How do you know…

you are getting old? Not that old, but simply feeling you were born in a decade that was so different from today? One sign for it, and it sounds funny telling that, shows in the toys of today’s children and those me and others of my age had.
Does anyone of you know those post office for kids-sets? When I was a little girl, I played post office with one of those sets, too. Of course, the set also contained a phone, which looked similar to this one. Yes, that is what it can be called. Retro. It is as simple as that. A few weeks ago in the mall, there was such a set for sale, and guess what? The old retro looking phone has been replaced by a “super sound cell phone”… Hard to believe that today the kids grow up with a cell phone, treating new technologies as if they had always been present. I got my frist cell phone at the age of 19, which would make me appear very odd nowadays.

Time manipulation?

When I was a child, I used to wait anxiously for Christmas Eve to arrive. On December 1st, with the opening of the very first door of the Christmas calendar, I wondered how I should ever mahage to survive those 3 weeks and two days until the 24th. It was such a long time for me. My mother and grandmother used to tell me that for grown-ups time goes by much faster than for the kids. I never believed that until now.

Now those three weeks seem like just a few days. Now Christmas Eve is only a few days away and I feel it is going too fast. Does it have to do with stopping to believe that it is Santa Claus who brings the presents? Or is it the fact that I am too busy with work and other plans that I forgot how time actually flies away?

Want to see some photos?

Today I also reorganized the fotos section with the help of the Slickr plugin. Together with Lightbox, the photo are all now very neatly organized and can be viewed comfortably.

It is the first gallery plugin and works for me. A lot of the plugins I used before were either hard to install, or caused some errors within my WordPress installation. More photos will be coming up soon, as I feel some urge to take pictures of the city at night with all the lights before Christmas will be over.

Nobody called me last saturday

Which means I will survive and nobody will be crawling out of my TV .

While in my tiny apartment this day went by quite peaceful, in the online world some individuals used the ocassion that The Ring was shown on German TV to try and fear innocent students. In the German student online community StudiVZ (comparable to Facebook) there is a group where students talk about their fears towards the Ring and all related experiences. And only just on saturday, it became obvious that somebody had created a fake account using the name “Samara Morgan”, claiming to be a member of Northwestern University. This nasty individual posted scary screenshots from the film into the group forum, and used a photo of the actual Samara crawling out of what is supposed to be her home.

In my opinion, any kind of fake account comparable to what I mentioned, is simply ridiculous, and shows the immaturity of the individual behind this account. I find it even more appalling that this person created the account in order to voluntarily scare other community members who joined that group. If one thinks that the film is funny, boring, or whatever else, that is fine, but attempting to scare others is not that nice.

Imagine me, who suffers from severe arachnophobia…I would not appreciate if anyone nasty put a spider somewhere in my apartment, and laughing about me. I know it is hardly comparable to what stated before, but fears are fears, be it towards Samara or spiders