festive fun and stuff

The husband, a good friend and me took a walk around the Christmas market downtown tonight. We decided we wanted to get out of the house, have a hot drink and buy a couple of authentic German x-mas ornaments. First of all, I was upset at the lack of yumminess of the Irish coffee I ordered & the hot cocoa my husband had. The hot cocoa was better. I’m not really going to complain though. It was a good night. Not to mention the lady only charged us for 2 drinks instead of 3. That’s alright in my book. At least I got a really cool glass out of the deal. It wouldn’t have been too bad if the woman actually put some sugar in my cup.

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(Amanda [right] and myself with our crap-tastic hot drinks.)

So, we walked around and looked at all the same ornaments that were there last weekend sans my Pinocchio ornament I had my heart set on. I had to make sacrifices and buy 3 ornaments I really didn’t want. But they’re still cute and German. I’m ready to head over to Rothenburg and get some really awesome ornaments. The cost of my 3 ornaments, 2 of them small and one a medium size, 11 euro. WHAT!! Honestly, it’s not that bad. But 11 euro is a little much when converted into USD. It didn’t help that we are most definitely broke off of our asses but the husband really wanted them. [And he says I'm bad...pssssh!]

After spending the money we should have kept on ornaments and just hanging around, the other two decided they wanted to check out the “Christmas Animals”. So we headed over to the feeding pen. I met the same depressed looking camel as last year. A new addition was a baby bull. Oh..and  big baby Jesus [I can't wait...]. The tent didn’t smell any better than last year. Ahhh. There’s nothing like the smell of grilled sausage, hay and animal shit on a cold winter’s night. I tell ya. Either the poor camel was hungry or he just really wanted out and away from all the annoying human because he kept chewing on his wooden cage. He had a plan and his mission was to get the hell out of there. He didn’t mind showing off his big teeth for us. Hey..at least he kept his spit to himself this year. Last year he hocked a good one on some poor little 3 yr. olds head. It seriously covered her. hahaha!

After all the camel action, free drink and ornament shopping, we decided to call it a night. We headed over to our favorite doner stand to grab an ever so delicious doner, then head home. On the way back to the house, I stopped and took a quick shot of the only decked out house in this town. It wasn’t exactly a whole lot of decoration going on but it was more than anyone else’s one strand of red lights on their front balcony.

Tomorrow, well today, I’m heading over to Nurnberg with a girlfriend. She’s Christmas shopping for her man. I am broke as a joke but who cares!? I’ve got this new 50mm and I’ll be occupied with taking random, pointless, stalking photos of the surroundings to really care about wanting something. I’m just happy to be getting out of the house. I hope it snows tomorrow too. I’m hoping for a lot though. It’s December and not one damn snow flake to be found. What’s up with that? This is freakin’ Germany. Jack Frost just decided to make his pit stop tonight. So…we’ll see.

Chasiti likes to…

It’s an early and ugly Thursday morning here in Bavaria. My coffee cup is half empty, I’m tired and can’t sleep. So…I’m doing this redonkulous but fun “Google name search” thing that a friend brought to my attention almost a year ago.

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Here’s the rules. You go to Google.com and type in the search engine (_your name_)  likes to…
Wonder what shows up on mine? Well, here I go..

Chasiti :
..likes to believe in love and is still hopeful.
..is right where I like to be
..likes you because it’s impossible not to
OKAY so my first name is a pretty boring uncommon name  and not much comes up. But my middle name is a way different story. So far, what I’m reading is funny.

Marie likes:
..to let them all hang out.
..it rough.
..fat cocks. [this is hilarious]
..it hot, spicy and complicated.
..camel toe.
Apparently there is a really famous porn star/stripper by the name of Marie.

bokeh it crazy and call me a whore

I admit. I can be such a bokeh whore. I’m not ashamed of it.  Bokeh can be so, so awesome. The new lens gives me bokeh satisfaction, too. I had never experienced taking a photo with so much bokeh in it in my life and seeing the result of that much in it was like seeing a kid in the twinkie factory.

I’m eager to get some good head shots in with some bokeh. Being at the Christmas market this past Friday was the perfect chance. Seeing that there is a mass load of festive lights up, why not? Of course I made my husband the guinea pig. They were all candid of course. Taking pictures of him that aren’t candid always turn out horrible. The picture is good but his expressions always leave the viewers wondering if he is pain, angry, or just hates life.

Alas, here are my two favorite photos of the mister from that night.

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