tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30677430010643730122024-02-18T23:17:12.899-08:00Liebesbotschaft InternationalLiebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-18237555537336828242015-06-25T22:46:00.001-07:002015-06-25T22:46:29.624-07:00Santa Cruz Downtown Guide.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No pictures of the beach or surfing today – instead I will take you with me to downtown Santa Cruz! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is a lot of fun, since most of the pretty stores and coffee shops are situated along the main thoroughfare – so do you want to join Noelle and me on a stroll up and down Pacific Avenue? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We’ll go thrift shopping; we’ll have ice cream and then go to the movies! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will sum up all tips and addresses at the bottom of the text so that you have an overview just in case you will one day spend a day or two here. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">1. Vintage shopping.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Noelle and I love thrift stores and there are a bunch of them all over Santa Cruz. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We like looking around Crossroads Trading Co. and Moon Zoom the best; both stores couldn’t be more different from each other. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Crossroads Trading Co. has a great selection of current fashion at affordable prices. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Noelle and I buy jeans by J. Crew and Adriano Goldschmied (the Godfather of Denim), loafers by Minnetonka, and cute tops and dresses. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Moon Zoom, on the other hand, resembles more a costume rental place than a classic thrift store. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By no means let the crammed interior discourage you, for once you dare to enter you will discover a true treasure trove full to the rafters with the most beautiful pieces from decades past. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is really nothing you couldn’t discover here: college jackets, coats from the 60s, cute airhostess caps and short retro tennis skirts. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Noelle and I are a little bit intoxicated and take turns in trying on the craziest things while having lots of fun. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Finally we leave the store with a 70s vintage dress (for me) and a wonderful yellow summer dress (for Noelle), which, as we find out afterwards, is a design by Jean Paul Gaultier. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Just a few steps further along the way you’ll find “Assembly”: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Wonderfully stylish yet simple interior and a great lunch menu, mostly sandwiches and salads. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Noelle orders a bulgur salad with duck breast; I try the burger on a homemade bread roll. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Everything is freshly prepared in-house and comes in exactly the right sized portion that allows us to also have ice cream after the espresso – we’ll get the ice cream right away across the street. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In my opinion Mission Hill Creamery is the best ice cream shop in town; every kind of ice cream is prepared with the best and freshest local ingredients and tastes delicious. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You’ll be instantly hooked. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My personal highlight, however, is the "awesome" guy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He is one of the young ice cream sellers and whichever kind or combination you end up ordering he replies "aaaaawesoooome" every time with such enthusiasm and fervor that you are absolutely convinced to have chosen the best thing in your life. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Past the Gap store (don’t miss the active wear!), in a little side street, is my absolute favorite of all stores in town:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The concept store Stripe’s design is wonderfully inspiring and full of “I want to have everything at once” things. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Best of all: one door down is "Stripe Man" – which is the world’s loveliest shop for all male hipsters that have ever walked the earth. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I regularly lose myself in bookshops and have to be found again with the help of a large-scale search operation – this is how it feels when I enter a bookshop. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And entering American bookstores is even worse. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Finally we’ll have an iced coffee at the hipster coffee shop Verve (the one where poor bloggers who don’t have WiFi at home work on their laptops and thus occupy every table for hours) and above all: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The world’s biggest, softest and unbelievably delicious Mary's Cookies, which I have written about before <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/05/surfen-nach-zeitplan-weltbeste-cookies_5.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Our favorite, however, remains the Del Mar, which sets you back to the 50s simply upon entering: featuring a retro interior it doesn’t usually show blockbusters, but independent, unusual movies.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Recently Noelle, Pauline and I watched "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8jwJ_2l0c"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Iris</b></span></a>", a documentary about the 93-year-old style icon who loves accessories and color! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(I hope it will be shown in German movie theaters, too, or at least be available somewhere sometime later). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://crossroadstrading.com/"><b>Crossroads Trading</b></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Co.: </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">811 Pacific Ave</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://theclosetshoppersantacruz.com/"><b>The Closet Shopper</b></a></span><span style="color: #525252; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">504 Front St</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://missionhillcreamery.com/"><b>Mission Hill Creamery</b></a></span><span style="color: #525252; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: 1101 Pacific Avenue</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Penny Ice Creamery Pleasure Point: </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">820 41st Ave</span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://stripedesigngroup.com/"><b>Stripe</b></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: 107 Walnut Ave</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.logosbooksrecords.com/"><b>Logos Books & Records</b></a></span><span style="color: #525252; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1117 Pacific Ave</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/"><b>Bookshop Santa Cruz</b></a></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: </span><span style="color: #525252; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1520 Pacific Avenue</span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.vervecoffeeroasters.com/"><b>Verve</b></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: 1540 Pacific Ave </span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://windmillcafesantacruz.com/"><b>Windmill Cafe</b></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> (not necessarily stylish, but the best smoothies in town and great breakfast, also vegan): </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">21231 E Cliff Dr</span></div>
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<span style="color: #525252; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Assembly: </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1108 Pacific Ave</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Kelly's French Bakery: </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">402 Ingalls St</span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.burgersantacruz.com/"><b>Burger</b></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: 1520 Mission Street</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pleasure Pizza: </span><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">800 41st Ave</span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://bantam1010.com/"><b>Bantam</b></a></span><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1010 Fair Ave</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Del Mar Theater: 1124 Pacific Ave</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Regal Cinemas (huge reclining seats): 1405 N Pacific Ave</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- Flea market, every Friday from about 8 am (apart from the usual flea market stuff often longboards and surfboards at affordable prices): </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Uncomplicated, relaxed, summery and a little stylish for the city: shirt dresses! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">One of my absolute favorite trends for this summer are swinging 50s-style dresses - alongside high-waisted retro shorts and midi skirts. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">These kinds of dresses are light and breezy, joyful, girlish and the most feminine dresses of all, because their cut automatically creates a beautiful silhouette. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I would love to keep twirling like a 5-year-old the whole time I’m wearing my dress ☺. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It isn’t white, by the way, but ivory-colored and has gorgeous lace details. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Apart from that it’s on sale right now! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I discovered something else here: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I recently wrote that I don’t apply any make-up here, because the natural look is simply more fitting. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you have a tan, make-up can easily seem over the top. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But those who still would like to highlight something in summer a color palette like this is simply ideal! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Contouring" is very hip right now and I can practice “contouring light” with this palette by not applying any make-up at all, but only gently dabbing on a little concealer under the eyes and then gently applying the darker hues on the sides of the cheeks, the temples and the hairline with a brush. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The light powder is applied to the nose, the forehead and underneath the eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Finally I hold everything in place by adding the white powder on top of everything (only a very small amount, of course). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And since the palette contains so many different hues you can use it year round without a problem, depending on your skin color. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You can find these color palettes in many of the local drug stores and cosmetics departments. </span></div>
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Liebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-86739277256376273462015-06-06T17:17:00.000-07:002015-06-08T17:18:11.208-07:00The happiest birthday girl of all times: all about the (dream) birthday (trauma).<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A few days ago I celebrated my 41</span><span style="font-size: 10.7px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup>st</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> birthday. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The children and I sat on a rooftop patio in the middle of San Francisco, enjoying our lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and talking about the highlights and mishaps of past kids’ birthday parties - you know what I mean: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Those stories, when the birthday child can’t handle all the festivities anymore, breaks down crying and yells at all her 4-year-old guests. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By the way, in hindsight this is very, very funny. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yet only in hindsight, just as my own story that I had forgotten about for years and that I suddenly remembered up there on the rooftop patio. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A story of suffering, mind you, as in former days I couldn’t think of any one day more horrible than my own birthday. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A week before I was already tremendously anxious about it, and I usually spent the day crying and needed two additional days to recover from it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No kidding!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The whole thing was a disgusting mix of not clearly defined expectations on my behalf about how the day was supposed to play out – and the guaranteed disappointment and the fear in face of the former, respectively. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I cannot even say exactly what I expected, point is everything was WRONG, everything was TOO LITTLE, everything was deeply DEPRESSING and above all: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And how frustrating for everybody involved, including my own family! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For no matter what they did, it was all WRONG, TOO LITTLE, etc. anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And my husband generally did everything even more wrong than wrong, because I was so extremely demanding that I was disgusted by myself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And as unliberated as can be on this day. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jil can still remember it, by the way ("Oh yeah, that was always super terrible.”) – my other kids don’t remember anything, which makes me assume that it must have happened a few years back. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As I said: I assume. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Because sometime, somewhere I simply lost it, just by the way, so that I only became aware of it again right now. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Something else I noticed: this year I was really happy about my own birthday and I was so excited and joyful like a 5-year-old, who not only receives everything she ever wished for, but a rainbow-colored unicorn on top of it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Funny enough, particularly this year nothing exciting and surprising happened, as the children had little opportunity to prepare anything without access to a car and my husband just sent me a quick “Happy Birthday” via What's App.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But that didn’t dampen my joy, quite on the contrary! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I bought myself the most stylish birthday cake I could find. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And birthday lingerie. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And a round of birthday Levi’s for all the girls. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And a picture-book birthday dress (which is worth a blog post in itself). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I was happy as Larry about every single birthday wish and posted tons of pictures on Instagram and would have loved to put a sparkly crown saying “Birthday Girl" on my head. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And then we drove across Golden Gate Bridge and maybe I had to cry just a teeny tiny bit with joy – simply, because I could hardly stand being so grateful. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Grateful not because of the bridge, the dress or California, but brimming with extreme gratitude that I even exist in this world.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Oh, how lucky I am! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Because I am convinced that many people are so trapped in their own expectations that they are utterly depressed, if things don’t go the way they had wished for.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It can be one single day like a birthday, as in my case, and if you are honest: c'mon already, it is just this one crappy day; you’ll get over it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But it can also be your wedding day: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For there could have been more flowers. And the groom should have prepared a soulful speech. And besides, the whole wedding should have had the soft blurriness of romantic atmospheres from beginning to end, just like in the wedding blogs. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Unfortunately the groom didn’t care one bit about neither the speech nor the blurriness and now there you are, crying your eyes out. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or you have a kind of life plan and it doesn’t happen the way you had ideally envisioned. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You wanted to have had two kids by the age of 30 and a terraced house with a sofa and a labrador retriever matching its color. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now you find out that you can’t have children. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or the husband had an affair and you are getting a divorce. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or you go bankrupt, or you lose your job, or you still don’t have a house, or a husband, or a dachshund even at age 40. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or something unforeseen happens and all you can think is: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"I HAVEN’T ENVISIONED IT THIS WAY! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">BUT I HAVE WISHED FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">IT SHOULD ALL BE QUITE DIFFERENT! AND NOW HERE I AM.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Utterly unhappy. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this is why I tell you today: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What the heck.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you don’t have a concrete image, but decide to enjoy whatever comes along, no wishful thinking can set you any limitations. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was too small for you anyway, only freedom in every aspect befits you, nothing else. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this means freedom from any life plans (big or small ones) – and the possibility to enjoy every second independent of them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This freedom also means that the most beautiful things suddenly surprise you without having known beforehand how lovely they are, such as a spontaneous invitation to go on a <a href="https://instagram.com/p/3ijvn_ob4y/?taken-by=liebesbotschaft"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Harley bike trip</b></span></a> into the sunset in California for the birthday girl. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And how do you arrive there? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This of all things I won’t tell you today – as in my case it was suddenly gone, love had removed it entirely without my own efforts. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But since I think that regarding the areas I am free in myself I can set my readers free in, too, let’s have a free round of “freedom from expectations” for everyone today! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Just because my love is so strong. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We’ll do the Levi’s round next year then! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Happy Birthday to me!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">p.s. I didn’t like the cake, by the way, because I had failed to hear the word “white” in connection with “chocolate”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And who even wants white chocolate :(?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: #525252;">Translated by </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Ginnell Studio</span></b></a><span style="color: #525252;">.</span></i></span></div>
Liebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-12339971620590007812015-06-03T08:36:00.000-07:002015-06-06T08:44:24.811-07:00Bye bye May - hello June!<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thank you for allowing me to take you along to California during the entire month of May! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This month Jil and Pauline joined us, by now I totally know my way around Santa Cruz and San Francisco, and the kids surf like champions – sometimes competing with sea otters and seals ;), as these are not very afraid of people and don’t let the surfers phase them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> - I described further details about our <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/05/surfen-nach-zeitplan-weltbeste-cookies_5.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>everyday life in Santa Cruz</b></span></a> and took you along to the flea market and the <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-candy-color-side-of-life_28.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Beach Boardwalk</b></span></a>, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- there were <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/05/sommermusli-weitere-9-ideen-fur-das.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>10 ideas for summer</b></span></a> – such as our current favorite <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/05/sommermusli-weitere-9-ideen-fur-das.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>summer granola</b></span></a>,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- I raved about the <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/05/uber-kalifornier-gratis-abendessen-und.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>friendly Californians</b></span></a>, who spontaneously gave me a free dinner, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- and reported about our <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/05/meine-beauty-lieblinge-in-kalifornien.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>beauty finds in America</b></span></a> – and what in particular we noticed about them, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">... the atmosphere here is so full of happiness that it is sometimes almost over the top. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The children and I have a nice, harmonious, relaxed, joyful and above all funny time from morning to night. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am surrounded by 4 teenagers who basically don’t do anything but eat, lie on the beach, surf, eat, goof off, run on the beach, eat, sing, watch Netflix in bed together with me and snuggle, goof off again, walk the dog, eat, stroll around San Francisco, eat there and goof off (Noelle’s words today: “If you aren’t able to dance in public you are not really free.”, so guess what we all did in Macy’s.) and later immediately eat again. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(There seems to be an obvious relation between eating and goofing off, don’t you think? Don’t you?!) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Shortly afterwards Pauline noted that, if you are really free, you’d have to sing at the top of your lungs in public, too. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And guess what we all did…</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">AND I CANNOT EVEN SING! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And even if you cannot be here in person (which is a good thing, as I can’t possibly buy even MORE food!), I am convinced that our combined joie de vivre is so strong that it spills over into the furthest corner of Southern Baden and will catch you full on. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or to Lower Bavaria.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or wherever my readers happen to be at the moment. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is my magical superpower – apart from being able to always recognize the most expensive thing in a store without checking the price tag. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yes, I can!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My advice for any parent stuck in a tiresome toddler phase right now, contemplating giving away their loudly screaming offspring to any old passer-by for free: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once they are fully-grown you’ll regret that you didn’t have at least 5 of them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am surrounded by 4 teenagers who basically don’t do anything but eat, lie on the beach, surf, eat, goof off, run on the beach, eat, sing, watch Netflix in bed together with me and snuggle, goof off again, walk the dog, eat, stroll around San Francisco, eat there and goof off (Noelle’s words today: “If you aren’t able to dance in public you are not really free.”, so guess what we all did in Macy’s.) and later immediately eat again. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And even if you cannot be here in person (which is a good thing, as I can’t possibly buy even MORE food!), I am convinced that our combined joie de vivre is so strong that it spills over into the furthest corner of Southern Baden and will catch you full on. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is my magical superpower – apart from being able to always recognize the most expensive thing in a store without checking the price tag. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My advice for any parent stuck in a tiresome toddler phase right now, contemplating giving away their loudly screaming offspring to any old passer-by for free: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Once they are fully-grown you’ll regret that you didn’t have at least 5 of them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To those who had at least 5 of them: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #525252;">Thank you to </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">ginnell studio</span></b></a><span style="color: #525252;"> for translating this post!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You learn many important things for life in school, which is very nice. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And you also learn very many unimportant things for life there. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But you don’t learn the MOST IMPORTANT ONES. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(If you’re lucky your parents will teach them to you, or you laboriously learn them through personal, partly painful experiences. If you’re really unlucky you will never learn them and you’ll have to die ignorant. And nobody wants that.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But it’s not all that bad, as you can catch up on anything – at any age! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No matter whether you are 14 or 64 years old, I will tell you something today that will really help you out in life. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have mentioned this subject countless times on the blog already, but it doesn’t matter: just like in school, repetition is the most important thing! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Today’s subject is: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>How to deal with difficulties. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am happy for anyone who has no challenges or problems to deal with whatsoever in their lives; usually these are people who are already deceased.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Truth is: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Anyone who is alive will run into challenges sooner or later. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I don’t mean situations such as when someone ignores your right of way at the intersection or you had a bad day – I mean real problems that rob you of your sleep at night and of your joie de vivre during the day. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Things that are seemingly irresolvable and a well-intentioned “It’ll all work out” won’t cut it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As my secret is not having no challenges at all, it is how I deal with them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I don’t mind sharing it, because it will help you significantly in your life. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Let’s assume you are in the middle of a truly challenging situation, what now? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>1. DON’T PANIC.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The first thing that happens when a negative situation or negative news hit: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Draaaaamaaaa!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">More paaaaniiiic!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even more draaaamaaaa!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is so common that it’s almost boring; matching any situation there is a whole bundle of dramatic thoughts and emotions in the vein of: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Everything is so, so bad and it will get only worse and we will all die unhappily while the world is going down the drain.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well, not exactly LIKE THAT, but exactly fitting your circumstances. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you are handed an unexpected notice, the accompanying drama sounds like this: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"The employment situation is very bad right now, I will not find another job, won’t be able to pay the rent, will end up as a social outcast and will starve to death.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If your partner dumps you, we get: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"He was the best thing that ever happened to me, I will never again love anyone the way I loved him or I won’t find anyone else in the first place, I will stay lonely and by myself, will suffer every Sunday and vacation times until the day I die and nobody looooves meee!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you have problems with your kids over an extended period of time, the scenario sounds like so: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"I am a horrible mother/I do everything wrong/I do too much/too little/too often/too rarely/in any case not enough. My children will grow up to be asocial brats, unsuccessful and unhappy people and it’s all my fault!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sound familiar?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course, it is always the same anyway, for thousands of years nothing new in this sector! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So here is my advice:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Everything’s fine.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Don’t run riot, don’t call umpteen people, don’t make any rash decisions or get ahead of yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">First just calm down.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But Joanna, how am I supposed to do this? It all just washes over me, I am at its mercy, powerless!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No, you’re not. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You only thought you were until now – but the truth is that you can simply refuse to participate.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>2. REFUSE TO PONDER. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If I find myself in terrible circumstances I forbid myself to ponder on it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I simply forbid it myself.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’m not going to let myself be tortured (and believe me, these thoughts can actually be torturous, sometimes nearly worse than physical pain!), I do not engage, I won’t let myself be a slave of fear. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I value myself too highly for this. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My freedom came at a high price – free from having to worry. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am quite consistent in this and as soon as I notice that my thoughts start circling around stuff like that I say “Stop!”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or quit it already, I don’t have a set system here. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But Joanna, I need a solution for the problem! I do have to think about it!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now listen closely: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The solution never, ever, EVER comes through pondering. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Don’t allow yourself to be screwed over, pondering sounds so logical and necessary, but it is torture, nothing more! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Although you might neither know the solution to your problem in this very moment, nor is it becoming apparent, but you don’t even have to see it right now. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Time will bring the solution. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is already in existence, only you don’t know of it yet– which is even quite a good thing, I will explain it to you in my last point! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Don’t panic.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Don’t fear.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And don’t allow pondering.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I purposefully write: REFUSE, because sometimes you should handle these things quite decisively and without compromise. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">All these worrisome thoughts don’t want to come and play. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They want to destroy you, rob you of your joie de vivre, want to belittle you, rob you of your inspiration and creativity and never let your personality shine. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(People suffering from depression know very well what I mean.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So nip it in the bud. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Be watchful like a fox, don’t engage.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Oh, Joanna, but it is so hard for me!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the beginning you’re not used to it, I admit it! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But if you can manage only 2 minutes in the beginning, that’s awesome! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>2. DO NOT BELIEVE YOUR EMOTIONS. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The more important the matter is to you, the worse you will feel. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your feelings will be on a roller coaster ride, up and unfortunately mostly down, round and around, wanting to whine to anybody, etc., etc. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Right now you CANNOT rely on them at all. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Look, all they do is react to your circumstances! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They have no say, so you might as well ignore them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If your thoughts think they should throw a tantrum like a 3-year-old in the candy aisle or a 13-year-old when confronted with a Nintendo ban, whatever. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I won’t play along.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You get it:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I don’t wait until I “feel good” – I don’t wait until I feel I’m not afraid anymore – I don’t wait for the emotions and then follow them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Who is the master and who is the dog? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">See.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So if the emotions happen to be quite terrible, I personally do simply one thing:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I don’t believe them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I don’t take them seriously.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I don’t attach any greater importance to them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Rather I think: "Oh well. Drama is on offer again, because you didn’t get any m&m’s? Just keep on bawling, I’m going to continue in the mean time.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But Joanna, one shouldn’t suppress one’s emotions like that!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Oh, really?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s as if you said, when training your dog: “I don’t want to set any boundaries for my dog, as I will suppress his personality!”.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sure, and the dog will do his thing, with his oh-so-liberated personality he will pee everywhere, jump up at other people and pull on his leash the whole time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So if you want to always “act out” your emotions and not “suppress” them, you have to expect that they will take you for a ride all your life and you have to live with the consequences: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your floors will be peed on. Shoes will be chewed on and everything will be somewhat unpredictable. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A dog loves to have boundaries, believe me! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But someone has to say it: “OK. So far and no further.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am quite relaxed about it: if I want to cry or I feel like it, I cry. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I also would never say I feel great, if I feel lousy – that would be a strange restraint in my opinion. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But in principle I won’t be lived by some weird emotions, for goodness sake! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Be they fears, guilt, worries, undefined stomach aches or other disgusting things: not for me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But Joanna, how am I going to achieve this?"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well, just like with a dog!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At first a puppy won’t understand either that he is not allowed to do everything. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But by and by it’ll work, and then he really likes to obey and is even happy about it! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">YOU ARE CAPABLE to set boundaries for your emotions. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You can tell them: “OK, it’s enough now. Everything’s fine, you can relax now.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And if they don’t relax instantly, doesn’t matter. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It will work, maybe the third or the fifteenth time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Just keep at it.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But Joanna, this still doesn’t solve my problem!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Oh, right, I forgot. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sorry, I had forgotten all about THE PROBLEM. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And it is SO TERRIBLE! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(see, this is what happens to me all the time in my everyday life. I completely forget how terrible my problems are. I even forget they exist! What disrespect towards the problems…). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">OK, so here is the solution:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>4. DECIDE THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS THE EXCEPTION. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your attitude has enormous power, you underestimate it constantly. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You can’t remember right now what your attitude is? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It happens when the circumstances bawl so loudly over m&m’s; I will gladly remind you: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You are always the exception.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You trust love and naturally assume that you are privileged and showered with gifts, anywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Only the most beautiful and the best awaits you, completely undeservedly, NO MATTER HOW THINGS SEEM TO BE RIGHT NOW. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Absolutely brazenly blessed, NO MATTER HOW MANY SAID IT WAS DIFFERENT.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You don’t look at other people’s (negative) experiences and why should you, when you are the exception? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You don’t even regard your own negative experiences (since there are also a few to choose from.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You never loose, but always gain. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your nights are reserved for peace and regeneration, your days for pleasure – you have no time for worries. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You don’t believe the circumstances, you believe love. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You know it is the strongest force and therefore overcomes everything else and at the same time is so endlessly good for everyone around you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I decided for myself that this is exactly my attitude. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this is what I trust in, stubbornly. Like a mule. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And if the world stops existing – and if nobody except me can see it that way – and if everything points to the exact opposite – I don’t care at all. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My attitude won’t change. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is the attitude of an ambassador of love, and if you want, it can be yours, too. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And finally the best:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>4. THE POWER OF OVERCOMING.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every time you decide to mentally stand up and not believe in the bad, when in the midst of bad circumstances, YOU WILL GROW STRONGER. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every time you decide to trust love more than the drama around you, when facing loudly yelling challenges, YOU WILL GROW STRONGER.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every time you refuse to wallow in self pity due to the situation, or to give up or to change your attitude, YOU WILL GROW STRONGER.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every time you decide to forgive people and not become bitter and hard, although you are being treated very badly, YOU WILL GROW STRONGER.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every time you decide for yourself to be happy, although the circumstances don’t show any reason at the moment to be happy, YOU WILL GROW STRONGER.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every time you refuse to ponder, to worry or when you simply decide "I don't give an f***.", although everything on the outside screams for your attention, YOU WILL GROW STRONGER.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This means: overcoming.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not: "Oh, the problem is solved, I finally feel better again.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But to stand strong in the eye of the storm and like a little kid be curious which great thing it will turn into next. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Although it doesn’t look great at all and it also isn’t on the horizon yet either. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Truth is:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is hardly a quicker and simpler way to become strong, beautiful and radiant than to overcome circumstances. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So this is why it is a gift when the time that elapses between the emergence of the problem and the actual solution is a little longer: you will have lots of chances to get strong! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I know you might not really like to read it, but: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">THIS is the path to real, strong personalities. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Those who simply grow stronger with every challenge, who blossom, inspire others and lead the way. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">True leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">LIKE YOU!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Joanna</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Part I <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2014/09/5-dinge-die-dir-in-der-schule-nicht.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Part II <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/02/5-dinge-die-dir-der-schule-nicht.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #525252;">Translated by </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Ginnell Studio</span></b></a><span style="color: #525252;">.</span></span></div>
Liebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-27422387176061869652015-05-28T09:02:00.000-07:002015-06-06T09:02:15.544-07:00The Candy Color Side of Life.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I haven’t even told you the best thing about Santa Cruz yet. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or let’s say, ALMOST the best thing. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not far from our house is the "Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk", a kind of amusement park located directly on the beach. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So you ride the roller coaster and at the same time look out on the ocean. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The Santa Cruz Boardwalk is beautifully colorful and full of bright candy colors and to match it I slipped into one of my absolute favorite dresses: bright yellow like some of the gondolas floating in the sky. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I found the dress in one of San Francisco’s thrift stores and discovered shortly afterwards that it is impossible to wear it and remain inconspicuous at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But after all this is not what I am on this world for ;). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My daughters call it the "Cameron Diaz" dress. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For your favorite pieces that you are particularly fond of it is worth using a special laundry detergent so that the colors stay brilliant for as long as possible and the piece of clothing doesn’t look limp and sad after just 3 cycles in the washer – such as the Optimal Color laundry detergent by <a href="http://www.coral.de/coralfuerallesbunte"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>CORAL</b></span></a>*.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It is ideal for my yellow dress! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Let’s do it again soon!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: #525252;">Translated by </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Eva Ginnell</b></span></a><span style="color: #525252;">.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No matter whether there are grey clouds in the sky right now where you are or the most beautiful sunshine kisses your skin: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We can decide right here, right now that it’s summer from now on, right? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Where I am it is understandably not that hard: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We are on the beach every day, ride in the car with the windows open and music turned up, try new types of ice cream, buy strawberries by the pound at the farmers’ market and watch "<a href="http://www.sixx.de/tv/cesar-millan-der-hundefluesterer"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Dog whisperer</b></span></a>" in the evenings in bed; Pauline generally falls asleep doing so and will surely make every mistake possible in terms of future dog training. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How did Pauline end up here with us? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When I saw her picture on Instagram recently, I spontaneously invited her to come and she booked a flight without hesitation. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(afterwards it occurred to me that I knew Pauline only by sight and we had never before exchanged a whole sentence – but by then it was already too late.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pauline brought even more laughter and summer with her than we had had already and we won’t ever let her go. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yet since I can hardly invite all my readers, I will tell you 10 other ideas to create a “Summer! Now!” feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every time we prepare our own granola we are once more surprised how quickly and easily it is accomplished and how yummy it tastes. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This granola definitely tastes of summer and beach – light, crunchy and fruity! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The season is already in full swing, so better get up early on Saturdays and Sundays, grab a coffee-to-go and go on a stress-free outdoor treasure hunt:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Accessories like brooches, vintage prints or maps for framing, or simply books to take on vacation (which you can then leave behind and don’t have to lug back again). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">By the way, you can read <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2011/09/last-days-of-summer-how-to-vintage.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> how to snatch up the best flea market bargains. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">All this is packed up in a few minutes (if the refrigerator is empty, simply buy everything in the grocery store on the way), and even if you would rather lie down on the couch in the evening – a quick picnic outside simultaneously recharges and relaxes you, you will see! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">If you want to make this into a bigger affair: you will find ideas and recipes <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2013/07/nacht-sommerpicknick.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>, <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2014/05/abendpicknick-am-see-und-danke.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> and <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2014/08/night-picnic.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE. </b></span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It will, of course, be in the small vase you found at the flea market on the weekend ;). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The season is short and there is a huge selection of delicious sweet fruit and mild asparagus at the farmers’ markets right now! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The strawberries will be eaten on the spot or blended to make <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2010/06/sue-resteverwertung.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>strawberry ice cream</b></span></a> (even without an ice-cream maker) or <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2014/07/simple-diy.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>strawberry coconut ice cream. </b></span></a></span><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #525252; letter-spacing: 0px;">There will be <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2012/04/pasta-und-spargel-frisch-schnell-lecker.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>pasta with asparagus</b></span></a> for lunch or <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2014/05/weekend-snapshots.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>asparagus salad with strawberries and pine nuts</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And in the evenings you will drink to the successful day with homemade <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2014/05/lazy-sunday-winner.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>rhubarb syrup</b></span></a> (topped with champagne or sparkling water). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A must-see for the girls was, of course, Victoria’s Secret; luckily you can also order the deliciously scented body spray via Amazon (<a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0041SO6D4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=B0041SO6D4&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwliebesbots-21&linkId=BDV6EIDT4LUFPRHD"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE). </b></span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Isn’t the perfect summer dress one that is airy, delicate, drapey and a little dreamy? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I bought <a href="http://td.oo34.net/cl/aaid=16u3v1y8knd838s8&paid=fnsvju49yszlbqm9&tt=slg&link=http://de.anthropologie.eu/anthro/product/sale-clothing-dresses/7130466388028.jsp%23/"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>this one by Anthropologie</b></span></a>, and it is honestly 10 times nicer than on the picture! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A beautiful, funny and deep movie based on a true story: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIpu172U_A"><b>Woman in Gold </b></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">is absolutely worth seeing (about 12 years and up) – not only on rainy days. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In case you haven’t yet compiled a summer play list, you can either get inspired by my <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/05/erdbeer-zimtbrot-kalifornien-playlist.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>California play list</b></span></a> – or else I’d be happy to give you a few ideas, just let me know in the comments.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Unfortunately do I neither have a house nor a couch – and by the look of it, it will take another while, because - as is the case with all construction sites – everything always takes longer than assumed. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So we have to hold out a little longer in California – tough blow of fate, but we will hang on tight ;). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1 Becher umgesüßte Kokosflakes (gibt es im Supermarkt oder bei <a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003R9NU5S/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=B003R9NU5S&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwliebesbots-21&linkId=YZBOQMJY4RYJA254" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Amazon</span></b></a>)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">p.s. The images show Noelle and her board, of course – I will show you Pauline another time ;). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Californians are hard to beat when it comes to being outgoing and friendly. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Where else would the Hispanic woman at the gas station’s checkout tell me her family’s story in minute detail, listen to my opinion about it, thank me with tears in her eyes and give me a quick hug – completely ignoring the line of people getting longer and longer, all waiting patiently without once uttering a sigh of annoyance or complaining? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Where else would I – armed with a big Starbucks cup and the American edition of Vogue magazine – be prepared to wait for hours due to the late arrival of my husband’s flight, but not be able to read even one single page, because I am having an animated 2-hour-long conversation with an elderly Asian gentleman about the cultural differences between East and West – a conversation initiated by a simple “Hi!”? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Where else would I spontaneously be invited on a fishing boat, kindly encouraged to overcome my shyness towards the crawling, freshly caught crabs, but to pick out the nicest ones and then be sent back home with friendly farewells and a free dinner (including a recipe and detailed how-to advice, because I have never prepared them before)? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Anyway, we had great fun on the boat and the crabs were one of the most delicious dishes ever – and all of it entirely unexpected and undeserved! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I took my new shoes for a walk today; they arrived in a package from Germany: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The thongs are buttery soft, do not cut (like some other models that chafe the big toe a lot) and match any outfit with their subtle metallic look. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The gilded and silver-plated bracelets by Sence Kopenhagen are equally universally wearable – due to their matte finish they look very luxurious and simple. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Btw: their size is perfectly adjustable and will fit big as well as very slim wrists! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I prefer wearing them both at the same time or something with them – but you can also combine one each with a watch in the same color. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It is really easy to make contact with people here, by the way: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Wherever I go, first I am asked where my accent is from. My answer prompts nearly EVERYONE to say something about Germany: either an aunt on the father’s side comes from Germany, or they have driven a BMW for years or they own an Alsatian. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> Actually - it's my family who owns the company."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;">;)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thongs by Ilse Jacobsen: <a href="http://shop.inside-living.de/news/ilse-jacobsen-zehentrenner-aus-leder-in-verschiedenen-farben.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">(mine are pink metallic, they are also available in gold and copper) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Bracelet by Sence Kopenhagen: <a href="http://shop.inside-living.de/modeaccessoires/schmuck.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Everything by <a href="http://shop.inside-living.de/"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Inside Living</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">p.s. I have often heard Americans being reproached as being friendly, but superficial. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While this may be true in some cases, I still think: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you to <a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Ginnell Studio</span></b></a> for translating this post.</span></span></div>
Liebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-91586300821123234822015-05-20T08:56:00.000-07:002015-06-06T08:57:11.507-07:00No make-up, please! - my beauty favorites in California.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I haven’t used decorative cosmetics for weeks, because applying a grand make-up is not the done thing here! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Dark lipstick and smoky eyes don’t go with the relaxed bikini look in Santa Cruz, on the coast of California. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On the other hand, due to constant exposure to the sun and strong winds the skin needs an extra amount of care and nurturing – best of course in shape of high-quality natural beauty products. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is a great selection available in many grocery stores, beautifully packaged and for the most diverse areas of application – I am usually a little overwhelmed by the excess supply ;). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jil and I have put together a little selection, which we bought locally at Whole Foods’ and the cosmetics department in the mall – some products I brought with me from home. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Best of all: you can order everything online quite easily from your home. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In addition some images of a cloudy morning, when the light is very gentle and paints everything in a delicate grey hue, I like it a lot! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And to top it off some pictures of myself – this time completely without any make-up ;). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Diese beiden Produkte habe ich aus Deutschland mitgebracht:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Die "nach der Sonne" - after sun-Pflege von Dr. Hauschka sorgt für langanhaltende Bräune und kommt ebenfalls ausschließlich mit natürlichen Inhaltsstoffen aus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Lasst euch nicht durch den anfänglichen Duft verwirren, der verfliegt eine Minute nach dem Auftragen, wie bei allen Dr. Hauschka-Produkten).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Um die Bräune tatsächlich lange anhalten zu lassen hilft allerdings nur eins:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">cremen, cremen, cremen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Am liebsten aus dem Pumpspender von LaBruket und mit zartem Rosenduft!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This label is as ubiquitous here in the US as Nivea is in Germany and it is a real success story: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Passionate beekeeper Burt Shavitz and the artist Roxanne started a business more than 25 years ago, very consciously using natural ingredients from the get-go. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Today a wide range of the products is available everywhere – due to the bees wax the products usually have a firmer consistency and are very nourishing; they are also fantastic value for money.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We bought two kinds of hand creams so that everyone can simply use the jars at will – it is ideal for those in need of a rich hand care. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We also bought the sweet lip balms in different flavors and 2 of them with a gentle tint – the latter two are perfect for a relaxed summer look. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My personal favorite product is the nail care – lightly applied it will prevent delicate cuticles from drying out, which often doesn’t look very pretty. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>2. John Masters.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">These care products are also much easier to find in the US than in Germany: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Since I have used this label’s hair care for a while already, I tested a face wash with rose oil and a sunscreen for the face this time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">All John Masters products are produced from very high-quality plant-derived active ingredients, such as cold-pressed plant extracts as well as essential oils, which are all from certified organic or controlled farming – entirely without any chemical additives etc. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I dab the area around my eyes with the cooling gel by John Masters – it feels so good on warm sunny days! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When I go swimming in the ocean and then twist my wet hair into a bun I’ll end up with very natural beach waves once my hair is dry! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you don’t happen to have an ocean nearby you can use the Beach Waves Spray for the same look – J. Masters carries this as well. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>3. After sun care + body lotion.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I brought these two products from Germany: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The after sun care by Dr. Hauschka supports a long-lasting tan and also contains only natural ingredients. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(Don’t let the initial scent confuse you, it will vanish a minute after its application, as is the case with all Dr. Hauschka products).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But to make a tan really last there’s only one solution: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Apply lotion and lotion and more lotion. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Preferably from the LaBruket dispenser, delicately rose-scented! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There were more details we particularly noticed about beauty products here in California: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- Americans love heavily-scented beauty products, especially coconut and other similarly sweet food aromas, such as bubblegum, are very popular and available in a wide variety, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- Californians are absolutely crazy about body lotions: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Noelle told me that in her school the girls always carried bottles of lotion with them and applied it happily at any given opportunity, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- all in all one notices a much bigger awareness for natural cosmetics here than in Germany. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is also why small towns often have their own local organic beauty product line, only available locally. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And the quality is often really very good! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And slowly but surely I am developing a coconut scent addiction, too. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At least I have already used up a full bottle of coconut sunscreen spray and I drink coconut water every day. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not sure, if that counts ;).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Wide range of Burt's Bees products: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/Burts-Bees_1"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Green Glam</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hand lotions/salves: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/Burts-Bees-Almond-Milk-Beeswax-Hand-Cream-Handcreme-57-g"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> and <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/Burts-Bees-Beeswax-Banana-Hand-Cream-Handcreme-mit-Bienenwachs-und-Banane-57gr"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lip care: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/Lippen_1"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cuticle cream: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/Burts-Bees-Lemon-Butter-Cuticle-Cream-Nagelhautcreme-Dose-15-g"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">John Masters products: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/John-Masters-Organics_1"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Green Glam</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sunscreen for face: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/John-Masters-Organics-SPF-30-Natural-Mineral-Sunscreen-Sonnenschutzcreme-LSF-30-59-ml"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eye gel: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/John-Masters-Organics-Firming-Eye-Gel-Augengel-15-ml"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Face wash: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/John-Masters-Organics-Rose-Foaming-Face-Wash-Mildes-Waschgel-118-ml"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beach waves spray: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/John-Masters-Organics-Sea-Mist-Sea-Salt-Spray-with-Lavender-266ml"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Body lotion by LaBruket: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/L-a-Bruket-No-113-BODYLOTION-Vildros-Koerperlotion-Wildrose-250ml"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After sun lotion by Dr. Hauschka: <a href="http://www.greenglam.de/DrHauschka-Nach-der-Sonne-After-Sun-Lotion-100ml"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">P.s. I discovered something new here, however, in terms of make-up – I definitely have to tell you about it another time! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Summer is about to start in Germany, too, and this is exactly the reason why you have to look for a bikini at this point in time already, as the nicest ones are sold out faster than you can spell “California”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I personally always pick bikinis in classic colors, for the following reasons: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- black, white and navy blue are never out, they match every skin type (rule of thumb: if you like wearing black, you will also feel good in a black bikini) – because of this you can look at pictures of yourself even years later with a clear conscience ;),</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- if the color is subdued an especially extravagant cut or cute little details, such as edgings or bows have more of an effect, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- and finally: a bikini like this will also look pretty underneath a white blouse and can be combined with any outfit without a problem. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Unfortunately I haven’t found anything yet this year – when I left for California there wasn’t much to be had in the shops in Germany yet, and upon arrival I noticed that most sizes were sold out in any of the stores ☹. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I bought my black bikini in France a while ago, it has been and still is great, and the white one is from Agent Provocateur. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Unfortunately I have to admit that – despite its high price – the quality is not very good – but at least it matches the board’s colors ;).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I picked out the most beautiful models in classic colors and patterns – depending on your body and especially your cup size you may have to choose a different shape. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Surely you know yourselves whether you’ll be happy with a simple triangle cut or whether you need more support with an underwire top. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">At the moment I particularly like shapes that are reminiscent of the 50s: a little Hollywood glamour, a little diva style. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">High-waisted bottoms, beautifully and elaborately shaped tops, colors such as white, dark blue and black. </span></div>
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Liebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-48826288717976295432015-05-14T09:40:00.000-07:002015-06-06T09:40:49.507-07:00 Why California doesn’t make me happy.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have lived for about a month and a half in California now: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I live in a beautiful house a couple yards from the beach, enjoy breathtaking landscapes, the kids go surfing every day, every morning the sun is up in the sky, I walk around in shorts and flip flops, and whatever I wear – everything looks better with a tan. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am living the dream, right? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This, at least, is the prevalent opinion – and I cannot hold it against anyone, as judging by the photographs this must be paradise. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And it is, too, at least if you look at it from the outside. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am swamped with comments full of admiration and praise every day, “I look so happy”, “California is good for me”, “I look relaxed”, “I am realizing my dream”, “I have the time of my life in Santa Cruz”, “I am to enjoy every moment of it, since a time like this will never come again”, etc. etc..</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So do I actually have the time of my life in California? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">California doesn’t make me happy. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At the risk of nobody understanding this post (which I wouldn’t care about either), I am telling you straight up: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If one of you believes that a change of location changes something inside of someone, I will have to disappoint you.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I know that many of you dream of living somewhere else. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They would love to live in Paris. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or in New York, because: if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or on Mallorca – at least during the whole summer.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Norway has lots of untouched nature and there are also lots of blonde guys. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The South of France would be great, too, you can always buy fresh fish and the weather is warm. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Alps are fantastic, you feel free and unlimited. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In Berlin you have cool coffee shops, cool projects and cool flea markets; if you lived there, then you’d truly be happy. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As if moving could accomplish this! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To live somewhere else does not make you one. bit. happier.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course a move offers new chances, new possibilities, new inspiration – no doubt! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But the only place that will give you lasting happiness is: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The one between your ears. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here – and only here (not on Hawaii, unbelievable, I know!) the decision as to how happy you are is made.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Only, if you are free and happy here, you will be free and happy anywhere in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Up to now I have lived in a truly ugly Suabian village in a run-of-the-mill terraced house for years; I sat on a cheap IKEA couch, stared at the wall in front of me and was so happy that I sometimes thought: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Now I could just burst with happiness.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maybe the weather was crappy, maybe my kids were in a bad mood (or not even there), maybe my husband was grumpy (or not even there), maybe I hadn’t been out for weeks or hadn’t done anything spectacular, but that was not relevant at all.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I ALWAYS have the best time of my life. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I don’t need an added beach or nice weather for this. How pathetic, if I could have the "time of my life" only with these?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course, a beautiful house is better than an ugly one (or none at all – I’ve been there. It’s bad.)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course, a sunset by the ocean is breathtakingly beautiful. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course it is better, if outer circumstances fall into place. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But these things do not make me happy! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am already happy beforehand, simply from the inside out. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Heaven on earth is inside of me, whether in a Suabian village or in New York – I carry it with me at all times. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In face of this inner beauty and happiness everything is also…well, somewhat beautiful, but it does not really impress me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"What…you cannot enjoy California?” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I did not say that.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course I enjoy every second of it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I do like traveling and am happy to discover new things, obviously! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And how nice for the kids to be able to go surfing every day, and effortlessly learn English at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am truly grateful for this possibility and I am happy that we made this move. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But I ALWAYS enjoy things, wherever I am, because: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I always travel with MYSELF. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I just like my own company so much. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I like the inside of myself.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So sooo beautiful ;).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This love turns everything inside of me so beautiful. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I decided: nothing can stop me from ALWAYS having the time of my life.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No matter the current circumstances or the location, I want to enjoy every moment with the utmost intensity I am able to muster! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How sad would it be, if I were waiting for something for months or even years? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"When I’ll finally... move to California."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"When I’ll finally... live in my new house.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"When I’ll finally... work at my dream job, finish college, be pregnant, have reached my goal, have more money, when the kids are older, etc., etc.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Waiting in line for years and what happens in the mean time? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You don’t have the time of your life, or what? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And what if it is a long time until that day X? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Then you won’t have the time of your life for the most part of your life? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Do you mean I shouldn’t dream about moving somewhere else? Or have no goals?” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I did not say that.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On the contrary: you can and are supposed to experience EVERYTHING you wish for! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You are supposed to have a go at everything your heart burns for and nothing can stop you! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And if you’ve always wanted to live in </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: line-through;">California</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Bottrop-Kirchhellen, then: “Can we move there?” – yes. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I just want to take away your illusion that a move will be your dream come true. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In order to help you not to “long for” something, hoping that “everything will change” and “be better”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But Joanna, every time I am in Paris, I really feel better!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Oh whatever, in most cases this is simply shifting the scenes or a distraction at best. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You are distracted by the new impressions and are usually on vacation, and therefore do not have to care about every day stuff – of course you feel better. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">However, if you move for good, sooner or later you will find yourself back with yourself in the most beautiful spot in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And then the question comes up again: how beautiful is it inside of yourself? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you have not learned…</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">... to decide in favor of joy instead of sadness in the midst of the most difficult circumstances, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">... to control your thoughts and allow anything that happens to be on offer to walk in and out of your brain without asking, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">... to dare to think and act DIFFERENTLY than most people, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">... to leave your little "Child-husband-terraced house-little house on the prairie” circle in your thoughts and to think big, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">... to trust in God in all things, no matter how crappy the situation might look like in the moment, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- then neither Paris nor New York nor California will change your life in the slightest at all. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Again:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I DID NOT SAY, you’re not supposed to move. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or just dare to do something unusual and escape your comfort zone – I know that many of you truly need to get off that couch, because they won’t manage to accomplish anything otherwise and spend hours on Instagram or Pinterest lost in daydreams, which won’t move them forward one bit. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(reading Liebesbotschaft is exempt, of course! Honestly, I would read it, too, if I didn’t happen to write it myself! Hahaha….) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">BUT:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I want to guide you to something EVEN bigger than just living your dream. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I want to show you what it is like to have the most beautiful and fulfilled life – INDEPENDENT AND FREE OF YOUR DREAM. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And always and everywhere to boot!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Simply free, free, free from outward things, no matter how attractive or how awful they are, and all without being a weird freak, but simply the most beautiful, strongest and most attractive in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And the thing with your “dream” will also happen, don’t worry. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But between you and me I tell you one thing: it will not impress or fulfill you all that much then, but it will be the logical consequence of your life style. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For want of alternative options, so to speak ;).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Okay, Joanna – and how can I learn to do this?"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have written a lot, a lot about this already (just click on the label "<a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/search/label/Inspiration"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Inspiration</b></span></a>").</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But in a nutshell: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At least not in terms of “bettering yourself”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s not the ones who have the most self-discipline, or the ones who “do everything right” – whatever that means “doing it right”. As if it mattered! – who are the happiest. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is the ones who trust the power of love like a little kid, who trust that it will accomplish everything and will change everything for the better. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The ones who live in love. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And you happen to be in exactly the right place, because I have these traits truly in abundance and give them away to anyone who wants them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The most beautiful place in the world, the absolute heaven on earth is inside of me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Truth is: California does NOTHING to me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I do something to California :).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Joanna</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Translated by <a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank">Ginnell Studio</a>.</i></span></div>
Liebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-36484078734123922632015-05-12T09:31:00.000-07:002015-06-06T09:32:08.555-07:00Parmesan popcorn + TLC.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am sure that on a rainy day with a headache to boot and nothing quite working out on top of it, my readers all lie down on the couch and watch documentaries on Discovery Channel about the life of ibex in Southern Caucasia – in Russian with Romanian subtitles. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I, however, go to bed, call my daughters and watch reality TV with them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is very relaxing and very, very funny, because of the girls’ synchronized running commentary. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In case you also prefer this type of intellectual entertainment on days like this and should you have watched all episodes of Shopping Queen already, I have a tip for you today: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- "Say yes to the dress" – several times a week, e.g. Mondays at 8:55 pm. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- "Fashionistas” – a bit like Shopping Queen, but very American!, e.g. every Monday at 9 pm. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">(In case you haven’t seen TLC when zapping through the channels, simply start a station scan on your TV or receiver.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When we recently asked for sugary popcorn in a huge movie theater that had an immense selection of candy, they replied: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Click <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2014/02/bestes-kino-popcorn-zum-selbermachen.html"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> for a recipe for the best movie theater popcorn. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">OK, now you have popcorn, a show, now all you have to do is find company with a sense of humor who will commentate every scene for you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But I cannot take care of everything! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even if the days in California are very relaxed, we have arrived at a kind of routine by now.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Apart from the daily surfing, we also go to the farmers’ market every Wednesday, I am out and about in San Francisco with the children every Thursday to discover a new part of town each time (I decided to do so right at the beginning in order to confront any queasy “I don’t know my way around in the big city, will get lost and will never find my way back home” feeling. And it worked perfectly, by the way.), I pay a visit to the local flea market on Fridays and we go to the movies on weekends.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You have to admit: a very tight schedule! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In addition to that I am on the beach every day, which is only a few steps away from our house and most of the times quite void of people: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is a true luxury and so beautiful that it sometimes seems almost unreal to me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the meantime I have also learned to handle the (prehistoric) gas stove in our kitchen, and bought an electric mixer and baking tins at the flea market today and baked a juicy and airy cinnamon bread with strawberries and almond crumbs this very afternoon. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is a kind of cake, not quite so sweet and full of wonderful ingredients. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Everything is measured in cups, mostly a rough estimate – and it works so well that even very inexperienced and untalented bakers surely will succeed. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2 cups flour (or 1 cup whole wheat flour and 1 cup oatmeal, which makes it super healthy!) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2 tsp baking powder</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1/2 tsp sea salt</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1 tsp cinnamon</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1 pinch nutmeg, ground </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1/2 cup Greek yogurt </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1/3 cup applesauce</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1/3 cup oatmeal</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1/3 cup almonds, chopped </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3 tsp whole wheat flour (or plain flour) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2 Tbsp brown sugar</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1/4 tsp cinnamon</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1 pinch sea salt</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3 Tbsp cold butter </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1. Preheat oven to 350°.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Line a baking tin with parchment paper. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2. Place flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg into a big bowl and mix well. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3. Mix eggs, olive oil, yogurt and applesauce in another bowl. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix well. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Then add the diced strawberries. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Mix all ingredients well and incorporate the butter with the help of your fingertips, until small crumbs form. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5. Put dough into a baking tin, smooth top and top with crumble. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6. Bake in the oven for about 45 minutes, check with a wooden skewer. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Let cool, then cut into squares. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The bread can be changed up wonderfully according to the season; you can use whatever is in season – instead of almonds and strawberries in spring you can use, e.g.: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cherries + pistachio nuts</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Fall:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Apricots + filberts</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have put together a special California playlist – so if you want some summer feeling this is the place to be: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Turn the volume up, dance wildly or cruise around in your car in the evening sun. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #525252;">(Even if my daughters constantly laugh about my taste in music, </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2013/12/christmas-this-year-40-facts-about-my.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">see #1.</span></b></span></a><span style="color: #525252;"> – at least none of the songs are depressing!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>1. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/theskatorialist/delta-spirit-california"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>California (Delta Spirit)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>2. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/allyjane/thinking-about-you-calvin"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Thinking about you (Calvin Harris)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>3. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/andhika-arief-rahman-23/the-red-jumpsuit-apparatus-california"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>California (the Red Jumpsuits Apparatus)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>4. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/downtownrecords/the-drums-lets-go-surfing"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Let's go surfing (the Drums)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>5. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/giogvazava/california-soul-marlena-shaw"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>California Soul (Marlena Show feat. Ya Boy)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>6. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/jessiejofficial/domino"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Domino (Jessie J)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>7. </b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDb303T-B1w"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Surfin' USA (the Beach Boys)</b></span></a><b> - </b>must hear, because Santa Cruz is mentioned in the lyrics ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>8. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/bigosmusicsource-com-2/california-radical-something"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>California (Radical Something)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>9. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/paulkalkbrenner/paul-kalkbrenner-sky-and"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Sky and Sand (Paul Kalkbrenner)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>10. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/offspring/cruising-california"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Cruising California (The Offspring)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>11. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/kygo/seinabo-sey-younger-kygo-remix"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Younger (Kygo Remix)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>12. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/nino-cash-1/2pac-keep-ya-head-up-mp3"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Keap ya head up (2Pac)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>13. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/aynaiami/switchfoot-love-alone-is-worth"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Love alone is worth to fight (Switchfoot)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>14. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/odesza/sun-models-feat-madelyn-grant"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>ODESZA (Sun Models)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>15. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sunsetsons/sunset-sons-on-the-road"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the road (Sunset song)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>16. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/chrismalinchak/so-good-to-me"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>So good to me (Chris Malinchak)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>17. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/atlanticrecords/estelle-do-my-thing-feat"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Do my thing (Estelle)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>18. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/m83/midnight-city"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Midnight City (M83)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>19. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/trulsmusic/out-of-yourself"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Out of yourself (Truls)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>20. </b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/campello/sons-of-the-east-california"><span style="color: #272727; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>California (Sons of the East)</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And finally something to practice your English – the girls and I nearly choked laughing: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJEQBmLpTgd_xAuOrbflmpD4SWGpqAmBd"><b><span style="color: #444444;">What's in my bag?</span></b><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b></b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Have fun laughing, listening to the music and enjoying the taste! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And if you don’t get anything for Mother’s Day: who cares! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(Things that rhyme are true, right?)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #525252;">Translated by </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Ginnell Studio</span></b></a><span style="color: #525252;">.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After four weeks in America, here is the latest edition of </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"People’s Magazine: the world of the rich and beautiful in California.” – free delivery hot off the press! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1. Relaxed surfing according to an exact schedule. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Admittedly, there is not an awful lot going on here in terms of rich and beautiful: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There are lots of surfers, skaters and longboarders on the streets every day instead. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Santa Cruz just isn’t Santa Barbara, Santa Monica or Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Santa Cruz means hop into your shorts, shoulder your surfboard and off to the surf spot wearing flip-flops. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So much with regard to the appearances, which we have perfectly adapted to. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Our daily rhythm depends above all on the wave situation – and every now and then also on our surf teacher’s </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: line-through;">vague</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> appointment times which look roughly like this: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Let’s assume the kids have a surfing lesson on Wednesday – afterwards we arrange another lesson for next Friday, 10 am. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">On Friday at 9:30 am (!) I receive the following text: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Barry: "Kids wanna surf today?"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Say whaaat?! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">What do you mean, "wanna"?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This isn’t a question of wanting or not wanting, is it?! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It was definitely arranged? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Me (totally confused): "Yes!"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Barry: "Open time wise?"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Come again?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Excuse me…but we had an appointment?! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">An appointment, yessir!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Relaxed surfers’ life and all, but we are German! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is not how we tick!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I have pushed the children since an hour ago to get ready, chop chop! Hurry up; we start at 10, put on your wetsuits, Ben stop daydreaming, get going! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Text messaging like this pushes me completely over the edge! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Me (absolutely overwhelmed by the conversation): "Open time? When?"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I would much rather simply reply: “Uh…?” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You have to tell me exactly when I am supposed to be there, I cannot function otherwise! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Barry: "Could go 10 or noon?"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The children are almost ready to go, I have already picked out a fitting song on the radio (there are only 4 of them that are played in an endless loop) and he asks me whether we want to meet at 10 am or rather at midday? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So, what do you think I am going to answer?! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Me: "Better now, we're all set."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And we are SO SET.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We are actually almost there, that’s how set we are. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">WE COULD HAVE HAD THIS FROM THE START.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Man, how super stressful...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Apart from that, the kids dive into the icy cold, huge waves every day, whether they have a lesson or not – they are both fearless, have a lot of fun and make great progress. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The effort was all worth it when you can surf at arm's length alongside the seals. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A flea market in America is basically not much different from one in Germany: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Apart from tons of crap there are also real treasures. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But these are 10 times as cool – where else can one buy vintage surfboards (handmade in Santa Cruz, of course, such as <a href="https://instagram.com/p/1laEUDob3o/?taken-by=liebesbotschaft"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/p/13UNQmob4U/?taken-by=liebesbotschaft"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>), or heaps of American sports paraphernalia? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In this context I have two questions for you: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- how do you transport a globe (round) inside a suitcase (rectangular)? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- does anyone know whether “bought too much old stuff” counts as a reason for divorce? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">(I am asking on behalf of a friend.)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Anyways, the local flea market is held every week and – assuming the kids come with me – we play a kind of BS Bingo consisting of the following sentences, which are repeated in approximately 3-minute intervals: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1. "No, Mama! You have something like this already." (I don’t at all, what do they know after all.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">2. "No, Mama! How do you think you want to bring this one back? A globe does not fit inside a suitcase.” (A little know-it-all, my offspring, right?) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">3. "No, Mama! Papa is definitely going to get mad.” (he isn’t here, so I don’t care.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">4. "No, Mama! What do you want to do with it anyway?” (I have, of course, various usage options for it, which I will all come up with in due time.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We live in a part of Santa Cruz that isn’t quite so touristy: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This applies to basically anywhere with one exception: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">As soon as the hipster coffee store Verve gets a delivery of cookies there are sold out in a jiffy. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And this happens for a reason!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The palm-size cookies of ¾’ thickness easily replace a whole meal and are crammed with delicious ingredients such as homemade marshmallow, salted caramel or huge chunks of chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A local grandma by name of Mary bakes them: 24 per week. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Every time there is another surprise variety, but they all have one thing in common: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As if they haven’t done anything else all their lives? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- 1 surfing lesson with Barry, at a very variable time,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- 1 flea market item, assuming I get out of the BS Bingo unharmed, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- 1 of Mary’s cookies, assuming there are some left and I don’t eat them on my way home. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">p.s. All my rings are by <a href="http://de.dawanda.com/shop/lebenslustiger"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Lebenslustiger</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In case you have to walk a ways to the beach during your summer vacation, and maybe want to get yourself a coffee-to-go or an ice-cream cone on the way – or you wish to go out to eat or stroll through town afterwards, I have the world’s prettiest idea for an outfit up my sleeve today: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But the cloth is also fitting to take with you on the way to a summer meadow, as it is very light yet huge enough to be able to lie down on it comfortably. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For truth be told, the cloth is a beach blanket: but I think it is too nice to be stuffed inside your bag. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is why I always wear it draped around my shoulders in a casual way, as it is woven from soft cotton and has a pretty pattern. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My favorite item, though, is definitely the big shopper by 10days, because it is my companion on a daily basis: it fits two big beach towels, as well as books, sunscreen and drinks.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Its sequin handles make it cool enough for San Francisco at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You know my blazer already from <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.de/2015/03/fruhlingsoutfit-flohmarkt-review-und.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>this</b></span></a> post:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It serves me well here in California, as it is an all-rounder and matches the casual style perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I would like to warmly congratulate DeinLieblingsladen on its 2</span><span style="font-size: 10.7px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup>nd</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> birthday with this post! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And there is also a little treat for you: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">enjoy free shipping for the entire month of May for this reason! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And in case you don’t have any plans yet for Mother’s Day, or you want to treat your moms, why don’t you send them to the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>SUMMER EVENT </i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">organized by Villa Smilla & Dein Lieblingsladen next Saturday!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You will be able to try out the bag in real life and drape the beach cloth around your neck. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or you can see which color matches you the best, as the cloth is available in many beautiful colors. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You can order tickets for it <a href="http://www.deinlieblingsladen.de/de/summerevent"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tank top: <a href="http://www.deinlieblingsladen.de/de/kategorien/twenty-violets-tanktop-happy-girls-white-gold"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a> (also available in <a href="http://www.deinlieblingsladen.de/de/kategorien/twenty-violets-tanktop-tattoo-white-gold"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>this</b></span></a> version) – the top is great to wear over your bikini; I like layering it with a simple white top underneath. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beach cloth: <a href="http://www.deinlieblingsladen.de/de/search?page=search&page_action=query&desc=on&sdesc=on&x=0&y=0&keywords=towel"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Shopper by 10Days: <a href="http://www.deinlieblingsladen.de/de/search?page=search&page_action=query&desc=on&sdesc=on&x=0&y=0&keywords=15SU922"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Small pouch by 10Days: <a href="http://www.deinlieblingsladen.de/de/search?page=search&page_action=query&desc=on&sdesc=on&x=0&y=0&keywords=toiletbag"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Everything via <a href="http://www.deinlieblingsladen.de/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Dein Lieblingsladen</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This post was translated by <a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Ginnell Studio</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For all of you who can hardly wait for summer to start, or are looking for a luxurious and stylish </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: line-through;">Mother’s Day</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> gift for themselves: you have landed in exactly the right place here with me today. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A package from Germany arrived here in Santa Cruz recently, filled with beautiful things: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It contained not only the perfect summer dress for me, but also headphones for all of us! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I tested the dress today with regard to its beach suitability and I have to admit: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No other has such a beautiful and soft drape and moves so gracefully in the wind. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Simply add flat sandals and you are instantly ready for a trip to town, radiating the summer’s heat, for a garden party or for a beach vacation. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By the way, the dress is extra long and therefore ideal for tall women! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I know that these often look for fitting clothes in vain – this one will definitely fit you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The design is unrivalled in its classiness, the color selection is very tasteful and has an added golden rim, and the sound quality is extraordinarily good. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The headphones have a bluetooth option (including a USB cable), are noise-reducing (perfect for the plane!), and they will play your favorite music for 14 hours straight. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In my opinion the Danish label Kreafunk has outdone itself: the headphones are covered in a buttery-soft PU leather and their size is easily adjustable. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You can easily see in the pictures how windy it is here every day: it isn’t without a reason we have ideal surfing conditions here every day. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Headphones: <a href="http://www.villa-smilla.de/epages/64226945.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/64226945/Categories/%2522Online%2520Shop%2522/Hersteller/Kreafunk"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Kreafunk</b></span></a> via Villa Smilla</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My blog posts in April were unusually colorful (and above all favoring the color blue), and it was for a reason: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve been on the West coast in the US, in surfer paradise Santa Cruz, for one month already. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am spending a couple months here with my two younger kids, until our new abode in Germany is inhabitable (if you are unfamiliar with the story, read it <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/02/good-bye-deutschland.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While March was one of the most work-intensive months of the year for me, April presented the total contrast: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The days here are filled with sunshine, surfing and good food. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In between we take road trips, drive to San Francisco to eat cupcakes, browse in book stores and thrift stores, go for wild rides on Santa Cruz’ famous Beach Board Walk and test-drive all of the city’s movie theaters on Saturdays. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Oh, and I also blogged here and there, although it doesn’t really feel like classic blogging, more like a kind of travelogue: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> "Dear journal, today we …” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- ... reported on our <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-days-in-california.html">first days in California </a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>- </b>... and showed you some details about the </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/barefoot-living-in-santa-cruz.html" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>house in Santa Cruz</b></span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- ... and a </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/meine-packliste-casual-basics-for.html" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>packing list for a relaxed summer </b></span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> - one that will absolutely fit into your suitcase!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- ... there were also recipes for </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/last-minute-ostern-su-salzig.html" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>home-made olive butter</b></span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">, a</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/fantakuchen-retro-feeling.html" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Fanta cake with a retro vibe</b></span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-days-in-california.html" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>quinoa for breakfast</b></span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/meine-packliste-casual-basics-for.html" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>quinoa for lunch</b></span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- ... in the mean time </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/4-dinge-die-du-von-cinderella-lernen.html" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>we all learned a lot from Cinderella</b></span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">(how to NOT do things, that is), and Jil showed us what it is like</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/hinter-den-kullisen-des-modelalltags.html" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>behind the scenes of a model’s every day life</b></span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">– and how she personally copes with it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">However, there won’t be that much a model’s every day life for Jil in the near future, as – while I am typing this post – my eldest daughter is already on board of a plane; she spontaneously sub-let her apartment in Berlin and decided to live here with us. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Probably less due to her missing us than the attraction of the location. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is still plenty to tell about California – I am happy you are accompanying me! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(And if you think this is way too much beach: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Friends, we have to go through this together now! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There’s nothing I can do! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">About 7 years ago I was in the same situation; we had to leave our old apartment and had no prospective new one (don’t ask…bad constellation of circumstances). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So in the interim I lived for about a year in a place the size of approx. 215 square feet. With 5 people. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Oh, and NOT IN CALIFORNIA. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was really a lot worse than beach, beach, beach, I can assure you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well, then! Take a deep breath and keep going! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We’ll make it!)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am very much looking to spending the month of May with you ☺!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This post was translated by <a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Eva Ginnell</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Apart from the stalls with regional specialties farmers’ markets have a lot more to offer: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The atmosphere is a little bit like a carnival where you might also find international food stalls and can enjoy the delicacies there and then while listening to live music. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are longboarders, surfers and hippies everywhere; everything always seems very relaxed and laid-back. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The stalls offer exclusively local food, which means that seasonal fruit and vegetables that are not available are not on offer – you’ll look for tomatoes in vain. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Instead you will find a selection of kinds of produce that I did not even know in Germany; there is an incredible variety of especially lettuces, sprouts and herbs!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In addition everything is presented in small baskets, bowls or boxes in a loving and decorative way, and everything is “organic” without exception – it truly is a great pleasure to look around here. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On Wednesdays there is a big downtown market, where I usually go with the kids as early as lunchtime. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">First we get our lunch at one of the many food stalls: there are sliders made of organic meat, Mexican food, Indian food or Eritrean food (which is very nice and super healthy). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And to Ben’s delight always a huge chocolate crepe for dessert. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Afterwards I buy an espresso at the coffee stall, we stroll through the market and buy pounds and pounds of strawberries, fresh peas, lettuce, herbs like cilantro, limes and very delicate carrots, which I roast in the oven in the evening, simply sprinkled with olive oil – they taste very delicate and sweet. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sometimes also baguette and flowers, and Noelle insists on carrying only those "because it makes me feel totally like a Frenchman."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ben doesn’t attach any importance to the imagined nationality and has to carry the rest – green beans are not quite so sexy, of course. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yet they are nearly the most important things! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Fava beans are a kind of broad bean – and either I have so far turned a blind eye to them on German farmer’s markets or they carry them very rarely there. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here, on the other hand, they are currently all over the place and since I always want to try new things I bought a handful of them right in the beginning. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now we are all big Fava bean fans, but later more on that. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The following two stalls we also never omit: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- the popsicle stall of two young women who sell their homemade popsicles made of organic ingredients; there are new, delicious kinds every week, such as grapefruit-rosemary or kiwi-lime. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ben’s favorite kind, however, is strawberry lemonade, every time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- a candy stall that sells hand-made chocolates. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tiny, hand-made dark chocolates with a fresh-tasting raspberry ganache filling – at the horrendous price of approx. 3.00$. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Per. Piece. Yes, it’s true. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But unfortunately they are the WORLD’S BEST chocolates I have ever…</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The stall owner also makes a kind of “Sour Patch Kids” candy, made of fruit jelly just like the Sour Patch candy you can buy in the grocery stores. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The ones here are made of fresh local fruit such as strawberries, oranges or limes and instead of telling you what they taste like I will say it like this: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I ALREADY fear the withdrawal symptoms on my return to Germany.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The sour candy is also exorbitantly expensive, but this is now absolutely beside the point, because once you are addicted you pay any price to get your drugs. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On Sundays there is a farmers’ market right around the corner from our house; I go there first thing in the morning, when the children are still asleep, and return with fresh bread, asparagus and huge, warm strawberry-chocolate scones, such as <a href="https://instagram.com/p/1qeiZyobxR/?taken-by=liebesbotschaft"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">First remove the beans from the shells and throw them into boiling water for about 5 minutes, after which you free them from their parchment-ish casing – it’s a bit of work, I admit it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They taste so mild and nutty that we simply cannot get enough of them! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So far I have used the beans in anything I could spontaneously think of and by now I could write a “Fava bean cook book”.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So they are sexy AFTER ALL, if you look at them that way! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the mean time I only cook the beans in salted water and place a bowl full on the table, as a snack with an added pinch of sea salt. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sometimes as an add-on to a meal, and sometimes just like that in between. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(I think Ben isn’t even aware of what he is eating…I cannot explain his enthusiasm in any other way.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Please look out for Fava beans on the farmers’ markets and tell me, if you find any! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you don’t want to eat them as a snack you can prepare a quinoa meal with them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And since the weekend is upon you: off you go to the farmers’ market! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(After all you are on a fava bean mission now, don’t take it too lightly.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I write “upon you” on purpose, as we have lost all sense of time here and our plans for the day are exclusively subject to the waves. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Admittedly a beautiful way of life ;). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #525252;">This post was translated by </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Eva Ginnell</span></b></a><span style="color: #525252;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Women who are – like me – not particularly tall, appreciate the advantages of high heels even more: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not only do they look elegant, but they visually elongate the legs and instantly make us a few inches taller, and this consequently works real wonders when it comes to most outfits. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">However, here in Santa Cruz, most of the times neither elegant nor high heels are an appropriate choice – but then I am back to being short again….dilemma! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Any woman in a similar situation will surely be as excited as I was, when I discovered the "Say hello to longer legs -Invisible Heels".</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They have been available in the US for some months already. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Invisible Heels elongate the legs by nearly 1.5” within seconds and they do so invisibly! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The principle is the same as insoles, I admit, this doesn’t sound exactly sexy at first. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But they have a sexy EFFECT! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Just insert them into flat boots, high tops, Stan Smith or any other shoe with a little bit of a higher shaft: TADAAAA.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The pieces are super light and very comfortable; you will totally forget about them after a few minutes, because they adjust to the foot. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ideal for any woman who feels a little unstable walking in high heels. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Invisible Heels are completely invisible and virtually ideal for any ankle-high shoe: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">booties, boots, high tops (e.g. by Converse), Stan Smith, biker boots, Ugg boots, and flat overknee boots. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You just have to pay attention to the fact that the shaft is a little higher in the back, as in my loafers. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You can see the difference quite well in <a href="https://instagram.com/p/0oJ0texdhg/?taken-by=sayhellotolongerlegs"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>this</b></span></a> picture, don’t you think? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Without saying a word, Noelle took them and put them into her high tops and I haven’t seen mine ever since ;).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.instyle.de/fashion/news/diese-schuheinlagen-sorgen-fuer-noch-laengere-beine"><b>InStyle</b></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> has written about Invisible Heels already; in Germany these insoles are available online since a little while ago, to order go to <a href="http://invisibleheels.de/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>invisibleheels.de</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you live near Frankfurt you can even by them in a brick-and-mortar shop, namely in one of Päivi Budarham’s wonderful stores, a power woman with a heart of gold who I got to know personally recently: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> - &sisters (<a href="http://www.andsisters.de/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>www.andsisters.de</b></span></a>): here you will find individual fashion, jewelry and accessories by many unusual labels, or </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- noa boa (<a href="http://www.noaboa.de/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>www.noaboa.de</b></span></a>): here you will find stylish maternity fashion for moms-to-be, children’s clothes for ages 0-14, toys and an in-house design studio for unique, personalized gifts. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And both shops are exclusive sellers of Invisible Heels – or, as mentioned earlier, go to <a href="http://invisibleheels.de/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>invisibleheels.de</b></span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or California ;).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">p.s. My top is from <a href="http://clkde.tradedoubler.com/click?p(203848)a(2226924)g(19558440)url(http://shop.mango.com/DE/p0/damen/artikel/t-shirts-und-oberteile/armellos/doppellagiges-top/?id=43073570_54&n=1&s=prendas.tops&ident=0__0_1430288003803&ts=1430288003803)"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Mango</b></span></a></span><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>, </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">my clutch is from San Francisco. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This post was translated by <a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Ginnell Studio</span></b></a>.</span></span></div>
Liebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-82104841860885719052015-04-27T20:52:00.000-07:002015-05-03T20:54:27.900-07:00Behind the scenes of a model’s life – Jil’s body plan.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Joanna</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few days ago an Italian fashion label booked me for a job; they thought I was great and they definitely wanted to have me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before the actual job there is often a fitting in order to optimally prepare everything. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At first everything went very well, until finally the lady in charge said it was a “runway collection”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was surprised for a second, since I knew: “OK, great. I might as well have three of my ribs removed for this.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I exercise a lot, I eat very healthy, and generally one could say I have all it takes to work in this field.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet not even my right calf fits into a runway collection. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not even one size up. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After they brought me a pair of pants two (!) sizes up they were still too tight around my thighs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two days later the job was cancelled. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am, strictly speaking, a plus size model. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, you heard me right. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever the rest of the world considers completely normal and slim this business considers chubby. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am a little hippo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am considered “curvy” – and in this case it is definitely NOT meant as a compliment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In professional situations similar to the one above they “stare” at me, utterly horrified. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone is entirely stunned about how on earth I don’t fit into this garment and how dare I possess so much flesh. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Yes, these are truly their thoughts, the completely unaltered truth.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is wrong with this image? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone claims: </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, it does exist, the perfect body. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">36:24:36, a small waist, slim legs, a round butt. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And this is how you instantly realize what you don’t have. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To make sure we don’t forget what the perfect body looks like we are always, everywhere and in all detail made aware of how exactly it is supposed to look like. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blogs, Facebook, Instagram accounts, bill boards, we are surrounded by the image of the beautiful ideal image how limbs are to be assembled. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How do we get here then?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. The ideal beauty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An ideal is a goal recognized as the highest value, an idea one strives to realize. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">An ideal in itself has to remain </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">unattainable</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">; otherwise any attention and amazement would be superfluous. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because then the ideal would be powerless or, even worse, debunked as something unreal. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our idea of beauty is developed based on an industry that is completely removed from reality, puts women into children sizes and works magic with the help of Photoshop. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A make-believe world completely absorbed with itself, like a bubble. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anything beyond itself seems impossible and disgusting. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(this is also the explanation for the horrified looks of the customers, when I don’t fit into size zero pants; they are simply stunned.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What else happens when you see images produced by this make-believe world? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whether consciously or unconsciously one immediately drwas comparisons, finds fault with what’s wrong and ponders about how to achieve this goal. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How do you feel doing so? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only bad, actually. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You automatically have a bad feeling, instantly remembering the bullet points on your </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Dream Body 2015” plan which have to be worked on and realized from tomorrow on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is only one thing behind this whole fitness and healthy eating craze, the motivational pages and “inspiration images”: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Inferiority. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>The definition of beauty in our world therefore is this: </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>The subordination of a personality to an unattainable lie. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In other words: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As soon as you allow this thought to engage you and live through you, you will always chase after something unattainable while loosing yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This energy will always tell you that you are not enough. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A voice telling you that your legs are woooorlds apart from the ones of a super model. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Everything behind this concept is deceptive. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">An altered illusion, a deeply judging insecurity with only one goal: bombarding you with doubts about yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or at least to make you occupy yourself with them. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This energy is the trigger for anorexia, bulimia, bullying in school and cha-ching for personal trainers and psychologists. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Which part of the paragraph above sounds attractive to you? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">None.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Why do you believe it then?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Because this is all you know.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I think today is the perfect day to unmask this untruth. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2. Your new awareness of yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So how about I tell you about reality? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It doesn’t require an editing program. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You were born into this world with a perfectly functioning organism. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your whole body is a closed system, a precise clockwork, which knows exactly what it needs to run smoothly. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every little procedure is planned to a t. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Nature has not equipped you with problem areas, </i>why should it? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your DNA has no room for this. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You are absolutely complete, perfect, and beautiful down to the smallest cell. Entirely unique and never before has anyone laid eyes on something like that! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Only you have hands like this, nobody else walks to work with these legs and nobody ever will possess a belly like this. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The combination of eye, skin and hair color is highly aesthetic and purely brilliant. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You were chosen to enjoy this body every day, just you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Why do you still waste one more day not feeling well inside of it? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But it’s simply that I feel uncomfortable with my thighs!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">- Of course, you hear it all day long. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You don’t have a choice when living in this world.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So all you have to do is make yourself aware of the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But I really don’t fit into the clothes of this mainstream store?” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> - That’s true, every big label produces goods in bulk manufactured according to one size, which consists of numbers, nothing but numbers. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They don’t show how much you are worth or which box you may be put into. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Also, many labels shrink their normal sizes every year (it’s really true). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But people look at me funny all the time, or I hear stupid remarks here and there.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What others think about you is none of your business. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not your responsibility.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My task for you: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">During the next 5 weeks you will call “STOP!” out loud every time a negative thought about your body crosses your mind or you compare yourself with somebody else. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this ‘Stop’ will reject anything that does not enhance <b>the perfection of your self</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Anything that does not match your beauty has no business in your thoughts either. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You consciously will not allow it from now on. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(After 5 weeks of successful calling out loud it is pretty certain that a quick thought is enough to send any self doubts packing.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If I get funny looks because of one of those jobs, because the stylist has to search for a bigger size, I make myself aware of one thing: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">All the negative things associated with my body have nothing to do with myself.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is the others that are wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They are the warped ones, they have to change their attitude – it is not my fault (or YOURS)! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am full of pure life energy, power, joy, beauty; this is all that counts. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I remove myself from that situation; I move away from this twisted system and leave nothing but my joy behind. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I do not let the situation influence or, even less so, impress me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Because I am really good at my job. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this will make the rounds, no matter which number is printed on a tag. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So you will only see the perfect body you were given and inside of which you are allowed to live. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nothing else is your business anymore; any other thought is nothing but a waste of time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Instead of engaging with comparing yourself with other women all you know is the pure pleasure derived from anything to do with YOU. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You don’t talk yourself into something, you simply become aware of yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That’s all. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As if you reminded yourself of your name every morning so that you won’t forget it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3. What’s the remedy?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But you can always optimize things, for example your diet!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yes, sure, after all there are a great number of new plans, diet regimes, rules, which all are supposed to be followed. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No bananas after 3 pm, no carbs at dinnertime, lots and lots of green juice and vegetables. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or hold on – wasn’t it no gluten until 12:30 pm, only cabbage soup on Tuesdays and smoothies every morning? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is easy to get confused with all these experts, you better only live from air from now on, although its fat contents has never been researched at large….</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What have all these regulations have in common?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You will not stick to them in the long run. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There will be the day when you falter, give up, when you walk past that fantastic Italian restaurant and order the biggest portion of truffle pasta that this establishment has ever seen. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(Someone has actually done this…that crazy lady supposedly also gobbled up the tiramisu!) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How about the following rule: from this day on you teach yourself how to really enjoy food again and you won’t have a guilty conscience. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You will eat every bite, no matter what it might be, in the awareness that you allow yourself something truly delicious again – every day! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What exactly is good for you? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As a matter of fact, this is something your perfectly organized body knows quite well.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It knows when it is full, when it needs vitamins and when it needs to replenish energy. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It will tell you intuitively, all you have to do is listen. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your body tells you chicken wings all day long? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Trained by your environment your brain may have learned other things: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">... mom who always made you finish your food, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">... an everyday life that familiarized you with frozen pizza, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">....the convenience of food delivery from the comfort of your couch, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> - your intuition certainly forgot a few things on the way. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No problem, it will only get better: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By taking a little more time listening and leaving the criticism behind you will find exactly to that spot. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You can further support this physical well-being by being active. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’m not talking about the 10-day-bikini-size-zero-butt-lift program, but about moving, because it is fun. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How often, for how long, how exactly and with whom – this is only up to you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Say good-bye to the thought that you have to take a certain path; all that counts is that you are good to yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It doesn’t matter whether you are eating a meal or are pouring sweat under some fitness equipment; you are always just good to yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But as soon as something becomes a compulsion, feels funny, screams renunciation or displays firm rules and limitations this is not the case anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4. The plan.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now you can finally cut yourself loose, you can lead your tied-down body away from this lie. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You part with thinking you have to fit into a certain size. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Say good-bye to the fear of being unattractive for other men. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Just leave this burden behind you; it smothers you, suffocates you and always makes you feel insufficient. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now when you look in the mirror your beauty will be able to reveal itself for the first time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Only this liberation will make you understand who you are and what you look like. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You understand that everything that was inadequate before had NOTHING to do with yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You have never seen yourself properly, only ever this lopsided, sick view of your body, as if your mirror was fogged up or dirty. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your view is clear for the first time, focused and unimpressed by outward expectations. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now you can finally enjoy yourself completely, make your beauty express itself, live your beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This marks the beginning of something totally new and precious. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You recognize yourself now. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Everything that is part of yourself and defines you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You stay away from the definitions of this world and find your way back to what was reflected in your mirror all along. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this is the most beautiful thing that exists in this world. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lots of love,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #525252;">Thank you to </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Eva Ginnell</span></b></a><span style="color: #525252;"> for translating this post.</span></span></div>
Liebesbotschafthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00108124486217468796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067743001064373012.post-27329240467337910882015-04-23T21:38:00.000-07:002015-05-03T21:39:12.886-07:00My packing list: casual basics for traveling.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When I was packing my bags for California I had to restrict myself quite a bit and disregarded most of the extravagant pieces of clothes from the start. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The small mountain of clothes that was left received another decent downsizing. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I placed the remainder into my suitcase, only to realize that at least half of it wouldn’t fit. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So I had to go through it one more time…. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What I finally brought with me were absolute basics with but a few highlights. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I realized that everything matches wonderfully, I have innumerable possibilities to combine pieces and the style fits both into the relaxed surfer life and the big city San Francisco. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I put together the majority of my current closet for you: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This casually relaxed basic set of clothes is not only fitting for California, but for anyone who generally has to limit their luggage a lot when traveling. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At the same time it is a great basis for all those who dress more casually during their everyday lives, and would like to look stylish without much effort. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In a stylish way you can push your stroller and carry a latte at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Or simply run your daily errands. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The weather in Santa Cruz is very changeable and similar to spring in Southern Germany – forget "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyC7WnvLT4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>It never rains in California</b></span></a>"! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It can get pretty chilly here during the day, but most of the times we have the most beautiful beach weather. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Coat: <a href="http://td.oo34.net/cl/aaid=og2kfajvmo9eahzf&paid=fnsvju49yszlbqm9&tt=slg&link=http://www.asos.de/Vero-Moda/Vero-Moda-Long-Line-Trench-Coat/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=4867526&CTARef=Recently%2520Viewed"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Vero Moda</b></span></a> (I had it slightly shortened at the alteration shop) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Jeans: thrift store, similar cut by <a href="http://www.asos.de/ASOS/ASOS-Thea-Midrise-Girlfriend-Jeans-in-Miami-Vintage-Blue-with-Displaced-Knee-Rips/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=4632946&cid=3630&Rf995=5700&sh=0&pge=0&pgesize=36&sort=-1&clr=Vintageblue&totalstyles=3&gridsize=4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Asos</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Shirt: vintage, similar one by <a href="http://www.asos.de/ASOS-Forever-T-Shirt/15r09m/?iid=4558776&cid=4718&Rf-200=5&Rf989=5014&sh=0&pge=1&pgesize=36&sort=-1&clr=White&totalstyles=160&gridsize=4&mporgp=L0FTT1MvQVNPUy1UaGUtRm9yZXZlci1ULVNoaXJ0L1Byb2Qv"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Asos</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Hat:<b> </b><a href="http://partners.webmasterplan.com/click.asp?ref=610531&site=9127&type=text&tnb=175&diurl=http%253A//www.hallhuber.com/de/kollektion/accessoires/huete-muetzen/hut-im-herren-stil-natur.html%253Futm_medium%253Dcpl%2526utm_source%253Daffilinet%2526utm_campaign%253Dgenerator%2526utm_content%253Dtext%2522%2520target="><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Hallhuber</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I left all my extravagant, colorful and elegant dresses, sparkly high heels and little jackets in Germany – and packed my bags instead with…</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 3 t-shirts each of the same color (black, white and grey)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 2 boyfriend jeans </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 2 pairs of slim-fitting black pants </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 1 black blazer</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 1 denim jacket and 1 denim shirt, and 1 white shirt</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 1 trench coat and 1 casual coat (the one in the pictures) and one light-colored short jacket </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 2 denim shorts, 2 white shorts and 2 dark blue ones</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 2 grey cashmere sweaters, one cashmere cardigan and 1 hoodie </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 4 casual dresses </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- 1 sequin skirt (link is <a href="http://liebesbotschaft.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-days-in-california.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>HERE</b></span></a>)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">- and some shoes, purses and 2 nearly identical hats that I wear almost every day.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Add 2 pairs of soft joggers and some white and grey tops (for underneath, if it’s a bit cooler or with shorts, if the sun’s out). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Et voila! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Always dressed perfectly – I would nearly say anywhere in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Which means you can use my post just as well as a packing list for your vacation – as you surely have one or the other piece in your closet already. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My advice: buy 2 to 3 really nice, well-cut and a little more pricey white t-shirts; you will wear them all the time anyway and your money goes a longer way here than in any evening gown. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I would also rather wear long sleeves, since they can easily be rolled up, if it is warmer and it looks relaxed at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Keep in mind a variation of necklines and buy some in a size bigger than usual: it guarantees a relaxed, unforced look. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Add some white shorts, preferably high-waisted, because they seem to be a tiny bit more elegant and therefore, matched with a grey shirt, nicely fit in in the hot city. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And a white shirt in combination with denim shorts simply looks irresistible! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cashmere is unbeatable, since it is super lightweight (weight on the plane!) and wonderfully warm; I usually prefer Breuniger’s basics, as they offer good quality at a very competitive price. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Add some V-neck t-shirts, 2 warm hoodies (the ones by Superdry are simply the softest) and a casual, unlined trench coat. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5. <a href="http://clkde.tradedoubler.com/click?p(203848)a(2226924)g(19558440)url(http://shop.mango.com/DE/damen/artikel/trenchcoats-und-mantel?ab=prendas)"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Mango</b></span></a></span><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(also available in light grey)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #525252; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7. <a href="http://partners.webmasterplan.com/click.asp?ref=610531&site=5643&type=text&tnb=302&diurl=https%253A//www.zalando.de/superdry-kapuzenpullover-ice-marl-su221j07e-c11.html%253Fwmc%253DAFF49_AN_DE_CAM01.%2524ref%2524_..%2526opc%253D2211%2522%2520target="><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Superdry</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Generally I am not a big fan of the color black, but it simply cannot be topped when it comes to options to combine it, also in summer! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love the following combination above all: destroyed jeans, white t-shirt, black slim-cut blazer and white sneakers. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I also love wearing my black pants on cooler days, combined with the denim shirt or a grey top and the denim jacket. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Black, loosely cut and drapey shirts and dresses are ideal; add some high heels and you are perfectly dressed for the evening time and the city. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Indispensable and pretty year in and year out - before leaving I stocked up on my basics by placing a big online order. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And it was a good thing, because despite all the advice along the lines of “Don’t bring so much, you will buy everything over there!” I have hardly been shopping at all here so far.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The outlet mall was quite disappointing and the prices are high due to the bad exchange rate. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Apart from that, my children don’t really feel like traipsing through the stores, but rather spend their time on the surfboards ;)). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My need for big-time shopping trips has been limited so far, as I am quite busy as it is. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Those are the things that complete everything and they can turn a casual outfit into an elegant one in no time! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While I did bring some high heels I have nearly not worn them at all so far, but I will still link some for you, in case you want to go out in the evening dressed a bit more elegantly. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On the other hand I wear white and grey sneakers and pointed flats nearly all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Mine is my daily companion at the beach and the farmers’ market, whereas I usually bring the roomy, soft clutch with me to town. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">12. <a href="http://partners.webmasterplan.com/click.asp?ref=610531&site=5643&type=text&tnb=302&diurl=https%253A//www.zalando.de/vans-slip-on-lite-slipper-va215c003-a11.html%253Fwmc%253DAFF49_AN_DE_CAM01.%2524ref%2524_..%2526opc%253D2211%2522%2520target="><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Vans</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I sure have a handful of favorites for spring and summer; but I will tell you about them another time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thank you, <a href="http://nicoleadler-illustration.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Nicole Adler</b></span></a>, for the beautiful drawing! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #525252;">This post was translated by </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Ginnell Studio</span></b></a><span style="color: #525252;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When I enter a bookstore, determined to purchase a good read, I often experience a sensory overload – browsing online for a book can be even more difficult! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I certainly don’t want to read books by depressed authors (and believe me: there are many!), or anything “heavy going” that tires me out instead of relaxing me and I absolutely don’t want to buy a cook book that contains unenjoyable recipes! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is the reason why I am always happy about personal recommendations – and here are mine for you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Today I allow you a glance at my current reading list: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Some of them are books I brought with me from Germany and some are books I bought in a local bookstore – and some of them you will surely like! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"<a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3809026115/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=3809026115&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwliebesbots-21&linkId=UUT3YRK2XHKNZPG"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>11th Hour</b></span></a>" (James Patterson)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"<a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3423280484/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=3423280484&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwliebesbots-21&linkId=652MJ2NPKW5ME25Q"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>VERHEISSUNG. Der Grenzenlose: Der sechste Fall für Carl Mørck</b></span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">" (Adler Olsen) – not yet available in English</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Both books are very easy reads (James Patterson is actually super easy!), for the plane ride or to cuddle up and read in bed and be kept awake all night by the suspense, although you know exactly how tired you will be the next morning… </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"<a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/1607745410/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=1607745410&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwliebesbots-21&linkId=LCMEPJYPBDPV2HUJ"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Vibrant food</b></span></a>" (</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Kimberley Hasselbrink)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">One of the world’s nicest cook books that really makes you want to cook fresh food – organized by seasons with seasonal produce. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To look at beautiful pictures (first and foremost) and gather inspiration (second priority) and try simple recipes (at least 2 or 3 ;).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"<a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3499624818/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=3499624818&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwliebesbots-21&linkId=IUQZXBCTPOC6YRUS"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>The life-changing magic of tidying up</b></span></a>: the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” (Marie Kondo)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I like the consistent style, the author’s professionalism and have a lot of fun reading it (although it takes 5 times as long, as I have to look up so many words, since I bought the English edition of the book locally). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">(I bet most of your houses look as clean as a whistle! But it is the ideal book for the 5 readers who are such sloppy housewives like myself.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"<a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0143122177/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=0143122177&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwliebesbots-21&linkId=AZVAS6ATK3P6S2AO"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>The Kitchen Counter Cooking School</b></span></a>: </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks." (Kathleen Finn)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In an entertaining and easily accessible way this book practices thinking outside the box and explains economic correlations; I’d recommend it to anyone: teenager or CEO! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"<a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3547712017/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=3547712017&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwliebesbots-21&linkId=GECPADJNIJCDCP7L"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Silikon Wahnsinn</span></b></span></a>: wie ich mit Schatz nach Kalifornien auswanderte." (Katja Kessler) – not available in English</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Olivia gave me this book as a must read recommendation for the plane ride, and she was right! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A wonderfully entertaining story for anyone who likes to enjoy some light reading to relax after work. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">No serious literary flights of fancy, but guaranteed smiles ;). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">What are the books that excite you right now? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Tell me about them in the comments! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This post was translated by <a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Eva Ginnell</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Should I never return to Germany, it won’t be because of the nice landscape or even California’s sunny weather, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will simply not have found my way back home and will be helplessly wandering through the grid of numbered streets. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For even if the esteemed reader thinks I am living/experiencing a dream here – not all is golden in the Golden State! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But first things first: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>1. The streets.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For some incomprehensible reason the Americans gave their streets not simply names, but consecutive numbers. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A handful of them do have names, such as Capitola Road (because it takes you to Capitola) or Pacifica Road (as it takes you to…well, guess!) – but that’s about it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The rest of them happily received continuous numbers, and I still have NO CLUE where I am and am consequently </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: line-through;">surprised</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> over the moon when I arrive back home. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And believe me: the kids are happy, too. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(If somebody now makes the point of “why don’t you use your GPS?” – very funny. I AM USING IT. Sometimes one highway or the other has 6 lanes and I really don’t have the slightest idea which one is the one in question.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My husband, who visited us recently, instinctively remembered all directions after just 3 days; and kept trying to roughly teach them to me: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"It’s a logical sequence: here we have 41</span><span style="font-size: 10.7px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup>st</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> street, just turn left twice and then we arrive at 17</span><span style="font-size: 10.7px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> street, we live on…etc.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nice try, but in vain; I just looked at him in wonder, until finally he got it: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> "You have no idea right now what I’m talking about, right?” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Right.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maybe I know exactly what I’m doing in many areas of life; when it comes to a sense of orientation I lost out on more than a few synapses. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thanks for nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Since all these numbers were already handed out to the streets, sadly none were left for: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>2. The coins.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No kidding.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">None of the coins have ANYTHING written on them; you are therefore forced to learn their value by their shape: the big silver one is a quarter, the small brown one….etc. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This, of course, is a great strategy when you are at the check-out, knowing there is a line behind you, and you start trying to remember the values of the coins like a Kindergarten child: “Just a second…um…what exactly was the small brown one?” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">WHY?!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Let’s assume there are German immigrants, already overwhelmed by the street situation – let’s just assume, just for fun! – how grateful would they be at the checkout, if they were able to, chop, chop …. Oh, let’s not go there. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And if that wasn’t enough already, we could also talk about: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>3. The parking meters.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every single one of them has a different system and every time it is a new little adventure to see how it works. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Some are really easy to operate, others require you to simply press 491 buttons and everything’s hunky-dory. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As a consequence I feel compelled to instantly pin a medal to my chest after each successful parking/payment event. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sometimes the children and I spontaneously cheer when it has all worked out. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(Or when we have arrived at our destination without getting completely lost). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Same for getting gas; you walk into the gas station FIRST, announce the amount, then press only 492 buttons, insert the nozzle…etc. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course I can do this easily.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not directly the act of eating, but everything that has to do with it: shopping, preparation, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After years of staying at home most things work automatically in this area. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In Germany I could blindly cook 15 different dishes, just from the pantry and leftovers in the fridge. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even without shopping list grocery shopping always looks more or less exactly the same, you know where the products are in the grocery store, the family’s preferences, you have your umpteen standard recipes stored in your memory and most of the time you just go with the flow in your kitchen – chop, chop, here is something delicious! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here in California, however, I laboriously have to find out about everything first; on one hand it is fun, on the other hand it definitely takes three times as long and translates to a lot more effort (at least in the beginning)! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When we were out and about someone recently asked us what we do all day long and my children answered without thinking: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"We surf. We buy food. We cook food. We eat food. We clean the kitchen. We surf again. We buy food again. We cook again. We eat food..."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On one hand there is an endless selection of products in the grocery stores, on the other hand the selection is very limited on the farmers’ markets, as in fact exclusively local and seasonal produce is sold here. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So a lot of things are missing that had been integrated before. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In addition I am confronted with food items that I haven’t worked with before, but now am more or less forced to include in the meal plan in order to mix it up a little. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As I mentioned earlier: I truly have a lot of fun with this and enjoy it a lot, but I still require a lot of time for the whole thing. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It just takes a while until a kind of routine has emerged. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By the way: in order to purchase food I first have to find the grocery stores, see paragraph #1. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Espresso tastes simply horribly sour in most coffee shops, as if someone added the juice of half a lemon. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For this reason I bought a small espresso maker and a pound of espresso beans at Starbuck’s – it’s a little more effort at lunchtime, but since everything takes longer already anyway, it doesn’t really matter in the end. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I enjoy every little everyday challenge and truly enjoy the time to the max. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I enjoy <a href="https://instagram.com/p/1gJIqcIb_w/?taken-by=liebesbotschaft"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>cruising</b></span></a> through town with the children, music turned up high, boards sticking out the back, the warm wind cooling the skin pleasantly. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I enjoy the ocean and the sun. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I enjoy discovering new locations and to browse through thrift stores with Noelle (who, by the way, is a hard-core thrift shopper, fearless in the face of any crowds). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I enjoy waiting for the children with Hayda, the surf teacher’s dog; the children insist on going surfing every day, even if they have no lesson, sometimes even in the evening at sunset, which is hard to top in terms of beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hard to top in terms of beauty is, above all, the atmosphere around me: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It isn’t the sun, it isn’t the sea, it isn’t the house, nor the children.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It isn’t the landscape, the new impressions nor the coolness factor of the location. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I just think it’s so nice…to be with me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sometimes I think I am going to burst with happiness, although nothing special has happened at all. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Surf, eat, sleep, and surf again.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But inside of me, it is simply always so extraordinary. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Extraordinarily extremely beautiful, as a matter of fact ;).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Joanna, there is glamour and sparkle and glow inside of me and the shoe department at Saks Fifth Avenue is nothing compared to it! Victoria's Secret kind of hair every day! Everything is sexy and beautiful, just wonderful!”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yes, this puts it in a nutshell, in my opinion. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even if I feel ever so stupid in face of parking meters, gas pumps or grocery store shelves – it doesn’t dampen my bliss. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">With language development in mind I decided to take the children to the movies here in Santa Cruz at least once a week. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(Which is one reason, the other is the fact that some movie theaters have super big, super soft seats that can be completely reclined.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yesterday we all went to see the new adaptation of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hsBFXrK_f4"><span style="color: #343434; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Cinderella</b></span></a> – after only a few minutes Noelle and I were "Team Stepmother" - the one and only reason being Cate Blanchett’s breathtakingly beautiful costumes. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Definitely worth watching.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Apart from that the movie really inspired me, because Cinderella can teach us all a lot! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She can teach us how to NOT do things.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>1. Cinderella is passive.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We all know the story: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cinderella’s father dies an unexpectedly untimely death and the step mom instantly reveals herself as the beast that degrades the actual heiress of the estate to a servant. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">During the movie Cinderella acts according to the life philosophy her mother left her on her deathbed: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"have courage and be kind".</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For Cinderella this means more likely: be everybody’s doormat. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Although the step mom humiliates the girl more and more every day, Cinderella takes it all without talking back much. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What this means for your life:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Friendliness and kindness have nothing in common with victimhood or self-denial. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is a kind of pleasing of people that has gone wrong, or even more than that: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is basically modern slavery. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If others take you down in order to stand taller themselves and live their lives at your cost, it is very much the wrong place for you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And the wrong companions.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You have absolutely no business there: be it a job, a relationship, or family circumstances. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">NOTHING will change, if you don’t leave it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No fairy will appear, no mouse will knit something for you, and no prince will show up on his horse. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You are free.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nothing can keep you in a place where you are not treated with appreciation and love.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You cannot hold anyone responsible – and the step mom least of all.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To endure it all is not at all courageous. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Courageous means: to take a step out of this dependency and then never to look back. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">THAT is courageous.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And it is the only thing that befits you. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Not silent crying in the corner, because the world is so bad, although you “have always given your everything” and “have always meant well”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Passiveness is an energy that keeps you small and robs you of your potential – not people. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is your passive attitude.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Only freedom and strength are worthy of a love messenger. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Only freedom and strength.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>2. Cinderella lives in the past. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The girl is asked by a former servant why she does not leave the estate to end the slave-like relationship to her step mom, since she is obviously so miserable there. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Because I know how much my parents loved this house.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Later in the movie she also accepts staying locked up in the attic and to indulge in the memories of the ball – she doesn’t make any attempt whatsoever to change her situation. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She’d rather remain in the past in her thoughts, because it was “the most beautiful time of her life”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You do. not. at. all need memories of the past. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You automatically assume that every moment of your life is always fresh, always new, always inspiring – and this is why you concentrate on the present with everything you are. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Always.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If your thoughts run away to the past you call them back immediately – just like a dog that runs too far into the woods. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Pffffffft! Come here!"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You do not allow yourself trips to yesterday, no wallowing in the last 10 years, any melancholic lingering in days gone by. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even if they were ever so lovely and me, back then, ever so young….</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Why?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are two reasons:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1. You cannot change ANYTHING in the past. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No matter how bad or good something was – it is OVER. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You have no opportunity to change even the slightest thing – much as you wish to do so! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So it is a kind of used-up energy that you invest your new energy in. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You might even paint everything in brighter colors than they actually were – God beware! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2. Because this is what you do as a love messenger. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Take this!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sometimes you simply have to trust me, even if your brain cannot follow 100%. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you want to walk this path with me it means: stay here and don’t look back. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Things will keep getting MORE BEAUTIFUL, STRONGER, MORE LIBERATED for you anyway – what’s your point in looking back? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"But Joanna, I love wallowing in memories. They turned me into the person I am today!” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sure, you can do that, if you like – but the two of us will not meet this way. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You EITHER keep loving your melancholic trips, OR you kick the old stuff in the butt and walk with me from now on. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your choice.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your decision, your responsibility. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But no whining that the step mom was so bad. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Oh, right, which takes me to the next topic: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is a scene towards the end of the movie when Cinderella’s eyes widen in horror and she asks the step mom in absolute bewilderment: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Why are you so cruel???"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That was my favorite “head-table” situation in the whole movie: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"why do you treat me so badly?” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I didn’t do anything to hurt you?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have always been a good girl – and this is your thanks? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How can you be so cruel?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">DUH?!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The world IS bad – there are many bastards in it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you believe the contrary you live in a fairy tale. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Nope, no way it is all “all love, every person, every animal, every tree.” – this is just esoteric gibberish. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And you are not on this planet to win over bastards, to chase them or to please them! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are sooo many people who love you, appreciate you and are immensely grateful to be able to spend time with you; don’t waste one single thought on the bastards. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">NOBODY in this world is worth it to be allowed to treat you badly.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">NOBODY.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So you do not need to be surprised, when once again he or she is “so mean” to you, although you “only had their best interest at heart”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The best thing for him is, if you are no longer near him. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Out there is a world only waiting for you – full of new chances, opportunities and adventures. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So no whining how mean someone was to you and don’t be horrified about it; just be grateful that now you know for sure: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"OK. This here is not for me.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And then you pick yourself up and WALK AWAY. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>4. Cinderella’s life changes due to coincidence. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cinderella rides her horse into the woods – and VERY coincidentally meets the prince while hunting. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The step mom doesn’t allow her to attend the ball - and VERY coincidentally a fairy appears that fixes everything, including outfit, styling and mode of transport. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What does Cinderella do to earn this?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">NOTHING.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pure coincidence.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lucky her.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Some people are just lucky, right? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And some are unlucky over and over again, nothing you can do, right? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you are waiting that one day a fairy appears to save you from your boring misery, you might as well apply for the lead in the next adaptation of Sleeping Beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">NOTHING will change, if you do not make a decision. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Most things do not depend on LUCK – this “and suddenly a prince appeared and everything changed”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">All change is preceded by a decision, a kind of awareness that something needs to change. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">An awareness who you are: you are NOT a servant. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">AN HEIRESS.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Some of you write that I am “so lucky” to be able to live in California, “so lucky” that I found such a pretty house, “so lucky” that my husband supports my decision. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of course it is a huge gift and a privilege – as without certain practicalities this simply wouldn’t have been possible. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But this is the smallest contributing factor! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I wasn’t “lucky” – I just decided: yes. I will do this. And then I acted. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I wasn’t “lucky” – I just picked out the prettiest house within my financial limits. I wouldn’t have moved into an ugly one ;). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I wasn’t “lucky” – if a man tried to limit my freedom I would long be separated ;). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You see my point?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">California didn’t just show up, “Oh, how lucky”, it is simply an expression of my awareness, this “nothing is impossible”, this “why not do something exceptional?”, this “now that I was given this life it is MY call to turn it into the most beautiful one possible”. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">California (or the loft, or whatever else.) was neither conjured up by a fairy for me, nor was it crafted by a mouse, nor did it ‘magically’ fall from the sky – it was all due to the attitude from my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And the decisions I made in its wake and the steps that I took as a logical consequence. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And yes, this was followed up by opportunities. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A car was placed at my disposal. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My kids could stay with Eva and go to school there. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Fantastic – and pure gifts I had done nothing to deserve and that I am very grateful for! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But I wouldn’t have experienced all this, if I hadn’t taken the first step. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am not a fan of this "work hard on your success." – after all, anyone can do that, and you don’t need God for it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But now THAT I have been given everything from God and that I am absolutely free, I will most certainly not hand my life over to passiveness or fear. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Because I am absolutely aware of who I am. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I seriously deem myself too precious to do this. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I also deem YOU too precious. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this is why I will just take you along. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #525252;">Thank you for translating this post to </span><a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Eva Ginnell</span></b></a><span style="color: #525252;">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cinnamon rolls for breakfast. And strawberries. And toast with eggs and bacon.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A big comfortable </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: line-through;">ship</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> car, which nicely accommodates the kids’ boards. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And which is great for them to sleep in on road trips. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A landscape so beautiful that it hurts.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The vastness.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"Take your time. You have to feel the wave."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So... come in and take your time.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You have to feel the happiness.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You can see in one of the images three small hand-thrown mugs in the colors of the sea; I discovered them at <a href="https://instagram.com/p/1TKeGDIb4V/?taken-by=liebesbotschaft"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Community Thrift</span></b></span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">, Valencia Street in San Francisco – as I only bought these and not an additional 3649 items I would like for you to give me some praise in the comments.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Which is why she is going to sublet her apartment in Berlin and will stay with us soon. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Only for love, of course! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We will also have other wonderful visitors – but I will tell you more about that another time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(With these simplest of all stylistic-literary tricks I humor my followers to avoid them possibly leaving the blog just because there are “yet more pictures of the beach…”. She who has the skills…!) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Joanna</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This post was translated by <a href="http://ginnellstudio.co/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Ginnell Studio</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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