I feel like this website needs a make-over. Some new content, some color.

Don’t you?

Everybody is launching their new designs these days and they’re not just silly new Wordpress themes, no. They’re actual designs made by actual web designers, created on fancy MacBooks in fancy Photoshop CS or whatever the hell Adobe lets you buy for a thousand bucks.

Part of me wants to participate in that great blog world where people make a living of their websites. But part of me also wants to not worry about this website constantly; wants to not check twice a day whether somebody has commented or if fonts and headlines and horizontal lines still look as flawless as four hours ago.

Part of me wishes, I actually had something to say so that keeping a blog would actually make sense.

And part of me wishes it wasn’t 2:07 in the morning, that I wasn’t posting the third entry today, that I had read all 15 pages about the German Empire for my History exam and not just eight.

Part of me wants change.

I feel like I’m always busy doing something but at the end of the day there’s never much to show for it. Scary amounts of stuff that needs to be dealt with rather sooner than later keep piling up. That’s somewhat unpleasant, to say the least.

My German presentation - which was interpreting and reading of a poem - went extremely well. We were only eight people in class on Thursday because Spanish exmas were held that day and, evidently, most of the girls in my German class major in Spanish. I always feel more secure talking in front of only a few people than a whole class full. I went first, too - before anybody else could go ahead and do it better than me. The teacher thought it was quite good as well and so I’m just glad that it’s now done and dealt with and I can lean back and watch others do their readings on Monday.

I launched the new design of our senior’s homepage Friday night. Or, actually - I put the finishing touches on it at four in the morning so I guess I should say Saturday morning. It’s been a while since I’ve stayed up that long for something related to the websites I run but it feels good to have that taken care of. It now matches our Senior Motto - which is a wordplay on a famous prescription drug.

We’ve also been discussing what design we should use for the next batch of shirts for the senior class and when people saw my seniors’ website design they were all like, HEY WHY DON’T YOU WORRY ABOUT THE SHIRT DESIGN AS WELL? And since, as you well know, I’m all about being balanced and helping people out and contributing to the community, I went ahead and half-heartedly threw something together which I thought was at least a little better than the pathetic MS Paint designs others had come up with but still not satisfying. But - what do you know? - so far everybody seems to love it and wants to see it printed. Sometimes, contributing to the community can be easier than one thought.

Only nine days of high school left - THAT EQUALS ONLY FOUR MATH LESSONS, OH MY FREAKING GOD! - and it appears to be harder and harder to get up and motivated in the morning. There are so many senior-prank-like activities coming up these last days and so much work on all sorts of projects, and let’s not forget the actual exams. Energy levels seem to drop at a rapid speed the closer the end of high school gets.

Then again, when it comes to school, when have any of my levels of I-don’t-know-what ever been high at all?

People don’t go to church anymore, they don’t get baptized, they don’t pay taxes anymore and so churches around here struggle to survive and keep up their services. Every now and then a church will close down completely.

Now, imagine one of those churches is right in the center of a big 300,000-inhabitants-city and although it has been closed for quite a while it still looks all ancient and glamorous.

What do you do? Surely, you wouldn’t turn your back on it because, hey, it’s a church after all. It shouldn’t just sit there, this huge, historical house of God, and rot to pieces, right?

You get to thinking. The church - as any other church - has these huge, beautiful windows. Whatever you do with it, you realize, there’s going to have to be lots of different light sources. You want for the light to play with all those different angles, softly hug the large columns.

Maybe, just maybe - something like a restaurant? Definitely a place where people can meet and enjoy life. There’s going to be laughter and chatting and love. You can already hear lively, happy voices echo from the tall ceilings. Come to think of it, the center aisle would be perfect for a bunch of small tables for the occasional-Manhattan-ladies and their best friends.

There could be cocktail bars!

And cozy, elegant lounges!

Never forget about the spectacular lighting, though. It’s all about the right atmosphere. Gorgeous lights and, while we’re at it, throw in a couple of quiet areas. It’s a church, after all.

It’s not a church anymore, though. So let’s put another bar right in the front and make sure that people get hammered before they enjoy the amazing windows with baby Jesus on them and the beautifully crafted archs dating back to the 1890s.

And there you go - you just built yourself a restaurant slash bar slash lounge slash bistro out of an old church. It’s all about recycling and second-hand and vintage and stuff. Go ahead and put GS (Glück & Seligkeit, translates as Bliss & Beatitude) above the huge front doors and you’re finished.

Bliss & Beatitude is a restaurant/bistro about twenty minutes from where I live. They transformed the old church into a restaurant because the church had to close down since people just don’t go to church anymore and it didn’t pay off to keep it open.

There was a little uproar among Protestants and Catholics around here whenever Bliss & Beatitude opened its doors and Japanese TV came all the way to film a documentary about it. I think it’s just really cool. My mom has eaten there once but I never have. It seems like a beautiful place, though - and I definitely want to go as soon as I get a chance. Although, I will admit - some of the new interior design does even look a little too tacky but I’m sure the holy feel will make up for it.

I’ll have a Frozen Peach Daiquiri, Father! And don’t be too stingy about the rum, either, because I just found out that all the subpages aren’t gone after all and the permalinks went back to functioning perfectly fine - LIFE IS GOOD AGAIN!

Picture source: here.