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Record Store Day

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April 15, 2019

It was Record Store Day on Saturday. Jim mentioned this the night before. On this day they were gonna release new special editions, collectors albums etc in some Record Stores around America. There is one store in Darien that we have been to before, we also took my parents there two years ago. We looked everywhere online on when they would open, it said 10:30 am, so we decided to go get some stuff at Walmart and then have breakfast at a diner before. We arrived at the Record Store at 10:30 and ended up in a line. People were already inside so I guess they had opened earlier. We finally got in to this tiny store, Jim found the Pink Floyd album he wanted, grabbed a Green Day one as well cause they seemed popular (we are not opening it in case we can sell it later), but no Elvis album. I saw on the list that there was a John Cage album as well but didn’t find that either. Ninja Turtles, Spiderman and other tv stuff was very popular, they were all gone and people put themselves up on waiting lists.

We never ever wait in line for things unless we really want to do something, like ice skating at Rockefeller or getting an album of Pink Floyd hahah. Jim was happy, so I’m happy. We listened to the album to our morning coffee on Sunday.

Other than that, we didn’t do much this weekend. Worked out, enjoyed the sun (in shorts!), grilled meat, watched our neighbors cat, skyped with my parents and last night we watched Game of Thrones (like everyone else in the world). Hope you had an awesome weekend!

Beautiful sunset on Saturday, seen from the neighbors window

CT News 12 was there. You can see a quick glimpse of Jim and me behind some people:)
(Not sure you can watch this clip in other countries though)

In Dance

Goofing around in the studio

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Hello Monday Morning! Lets start this day right with some goofy moves 🙂

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Concert; Walk the Moon & MUSE

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April 11, 2019

On Monday afternoon, J came home from work and 10 minutes later a car came to pick us up to drive us to Manhattan. It took about 1 hour 15 min because of traffic. We had to drive the backways instead the i95.

We arrived at Madison Square Garden and met the woman we were going to the concert with. We decided to go right in even if we were a bit early. We had a large box. I’ve never been to one of these kinds of boxes before. Before, I’ve been those boxes in the middle a little higher up, but this one was on ground level, a large room with a fireplace, a bar and of course food and drinks. From there you had to take a few steps up to the seats which was right by what’s usually the Knicks court. Perfect seats for a concert.

Walk the Moon gave a good show. I had listened to all their songs during the day, but I still only knew that one famous song “Shut up and Dance”. MUSE was really cool. They were all about special light effects and robots and they had dancers with light costumes. Good music too of course.
We had a car to pick us up before the concert ended, but we didn’t mind. It’s pretty crazy after a game or concert in the city anyway.

Next morning I had to get up early and go take my blood test. Oh man, I was so tired. My arm was kinda shaking when she put the needle in so for the first time it actually hurt and all I could think of was that I needed to sleep. I bought coffee on my way home and then I had to stay awake because they were coming to clean out the dryer and put new vent filters in our apartment. I was so happy they came somewhat early in the day. Thor and I took a two hour nap together after that:) It was fun to go into the city for a concert, but maybe next time I won’t schedule a blood test early in the morning the next day:)

The new Hudson Yards on Manhattan, looks so cool.
I have to go explore it one day, not just from the taxi window Truffle tortilla chips, they were awesome MUSE

In Stamford

a weekend mostly outside

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April 8, 2019

Feels like I only share weekend updates with you guys. Oh well. Here’s another one 😀

This weekend actually gave us nice weather and we tried to enjoy it to the max.

Jim wanted to play basketball at the athletic club now before they close down. Since he was the only one in there I decided to join him but danced instead. Nice with lots of space.

We drove to costco around lunch time. We broke our previous record on how much money we spent there. Meat, more meat, salmon, bread, cheese, coffee, power bars, a $4 Fila sweater for me, two books and $25 puma shoes for Jim. Sometimes you can actually find some good deals, like a cheap sweater or real nice meat. We had a very awesome (and huge) steak for dinner that night.

After shopping we took Thor for a long walk to the dog park and then we sat in the sun on the rooftop in our building for awhile.

I woke up in the middle of the night with a sore throat so we took it pretty easy all Sunday morning. We had planned to go climbing but since I felt a little mushy we decided to bring Thor and drive down to Harbor Point instead. We walked by the water and then in the new park area. There’s a dog park as well and Thor got along with all the big dogs there…until one big dog attacked him and we decided to leave.

Back in the apartment J went to the gym and I decorated our wreath that we have on the door. Why buy a new wreath when you can decorate the same one for each season? I’ve had two spring flowers in it after Christmas and now I changed into feathers and eggs for Easter.

Then we went to our now normal weekend bar. I really wanted oysters so I first ordered 3 and then 3 more all just for myself:) later, Jim made burgers for dinner – with meat from costco of course. And then I was done for the day, just watched crap on tv before going to bed.

I feel so much better today. Taking it easy yesterday was perfect. It was hard to get up when my alarm went off at 6 am, it took me another 30 minutes before I got up and took Thor out, but once I was up I was fit for fight. And then I went to the gym. Only for 20 minutes though before J had to leave for work. I have stuff to do today and we are going into the city tonight so I wanted to just get some cardio in right in the morning. Now I’m ready for a new week:)

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fun in the dog park

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April 5, 2019

Hey and Happy Friday! How are you feeling today? The weather here needs to make up it’s mind about if it’s winter or spring. The changes in temperature is making us all sick. I’ve been pretty tired with a runny nose all week. Waking up early with lots of energy all of last week but this week I can barely get out of bed. One day it’s so hot you can’t wear a jacket and the next day it’s freezing cold and extremely windy. Even Thor has got the sniffles. But, at least we are getting closer to spring, that’s something:)

I’ve spent time at the gym working on getting my body back all week, but not been pushing myself as hard as I would like to like I did last week because I don’t wanna end up sick, but I can feel some progress at least so that’s awesome.
On Tuesday I went to my regular blood testing (dr just called two minutes ago. It has barely moved down from last week. In this tempo I probably have several weeks left). Jim negotiated with our building on our renewal of lease – yup, looks like we are staying, and we have to part thank Thor’s cuteness for it (it pays off to have the most popular dog in the building I guess).
On Wednesday afternoon, I went to have lunch with Daniela and then we had ‘fika’ at my place. Her belly is growing and it’s so cute. Yesterday I took Thor for a long walk to the dog park and then spent lots of time at the gym. The exercise bike is my favorite warm-up these days.
Today I feel mushy, can’t breathe and I’m so tired. Maybe need a nap later haha. And then tonight I think our plan after J finish work is to go to the gym and then maybe go out to eat. I am hoping for nice weather this weekend so we can take T for a hike somewhere, but we’ll see. Do you have plans this weekend?

Rewarding myself with coffee after blood test. Daffodils are finally blooming.