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Memorial Day Weekend

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May 28, 2019

Good morning, hope you had a wonderful three-day-weekend!

On Saturday morning we took Thor with us to Mianus River Park and hiked for an hour. Lots of bugs out and we don’t have bug spray for T (please remember that most human bug sprays are toxic for dogs), so we kept it shorter. I don’t remember much of what else we did that day. I cleaned the apartment, we drove to get a gift at the Scandinavian store, I did laundry, J went to the gym, we ate steak for dinner and watched the movie “Glass” at night. That’s it.

On Sunday I went to Daniela’s baby shower.

Yesterday I woke up at 6, took Thor out, made coffee and then sat on the terrace for maybe three hours just reading my book. J and T joined me when they woke up. So nice that it’s finally summer and we can enjoy the outside! Sunday was the hottest day this year so far with a temperature above 86°F, a day when it doesn’t matter if you shower cause you’ll end up wet and sticky once you go outside again:) 
After Jim was done at the gym we walked over to Tigin on Bedford to have lunch outside. They have a spicy bloody mary that I like and together with the fish tacos that I ordered it got pretty spicy. J went home and I continued to Target to buy black shorts to use under dresses but they didn’t have any, but I did end up with a cute pants-dress. When I had spent way too much time at Target I walked over to a Mexican place where J and Thor sat. 
At night we watched the movie “Zodiac” from 2007. Not the greatest movie, it was long too and this true story had no real ending, they never solved it. But it was a little interesting I guess.

This morning I got up early to get my blood test done. Now I’m hoping my doctor will send me a message or call me tomorrow with good news. Fingers crossed! 

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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)

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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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An evening alone with the pup

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March 27, 2019

Currently sitting on the couch with my laptop, Thor sleeping by my feet, I’m having a glass of red and the tv is on. Jim is out to dinner with work. He hasn’t been out with work really at all since we moved here, it’s just not as easy as before cause most people wants to go out in NYC it seems like. But he’s out with his team now closer to work. 

This week I’m pretending that it is warmer than it is outside. I’m just so sick of winter and staying inside, so I’ve been out for longer walks. Yesterday Thor and I walked to Mill River Park. Noone in the park. Thor was so happy and excited to be out for a long walk and to be in the park. He loves the words “walk” and “park” and when putting them together, it doesn’t matter where we are going or how far, he is super excited no matter what. I also make it sound exciting:) We were gone for over an hour. We have been for longer walks today as well. We both need it, Thor and I, after a long winter:) 

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Beach day in December

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We woke up to a beautiful day and decided to go to Tod’s Point in Old Greenwich. We walked right out to the beach. The water was completely still. You could hear the clucking sound of the water which is probably my absolute favorite sound of all. There were lots of people there, but most of them hung out with there dogs on the beach or in the park area right by it. We went for a walk around the point and we had times when we were alone and we could just listen to the birds in the trees. 
Wow, I sound so old when I talk about how much I love the nature, but I think nature and the wildlife is important to put our focus on in our lives. Without it we wouldn’t be here, we need it. Electronics, robots, buildings, material things, it can all seem nice, but if we loose the nature and our animals, all the other things won’t matter, we would have to come up with other ways to survive. Kids movies like Wall-E and Lorax is made up stories but they could become true. So, appreciating the nature is only good for us.
Anyway. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I have no Christmas feeling at all. I did when we put up the tree and decorated the apartment but that was three weeks ago. Hopefully gonna get more feel for it when we watch Donald Duck at 3pm tomorrow:)

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