August 30, 2021
This weekend was slow and cozy. It was also Jim’s 35th birthday. We had ribs for lunch and then I baked a what google calls it “Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake” (“kladdkaka” in Swedish). I decided to put frosting on top which was kinda a disaster and then I tried to write 35 and create flowers with blue frosting and since I didn’t have any good tools, it ended up sooooo ugly, hahah. But! It was the best “kladdkaka” I’ve ever made!!
Our couch was delivered today, yay! We moved the other sofa into Lily’s room and we’ll see what we do with it in the future. And tomorrow we’re hopefully getting the dining table replacement. Still haven’t got our bedframe that was supposed to be delivered two Sundays ago though and a nightstand for the guest bedroom looks like dog poo (and overstock.com where we bought it from apparently deletes bad reviews – including the one we wrote – and will only give us like $13 back, so we are not buying anything more from them). A bookcase is supposed to come at unknown date, some storage for the master closet as well, and yesterday Jim put together a storage unit in the guest bath. After this week we are hopefully living in a more functional home.
It is raining a lot these days here in Florida. Luckily we are only getting the edges of hurricane Ida, which hasn’t been that bad. We go out for walks in the morning or afternoon in between rain showers, usually a bit cooler temperatures then. So far everyone we’ve met here are very friendly and welcoming. We are also part of a facebook HOA community group and I’ve noticed that people like to post a lot, haha. But it’s good-to-know updates, not just random crap. Things like “be aware of the bear that is walking around” a couple of weeks ago, or that someone found a lost dog or to look out for the kids shooting paintballs at cars driving down the road to our neighborhood two nights ago. It’s a small, calm and friendly neighborhood next to a bunch of other upcoming neighborhoods. Pretty quiet and uneventful but ya, some things to look out for I guess. So far we like it. Once we get our fence up (got the approval from the HOA today) we can get a bit more privacy. Right now, everyone can see into our house from every angle, which isn’t super fun when I am nursing.
We really enjoy living here. Yes, hurricanes and thunderstorms are scary, but anything is better than snow in the winter hahah.
