It’s been a while, and this time I even broke my sad record by not publishing anything for the last roundabout two months. I’m honestly sorry beloved readers! Anyway, before this year comes to an end I want at least sum up the past weeks and events to give you an overview about what’s currently going on here in Vienna.

How come you laugh?

As the eagle-eyed among you might already have figured out by himself, I’m switching back to English when it comes to writing posts. I decided so cause of using English now on a daily basis at work anyway, cause of the latest comments which showed English-speaking subscribers, and … well that’s basically it. I don’t want to look up every second word on dict.leo.org though, cause I’m simply to lazy and don’t give a sh*t. :) So be aware of that. This of course still means that you can comment in German or in English, it doesn’t matter … as long as you leave a damn comment!

Working kitchen, tasty food

So what’s next? Oh yeah… what actually happened the last weeks. Well, let’s start of in the kitchen of my apartment here in Vienna. The most annoying thing was that the dishwasher broke after using it for about 5 times or so. There was a leak somewhere, don’t ask for details, … and it took 5 weeks to get the friggin thing repaired. At least it works now as supposed to, and I was able to try making Spareribs for the first time, using the Römertopf my mother bought me. Thanks again at this point. The first beta so to speak turned out pretty good, sure there are some things that can be improved, but especially the spicy-oyster-honey sauce was really tasty (for me). Here are some pics I took:

EndOfTheYear & #work

The first Friday in December was the day the annual EndOfTheYear-party for the employees of the company I work for took place. It was an amazing evening, we had a lot of fun and I got to know my colleagues better. I have to mention at this point how happy I am to be part of the most awesome team in the company! This makes working day by day much easier and sometimes even fun, and I’m looking forward to all that’s still to come in 2010 (twentyten that is). Also here some impressions for you, not from my camera though (thx):

Ski Opening Katschberg

Unfortunately I had to leave the party pretty early, otherwise I’m sure we would have been out until the early morning. Reason for my earlier departure was the trip to my hometown on the following Saturday. Reason was of course skiing,  although there was barely enough snow to do so. If spent to days at the mountain anyway (Katschberg),  met some friends from Vienna and skiing was great. Damaged my nearly new skis at the end though, so this has to be fixed soon. Pictures can be found here:

MQ on ice

After the weekend in Lungau there was nothing special going on. Lot of people became sick, work was as usual and everyone was preparing for Christmas. The next highlight was just one week ago, when my friend Buchi (yeah, this site is even more dead than mine, but thanks for reminding me to write something again) and his girlfriend came to visit me for the first time. Took them quite some time right? Well, at least they could make it in this year, which can’t be said of all of my ‘friends’ :P We spent an awesome evening with a fancy dinner at freiraum, unfortunately my girlfriend was still sick, so we have to repeat this asap. The next day my friend and me took over the responsibility of cooking for our ‘better halfs’ (?) – it’s a pity that we didn’t take some pictures though, maybe because a certain someone had a headache.

The day after, which was last Sunday, I met my sister in the city for a drink, which came back from London and will stay until after the Christmas holidays. It was a lovely cold and sunny afternoon, and I took the opportunity to take some pictures from snow in Vienna, as this doesn’t happen that often. Here we go again:

What’s to come?

Well, to sum up: I’m doing pretty well here in Vienna. Life and work are good, I’m enjoying my apartment, although there’s still of work to do  – but that’ll have to wait until next year. I’ll drive together with my sister to the Lungau this evening, starting in 2 hours actually. I’ll be spending the next two days there, hopefully with some skiing but weather conditions seem to be terrible. Saturday I’ll be with the family of my girlfriend, and than back to Vienna for some working. Maybe there will be a short update the next days, but don’t wait for it :)