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Relaxing weekend just us two

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Stamford is very cute during the winter. The whole city is lit up. This street, Bedford, is the cutest. 

Hello! Hope you had an awesome weekend. 

We went to Lucky’s for burgers on Friday and then we watched an old American college movie. Kinda stupid for my taste though.
On Saturday we woke up early as usual and then we walked over to the Athletic Club. Jim went swimming and I was at the gym doing cardio and used the weight machines. My inner thighs are on fire now, haha. After we had showered we wanted to take Thor for a walk to get coffee and bagels, but it was suddenly raining outside, so we took the car to a donut delight instead. Thor freaked out as always.
Jim had a phone call waiting around noon so I took Thor out and spent some time playing with him, and when the call was over we drove to Norwalk. We went to Home Depot to check floors, hahaha. Yup, we drove all the way there to look at wood floors, fake floors, carpets, tiles etc. Some time in the future (God knows when..) we will buy or build a house and we thought it could be a good idea to have some kind of sense on what’s out there and what it costs. Now we just need to remember all that for when the day comes:) 
After our adventure in the store, we were both starving so we drove a block north to a Mexican place that J had got recommended. Very happy with my order for two reasons: A) it was so yummy and spicy B) I first wanted to order the burrito but decided in the last second to order a rice and bean bowl which turned out to be a great decision cause the table next to us did order the burrito and it was humongous!! Really, I have never seen a burrito that big, it was the size of a large loaf of bread, I would have never been able to eat that. Now we know and next time we go there we can bring some people and share that thing:) 
In the afternoon, we walked over to Mill River Park. They have put up an ice rink there now and the Half Full Brewery has put up a big tent next to it. Very cute inside actually. We ordered a drink each but decided to go after that cause there were no seats. We walked over to Buffalo Wild Wings. We had fried cheese and drinks. Back at home we had some family playtime with Thor, then I watched the new Netflix movie “Dumplin”. Very cute movie (but very predictable) and awesome music (Dolly Parton!!!). 
It was raining all of Sunday. We had breakfast at a diner. Took Thor with us to Pet Smart to buy a Christmas gift for T and for our neighbor. Back home, I played God of War I until I was so tired that I went to the bedroom for a long nap. I only slept like 4.5 hours during the night and when I don’t get enough sleep I don’t really function. Jim was watching football with Thor. I woke up to pizza delivery, yum! After lots of football and some Hawaii Life on hgtv, it was time to end this weekend. 

We don’t always have the most exciting weekends, but to us it’s perfect. I think we have a good mix of fun activities and relaxed times when we can just focus on each other. Every since we first started to see each other 7.5 years ago, we have tried to have the weekends to just ourselves. Sometimes we end up spending time with friends, or back then I would work with the company or have rehearsals with choreographers on weekends, but mostly we take these days to ourselves. I love spending time with my husband, no matter what we do:)

In Connecticut, Stamford, USA

Shopping, creativity & a Thanksgiving Parade

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Hello friends! How was your weekend? We had a pretty relaxed one which was very nice after two weekends away. I don’t remember what we did on Friday, haha. We went out for food and then I think we finished watching A Series of Unfortunate Events (such a weird tv-show, can’t tell if it’s for kids or grownups or a mix of both..but the baby is funny).

Hahaha, Thor, too cute!
“It’s freaking cold outside”

On Saturday morning, we drove to Norwalk to Home Depot and Walmart. I had a few things I wanted to find for Christmas decoration, but man, these stores here in NY and CT, they have very boring stuff and way overpriced. But we did find a wreath for the door that I loved (it was cheap too), some garlands for the stairs and a new sweater for Thor:) We need new candles which was the main reason for our shopping, but all the stores either has the fake ones or the smelly ones in glass jars, and I want just regular normal unscented candles. We bought a bunch at ikea when we moved here and they have lasted for a long time, but I don’t feel like going all the way there for candles (it’s a 1-1.5 hour drive). We went to Bed Bath & Beyond and Michaels too here in Stamford on Sunday to find it, but nope. 

Anyway. I don’t actually remember what we did on Saturday either (exciting days, eyh). We worked out, ate sausage, watched the movie The Dictator (such a stupid movie) and I think that’s it.

On Sunday we went grocery shopping + looked for candles. Picked up coffee and had to drive forever to be able to get home. They had blocked off every road due to the parade, even on roads that wasn’t even a part of it. Talk about bad for the environment by having all these cars lined up driving all around the city for no reason trying to get home. So stupid.
In the afternoon, after our coffees, we did actually walk down to the parade. It was the end of it. We didn’t enjoy it very much last year (J didn’t even remember that we went to it), so we didn’t expect much this year. But we thought, why not, we have nothing else to do. But oh boy, people suck. I had to hold Thor in my arms a lot. There were plenty of small children and small dogs, but people didn’t care, they just walked all over them not looking where they were going and strollers kept running over their feet and paws. The parade was same crap as last year.

Back home, I created what’s probably the worlds ugliest teepee ever made for Thor, hahaha. I had stuff laying around in the storage room that I wanted to get rid of but I thought it was more fun to try to be creative. Well, fail! Hhaha, but whatever, I tried:)

And then it was football Sunday. In between some games that J wanted to see, I started Sims3 on play station and created a house that I picture us buying/building in the future. It was easier that way than sketching it out on paper:) Jim watched the bears game all night and I hung out in the bedroom watching youtube with a sleeping Thor by my side, cause I don’t care about football. 

Today, I overslept. I usually get up when J leaves for work, but today I wasn’t up until 9! Took T out, he puked, I had breakfast and now I have a long list of stuff to do. So bye. 

In Connecticut, Stamford

first snow

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Blizzard all afternoon and evening yesterday. We got so much snow! But luckily it rained all night and the sun is out this morning, so hopefully it will be gone soon. 

I’m excited for this weekend. We don’t really have any plans, but I’m excited to be home. We have been gone for two weekends and even if I love to travel it will be nice to be at home just the two of us and Thor. If the two weekends had been somewhere warmer I would probably not think this way though ;P 

I have almost finished editing a Chicago movie for you guys, but it will come up on Wednesday, so stay tuned. If you haven’t checked out my Minnesota video yet, head over to >YouTube< now, leave a comment and like the video, cause it supports my channel. And if you aren’t subscribing yet, then go ahead and hit that subscribe button too while you’re at it;) 

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International Coffee Day and a sick hubby

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Celebrated the International Coffee Day with fun socks and sweater
…until it was too hot and I had to take it off:)

Hello! Hope you had an awesome weekend!

Yesterday was very nice. We walked over to a place nearby to get coffee and then sat in the sun on our terrace. After a few minutes up there it got really hot. Love it! 
Around lunch time, Jim and I decided to go check out if there were any nice parks in Rowayton. We’ve been to a restaurant there before but never explored the area. Found a beach, Bayley Beach, that we could hang out for a little bit until we both wanted lunch. We picked a place through google but they didn’t have parking, so we picked a pizza place, Rowayton Pizza, across the street from it. Looked like whatever and we didn’t expect much but at least it was nice to sit outside. But wow, that pizza was great! Good choice!

When we came back home, we grabbed Thor and went for a walk downtown. We wanted to check out the new fountain they put up in Mill River Park, but they had a beer festival going on so we couldn’t get in. We just walked in a different end of the park instead.
Didn’t do much more fun yesterday. Just watched the movie The Murder on the Orient Express and then I went to bed. 

Prince Thor was tired and got carried home

Jim went to bed with a runny but stuffed up nose last night and this morning he woke up sick. First thing I did when I got up was to make him tea with honey, lemon and a cinnamon stick. I forced him to drink it up before he could have coffee. And then I cut apple, banana and kiwi in pieces and added blueberries and a few raspberries to a big bowl. I served this with coconut yogurt, pumpkin seeds and chia seeds. I figured at least the kiwi could make J speed up his recovery. In the afternoon, in the halftime of the Bears game J watched, we went for a sunny walk around the block here. Other than that, we haven’t done much. I just hope J feels better and can start the new week being awesome. 

Tomorrow is a new month. October, the real fall month. I feel “peppad” for this month (peppad meaning kinda excited, I just didn’t find a good English word for it, haha). We’ll see how it turns out:)
Good night! 

Tonight’s blog writing spot. Teddy is here next to me instead of Thor who’s watching TV with Jim:) 

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Rain, anniversary and walk along the water

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Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready for a new week!
For some reason, the weather Gods think it’s fun to give us rain every weekend this summer. We have a few outdoor things on our summer list, but we can’t plan for them because we keep getting thunderstorms. We are postponing a few things and soon the summer is over. But, oh well. We have had an awesome summer so far anyway:)

So, on Friday we basically did nothing after J came home from work.
On Saturday it was, as you can see in the last post, our 5 year anniversary. It feels way longer than that, but at the same time it feels like recently. Still waking up next to Jim with a big smile on my face. He makes me so happy ♥
We had no plans for the day, so we decided to drive and check out White Plains. Jim’s office was on the way there so we stopped there first and he showed me around (I haven’t been there before). It kinda reminded me of my University in Stockholm. Surrounded by nature and a little bit of art inside. 
Went for lunch at Blockheads and then to check out the mall in White Plains. Very disappointing, but I guess most malls are becoming boring these days because everyone is shopping online. 

We really didn’t do much interesting stuff on Saturday. It rained on and off all day. But as always on August 18, we went to eat Italian for dinner. Went to Remos in downtown Stamford and ordered prosecco and pizza. It was ok, not the best pizza, but we were’t really hungry anyway. 

Sunday started late which was actually nice. After coffee, we drove to Cove Island and walked there with Thor for a bit. Back home, we had lunch and then went to the Athletic Club for an hour. I spent my time in the dance studio. So nice! It started to rain on our way home, of course, so, we just watched baseball and relaxed when we came home.

And that’s about it for the weekend. I wish I had something more fun to share but when the weather is like this, when you don’t know if it’s going to rain or not and internet has no clue, then you can’t really make any plans. Next weekend we are going camping, so it better be sunny then:)