We have no bananas today
So the *excitement* but I might as well document the impulsiveness that has dominated my decision-making lately lol. I didn't have my butt in gear and I didn't buy an online ticket for Schwanensee so I lost alot of sleep on Thursday night dreaming about how I was missing an opportunity. Now here's where the impulsiveness comes into play...I didn't spend my time doing much homework yesterday morning, rather I went into the stadtmitte and bought myself a ticket to Schwanensee for 36,30 Euros--that's not cheap. Then I was doing my finance/budget sheets in Excel and somehow I have 11 Euros less than I'm "supposed" to have, which really is bothersome. I tell myself not to worry about such things in the hopes that something will suddenly occur to me that I forgot to add to the list, but I still worry. So tomorrow I get to go through my receipts...plus I have been inconsistent in what costs I include/don't include, so it's time to be less hasty and more consistent otherwise I'll go crazy. It's so much easier to live at home lol. Okay, so back to Schwanensee...I got all "dressed-up", which in comparison to many of the other people was really rather low-key but oh well. I spent a ridiculous amount of money to put my coat in the garderobe--okay that wasn't expensive--but the program cost 8 Euros (!) totally ridiculous. I wasn't going to buy it but then I thought it's a once in a lifetime thing and it looked pretty fancy lol. Thus my money continues to fly out the window *sigh*. The Ballet was amazing though...the prima ballerina is my age if you can believe it and the male ballerinas are always so impressive to watch because they can jump so high in the air, do four+ pirouettes no problem and they can do an impressive number of beats, etc....yeah, so I'm impressed by dancers. They always make it look so easy and sometimes I couldn't help but to think how much it should be hurting their feet to dance so much en pointe lol. Costumes were exciting...I would have to say my favourite was the Queen's dress although it wasn't very practical for dancing...then probably the spanish tarantella dancers costumes and the dresses of the potential brides (very cool). But enough of that. I was bad and brought a water bottle with me though it was probably a very good thing because in the intermission my face was beet-red. So I went to the handicapped bathroom (there was no one in sight--I wouldn't take it away from a person who need to use it) and I forced myself to drink a couple water bottles worth of water until I felt like throwing up. Let me tell you , last night I made frequent visits to the washroom because of all the water I drank yesterday in general...but it's all good. I survived my experiences alone at the Ballet, albeit a bit poorer now and today I'm going to visit a new friend to celebrate Silvester at her house near Stuttgart. Should be *interesting* if nothing else. Happy New Years!