Post-Christmas post

I hope everyone of you had a beautiful Christmas I enjoyed those days, not having to work and sharing some time with friends and family. I received many lovely gifts for Christmas, but there is one that is so lovey I do have to mention it here. You can see it on the photo on the left, it is a chess set made out of chocolate, given to me by my brother. I never saw something like that and was amazed. As some of you might know, I am quite addicted to chess and to chocolate, too. I will not eat any of the figures until a special occasion, which will be on January 19, when playing my first official tournament. I should eat the queen then to boost my playing performance.

Ice skating

Weeks ago I bought myself new skates to be able to do some ice skating this season. Today was the day I actually tried them out and it went better than I expected, although I got kind of injured.

I easily managed to pay the entrance fee, put on the skates and got on the ice. After stumbling around for a while, me, hopeless young figure skating star entered the scene. When trying to skate a curve, I fell down on my back. Quite surprised, but not hurt, I got up again and continued. Later, I cut my finger when trying to get some ice off my skates. I nearly cut all fingers of my right hand and it was bleeding like crazy. Some nice people got me something for my fingers. After one hour I left the ice to go home.

Surprisingly I did better than I expected. After not skating for about five years (actually I started at the age of nine), I quickly regained confidence and it is so much fun. I will go there again tomorrow I hope.

Silent night?

I finally managed to let the weekend pass by without doing anything but sitting in front of the laptop, working on the new design you see here. Besides, I booked a flight to Hamburg for WordCamp08, and I am pretty excited that I am going there. January is not so far away…

In the evening hours I decided to take a walk and have a look at the Christmas market. But there was no silent night at all. With Christmas songs played aloud from diffrent speakers distributed all over the place, and people pushing themselves and the others it was not that peaceful. It seems as if this year I struggle to find that warm and fuzzy Christmas feelings I had, or better seem to have had. I wonder if it is me that is changing or if from year to year Christmas time becomes less peaceful. I so much long for some time to take cinnamon-flavoured cookies, have some tea and forget the stress for a minute…