Retail report and a meme.
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sister_luckThe Easter break has arrived.
I celebrated this yesterday by finally choosing and collecting my birthday present which meant a drive along the backroads - the motorways being clogged with holidaymakers - to one of Germany's ugliest cities where my stepmom works in a sports gear store in one of the first shopping malls to be built around here. She had promised me new hiking boots, and I settled on a really comfy pair after trying on several others - which gave me blisters on my fingers from the rather abrasive nylon shoelaces. Stepmom was weirdly nervous and introduced me and the boyfriend to her co-workers and her boss.
I also bought two blouses for school - both are horizontally striped but in different colours with a white base and both apparently make me look taller which is a good thing. I was also looking for skirts and some music, but couldn't find what I wanted that was reasonably priced.
The historian in me finds the Wikipedia birthday meme fascinating, so I have to have a go. You already know the drill, so I won't bore you with how to do it.
March 4
Three events
Two births
One death
I celebrated this yesterday by finally choosing and collecting my birthday present which meant a drive along the backroads - the motorways being clogged with holidaymakers - to one of Germany's ugliest cities where my stepmom works in a sports gear store in one of the first shopping malls to be built around here. She had promised me new hiking boots, and I settled on a really comfy pair after trying on several others - which gave me blisters on my fingers from the rather abrasive nylon shoelaces. Stepmom was weirdly nervous and introduced me and the boyfriend to her co-workers and her boss.
I also bought two blouses for school - both are horizontally striped but in different colours with a white base and both apparently make me look taller which is a good thing. I was also looking for skirts and some music, but couldn't find what I wanted that was reasonably priced.
The historian in me finds the Wikipedia birthday meme fascinating, so I have to have a go. You already know the drill, so I won't bore you with how to do it.
March 4
Three events
- 1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
- 1950 - U.S. Premiere of Walt Disney's animated film Cinderella.
- 1991 - Most primitive form of World Wide Web is put online.
He's the one who according to legend is asleep with his knights in a cave in Kyffhäuser mountain in Thuringia, Germany, and that when ravens should cease to fly around the mountain he would awake and restore Germany to its ancient greatness. According to the story his red beard has grown through the table at which he sits. Note that we seem to have stolen this legend from the Celts.
The first film I saw at the cinema - though this was in the late 70s.
And where would we be without it?
Two births
- 1948 - James Ellroy, American writer
- 1961 - Sabine Everts, deutsche Leichtathletin und Olympiamedaillengewinnerin
She won the bronze medal in the heptathlon in the 1984 Olympics in L.A. and I included her because she attended one of the schools where I was a pupil.
One death
- 2005 - Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent
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Date: 2006-04-09 05:42 am (UTC)My old boots are falling apart - I got them when I was 16!!! Which means - what a scary thought! - I've had them half my life! They're leather ones and while the leather is still fine, the soles are useless now. They've been to NZ with me and up a few mountains, but didn't get much heavy use in the last couple of years.