Looking for my roots

Believe it or not - I finally started an activity that was on my "when-I'm-retired-I-will....."list - looking for ancestors. Way back in 1974 my mother bought the local Ortssippenbuch that lists all the families and persons with their ancestors mainly written down in the parish-register. Seems my forfathers (and mothers) from my maternal side all came from this village. It was easy but time consuming to get them together in my family tree and this side of the family can be traced back to at least 1530!!
Since my father came from a village nearby I had to look there for the other half of my roots and YES I was successful, too. Luckily they had that same kind of book at the municipal office and I was allowed to take copies. This part of my family seems to have been long time resident, too, so I found ancestors back to 15 hundred something also. The interim result from today is 289 persons in 125 families and I'm not done yet!
Somehow this is like a large net unfolding. Very interesting!!

Progress

Here we go,
not done yet, but half of the oak floor (full plank planks) and the wonderful new staircase are built in. And it starts looking like a room I'll live in very well and happy.
And that's more important than finding (how come?) some new wrinkles and two kilos more that haven't shown before. So what?
Everything else will follow - wishing good wishes to all people I love and care for. Especially my friend Erika with the chemo trouble - may 2010 be good to her and the leftover of 2009 lift her spirits.
Merry Christmas to all of you!

Up

Well, there have been some bumps in the road of life since my last post. But everything seems to turn out just fine - even if my planned birthday party will be postponed until next summer (better with the weather anyway :-)
I noticed that I put myself under too much pressure to reach the goal so I sat back, breathed and slowed down. Feels much better and more relaxed.
Things look pretty now and I can enjoy the smallest success.
Above all - I'm entering a new dimension - got my pension approval certificate two days ago. Yeah! Winter can come - doesn't scare me.

Progress every single day

Today the guy who takes care of the new heating devices was here - another step ahead. And more plaster on the wall - probably by Thursday I'll paint it off-white like downstairs and then the whole thing will be a wall about 7 metres high and pretty cathedral looking.
I had another thought these days - the chance of getting older is also that YOU are obviously the only person to know that all aspects you have come across in your life (little girl, young woman, adult woman and the following :-) are gathered inside you and only you can tell. Funny!

Ophthalmologist and new shoes

Everything went just fine, and by tomorrow I'll be able to see like before (at least with my right eye). And to celebrate this nerve wracking day - I got my new shoes. Soooooooo beautiful!

Got things done

I discussed the theme of now - past - future with a friend today and discovered the difference in thinking. Me picturing the whole as a line coming from the endless past going to the endless future and him seeing the same thing as a endless circle. The second difference was looking at the "now"-point as something that pushes future further ahead followed by the past while I had the thought of taking bits from future by moving ahead and adding those to the past when they are over. These are two very interesting points of looking at things!!
Besides that - got older, see less, wait for next eye surgery on Tuesdays and have an ex-bedroom that starts to look like the one-of-a-kind living-room (part of) now. Painted walls and light make such a difference!


There will be another smashing light effect when the new stair is built in, I did already order it.
And - no matter what time goes by - I do like shoes. So I made myself a treat and ordered Think! shoes. (Spent my friends gift for "things you have to abstain from while reconstructing your house")
I*ll have a very relaxed Sunday!

Lack of tools

Well, talking of my first passion - quilting - my tools really let me down. First of all that pretty new brother sewing-machine doesn't catch the trhead anymore and therefore doesn't really make stitches (!) and my older Singer can't remember how to do zig-zag (which seems to be very related to the other problem). So even simple things like repairing a trouser of a friend gets pretty complicated.
But the walls are progressing and look pretty good. Success!!



So all is set for having a wonderful weekend.