Auf Wiedersehen fürs Erste! - Good Bye for Now!

Summer is nearing which means vacation season. At the end of this week, I’ll be leaving for Germany to eat Wiener Schnitzel and drink beer. No really, I do plan on eating. I’ve put together a tentative itinerary for every day, have piles of clothes on my couch, washing more clothes, and still have shopping to do. *breathes in and slowly exhales* I can already taste the bier.

I have to focus on the bier to take my mind off flying, especially after the recent disappearance of the Air France flight. My thoughts go out to the passengers’ family and friends. Flying over the Atlantic Ocean with possible storms and lightening is freaking me out.

But as much as I dislike flying, I love traveling more and this will be my third time to Europe. In 1998, I went to Paris, Rome, Florence and Venice, and in 2007, I went to London, so now I’ve decided to experience part of my heritage. I’m a little over half German and the rest Lithuanian, which might be my next voyage.

I’ll be gone for a few weeks, so you'll have an opportunity to catch up on my entire blog. *wink. wink* While I'm away, everyday I wish you a Guten Morgen (Good Morning), Guten Tag (Good Afternoon), Guten Abend (Good Evening) and Gute Nacht (Good Night).

So what about you, do you enjoy traveling? Have you traveled outside your country? What was your favorite vacation? I'd love to hear about it.

Beifall zu Ihnen!

Is Twittering a new verb?

I realize it’s the new craze to join Twitter (software – noun) and Tweet (posting – verb), but what is Twittering. When –ing is added to the end of verbs they become present participles (University Writing Center). The answer to my question is technically no, twittering would be a present participle as a progressive verb. This is the end of my English lesson today please leave a few coins on the way out.

Actually, the reason I brought this up is I was browsing some top blogs for writers and many suggest you follow them on Twitter. If you look on the right side of my blog under Favorite Sites, you’ll see that I did join Twitter, although the excitement hasn’t caught on for me. I joined to give my blog more exposure and to follow some celebrities, but honestly I’m just not interested in reading insignificant flashes of someone’s life or maybe I don’t understand it. I work in the age of technology, which is my profession and the reason regarding my impatience with online reading. After being on a computer all day, and going home to write (on my computer) the thought of reading small insignificant snippets isn’t appealing. I enjoy reading a blog or an article, however I’d rather print the article and read on the train.

So where do these new fads leave someone like me? Will I miss out on something spectacular for not having a Facebook or MySpace account, and slacking on my tweets? Will these technological forms of communication completely wipe out written letters and phone calls? Do you think they’ll become law like Digital Cable?

What about you? Do you have a Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace account, and if so, how do you utilize them?

The Super Secret Writing Prompts!

How can I concentrate on writing and work when I’m leaving for vacation next week? I’ve been counting down the work days until I leave for vacation and in doing so my muse ran away. *everyone sighs* For many months, I had a hard time getting back to reading and now that I’m back to reading I’m having a hard time writing. This is the only juggling act I know how to do. To help me along, or maybe one of you who stumbles into my blog, I’ve decided to do weekly prompts. Anyone can take one of these prompts and write a sentence, poem, paragraph, flash fiction, short story, etc., and well, you get what I mean. If you are so inclined to do so, please post what you wrote in the comments area. Some of you may not know, but you can post anonymously if you’d like and no one will be the wiser. *winks* To avoid anymore delay, here are the prompts, which I decided to keep with a "secrets" theme.

1. Write something to your secret admirer.


2. My dirty little secret is…


3. Your secret powers are…


4. What’s the secret to success?

Write Away!!!!!