I know it's a little late for that picture

but these are my christmas tree left overs. A real tree is really nice.
But then in january when you need to get rid of the tree and put it in a plastic bag (all by yourself) it's a pain.
I tried and the damn thing was really hard to get into a plastic bag! And then once it was in there i didn't really know if more
of the tree was in the bag or on the floor :D

Car wash! yeah yeah yeah!

Splash car wash! My car was so dirty so we decided to have it washed. The car wash place was so cool they had 2 soap guns with which you could shoot soap at your own car. I swear I didn't even think of trying to aim at the car wash guys.
Anyway here you see me washing my car.
Best car wash place I have ever been to. It's far into Connecticut land in a little town called Norwalk. Ben and I checked out houses in that area this weekend.

my Valentines Flowers!

These are the flowers I got from my husband for Valentines day! They are the most beautiful flowers! Red roses in a red sequin bag! :) I was so happy when I got them.
But then I noticed the little red bag had a hole. I could't put any water in it. Of course I tried but it just came pouring out of the hole. (who would have thought..). So I called the flower company and told them. By the way, it's a bad idea to try and call 1-800- flowers on valenties day. Luckily my timing was good and after an 1 hour gym work out somebody picked up the phone right when I was checking if someone was on the line :P
So they sent me another nice red bag with red roses. This time the bag had no hole but the flowers came delivered upside down. So basically they were not usable anymore. But combined I had the most beautiful valentines day bouquet. Thanks!

Today was a good day

I got my business cards! Now I am official - at least I hope so.
It was very cold today. They were saying in the news that a big snow storm was coming.
I wonder how it is like to be on a ferry during a snow storm.. hmm
The whole week I was looking forward to today: Penne Bolognese in the canteen.
Then finally the big day arrived. I saw the Penne but no bolognese.. no meat sauce instead
tomato sauce with broccoli. !!!! I noticed there was broccoli in every single dish there.
Probably they needed to get rid of their inventories. So canteen = bad.
On Tuesday and Thursday they have an omelet station in the canteen in the morning.
There is always a huge line and you can choose what you want in you omelet. Of course
locals choose all kinds of stuff like pepper, cheese, sausages, chips and fries (just kidding hi hi)
But this is true: the breakfast buffet has fries and burger meet (the round meet things you put in
a burger), they have scrabled eggs (and scrambled egg whites for the "I am on a diet and can't eat egg yolks people")
Then they have a fruit station with all kinds of stuff and a bread station a toast station and most importantly a
bagel slicer station.

Baby boots I knitted

It's really easy. Takes about 2hrs per boot. I made them out of Cashmere wool. If I was a baby I would like Cashmere :)
The shoe laces are functional - not just for decoration.
I made them for Ben's sister.

It's 8 pm

Last picture of the day. Going home always feels special. Leaving the city and going back to my quiet "Edgewater".

Guess in which building I am working at

NY here I come!

The ferry ride takes about 7 minutes. First the ferry turns around and then full speed. They are going really fast.

On the ferry now

This is the Hudson River. I wasn't allowed to take a picture of the ferry boat. For terrorist threat reasons.. I was told. (of course I didn't know and got yelled at...)

Ferry Terminal in Wee

This is where I take the ferry every morning. On the right you can see a little waiting station (the round thing). I guess it's a good thing to have when it rains. But last week it did rain and it rained in. So it's not really helpfull :)
Please also note todays newspaper headline... :D

UBS In Wee

UBS is in this blue building. Swatch is in there too. This is the reason why I can go on the ferry for free. It UBS "incentive" to get people out of Manhattan. And because these people have to go back in the evening the ferry is free all the time.

My bus 158!

This is the bus I take every morning for about 17min. It picks me up right outside our building and stops right by the ferry. Here I am in Weehaken already.

Good morning NY!

View from Ferry Terminal in Weehawken

My average work day

I usually get up at 6.15 am in the morning. I try to make it to the 7.15 bus and then I take the 7.30 ferry. On the ferry I usually talk with Nicole she is swiss too. This is my swiss german morning chat. Then at 7.38 I get on the bus on the other side. The bus drives right to UBS. When I don't sit right at a window I am always lost and I have no idea when to get out. I need to remember some landmarks so I know when to get off. So far I never over shoot but I got off too early twice last week. Well, that's not too bad. That way I get some fresh air at least :)

I have a huge NON-flat screen computer. It's funny because people in Europe always think of America as soo advanced. Not so!
At around 10 we have breakfast together. (for swiss people it's probably more lunch). They have burger meet, sausages, scrambled eggs bacon, all sorts of different toast, bagels. I always take a whole wheat sesame bagel. Then I put some margarine on it which everybody think is odd because you are supposed to put cream cheese on it. Oh well. Cheese at 10 am? I don't think so!

Then at 1 pm we usually go to get some lunch. We either go outside or underground through the cold zone. The cold zone is called cold zone because you don't really need a coat in winter (it' underground) but at some point when you enter Rockefeller plaza you go through a some doors which are connected to the outside - hence cold zone!

I usually have pizza or pasta or terriaky chicken. Then back to work and eat in front of your computer. At around 7pm I get out and back home.