La Précieuse Ridicule

К предпредыдущему посту: три, три раза не получалась фотосессия с Аполлоном. Я понимаю, что это идиотизм и юрунда, но я хочу, хочу эту фотосессию. И - мистическим образом все фотки с выпускного очень милые, я, обычно нефотогеничная, на них замечательна - но та серия из них, где я с греческим богом, размыта и расфокусирована! Ну хоть... хоть я не знаю, что. А настолько удачной прически и наряда с макияжем у меня еще неизвестно когда будет...

Три раза подряд. Начинаешь верить, что с мраморными греческими богами (ну ладно, с гипсовыми, какая разница) что-то мистическое связано.

Как всегда, когда надо бы делать огромную кучу домашних заданий по педиатрии и немецкому, в данном случае, я занимаюсь ерундой:)

( Лытдыбр обыкновенный и вроде как новости )

Just two things which made my day - so I think I should share them and those emotions:) Especially worth sharing is the second one:)

Firstly, "Someone who likes me very much has been to Austria and brought me ..." (c) - a lot of sweets, difficult to get in Ukraine (or, in many cases, impossible). Lots of marzipans (none of those in Ukraine, remember?) - even in my tempo there'll pass more than a week until I am finished with them). And - the most fantastic bar of chocolate I ever tasted - Lindt with mango jam and cayenne pepper! Ah, this properly dark chocolate, and this combination of really, ehrm, pepperish, pepper which makes you gasp to get some air and tender sweet jam... why, oh why was there but one bar of it?

Secondly, and most important. Remember me having that nasty cough and imagining how to treat it to continue with my vocal studies as soon as possible? I've been on liquorice syrup recently - I just loved it in my childhood, and remember it being much helpful, so I got some bottles from the drugstore. So now, the point isn't that it seems to have helped again (for yesterday I sang not really well, but at least I didn't burst out coughing in the middle of the musical phrase; I didn't feel any pain or strain while singing either) - today I invented a new Unicum cocktail! I think, it must be not a bad idea at all - as long as Unicum is a herbal decoct itself, surely good for cough and sore throat, etc.


It's very simple - just join them 1:1. For example, 10 ml Unicum Zwack and 10 ml liquorice syrup. Or 15 and 15 ml.

In case in English speaking countries liquorice syrup is something different from this popular anti-cough mixture in former Soviet Union territories, here's its contents from the back of the bottle:
- Extractum radicis Glycyrrhizae spissum (I'd better leave Latin - not sure for the proper English here; anyway, that's the extract of liquorice roots) - 4 grams
-Sugar syrup - 86 grams
-90% ethanol - 10 grams - making the bottled product contain 9% of it.

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И кратко по-русски. С тех пор, как я приволокла из Будапешта два бутыля угадайте-какой-жидкости, я пребывала в долгих раздумьях, как же это ее надо пить, чтобы... в общем, чтобы с первого глотка глаза на лоб не вылезали. Вариант с кофе и прошел бы - но я чаеманка; с тоником пьется неплохо, но все время в голове непатриотическая мысль "А бехеровка с тоником намного вкуснее!" Наконец, просидев неделю на солодковом сиропе из-за кашля, пришло в голову их мешать. Один к одному. Все-таки, Уникум - вроде как тоже лечебная настойка:) Оч-чень интересный коктейль-шот получается:) Теперь схема лечения кашля чуть-чуть модифицирована (вместо двойной чайной ложки солодкового сиропа по чайной "того и того").
На всякий случай для измерения, стандарты из курса фармакологии: чайная ложка - 5 мл, десертная - 10 мл, столовая - 15 мл.

A friend of mine and me were buying some food at our favourite shopping mall. I spent quite a time at the shelves with chocolate sweets, sold by weight (you know, this place where you choose them yourself and pick them yourself in plastic bags).. And, as always, I just didn't know what to choose. And then - I saw these ones!
( Scanned sweet wrapper )

The sweets under the name of "Schwarzer Graf", and in with wrappers coloured in black and red! I picked quite a number. My friend laughed: "God, Saschchen, people usually choose sweets by their taste and you choose them by name!"

However, the mysterious product turned out to be chocolate truffles with slight alcohol flavour - and their price was also very reasonable. I'm gonna to become a fan (mostly due to their name, surely:)
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( И то же самое по-русски )

Decided to test my blog once more. Here's the result:


Isn't it gorgeous? Some two weeks ago the best I could get was 'Elementary School'. Which is quite shameful...
Presumable I should ameliorate my skills.