Can I state the obvious? It's cold outside and I'm ready for spring showers to melt this snow. We like making obvious comments, don't we? You know eating those Oreo's won't help you lose weight? Smoking cigarettes can lead to lung cancer. Driving home being reminded, "this is our turn coming up". Thanks, while your at it make sure to point out which one is our house. So you know I am using sarcasm.
At the temperature of -12 there is nothing better than snuggling up in a warm blanket with a piping hot cup of coffee and reading a good book. Well, a little hibbity dibbity with the wife can really warm things up. There's nothing comparable to the weather just not being cold with a glass of
Haaaave you met Lena Brucker? She is the creator of the curried sausage. "The Invention of Curried Sausage" by Uwe Timm is not just a story of how Lena Brucker met the sausage (so you know that was kind of a perverted joke). It's a historical fiction novel about a woman, living in Hamburg, Germany towards the end of WWII, who's life changed dramatically during this time in which she was harboring an AWOL German soldier. The beginning of the interview with an inquisitive man asking how she came about making the popular curried sausage, she had to begin here because without him curried sausage would never have existed, she wouldn't have owned a food stand that made her a successful business woman , and still stuck in a dead end marriage with a lying, cheating, thief of a husband. You may be guessing she married this soldier by the name of Werner Bremer, fooled around in the kitchen and discovered this concoction and started the business together. You would be wrong. The ending isn't so obvious, but you will have to read the short 217 page book to find that out.
I enjoyed the novel. I like historical fictions,. It wasn't funny at all but creative and brings to light events and ideologies foreign to me that occurred in Germany at the tail end of the war. Money wasn't as important to the people during and after the war as much as a desire for specific items such as food, wood for heat. Tangible things with actual use. We take for granted today that we can just pop over to Walmart to get everything need and only in exchange for bills or a swipe of a credit card. Buying a building only requires getting a loan from a bank. Depleted Germany had to survive with its skilled citizens working together. That's all I'll say. Stay warm ya'll and like I said earlier, the best way to accomplish that is doing the you know what.
So you know, this is the end of this blog post. Go!! Have some sex!
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