Have been tagged by Girl Least Likely to, The Dolly Mama and Jillibug
So here are 16 random things about me:
1.) Married to the love of my life
2.) As a child I wanted to become an interior designer but my parents kept telling me that one cannot earn a life with this profession.....................................
3.) Due to money shortage I wasn't a spoiled child when it came to toys so now it seems I am overcompensation fulfilling my dreams from that time when I make things for our children or collect dolls and plan a dollhouse...
4. ) I love everything British and would love to live there. I am dying when I hear the accent....
5.) I studied English/American literature, German literature and Sociology but only graduated in the last and made a career as a sales manager at a newspaper (should have stayed with the interior design to save time!)
6.) My parents wanted to have a boy and dressed me like one and cut my hair like one so that when I became adolescent in the 80es I was wearing mini skirts all the time and looked like a cheap imitation of Farah Fawcett Majors on my head...
7.) I wanted to marry either Prince Chrles of England or Prince Albert of Monaco as a child and teenager. My family could not understand why I liked a nearly bold guy. I finally married Markus but when we went to Monaco last year, Pauline saw a postcard or Albert and said: "hey, look, this man looks like daddy with more weight!" - no words! And when I presented Markus at home, my aunt said: "So she really married Albert then - who would have guessed..."
8.) I love sweets, especially chocolate truffles
9.) If there is creme brulee on the menue I always have it
10.) If the menue in a restaurant has too many items, it takes hours for me to decide. I prefer restaurants with 3 choices or so. Sometimes I cannot make a decision...
11.) As a child, I planned to have 5 children. I ended up with 3 due to my age (had the first child with 34)
12.) I love to move around and change flats, houses and countries. I moved 18 times so far - no end in sight!
13.) My closest family connection ever will be to my grandma who brought me up and tought me so much about life. She died with 98 and I know she is still watching me and taking care. I cook her dishes, use her linens, have her pictures, say her words and always have her in my heart
14.) I dislike peoplewho are too status oriented and focus their life to much on that
15.) One of the greatest things of the last two years was to discover Flickr and entering a world of so many nice people who make my day with their pictures and words and comments - so uplifting every day!
16.) My children are really a strain on the nerves but they are the best thing that happened to Markus and me and we adore them!