birthday girl.

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Hey there guys! :) Guess what..! Today's my birthday! And since I don't have anything else to do than lie in bed, eat massive loads of chocolate and dwell on the past, I figured .. why not write another little blogpost? It's been way too long since my last few posts, to be true, but there was way too much to do in the past few weeks. 

First of all - and you're never gonna believe it - I finally finished my Bachelor Thesis I and got an A! I wept and cried when I opened the Email from my professor who basically told me that I'm very talented and that my work is impressive. Impressive? The only memorable things my university professors had ever told me about my writing were "where's the meta level?" and "that thesis doesn't really suit me". And honestly, after all those years, I still don't have a clue what they wanted from me. But hey! Seems like I'm not such an untalented art history student after all .. How nice to know. :)
Alright, second thing I'd like to tell you - and that one's really on the top-notch-news list .. since two days ago I am officially a professional photographer! :) Well, at least in legal terms! In Austria it is quite hard to get a photography licence without graduating from a design- or photography college. Since 2014, however, anyone can get that license without professional qualification, which of course isn't an ideal conditon, I admit, but for me it opens the way to finally legally conduct my greates passion in life. :) As this hobby of mine now turned into an actual job, I'll have to put more effort into advertising my work and let more people know about it. I am currently working on a new concept for my photography page and some design ideas for my business cards. It's all very exciting, but a lot of work as well!

Alright, now back to my birthday plans. :) We already celebrated my birthday on Sunday, when the whole family was together,- except of my granny who understandably wanted to stay at home due to the icy streets in our neighbourhood. Seriously, our courtyard resembled an ice skating rink. It was too dangerous to go outside, so we just stayed home and ate birthday cake (always the same one for years)! :) 

Today, however, I didn't do much except getting up in the morning.. 

HEY THERE! :)

.. visiting my mom at work (there'll be an extra blogpost about that) and working on my photography page. I'll definitely keep you posted on the developments of that topic, if you're interested of course. And that was pretty much it. Oh- except my boyfriend just stopped by with some lovely flowers and my favourite chocolates (Oreos, Cookies, Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough Ice Cream)! Yummm! :) I'll definitely do an extra blogpost about my presents on the weekend. :)

Well and currently I am going through some old pictures and moments of the past 23 years that I have lived on this planet. With the fear of seeming highly narcissistic now, I would like to share some of my favourites with you!

Vicky Posch. A life in pictures. Enjoy. (Or maybe not).

Alrighty, now if you'll excuse me, I will return to my boyfriends that are waiting for me in bed. Ben and Jerry. (I so copied that line from Bridget Jones ..) ;P

 

Have a nice day you guys! :)

rustic dining.

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Hey there, guys! :) How are y'all? I hope you're doing fine! As I am currently spending some time on the country side, due to my upcoming birthday tomorrow, my parents and I went to a lovely rustic restaurant in a nearby town for lunch.

I ordered a typical Austrian meal - Schnitzel - filled with mushrooms, leek and other things. It was delicious!

Afterwards, we got ourselves some desserts in a lovely (or in Esther's eyes - the BEST) coffeehouse in town, called Nöbauer. 

After we had drooled over the showcase of the shop counter, we made our way back home with our hands full of sweet treats. :)

new stuff.

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cacti

books and a sweater I got for christmas

beauty products

favourite dessert

to grandma's house we go.

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As I didn't have to go back to Vienna right away at the beginning of the week, I was able to spend my day on the countryside today. After doing some learning for an upcoming test, I headed over to my granny's house for lunch, as she had invited me to join her a few days ago. I always loved spending time at her house when I was a kid and as my granny's house is only a block away from ours, I always packed my bags on the weekends after school and immediately ran over to her place. We always used to play games together, eat lots of great food and stay up late to watch TV shows like "Wetten, dass..?"! :) One thing I absolutely loved as a child was the moment when we went to bed. It was always freezingly cold in grandma's bedroom, but the bedspread was so warm and cozy, so I loved running towards the bed and snuggling the blanket while my grandma gave me a good night kiss. :) In the morning I always got some hot cocoa or malt coffee with some toast. It was lovely! Aww, I see I got a little carried away right now .. but I always think about these kind of things when I enter her house! :)

Alright, so today my granny made me my all-time-favourite-grandma-meal,- "Grießnudeln", which basically are plain noodles with semolina on them. My granny always complains when making them as they're "not a real meal" in her eyes, but I truely love them. :) 

After lunch I got some dessert too while my grandma indulged in one of her daily passions. Coffee. (I bought her that mug, btw, when I was in NYC for the first time,- and she still uses it! :) )

 

We then played one of my favourite card games (and actually the only one I get) - Jolly! - However, there are different rules in that version as it is actually called "Räuber Jolly". I don't really know how to explain the rules to you guys .. but believe me, it was lots of fun! :)

After our little game I went around in granny's house and took pictures of her interior (and of course asked her permission to now post the pictures on this blog!) :)

Oh, well .. about this picture .. funny story actually .. you see the small heartshape on the wallpaper there? Yeah, that was me. Have you ever had one of those moment where you sit around all day, you're somehow utterly bored, your mind goes blank and for no particular reason you do something incredibly stupid that at the time seemed like a genius idea? Well, I had one of those moment right then and there. I was painting some lions (my favourite motives, I really gotta say) that afternoon, then looked behind me and suddenly felt like .. "hey, that wall could use some ornamental touch". So I did it. I went right for that heartshape. Well.  As soon as the doodle was on the wall though, I went "Oh. My. God. What have I done?" and tried to get it off real quick before granny gets into the livingroom. Genius me, however, didn't realize at that time that a ballpen is not a pencil and that my masterpiece would not come off that easily. While trying to scrub it off the wall like a maniac I could already hear my granny's footsteps in the next room. There was no way out. I had to tell her. I didn't, however, I didn't have the guts, - she found out herself when she looked at my face ..

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.. and then at the wall. However, - and that's what really surprised me, she was totally fine with it and went like: "Well. Now it gives it a personal touch. I like it." I was totally awestruck by her coolness,- even though she was never strict with me at all, I still didn't expect her to be so calm. Yeah. So that heart's still there, just wanted you guys to know that. Well, there was actually another incident concerning a Coca Cola explotion on her rug, but that's a whole 'nother story.

The picture hanging above my masterpiece is in fact another handmade masterpiece by my mom that she made when she was a kid. My granny put three of her works on her living room wall and we both love them!  My mom really was and still is very crafty as you can see and I admire her for that enormously! :) Later, my grandma showed me her collection of vintage bags and told me that they were highly popular at the time when she was a young girl. I find it absolutely fascinating how much time and effort people had put into making these fashion items, as it must have taken them a decade to finish one of them. Really nice!

Here's actually another one of my souvenirs I got for my granny when I was in SFC with Esther in 2012! (Has it really been so long?? 2012? Oh my god Esther, we have to go back there very soon!) 

 

In the afternoon my mum picked granny up to drive her to the bank and I went home to return to my studies. It was a lovely day and like always, granny and I had lots of fun! :)