Freakishly Happy

We just got back from Thanksgiving dinner with the AYF group.
It was a lot of fun. I ate ridiculous amounts of mashed potatoes and corn, and my belly feels very happy.
Ok, the best part???

IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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As you can see by all of the exclamation points, I'm very very excited!

Big puffy flakes, blowing at high speeds. What could be better!?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4465418.stm 

Ignoring data can 'help memory' By Pallab Ghosh BBC science correspondent Scan of a human brain Brain scans were used to analyse performance at memory tasks New research suggests that the ability to ignore information prevents people from being scatter-brained. A study in the Nature journal says that being able to remember objects is more to do with focusing on relevant facts than having a large memory capacity. The researchers say that this ability to focus leaves more brain space to memorise pertinent information. They also said that this suggests that scatter-brained people may find it harder to remember things. But with their heads filled with more extraneous facts, it may well turn out that scatterbrains are in fact more creative. Oregon University researchers asked volunteers to memorise red-coloured objects in a series of pictures and ignore everything else in the frame. Brain scans measured their ability to do this as carried out the memory task. When tested afterwards, it was those that were best able to filter out irrelevant information that were able to remember more of the red-coloured objects.

So anyway... I went and got an allergy test today. I was all freaked out, and yet excited to know exactly what I could and could not eat. So I sat down, got drawn on, and got pricks all up and down my arms and guess what???

 

 I'm allergic to Birch Trees.

 

 

Yep folks that's right! Birch trees. In other words, they didn't test me for food allergies today, only plant and animal allergies. I'm only slightly allergic to several things. Like 3 different kinds of trees and grasses, and some other weird stuff. I'm very slightly allergic to rabbits, cats and dogs (Oh my!).
Needless to say I was pretty bummed.
I have to go back in next week for another kind of test. Ahh well. Hopefully it'll be more informational than birch trees.

I went and picked up office supplies yesterday. It was a very good day!  I was in such a fabulous mood. 
After class we went out with some friends of ours to a pub. It was really fun, except we missed our bus and our train and we had to walk in to the Stadt.  Being a stupid, stupid girl I wore my heels and a pair of tights. BAD IDEA. I have blisters the size of cantaloupes on the balls of both feet. ICK ICK ICK. 
My feet hurt so bad that we decided to take a taxi home. 
I was very excited, as I'd never hailed a taxi before. 
The ride home was INSANE! The guy was driving probably 45-55 MPH through town and much much faster than that on the short stretch of highway that we hit between the pub and our house.  But we made it home all in 2 seperate whole pieces, all for under 10Euro.  (Ok, I know that it's not that good when you convert, but it saved my feet a whole lot of agony).

For the record... I got ran into and yelled at, again yesterday by an old German man. This time I wasn't even moving. I was standing by a pillar listening to someone play music. Seriously. Not moving. In plain sight. Still got hit and yelled at. What's up with this? Is there a sign on my forehead???

OH! Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope that you are all enjoying much needed time off, and ridiculous amounts of Turkey and football.  

A LIttle Thanksgiving Parade Humor

 

Vegetarian Thanksgiving? I think not.

 

So here's a silly story for you.
A week or two ago, Jess and I were discussing why the Germans don't have Thanksgiving. Now as usual, I had just awaken from a nap and was still a little groggy. 
I tried to say, "Because they didn't have any Pilgrims." and "Because they didn't kill any Indians." at the same time. This came out as, "The Germans don't have Thanksgiving because they didn't kill any Penguins."

(ok this picture is a bit of  a stretch. Forget about the Lone Ranger... ThinkTonto

 And now we know the real reason why Germans don't celebrate Thanksgiving.