Well, it seems the world hasn’t ended, so it looks like I will have to turn 30 after all. Thanks a lot universe – I thought you were at least going to help me avoid that one!
After six years, I still find it difficult to speak German on the phone. Jan’s mum called last night, on the landline, so of course I answered. When his dad calls the conversation usually goes “Is Jan there?” “Yes, I’ll just get him for you”, but his mum tends to converse with me before I hand over the phone.
My German is good, but I tend to forget words occasionally and it’s so much easier to get my point across when I can use hand gestures as well.
After assuring me that “he felt fine, it was just his nose that was blocked” when I left for work yesterday, by the time I came home, Jan was in bed complaining of a sore ear and a headache. He still refused my offers of Lemsip and Ibuprofen though – apparantly you only need medicine if you actually plan on getting out of bed? (Is this a German thing, a man thing or is my boyfriend just weird?). I made us some nice tea containing lots of vegetables and some extra hot chilli flakes (I defy any blocked nose to withstand them!) then spent the evening doing cross stitch with a couple of glasses of wine (I bought myself a mini bottle). After about half an hour, Jan actually came out to join me and started reading out questions from the quiz book he had in his advent calendar today. If the world had ended it wouldn’t have been a bad way to go, although it would have been a shame not to actually finish the cross stitch – I still have lots to do.
Right now I’m waiting to find out whether we’re going to Jan’s dad’s place tomorrow or staying here for Christmas. If it’s the latter, I need to go and buy food for Christmas today. I’m planning on doing roast chicken for Christmas day if we’re here (cooking one turkey a year is more than enough for me!).
Confuzzledom 
The Hub makes me the most splendiferous hot toddies when I have bad colds. I don’t know if they work but it doesn’t matter because I’m usually too sozzled to care 🙂
I may have to suggest that next time I have a cold 😀
I have a snotty monster of a husband here too sigh. We do a Chicken for Christmas day, I am not a fan of turkey and can’t be bothered with how long it takes.
I am glad the world didn’t end, my newly found sister and I had an amusing conversation via facebook as the clocks hit 11.11 gmt. Doomsday is family time after all lol
I love turkey when it’s done properly. I wouldn’t want to cook it more than once a year though!
My mum used to cook it very badly. dry as old bones lol it is nice when moist. I have it at carverys 🙂
haha – moaning, bed and refusing medication? sounds like man flu to me! I HATE speaking on the phone in Spanish, in person you can watch their mouth, use hands when you need to, convey a puzzled look to get them to slow down or rethink how they are explaining things without actually having to confess to being an idiotic english person who just can’t grasp another language. None of that is possible on the phone! Hope Jan’s better for christmas and you have a good one – I can’t wait to head off to England on Monday!