All German, All Day.
Today was a curious mix of heightened sense of accomplishment, tainted only with the briefest flashes of impotent rage. I started half-day German lessons to get me up to speed faster. In spite of leaving what I thought was a half hour early, I called 30 minutes before class was to start, thinking I was mired in traffic cause by an accident. That would be "nope." Don't take B14 into Stuttgart ever, unless you can't avoid it. So the normal traffic flow puts me a mere 20 minutes late for the first day of class plus an underground parking space I can't just pull into without some additional maneuvering. The creeping traffic, late arrival, missing the turn into the last street on the divided road, and the parking space all put me on the verge of what can only be characterized as a full breakdown punctuated by brief episodes of psychosis.
I was having tantrums in the car.
I managed to get to class, in exactly the ideal learning state, and spoke German through till lunch. Having made it that far, I decided work should also be entirely in German today and managed to get along fairly well. Yay me.
After work I dropped by a store I'd been seeing on the way home and bought a blender and tupperware. Not just any blender, the Bosch hand mixer, which comes with a 300 watt motor, serving pitcher, and food processor attachment. The competitor did not have the food processor attachment for the same price. 600 watts though.
I've also puzzled through the assembly of my curtain tracks. No rods, just these little rollers that you hang the curtain rings and curtain from. I bought the little rollers today to verify their function. Curtains to follow.
I've also decided to do a short segment title "Cars under $20,000 that Americans can't Buy" Look for it soon...