Nikolaus Eierwaermer

Instructions on how to make a Santa Eggwarmer can be found here:
http://www.apoplexy.de/Eierwaermer_Shop/index.html?strickanleitung_babyschuhe/strickanleitung_socken_stricken.htm

talk to a human

This is a link you will find very useful if you live in the US.
It 's a cheat sheet to directly connect to a human when calling american companies.

http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/

Progress report on gloves

Uiii look at the sunset today!

Out of my window! I brought my ibook to the apple genius bar today. My shift button didn't work anymore. I did a hardware check and also looked in the support database online. Nada.

The genius looked at me and smiled: You have the handicapped setting on! DOH! Took him 1 sec to figure it out.

Tonight I am going to a party in the westvillage. The bar is called: Lederhosen! Should be fun. I will take some pics. It's Ken's birthday. Ok I am off to the city.

If i don't post anything by tomorrow I got stuck in the public transit strike that is currently going on here.

Oh and this Toussant guy, he looks evil - doesn't he? Like a movie villain.. a dark voodoo priest.. Bloomberg was really pissed at him.

newest project: gloves for moi

here is the link http://hobbiefrau.de/handarbeit/hand-art01.htm
if anyone wan't to join me knitting gloves. we make those with fingers of course. it's fun. join in. i will post a picture with my daily progress ha ha

My mini sock!

I kind liked how it looked. I couldn't wait to put in online - that's why there is still a thread hanging out the sock :). Well I guess having way too much time helps to do such things too. Here are the instructions for any other stranded at home wives with no kids: ---> (hint hint Ursina)
http://www.teddys-handarbeiten.de/images/forumbilder/mimisocken.htm

So yesterday I got a call from UBS. Oh my, I have been waiting for that call for sooooo long. So what they said was they have 2 approved positions in Manhattan for next year. I need to go for another interview in the city this week. This is kinda where the problem starts.. this week is bad because there is a public transportation strike in NYC. No buses, no subway and no trains. You can only drive into the city by car if you have 4 passengers. It's a complete mess! Oh well.. if they call me for an interview I will just have to walk. This time I will take my running shoes and then change shoes just before I get there. I can take the ferry in - because the ferry is not on strike.

I got up at 8 am this morning just to see the traffic. And as far as my eyes went..(with binoculars) traffic jam!!!

On Sunday I went shopping. It was really cold. So when I got to the car with the shopping cart I was tempted to just leave the cart next to the car. "The hell" I thought, I am not bringing the cart back it's too cold. Then I heard my moms voice: "But F., if everybody would do that..." kinda the good angel and bad devil thing on your shoulders.. "but mom everybody is doing it ALREADY! Look" Dozens of shopping carts where standing around in the lot. It's so easy to adopt bad behavior. I brought the cart back, and I always will! Even if I am the only person bringing it back!

Last night

At 1.30 am I woke up. Somebody was in the apartment. I heard steps.. I thought either Ben just came home (unlikely as he told me earlier he would stay in the hotel) or it's Santa. Of course I know Santa doesn't exist - but I thought maybe some criminal dressed up as Santa is in the apartment. A robber would't make so much noise!
So I took all my courage got up walked to the closed bedroom door and opened it. My heart was beating really fast. It wasn't Santa. It was a robber!

Just kidding. Ben had decided to come home. :) Ok, today I finished the Socks for my brother. I thought I have to finish them because they need to arrive in Swissy land before Christmas. Now I am looking for a new project.

There might be a public transportation strike in NYC tomorrow. That will be fun. Maybe I should rent a rick-shaw (no idea how to spell that) with a bike and offer my transportation services.

Christmas Tree -upside down!

Check it out! This is our tree. We got it on Sunday and it was really cold when we picked it from the Christmas tree lot that usually is a parking lot. So once inside we realized how big the tree really was. It's even taller than Ben! I put the green pickle on the tree Robyn (last - following the old German tradition).
Can you see it on the pic? Of course our tree is upside down. . That way you don't need as much space and you are able to put presents under the tree. It's an old Swiss tradition to hang your tree from the ceiling upside down. http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72376.asp

I had a job interview 3 weeks ago and they told me they would get back to me in the middle of December. That means this week. I check my email every few hours and make sure the phone is charged... waiting... then yesterday the phone rang. A name I have never seen appeared on the phone. My immediate though.. the HR lady is calling me. But no, just another chilies call. (Our phone number is very similar to Chilis Restaurant so I get at least 1 Chilli call a day.) I am knitting socks for my brother. It was his Christmas wish. Last night I finished the tricky part of the sock - the heel. Now I am a sockxpert. :) A sock expert. So far I have knitted: 1 pair of socks, 1 pair of knee socks, a jacket, gloves (with fingers), 2 hats, a bikini. Time to get a job!

It's -9C today but sunny. Ben is working like crazy so I will probably have to drive up to his hotel where he is staying at to bring him a couple of suits for his presentations to come. I am really proud of him - he is doing an amazing job at work. He is not reading the blog so theoretically I could say whatever I wanted :)

crafty crafty

A couple of months ago I fell in love with the Louis Vuitton bracelet. The silver one JLo holds in fron of her face. With the LV charm. Well, it's too late to buy it since it's "at least last years" collection. And on ebay they only have ugly ripp offs. So i decided to make my jewellery line. ;) I designed my own bracelet and this is what it looks like.

Pizza ice cream

http://www.konopizza.com/prodotti.htm

That's even worse than the american Corn Dogs. (Breaded and fried Hot Dogs)

Knitting FEVER!

Three dozen of Austrian Grand-ma's knitted this huge bunny - located on a 5000 feet mountaintop in northern Italy. The beast is 100 feet long (60m) . Why pink? Because it was the cheapest color they could find.
Meanwhile grass is growing out of the rabbit so it has a green beard and chest. Twenty years from now not a lot of wool will be left. Check it out - until 2025!

Snow!

It snowed today. It started at 4 am and just stopped. I had to go out at 9 am and park my car in a different lot. I have to do that every morning because I don't have a parking spot. (All the spots that belong to our building are rented!) So at night I park in the municipal lot until 9am and then I take Ben's spot.
So when I went out at 9am I had to dig through the snow to 1)find my car 2) take the snow off my car. Nightmare. Whenever I was done with one side the other side was covered in snow again!!!
No need to mention I don't have boots or the sorts.. Just high heels.. Oh well. I don't like winter boots. They are ugly. All of them.
There is a good thing about the snow too. Nobody was in the grocery store. I was one of a few customers. It was great - I could choose from all the veggies, nothing had been touched before! Amazing. Normally you can always see fingernail prints on all the produce. Not this morning!
Then when I was done shopping I wanted to take the shortcut back to our apartment. Well, it wasn't possible anymore. There was a huge pile of snow along the parking lot. I had to walk on the road with cars to get back home (sidewalks were full of snow too). And as I mentioned earlier: In high heels!

My brother the Zwerg

This is my brother. Let's call him Tofu. Check it out. Pointy hats run in our family.
Had some fun photoshopping him a white beard.


Oh and check out http://www.StrangebutTrewe.com/knitGI.htm
There is a knitted digestive system. Very kool.

This is a Hersey Kiss

It's chocolate and honestley I have never tried Hersey's chocolate.

Funny things you can read on american Products:
Hair dryer: Do not use while sleeping
Serving suggestion for frozen Pizza: Defrost
Pizza: Product will be hot after heating
On my chinese christmas lights: For indoor and outdoor use only
Children cough medicine: Do not drive car or operate heavy vehicle
On a chinese knife: keep out of children

My hat - the Hersey Kiss

Hello hello. That was fast. The hat took only about 4hrs to make. And since I have 24 free hours a day. Peanuts! :) I went to Granny's Knitting Place to get the wool. The store is only open from 11-4. That's a hell of a work day. I should be talking. Anyways, I am pretty sure the "granny" doesn't read this blog so I can diss her. She looked like a witch. She was really old - but had a perfect black hair wig. She also had the mandatory witch big warts in her face. So I will wash my hood before i wear it..
She also wanted to sell me skin colored wool. Please, who wants to wear a flesh colored hat? It would look like one was bald (hairless) but she insited it was cool. Anyways. There it is. Looking for a new project for today now...
I thought I could wash my car but it's -6C. So that's not an option. Running isn't either caus I went yesterday for over 1h and my feet are not really happy about that.

Knitting a hat

I would like to knit a pointy hersheys hat. I think it looks cool.
Which color shall I make it? I thought brown, black or orange or red.
Any suggestions? I will post a picture when I am done! Promise.