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Nice day at home, except for a visit to the dentist's and having my teeth checked. Everything was fine, so going there every three months just in case and paying lots of money for prophylaxe seems to work.
Kliment called from Sofia saying his flight will be late, which was ok, for then I could meet him at Kleistpark station after having been at the dentist, and still do some shopping for food in between.
The connection from Tegel airport to my place is really good, busses and metro every five minutes, and it takes less than half an hour. He arrived with a small enough suitcase, heavy though cos of all the books he had bought in Bulgaria. No big martial arts instruments this time, no swords, no big knifes. We hugged and walked the short distance to my place in Crellestraße.
He loved the streets and my flat and was considering moving to Berlin when he left today. He had offered to help redecorating my home sometime in February or March, just in time for my birthday party end of March, too. That's so nice, to come by plane all the way from Finland to spend a week with me painting and setting up curtains and polishing the floors. Nice guy!
Yesterday evening we went to my favourite pub "Cafe Mirell" with Steffi, a friend of Kliment's who had moved to Berlin a few months ago. She had been living in Finnland, and is a member if HC and Cs, so we had lots of mutual friends.
Later we went to my flat for a tea and some talks and checking pics from travelling. Kliment had been to Barcelona and loved it! The pics were great, too! When trying to get into the web with Kliment's laptop, we found they hadn't given me a w-lan modem two weeks ago when my old one had broken down, even though it said so in my contract. Weird. So I had to call the company again and complain and they promised to send somebody soon, but so far I haven't got a call yet.
I broke the lamp last night, too, such a nice reason to go to IKEA and check for a new one! ;)
That will be done late in the evening; IKEA is open until 21:00, even 22:00 on fridays and saturdays. Before that I have a date with my trade union to talk about the job I might take over starting this April. And before that I'll go to have my hair dyed a nice new red. So off I am. Wish me luck and cross your fingers everything turns out fine: hair, job, and lamp! Oh, and w-lan!