/a>\"2016-02-14<\/a>
\nI used last weekend\u2019s fires not only to heat the house (on Sunday it was 76 degrees in there ^^), but also to rise multiple doughs \u2013 one for burger buns and one for Germkn\u00f6del (an Austrian dish made up mostly of slightly sweet dough balls that get cooked over steam). Nothing like a home-made burger anyway!
\nSpeaking of fires \u2013 Thursday and Friday the temperatures were in the 60ies and today we\u2019ll get a high of 70. And all that after 19 degrees last Saturday and 32-40 at the beginning of this week. Nobody who is sensitive to weather would fare well here these days ^^.
\nDie Feuer am vergangenen Wochenende habe ich nicht nur genutzt, um das Haus zu w\u00e4rmen, sondern auch um diverse Hefeteige gehen zu lassen \u2013 einen f\u00fcr Burger Br\u00f6tchen und einen f\u00fcr Germkn\u00f6del. Es geht doch nichts \u00fcber einen hausgemachten Burger!
\nApropos Feuer \u2013 am Donnerstag und Freitag waren es dann fast 20 Grad, heute werden es 21\u00b0. Und das nach gerade mal 0-5 Grad am Anfang der Woche und -17\u00b0 am vergangenen Sonntag. Man darf hier echt nicht wetterf\u00fchlig sein ^^.<\/strong>
\n\"2016-02-14<\/a> \"2016-02-14<\/a>
\nThey look remarkably similar, don’t they ^^?
\nDie sehen den Burger Br\u00f6tchen echt \u00e4hnlich, oder ^^?<\/strong>
\n\"2016-02-14<\/a>\"2016-02-14<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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