Is it allowed to mention

[MissHoneychurch]

that tomorrow is a holiday here in Germany and I am having a day off??? :D :bounce:

[Huckebein the Raven]

1. That's always good

[MissHoneychurch]

4. yep

how are you?

[Huckebein the Raven]

7. Fine

Have to leave soon, so I can't talk long. Just going on in early

[MissHoneychurch]

16. oh ok

at least you showed up :)

[Huckebein the Raven]

18. I show up sooner or later

:)

[MissHoneychurch]

20. you better

:)

[Huckebein the Raven]

21. Yes ma'am

:P

Gotta go now, have a fun holiday and throw back a nice German brew for me. I'll talk to you later

[MissHoneychurch]

22. enjoy your classes

:P ... I will be thinking of you tomorrow that you have to get up when I turn around in my bed to go back to sleep (I will ignore the time difference ... LOL)

[tjwmason]

2. What holiday is that?

I got one on Monday, and I'm don't work on Fridays (which is helpful as tomorrow is election day), so I can't really begrudge you a day-off.

[MissHoneychurch]

3. It's Christi Himmelfahrt

religious holiday (the day Jesus went to heaven). Don't know the English word for it.

So who are you going to vote for tomorrow, if I may ask?

[tjwmason]

10. Ascension Day - not a public holiday though

It is (fairly irrelevant factoid alert here) the only day on which English parents have a legal right to remove their child from school for religious serivces (the other major Christian festivals falling during holidays anyway) - obviously schools do tend to bend-over backwards to accommodate all religious positions but the only specifies Ascension.

I'm still not certain about my vote. I live in the 5th most safe Conservative seat in the country (before he got his present seat, poodle boy stood in a by-election here and got less than 5% of the vote), there really is no chance that anybody other than the Tory will get in. I'm far from enamoured with the Labour Party at the moment (and not just over Iraq, though I haven't trusted Blair for about 10 years), I have seen too much of the extreme cynicism and opportunism of the LibDems to support them; the only other candidate is UKIP, and they really are a bunch of nut-cases. I'm very tempted to write a very short essay on the futility of British politics on the ballot paper.

[MissHoneychurch]

23. but you will vote, right?

[tjwmason]

31. I will attend my polling station - yes

I may not cast a valid vote, but I will place a ballot-paper into the box.

In Britain spoiling one's paper is a well established manner of expressing a desire to take part in the political process, yet simultaneously rejecting those candidates/parties with which one is faced.

[MissHoneychurch]

33. same here

as long as you go to vote to keep at least the neo nazi parties at a low percentage.

[tjwmason]

37. Thankfully they're not a problem round here

The B.N.P. aren't standing, the UKIP does have a fair bunch of fools and cranks but they're nowhere near the pure unadulterated thuggery of the neo-nazis.

[ahem]

5. Good for you!

Got any plans?

[MissHoneychurch]

6. if you wanna call being lazy and cleaning the apt a plan

then I have plans :)

[Jamastiene]

9. I don't think you can clean and

be lazy at the same time, can you? I'm the lazy one. I'll avoid the cleaning part until I absolutely can't stand it any more. That way I can make myself stick with it until I get something done. :P

[MissHoneychurch]

11. I somehow have the feeling that the being lazy part

will be the more dominant part of the day. Fortunately my apt doesn't look too bad yet, so I think i can put the cleaning off a bit. Except maybe washing some clothes, which isn't too much work.

[MissHoneychurch]

14. and thanks for your pm

helped a lot

[ahem]

12. Well, yeah, when you throw that crazy cleaning thing in there it sounds

like a plan :)

[MissHoneychurch]

15. I do live alone

so there is nobody else who sees my mess. Of course when my bf comes I clean up before. Don't want him to get a bad impression of me :)

[ahem]

17. I'm sure he already has a very nice impression of you and a little mess

wouldn't change that. :)

[MissHoneychurch]

19. no it wouldn't change

his apt. is sometimes messy also ... LOL

But I got better over the years. In the beginning when I lived alone my apt looked awful most of the time. Only when my mom or dad showed up I started a frenetic cleaning before ... LOL

[In_The_Wind]

8. good thing you told me now ~ here ya go

:hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug:

That should hold ya for a day.

What's the holiday all about ?

[MissHoneychurch]

13. Do you really think I will be staying away from DU tomorrow????

but thanks for the hugs anyway. Can use them all the time :)

to answer what holiday: see my answer to post #2

[In_The_Wind]

24. gee I hope not

I'd miss you too much!

I was checking for an adapter ~ I think ~ for my Dell notebook. So many of the places where I check in now have cable connections and dial-up (which is my current method of reaching the web while traveling) is not only slow but it can run up quite a hotel room phone bill as we found out while visiting Boston :grr: so I'll still be able to send you a cyber hug while I'm out and about.

We share many things my friend - like our love of DU !

Thanks for referring me back to post # 2. No sense in typing the same thing twice if there is an easier way :shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

25. Thursday in a week I will get my DSL

and my flat rate :bounce: I am changing the phone/Internet company. So I guess I will be online more often then :)

Yes, we share many things. And that is obvious even though we only talk on the Internet.

[In_The_Wind]

27. Internet is great for so many things

:donut: however for somethings ~ there's nothing better than sharing in person :loveya::pals:

[MissHoneychurch]

29. you speak true words there

but it is a great place to make wonderful new friends (and sometimes more)

[In_The_Wind]

30. yes

:toast:

[Brewman_Jax]

26. A free day off?

yes, you can mention it. We have to work tomorrow. No fair!

BTW, what's the occasion?

[MissHoneychurch]

28. see my anser to post #2

religious holiday. Sometimes I have to thank the Church even though I am not religious

[Brewman_Jax]

32. Not familiar with that holiday

is that a Catholic observance? The only holidays/observances I know during this time of year are Easter and Pentacost.

[MissHoneychurch]

34. I am everytime surprised again myself

since I don't know all religious holidays. Or to say it other I do know them, I just never remember which dates they are :)

[Brewman_Jax]

35. Nothing wrong with a free day off

can you stretch that into a long weekend?

[MissHoneychurch]

36. don't plan to

unless my bf already comes back Friday. But by now I think he is coming back Saturday.