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March 4, 2019

Good Morning all you beautiful souls! How was your weekend? Are you excited for a new week? I am. I’m pumped for a brand new week, a new month (Hello March) and hopefully a new season soon (the groundhog predicted an early spring…I’m waiting!). 
March has so far been snowy. I know, March is part of winter, but I want it to be spring now! We woke up to more snow today. The whole city is actually shut down this morning. Jim just left for work now anyway. I hope he arrives safely. A lot of the richest people in America lives in Connecticut and somehow there’s no money for fixing these awful roads. I’m worried every day when J drives to/from work anyway even on sunny dry summer days, cause not only does the roads suck, people suck at driving here too, so slippery snow roads makes me extra nervous.
It’s very bright outside now though with the white snow and sunny blue sky. Free light therapy:) 

Ok, go ahead and have a happy and awesome Monday! 

February 25, 2019

All weekend, Jim and I have been joking about that we are getting older. We stayed up “late” on Friday and I told him that we are invited over to D and G’s around 7:30pm on Saturday and his reaction was “wow, so late”, hahah. Back when we first met, he wasn’t home from work until maybe 7:30, then he would spend an hour at the gym and after that get ready to go out or to see me. Same for me. Some classes in New York didn’t end until after 8, I had to go home and change, take the train back into Manhattan and meet Jim maybe around 10. These days we are in bed by 10, hahhahahahha! What happened to us??

So our weekend looked like this:
We stayed up til after 11pm on Friday which felt late. On Saturday we went grocery shopping while being really hungry (which is never a good idea, but to our surprise we ended up only with the things we needed). We then decided to go to Colony Grill that we heard is good. We ordered a takeout pizza. After paying, the staff asked us if we wanted a free pizza cause the order for someone else got wrong. My empty screaming stomach was so happy! We got to sit down, they came and ask if we wanted something to drink and asked us how we were doing and stuff, really good service and awesome pizza! So now we had one pizza at the place and another one to eat at home, a lot more food than we needed, but it was great. 
At 7:30 we took an uber over to D & G’s house. We had decided the week before to have a hotdog night together. Again, so much food. What an unhealthy day. It was a really nice and relaxed night. J an Gareth hung out on the balcony while Daniela and I snuggled up under blankets on the couch just talking. At midnight we realized how late it was, so we had some dessert (G had made an awesome banana walnut cake) and then they drove us home. We were in bed sometime after 1am which resulted in us waking up after 10am the next day, haha.

We didn’t do anything really all Sunday. I sat by my computer for a few hours, J went to the gym, we made some chicken tikka masala and rice, gave Thor a bath and then I just waited for the Oscars to begin. Did you watch it? I kinda liked that there was no host, the night wasn’t as long as previous years. I can’t say I enjoyed the show much though. The Academy keeps cutting peoples speeches off, only the same 6 or so movies were nominated in all categories and I haven’t seen most of them. How the performance that Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper did started was pretty creative and I like it a lot (A Star is Born is another movie I haven’t seen). I was in bed by midnight and it took me an hour to fall asleep.
Three “late” nights in a row, wow, I feel so young 😀
(and today I’m tired 😛 )

This was of course the funniest part of The Oscars 2019

Thor and I are ready for an Oscars night. Right now we only have the Red Carpet on in the background and Jim is playing music in the speakers until the show starts in an hour.

I haven’t seen many of the movies this year I think plus the whole no host thing kinda made it less exciting, but I still would never miss this night.

When I was a kid I always imagined myself winning an Oscar…but not necessarily for acting, for something with dance of course. That Oscar’s dream never really left me though, I think I’m still waiting to win some day😂

February 18, 2019

It’s Presidents Day here in America today so my husband is off work. It’s raining outside but we’ve have had a nice weekend so one rainy day is ok:)

On Saturday we started the day with breakfast at the diner next door and then we grabbed Thor and drove to Cove Island Park. That park is always packed no matter the season, but now it was pretty empty. The grass was a bit muddy and full of geese poop, but if you followed the pathways it was fine. We walked down to the beach. I don’t think I’ve seen that many shells before. It was kinda cold in the wind but very refreshing, a perfect start of our day. We went to the gym around lunch time and after that walked down to the Fish Restaurant. They have a good happy hour there on Saturdays. $1 east coast oysters. I of course stayed away from all the seafood that you shouldn’t eat while pregnant, so now I could enjoy some oysters again. Or, I don’t know if enjoy is the right word, it’s just fun to eat:) At night we watched the basketball slam dunks and whatever contests and then went to sleep.

Yesterday we had a slow morning with coffee and bagel from Donut Delight. Jim went to the gym and I washed my hair (which sometimes feels like workout haha) and then we drove to look at two houses. We are never ever buying a place here but we thought it could be fun to go to open houses and get some inspiration for the future. The first house was brand new. Over 6000 sq ft! That house was massive! And it had a huge basement and attic which isn’t included in these 6000. Ridiculous. The master bathroom was the best part, I wouldn’t mind that bathroom with some changes:) The house next door (really next door, we were very confused why they built them so close together) was also too big for us, about 4000 something. It was a very nice house I think. The kitchen was exactly what we want and all the bedrooms was of good sizes. But like I said, we will never ever even consider buying anything here. Too cold and too expensive for what you get. After looking at the houses and doing some grocery shopping, we just hung out at home. Jim was bored playing his computer games and I cleaned and organized stuff (is that all I ever do?). At 6:45 pm, our friends came to pick us up and we drove downtown to go eat at Cotto, an Italian place we’ve all been to before. We had such great time. We ordered a lot of food! Daniela and Gareth both had big birthdays two weeks ago (30 and 40) so we wanted to take them out to celebrate. Plus they are now 16 weeks pregnant and just found out they are having a baby boy which is something to celebrate as well. Back at home Jim, who had coffee at the restaurant, was so tired that he and Thor went to sleep, but I had lots of energy so I stayed up for another two hours or so eating Swedish candy with Miller High Life’s.

This morning I got up around 7. J took T out an hour before that but were now back in bed. I just closed the bedroom door, hand dished (my made up word for cleaning the dishes that can’t go in the dishwasher), made myself some coffee and walked upstairs and now I’ve been sitting in my office writing on my computer for two hours. We are going to Costco and Walmart when they open in an hour. We have two vacuums but we need to throw away one (it smells burnt every time I clean) and the other one, the “monster” like I call it, is only good for vacuuming carpets. It destroyed our rug last week when I ran around with it, so now I’m just ready for something new. I hope to find something super cheap and easy to handle that we can throw away once we move. We don’t need to buy anything fancy until the day we move. 

I wish you a perfect and awesome day!

Dear readers, I will be taking some needed time off. I have uninstalled all the social media apps from my phone and I will be offline for a week or two. So there wont be any blog posts coming up during this time. I am however writing posts that I might make public when I’m back. Thank you for understanding /Fanny