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May 14th

Fanny Sura14 May, 201715 May, 2017Leave a comment

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Currently sitting on our terrace alone listening to some ambient music. My husband took the dog out for a long walk. It’s a little chilly but not too bad. I enjoy it.

Yesterday, we were supposed to go to a baseball game, but it got cancelled because of heavy rain. It rained all day and we were tired, so we didn’t do much. Today, the weather has been great! We started with having breakfast at a diner near our apartment and then we went for a bike ride with our new bikes that was delivered last weekend. A lot of uphill so I’m sure we will both be sore tomorrow:) Then we sat on our terrace for a while in the warm sun and burnt our faces. The church next door played bell music for 45 minutes which drove me nuts, but it was still nice to just sit there and read a book. In the afternoon I started to organize in the walk-in-closet. Somehow all our stuff ended up in there making a mess, so now it’s better and all the different closets in the apt makes more sense.

I had a lot of energy, so I started to bake bread to eat for breakfast tomorrow. I found a super simple recipe that I will share with you later. My husband laughed at me standing there in my apron baking bread. But, that’s what a good house wife does, right? Especially on Mothers Day (yes, being a pommy mommy counts 🙂 ). When the bread was done, I started cooking dinner. Salmon cooked in the oven with couscous and a salad. I deserve a cold miller and some alone time now.

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Early mornings

Fanny Sura9 May, 20179 May, 2017Leave a comment

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Good morning! How are you guys?
I feel great today! We wake up earlier and earlier these days, which I think is awesome. Our dog wakes up from the sun coming in to the bedroom and the sunrise is earlier every day. My husband doesn’t really care for T’s kisses an hour before his alarm goes off, so this morning, since I woke up at the same time as T, I got up and took him out for a walk.
I’ve never really understood why people want to stay up all night and sleep all day. When I was younger, I trained myself to sleep in. All my friends wanted to stay out late and then of course sleep til noon. I joined their schedule cause otherwise I wouldn’t have that much time to spend with them. But I hated it. For me, the morning hours are the most valuable. More hours of sun:)
How do you feel about mornings? When do you wake up?

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Let go of shit that doesn’t matter

Fanny Sura5 May, 20172 June, 2017Leave a comment

My phone is completely full. My laptop is full. My hard drives are full. Why? Well, I’m afraid to loose things, so I update everywhere but then don’t delete anywhere else. I have lost important stuff so many times that I now have turned into a digital hoarder. It’s driving me nuts of course. I don’t need all the things I save but it has become a bad habit. All of our vacation pictures are taking up all my space on every device. I want to print them out and put in an album, but then my fear of fire kicks in.

The other day, I was putting stuff from my phone on my laptop, things that wasn’t important enough to save on multiple places and my phone was so full I couldn’t save a single thing more. All of a sudden, everything I had put on my laptop got deleted. No idea how and it wasn’t in the recycle bin. There was no way for me to get it back, I tried everything and googled all sort of stuff to help me. I had deleted everything from my phone already too, so my things was just gone. Gone!
The things that got lost wasn’t important at all (I think), but it still sucked and my fear of loosing other things like honeymoon photos or whatever was bigger than normal. I screamed right out and yelled at my phone and the laptop. I was furious!
When I was right in the middle of trying everything possible, I just suddenly stopped. I made a decision to let go. My docs and pics were not going to come back. Maybe there was a way, but I didn’t wanna know anymore. I unplugged my phone and shut down the computer.

Why spend time on unnecessary shit? IF it in fact had been my honeymoon photos or greencard documents or anything more real to care about, then letting go would be harder, but all of those things I have been smart enough to save on my husbands pc. I’ve lost resumes, personal recommendations and documents written in college more than once before and I have let go of that. Some shit that I don’t even know what it was got lost. Why put energy on that?

I’m tired of full devices, so I will sort everything out on every single place and I will put really important documents on dvds and put in a fireproof safe that we are going to buy. And if I somehow loose vacation pictures, well, then I have some saved on my blog (this is why an online diary is fantastic hehe). In the end, none of this matters. Material things doesn’t matter, pictures on a hard drive doesn’t matter and if it gets lost, then ok. We have to be able to let go.

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Rooftop Opening

Fanny Sura4 May, 20174 May, 2017Leave a comment

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Our building arranges activities sometimes for us neighbors to get a chance to meet. For example, there has been a weekly Wednesday “Wine Down” downstairs and we’ve been to one of those, unfortunately, only three people showed up then but still nice. Yesterday they had a Rooftop Opening Party. Drinks and food from three different restaurants and lots of neighbors on our roof. The girls that we had met at the Wine Down before introduced us to other neighbors in the building that they knew from previous events. Very nice to meet new people. We were all around the same age and we had a good time. The food was great too. Sushi, steak sandwiches and lobster mac & cheese. It was a beautiful night, kinda cold but nice. We are looking forward to go up on the roof in the summer to use the grill (you are not allowed to grill on your own terrace) and now when we know other neighbors I’m sure it will be fun to live here:)
I woke up at 1 am last night and couldn’t fall back to sleep until 5:30 am. I hate those nights. In the morning, I was completely passed out so my wonderful husband took Thor out and gave him breakfast before he left for work. I got out of bed around 10, so no morning yoga today, but I did get a chance to skype with my sister. I want to go to the gym at some point today but I’m still super tired and my body is dead. A slow and boring day, but whatever.

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we need corrections

Fanny Sura4 May, 201726 May, 2017Leave a comment

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Yesterday morning, I got up early, had a long breakfast and then took the 10:30 am yoga class. Mixed level this time, same teacher. I liked it. My knees woke up on the wrong side of the bed that morning though and it was kinda hard to do yoga. But it felt good to move and whenever I felt that my knees couldn’t handle it I just adjusted myself and used blocks.

One thing that annoys me every time I go to class, dance or yoga or whatever it is, after not taking classes in a while, is that my body is all over the place. Ribs out, over stretched knees and elbows, clenched jaw, core muscles are harder to find and my neck gets tight immediately. I’m over flexible and I’ve had a hard time my entire life to hold that center and these are things I have been working hard on, especially after not taking classes in a while. My body is an every day project.

I do yoga at home but it’s harder to correct yourself. It might feel good to do something and you think you are doing it right but in the long run it’s bad for your body and you need someone else’s eyes. This is why I go take classes. I can workout, dance, do yoga or pilates by myself all day long if I want to, but when some things becomes a habit you can get confused, at least I think so, and the things that feels good or that you think you’re doing the right way, might actually be incorrect. I am a teacher, I know a lot about the body and how things should be done, but even teachers needs others to keep you on track. We never stop learning and our bodies changes over time.