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There is nothing wrong with a little Schadenfreude

By titia.maas@web.de

If you read my story from yesterday you may have some idea how I feel today…

My mood and my physical body are not speaking the same language. Feeling very young and light hearted yet with a terrible headache.

“Selbst schuld” they say in German which literally means “Own blame”.   It’s all your own fault. And you know what – I think the body is pretty forgiving. So I surely have no regrets as I am sure I will remember this day for quite a while – long after my head stops hurting.

Work hard – play hard. I managed to wake up my kids at 6:30 and had a very productive work session with my boss at 9. My boss quite enjoyed my headache and my great voice this morning. Makes me think of another great German word “Schadenfreude”. Interesting the dictionary says this word even made it into the English language. Not sure what I think of that :-)

Schadenfreude is a sort of a malicious pleasure. Nevertheless pleasure is pleasure and I am for everything that brings joy and delight. So was happy that he enjoyed my miserable hangover.

In the end I even made the ice-skating class with my kids this evening. And I registered this domain – the first domain I ever registered. I am freaking excited about getting this blog started :-)

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