Saturday, October 2, 2010

Hello from Here: Reporting on Life and Eating from Another Dimension

It's Friday night folks, and there's loads of things happening in the city of Berlin! And guess where we are...home. I'm writing this dorky blog post instead. And why? Well we have a lil something called FOOD POISONING. When I tell people we have 'food poisoning', they have different responses. Some Europeans think that the food was actually poisoned [hence one of the many issues foreigners have with English being too dramatic and not literal enough]. The Americans think I just ate some bad takeout and will be back at work tomorrow. But most feel sorry for us and sympathize [as many others were also at that fancy dinner, and delicious dinner I should add! and they have it too].  But here's something: 'that fancy dinner' happened a week ago right now, and I am not at a fancy gathering tonight. No. I am up with yet another stomach ache, and poor Magnus [who has it worse!] is laying in bed with one too. It's been a week, and it seems to just keep coming back for us...but each battle a lil better than the last. We've actually won a few...

Despite the pain[and I mean PAIN, maybe the worst we've ever experienced] we've been in without proper meals, caffeine[!!!!!!!!!], or chocolate[!], we've managed to keep each other laughing, well at least a few times a day...and we've caught up on a few books, talks, news items, tv shows[yuckie], art history, Dylan, Roman history, Ben Hur, etc. ya know...But mostly we realized how wonderful it was that we had each other to depend on...not in a very romantic way. Haaa. But more in the Bubba and Forest kind of way. And most importantly, we value LIFE and good HEALTH even more now! Thank God. Oh how the body is a complex piece of work.

We've even taken up a few new past times. We now are pretty friendly with the birds outside our bedroom window, particularly the yellow breasted kjøttmis [meat mice in Norwegian..yeah I don't get it either!], and have decided to be professional bird watchers at some point in our careers. We have given names to each of our toes and can even make them sing from time to time. Magnus reminded me several times that he inherited from his Father this very funny way of moving his pinky finger as fast as a hummingbird moves its wings. We can imagine and describe our childhood bedrooms from top to bottom, left to right. Magnus taught me how to open a banana using two fingers only, like a true monkey. We also now are very savy in chess, written our own novelas, and can count backwards from 1 million! Ok, ok, but you get our drift. It's been a long week. But we are feeling like we are possibly conquering this lil bugger, and he will be history soon! I enjoyed working on these two images this week, to remind me of the colorful and exciting neighborhood outside our windows that we can return to very soon hopefully.

Hope your journey this week brought you to a nice place...or least showed you a few pretty birds like we've seen..

©Britney Anne Majure

©Britney Anne Majure