It's raining men

It's raining men...Hallejulah...It's raining men...Amen

It's been raining since yesterday and at first it was kinda cozy, sleeping while there is a thunderstorm outside. But now our pool is about to totally overflow and flood the entire backporch. Should be interesting to watch. I hope it's stops tonite though when I have to go to yoga.

Sooooooccer

Btw Germany played the Dutch today at the Euro 2004 and it ended up being 1:1 due to a lucky shot from the Dutch in the 80th minute. I dislike the Dutch with their unfashionable orange jerseys. And I dislike US television for not showing the games. Ok, I'm quite upset now, bedtime.

History...

Today at 5:15 pm I left to go to my history class at Brazosport College. I almost was late again. I'm too used to just walking to my classes in 5 minutes that I totally forget that depending on how many red lights you hit and how many slow grandpas in oldsmobiles drive in front of you it can take up to 20 minutes to get to class. I really have to get used to that this fall. Actually driving to school is gonna be an new experience. Anyway, my teacher passed back our test today and I was happy about my A :), he then talked a total of three and a half hours about history. Three and a half!! We covered the entire American Revolutionary War AND every single detail about the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. That is even too much for an American to take, except for those few crazy History majors out there ;) Boy am I happy I don't have to learn German history. It would probably take a grand total of 6 semesters or so. But the greatest thing yet, next Tuesday I already have another test. Yipee....not. I will hereby solemny swear never to take a 4 hour evening class again. I'm tired, I'm going to bed. Nighty Night

Splish Splash

Just got back from Splashtown with my family. It was tons of fun...my lil bro got burned and we know now why Houston was voted fattest city. Now I'm exhausted and I will probably just play a couple of board games with my sister. Later

And yeah Harry Potter was awesome. I loved it how it was a lot darker than the first movies just like the books. I think I'm gonna reread all HP books again if I have time.

Aloha!!

My parents got back from Hawaii on Friday. They had a great time and now I really wanna go to Hawaii. Hmm, maybe for my 25th anniversary whenever that will be. Anyway my dad took some really cool pictures so just check it out and become jealous too.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dirkaheimer/

I'm too tired to get the link thing working so y'all are just gonna have to copy and paste it. Later...

I'm not gonna complain

I'm not gonna complain, I'm not gonna complain, I'm not gonna complain....Geez, that's difficult.

If you would be a real seeker
after truth, it is necessary that at
least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.
~RENÉ DESCARTES

Missing Lubbock

It's the second week of June and that means only one thing. TWO more freaking months til I go back to Tech. It's getting to the point of being unbearable. I never realized that I could miss my friends, Lubbock, and Tech that much. Mainly it's because the only people I hang out with down here is my family. And you know what I'm gonna stop complaining right now. I'm gonna enjoy this time with my family as much as I possibly can. In fact no more complaining about being stuck down here and missing my Tech buddies until the end of summer. I'll just add that to my to do list. Oh boy that list is actually quite long. Anyway, good night. Oh add order contacts to that list too otherwise I can't see.

Happiness

My aunt Alexa called this morning and talked to my sister for a while and then to me. After talking to her for about 15 minutes I realized that she is just simply dissatisfied with her life. Later on my sister started crying because of things my aunt said. My sister is in general a very happy person and it really hurts me to see her cry like this. I was rather furious at my aunt. Just because she is not happy doesn't give her the right to make my sister cry, talk bad about my dad etc.

My sister and I ended up talking about our family a bit and how many family members are quite unhappy. My family is not very big and most of them had a rather hard life. My grandparents grew up during world war 2, my mom and her sister grew up in the post war era, my dad's mom put him and his sister in an orphanage and that same lady who technically is my grandma, visited us grandchildren twice our entire life.

This made me realize once again, life is hard and then you die. Period. This goes along with the Buddhist first noble truth that simply states "life is suffering". Now people have told me that this is pessimistic way to look at life. It isn't so much pessimistic but a logical, practical outlook on life. I always tell people life is beautiful and they tell me that it disagrees with Buddhism but I personally think it doesn't. Yes, life is suffering, that's a fact, but it's what you make out of you life, how you see it, how you look at it, that makes it's beautiful. This actually goes with Jay's blog title which says "Dandelions - You see flowers in these weeds". Yes my family had a hard life, but instead of just being dissatisfied and unhappy they should try to see the beauty of life, the beauty of humanity, the beauty of the universe. I now that is it easy for me to say because I had a rather perfect life and it should be easy for me to be happy. But I see so many people like me that had the same type of life and they are just not happy. Life is beautiful people. It's everywhere. It's in the wind that sends ripples across the water in the pool. It's in the rain that splashes onto the newly waxed car. It's in the sun that blinds you when you drive home and bathes the trees with Spanish moss in sunlight. It's in the music your brother plays on his bass or viola. It's in the food your mom cooks.

On a different note I have been a little dissatisfied with my laziness that started when I got home in May. Thus I'm gonna change that and I'm gonna follow this plan for the rest of the summer.

Read and study more about Buddhism
Read the Da Vinci Code
Mediate everyday
Work out at least 4 times a week including Yoga class on Mondays and Wednesdays
Clean out and rearrange the garage so that Dad's car can finally fit in it
Get an A in my history class
Learn how to cook
Don't sleep past nine o'clock
Visit Amy in Fort Worth
Watch Harry Potter and other cool movies that come out
Update my Resume
Organize stuff for moving into the house in August
Eat some good seafood
Get a tan
Finally put up the Monet in my bedroom
Go to Germany....hopefully
Don't complain too much when I get my wisdom teeth pulled,actually no complaining at all
Work on SWE stuff
Go climbing
Drink 2 liters of water a day
and write more nonsense in my blog

Kids are annoying.

Today I came to the conclusion once again that I'm not gonna have kids for a long time and I would suck as a housewife. I arrived at this conclusion after babysitting this morning and Liam (that little brat) got very close to driving me insane. His attention span is about 2 seconds and he has the special talent of screaming for his mom constantly in this insanely high pitched voice only a guy before puberty can achieve. Even Amy (the baby with the longest eyelashes ever...makes me jealous) who normally is the cutest baby in the world was little Ms. Grumpy today and cried the entire time and smeared noodles and pear everywhere on her high chair. Yeah, before I'm gonna have kids I will most definitely think twice. And after almost ruining dinner yesterday and my sister coming to my aid and then yelling at me because I put wet towels in the laundry hamper I decided that the only reason why I would be a soccer mom is so that I can drive a mini van and carry huge beach bags around. I should probably just move to Hawaii and lay on the beach all day. I'm quite jealous at my parents who are having a blast on Hawaii right now. Swimming with sea turtles, eating breakfast out on the balcony with palm trees and watching lava flow out of a volcano is just sweet. Wow my brother is actually playing his viola again, I'm listening to him right now. SWEET, he can actually play the LOTR music. I hope he gets back into orchestra in high school. Ok, I should probably help my sister get ready for the surprise pool party. Yea...

Long day and my brother won't stop playing his bass.....

I went to Houston today to help my lil sister with her orientation at U of H. After getting lost in the ghetto, I know for sure where MacGregor Road leads to now. Anyways, of course I couldn't resist and had to wear a Tech shirt (GO RAIDERS) which got me a couple of weird looks as I was walking around campus. My sister of course gave me the obligatory campus tour and I have to say U of H has one of the funkiest campus I have ever seen. Granted it is the only campus besides Tech that I have ever seen. My first impression was "Tech looks soooo much prettier than this, this is ugly" After seeing the brand new Rec Center equipped with an outdoor pool, palm trees, a tall climbing wall and all this other awesome stuff I kinda changed my mind. Then I saw the SWE hangar, which is just sweet because SWE members just hang out in this old hangar all the time in between classes. Then of course the Architecture building just blew me away. I'm not an architecture major but even I wanted to cry because of jealously. Next was the library which is brand new and almost unbelievable as well. U of H also has all these cool fountains and ponds on campus and then there are all these totally ugly, old and mismatched concrete buildings that make up the rest of campus. In the end I couldn't really decide whether this was a pretty or ugly campus. But I'm totally proud of my sister, I know she is gonna have a blast and really enjoy her major at the on campus Hilton which is a sweet hotel by the way. Afterwards I drove to Westheimer to get some shopping done around 5ish, which was a big big mistake. I know that Houston people are gonna laugh now but as a Greater Greater Houston Area Person I totally forgot about rush hour and construction. Go me. After I finally made it home before my foot started cramping up too much (I freaking drove the standard to Houston, Go me again) I'm now sitting here trying to relax and my brother decides he is gonna play the bass some more. I think I'm just gonna go to bed.

Roadtrips and Camping?!

This is one paragraph from my wonderful roomie and friend Audrey’s latest entry in her lifejournal.

"anyways, my dad is still job-searching and constantly doing stock research/investing-he worries/stresses a lot, and these things are constantly on his mind-i'm praying he'll find a job soon, because i can't handle him like this-he's making his hair go gray, and his blood pressure go up. he always says he's just "emoting" when he sighs or groans in frustration and aggrevation. i just don't get it-if i were off work like him, i would take a road trip or go camping or something and take advantage of the time off. i know that he needs a job-and he still has to pay for the house, cars, my and my brother's college (which for evan is in three years) but there's nothing wrong with taking time away from stress to meditate, pray and think."

ok, when I read this I just had to rant, so here it goes:

Audrey, I just hope that a couple of years from now when you have kids and actually have to provide for them you won’t think the same way. That whenever you are unemployed you don’t go on roadtrips or go camping and stop worrying about how you are gonna pay the bills. I know that money isn’t everything in life. And yes, if you dad wouldn’t get a job you could probably live of your mom’s salary. But that would probably mean that you would have to sell the cars, move into a smaller house and no college for you or Evan and I know that you are not willing to cut down on the lifestyle you are living right now. So yes, you dad has a right to worry because he STILL has to pay for the house, cars AND for college. This is not a time for him to take roadtrips. Sorry if I have offended you, but the way you are thinking just doesn’t work. If you are single maybe, but at least not for a father who has a family, loves his family and wants his daughter and son to go to college. The reason why he is worrying is because of you. I know that it is hard to watch, I can’t handle my dad stressed out either. But just because you stop worrying that doesn’t mean the problems will go away. And not having a job is a rather big problem.

Boooo

In exactly 11 days the European Championship in Soccer is going to start. But will I be able to watch the games...? No, of course not because it will only be shown on pay per view. Thank you ESPN and FOX sports for totally disappointing me.

25th Anniversary

Today is my parents 25th Anniversary. Yesterday a ton of people came over to decorate the house like it is tradition in Germany. It was just simply amazing, my parents weren't expecting it at all. They all brought food and drinks and stayed for a while. The most hilarious part of the evening though was my brother's reaction to my parents kissing. He just turned around in total disgust and said:"UIHH, that's my parents!" He just finds it disgusting, I think it is totaly amazing that my parents still love each other that much. I'm really proud of them.

Turkish Hashish

My brother brought up the topic of Turkish hashish at breakfast this morning. We didn't know if it is the same word in English or if hashish translates to marijuana. We busted out the dictionary and it told us that hashish is the same word in English and used to make a joint. My mom looked surprised and said:"So that's what in a joint?" My brother replies:" What did you think they put in it...parsley?" Needless to say I was on the ground laughing. The situation was just funny. My lil bro cracks me up.

White Oleander

I read Audrey's blog about 2 seconds ago and found out that she is reading the book "White Oleander". The funny part is that I'm reading exactly the same book right now. That must have something to do with the whole roommate thing. Maybe we can even develop psychic powers or so.

Deprived

I talked to my friend Melissa today and she told me about her awesome climbing trip to Datil.....I almost died. I wanna go climbing so bad, it's not even funny. How am I gonna survive all summer long??? I'm just gonna go to bed. :(

I love my lil sis

My sister is graduating this Saturday. I'm so excited except that I have to watch a grand total of 500 and something students graduate. It's gonna be a long evening. But anyway I'm totally proud of my sister. She is going to go to U of H in the fall to study Hotel and Restaurant Management at the third best program in the Nation. Wohoo. Ok, I gotta save my toasted sandwich, I think it's getting burned. Later...

Farewell Freezerburn.....good thing that I already changed the name of my blog

Freezerburn, age 2, of Lubbock, Texas passed away on Saturday, May 22, 2004 due to dropsy and cancer. He was born about two years ago I assume somewhere in Lubbock.

The funeral took place today Saturday, May 22, 2004, at the newly renovated guest bathroom at the Aheimer Residence in Lake Jackson, Texas, at 9:30p.m. with Anika flushing the toilet and her sister Kathrin and friend Michaela witnessing.

He is survived by his owner Anika Aheimer of Lake Jackson, Texas; no children and no grandchildren. His parents are probably dead by now too. And who knows where his brothers and sisters are.

Freezerburn's lifetime achievements include blowing huge bubble nests, jumping out of the tank 3 times and surviving, going on frequent roadtrips from Lubbock to Lake Jackson and back, getting a blog named after him, freaking out people constantly because they thought he was dead, and surviving for almost a year with a huge blue tumor growing on his left side making him lopsided.

White Walls

Today we had to take pictures for our Adjustment of Status aka the Green Card. They have all these requirements such as the right ear has to show, the background has to be white or offwhite....and that's when we came across our first problem. We don't have a single white wall in this house. We have every imaginable color from yellow over cornflower blue (my room :) ) to neon green but not a single white wall. I thought that was kinda funny.

24!!!!

Season Finale of 24 next Tuesday and this time I'm not gonna miss it. My freaking sister forgot to tape it tonite. I was so mad. Oh well, next Tuesday at 8.