February 18, 2019
It’s Presidents Day here in America today so my husband is off work. It’s raining outside but we’ve have had a nice weekend so one rainy day is ok:)
On Saturday we started the day with breakfast at the diner next door and then we grabbed Thor and drove to Cove Island Park. That park is always packed no matter the season, but now it was pretty empty. The grass was a bit muddy and full of geese poop, but if you followed the pathways it was fine. We walked down to the beach. I don’t think I’ve seen that many shells before. It was kinda cold in the wind but very refreshing, a perfect start of our day. We went to the gym around lunch time and after that walked down to the Fish Restaurant. They have a good happy hour there on Saturdays. $1 east coast oysters. I of course stayed away from all the seafood that you shouldn’t eat while pregnant, so now I could enjoy some oysters again. Or, I don’t know if enjoy is the right word, it’s just fun to eat:) At night we watched the basketball slam dunks and whatever contests and then went to sleep.
Yesterday we had a slow morning with coffee and bagel from Donut Delight. Jim went to the gym and I washed my hair (which sometimes feels like workout haha) and then we drove to look at two houses. We are never ever buying a place here but we thought it could be fun to go to open houses and get some inspiration for the future. The first house was brand new. Over 6000 sq ft! That house was massive! And it had a huge basement and attic which isn’t included in these 6000. Ridiculous. The master bathroom was the best part, I wouldn’t mind that bathroom with some changes:) The house next door (really next door, we were very confused why they built them so close together) was also too big for us, about 4000 something. It was a very nice house I think. The kitchen was exactly what we want and all the bedrooms was of good sizes. But like I said, we will never ever even consider buying anything here. Too cold and too expensive for what you get. After looking at the houses and doing some grocery shopping, we just hung out at home. Jim was bored playing his computer games and I cleaned and organized stuff (is that all I ever do?). At 6:45 pm, our friends came to pick us up and we drove downtown to go eat at Cotto, an Italian place we’ve all been to before. We had such great time. We ordered a lot of food! Daniela and Gareth both had big birthdays two weeks ago (30 and 40) so we wanted to take them out to celebrate. Plus they are now 16 weeks pregnant and just found out they are having a baby boy which is something to celebrate as well. Back at home Jim, who had coffee at the restaurant, was so tired that he and Thor went to sleep, but I had lots of energy so I stayed up for another two hours or so eating Swedish candy with Miller High Life’s.
This morning I got up around 7. J took T out an hour before that but were now back in bed. I just closed the bedroom door, hand dished (my made up word for cleaning the dishes that can’t go in the dishwasher), made myself some coffee and walked upstairs and now I’ve been sitting in my office writing on my computer for two hours. We are going to Costco and Walmart when they open in an hour. We have two vacuums but we need to throw away one (it smells burnt every time I clean) and the other one, the “monster” like I call it, is only good for vacuuming carpets. It destroyed our rug last week when I ran around with it, so now I’m just ready for something new. I hope to find something super cheap and easy to handle that we can throw away once we move. We don’t need to buy anything fancy until the day we move.
I wish you a perfect and awesome day!