Author: Greta Brombeere

American living in South Africa, working as an English teacher using this blog as a stream of consciousness that I don't have to edit. Expect personality and grammar mistakes.

So I have started a Twitch channel

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Hey there… long time, no see.

 

My bad. I want to be able to say that I have been trying, and trying, and trying to post. But to be honest, I forgot about you. So many things have happened since I last posted. Like..

  • Got a full-time job in the office at an English training agency
  • Broke up with my then boyfriend, D
  • Lived with said ex for 6 months as exes
  • Moved in to an apartment below my client’s mansion while I looked for an apartment
  • Sorta kinda moved in with my rebound for a month
  • Found an apartment in the center of the city
  • Built a kitchen
  • Went on too many vacations
  • Got in debt
  • Got out of debt
  • Was a bridesmaid in two weddings
  • Found the love of my life
  • Started a Twitch channel

 

So I started a the channel about half a year ago because I was lonely in my new apartment. I needed someone to talk to, and I had never cooked really before. So what did I think to do? Go live-stream learning how to cook.

I have learned so much, about myself, about cooking, about technology in general. Honestly, people on the internet can be SO nice. So kind. To someone they have never really met.

Unfortunately, like you sweet, sweet blog, I stopped streaming about two months ago because life got really busy. Now I just have that anxiety of showing up again. Like “Hey guys! I am back, sorry we didn’t speak in forever!” That is nerve racking. But to be honest- I should stop being so vain and just do what I want to do. I want to live stream. I like to live stream. So get over it.

 

Any way. This has been an inner monologue gone public. Thank you very much for being a big blank white space for putting words on.

Links and Things I’m Loving

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Loewe’s limited edition linen set is a dream. Add that to my checklist for dream house.

Post Malone as a person is really hard to not like. Seriously, what a great and easy going guy. AND he happens to be from the Dallas area 😉 Vice’s Noisey made a great short on him.

This organisation is bringing people together with food. The New York Times wrote a pice about it, scroll down to the title: Food Matters: A Seat at the Table

Bureau Betak’s blog is having a moment, displaying their top pictures from the work they did for Paris Fashion Week.

I’m personally not into anime, but Ezra Koenig’s Neo Yokio is fkin’ perfect. I’m obsessed with it! And I’m sick of reading reviews that trash it. So much so, I called Netflix’s customer service line just to say, “hey guys, please make more of this!” The woman on the other end was all about it, too.

The documenta 14 budgetary drama continues to unfold, and becoming even more scandalous.

Their website doesn’t do it justice, but this quaint Italian restaurant at Münchner Freiheit  in Munich was such a delight last night. Trattoria Donna Maria probably couldn’t sit more than 50 people, has a limited daily menu, and best of all, everything is cooked by an Italian mother. The kitchen has a door that swings open when food gets delivered, and you see a dolled-up Italian woman wearing 60’s-style drop earrings stirring the sauce. It was more than a pleasure to be able to find a seat there last night. Highly recommend if you are ever in Munich.

 

ohh how a sickness motivates

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Hello…black hole. Anyone there? Well, I certainly haven’t been.

A virus can force someone into misery, face-burried-in-pillow, this-is-the-end kind of misery. Not this one. I am ill to the point where I am exhausted by movement, but I feel completely awake. There isn’t pain, but constant discomfort. Clogged nose, terrible cough and sneeze…but my brain and body are wide awake, brimming with energy.

Which brings me to you. I noticed that my pledge to this blog has epically failed. It has GOT to be more than a year now since I’ve updated you. And that’s really a shame. So much has happened! I have a new job- Head of Client Services and Communications Manager and one of the agencies I was teaching english for. I am the only full-time employee, and it’s about five years old. So I guess you could classify us as a start-up.

I have to say it’s only been three months, but man is it thrilling! I learn so much everyday from B (my boss). She is such a mind! She founded this company in 2010 on business English training in the niche sector of board members and managing directors and VIPS. Now, since we have build relationships with them over the years, we have branched out to more communications work. Internal. External. Corporate Wording. and more…

And I’ve got to say, it’s been a crazy time. Learning, doing, executing, brainstorming.. I’ve never been so grateful in my life to have an opportunity like this. I also find, that the busier I am, the more productive I am. Pumping out work left and right. Dead air leaves me lazy, not motivated. So hence, a nice update here. Thanks for sticking around, all of you, none of you, or one of you 😉

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