- It's difficult to find turnips here. Any time I ask for "Weißrüben", I first get mildly puzzled looks, and then shown to the beets. Does anyone have any insight into why German culinary culture seems to exclude the turnip?
- On that note, the weekly vegetable market is fun. These jovial old guys with really strong Pfälzer accents describe their wares if they were lovers ("I see the lady is eyeing my spinach. I love this spinach -- it hasn't disappointed me the way the spinaches from the next village over have") while you rub your jaw thoughtfully and ask what they would recommend for a stew. It is only at this market that I have ever found the elusive turnip.
- Bert and his friends love the Rambo movies. Nothing is so cute as to hear two Germans imitating Sylvester Stallone: "Zey drew furst blood. Not me."
- The work just keeps rolling in -- who would have thought there'd be so much demand in one small area for a freelance English teacher? It's getting to the point that I have to sit down and prioritize, and decide what I'm going to keep, and what I simply don't have room for!
- I'm just terribly happy. When you start walking home and instead find yourself floating, supported by leaves blowing around in the wind, grinning mindlessly for no reason except that you just found turnips at the vegetable market, life is probably moving in just the right direction.
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...also sounds like a bit of piece of mind, to me.... enjoy -- you so deserve every moment of that wonderful floaty feeling :-)
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Funny you mention "turnips". Every week in our corporate budget & cash flows meeting I describe most of our non-paying accounts as "turnips" because, as the old saying goes, "...you can't get blood out of a turnip." These accounts won't have any money this winter and aren't going to pay us for the goods and services they received during the summer. I alway say, "If we don't collect from them in the next 30 day, they're going to turn into turnips."
On a more happy note: We had a wonderful 3-day weekend watching the Badgers play in Madison, and then topping off our joy by carving many big orange vegetables into silly and scary faces.
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Aww, that's so good to hear! Glad you're happy and have plenty to do. I'm so enjoying the unseasonable sunny weather we've had lately; even went kayaking yesterday :-) Little compares with the sight of golden Northwestern sunlight on bright-colored autumn leaves, on neat rows of trees or drifting downward in the breeze...
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