It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...

I've been posting most things on my Tumblr recently. I have become so disenchanted with LJ. I miss the old days!

Moving on, things have been good lately. Our house is going to be fixed up soon so all the earthquake cracks will be filled in and covered over. We get new wallpaper and paint and the landlords are getting new curtains too. Our living room is going to be sooooo pretty! Of course this does mean moving all of our crap out of half of the house so the builders can do work there but cest la vie. I am so looking forward to things getting fixed up. So. You know. Fingers crossed no more big earthquakes after that because fixing it twice would be a pain in the ass. Yeah, Lara, fixing the wallpaper is the biggest consequence of big earthquakes. *sigh* I think they're fixing the crack in the foundation as well! There is an annoying bump in the kitchen they AREN'T fixing which isn't great. But they seemed to think it was just fine.

Meds are nice. And I am able to get through most days without having to collapse and nap so that is a good sign. I still feel exhausted all the time, but I am sleeping less. So maybe this chronic fatigue is on it's way out.

I think the biggest things I did lately were to go to a Roman repast with the housemates. It was so good and a lot of fun. The next day Alison and I toured Antonio Hall, which is this amazing and run-down house in Christchurch. Part of it was destroyed in the earthquakes but we got to go in to the newer bits which held up fine. Of course they have been destroyed by time and people squatting there, but it was amazing to tour through. I love urban decay. www.antoniohall.org.nz And if you live in Christchurch you can arrange a tour there. It's a special request kind of thing but they will work with you! And I am SO glad I got to do it.

Now it is Good Friday so I should go start making things for our dinner.

Arghblah!

The trains cursed me this morning. A pox on them.

So anyway, I'm at HOME and I booked a ghost tour in Dublin too YAY and now I'm looking up stuff to do in Vienna that I haven't already done. I've done a lot and been to most of the obvious and even some of the not so obvious places there already in 2001. I found a history/torture museum which I am TOTALLY going to because they do medieval re-enactments and I hope I just don't look creepy rocking up to this torture museum by myself. I'll be the creepy lady in the corner... Yep, that's totally me. And it's near the aquarium which, by some strange circumstance, I missed last time. So I'll hit both of those one of the days :D Probably the day after Melk. Then I'll go to Heitzing and have Heisse Schokolade at Schoen Brunn and visit the tiergarten because I'm a sucker for a zoo. And the Vienna zoo is frikkin' gorgeous. I want to go to the district I stayed in there too, out past Hutteldorf. We'll see! The only other thing out that way though is the place where I'm terrified a wild boar will eat me. SRSLY. I can't ever remember how to spell it but it's like Lainzer Tiergarten and Hermesvilla is in there. Kaiser Franz-Jozef bought that for Kaiserin Sisi to be like "Stay in the frickin' country!" and she was like "Hell no!" even though he had A Midsummer Night's Dream painted on the bedroom ceiling.

It would make ME stay! Look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesvilla (Except...wild boar.)

Aaaaanyway, I know weird stuff and I'm going to go now :)

I ♥ Wien

I want to move to Vienna. I want to be an Austrian...I'll even wear those little suspenders (yes I know they're called Lederhosen) and the feathered hat (Tirolerhut) and I'll live in a cabin in the Alps for half the year, and for the other half, I'll live in a downtown apartment in Vienna, and I'll watch the city from my balcony.

I'll go to Stephansplatz at night and watch the street performers and I'll throw Euros at them. I'll drink Eiskaffe everyday, and eat Spaghettieis every night for dessert. I'll eat Schnitzel and Kartoffelnsalat (can't remember plural for potato...lol) and I'll ride the Reisenrad once a year! I'll go to the Staatsoper and I'll buy stehplatzen for cheap and I'll stand there and watch operas unfold before my very eyes. I'll speak nothing but German, except when helping lost American Tourists. I'll go to see the Lippenzaners (Don't know how to spell that either) And I'll visit Kaiserin Elisabeth's grave and leave her flowers.

I'll go to the Australian pub and eat Kangaroo and get drunk, and then stumble back to the UBahn singing German Volkslieder at the top of my lungs. I'll buy flowers from the vendors and give them to random people as they pass, just to make them smile. I'll ride the gigantic Rolltreppe just to laugh at how tall it is. I'll go to the Cafeteria with the non-stop Elevator, and jump on and off, tempting fate each time...hoping I don't jump too late.

I'll eat soft boiled eggs, and Apfelkuchen and visit my host family, the Matjekas. We'll go to movies at the Auhof and we'll walk back, by way of the stream, and laugh out loud when we get lost, or stuck in the mud again. I'll buy a dog, and take it for walks in the Fusgangerzone JUST so it can relieve itself and OTHER people can step in it for once. ANd Jayann will come and stay with me and we can be prostitutes at first (They have health benefits in Vienna...good thing the Emporer loved his booty so much...) and then we'll break our way into being an opera star for her (country singer on the side) and a stage actress for me! I'll perform at the Burgtheatre and the Volkstheatre and she'll star at the Staatsoper and then we'll disappear to the mountain cabin for rest and relaxation, til we get so bored, that we go back.

We'll visit her MilkLady and we'll go to Konditerei a lot. We'll shop at those giant Store-in-a-vending maching things JUST because we can! We'll go to the Prater and dance and sing, and go on roller coasters and eat crappy carnival food! We'll be in the Karneval parade! We'll hand out free beer! Or be dressed as witches and hags and scare little children (or unknowing American exchange students *cough*) and then we'll go home and celebrate for ourselves! Austrian Wine and Brie on crackers and steamed clams and grilled shrimp in butter and steak ('cause with Jayann, it isn't a party without steak ;)) And then we'll go to sleep in our downtown apartment, with skylights that show the stars. Cats curled up on opposite pillows. Katerina and Miranda. And we'll have a little balcony, with a garden where we'll grow violets that secretly mourn lost loved ones.

We'll throw house parties, and we'll go to Schoen Brunn every weekend to stroll amongst the gardens and visit the animals in the zoo! And we'll climb to the Gloriette and sing songs for everyone! Or maybe just sit, and enjoy the hubbub of everyone else. We'll dance around the reflecting pool. We'll go to the Kunsthistorisches Museem and look at all the art. And We'll go to SchnitzelWelt! And we'll shop at H&M! And we'll make trips to Mariahilferstrasse regularly to browse the shops there and go to the Aquarium.

And I'll look into the sky and smile.