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Good Morning guys! I started my day with coconut yogurt with lots of fruity toppings and coffee in my new coffee mug (not Hawaiian coffee though) while watching the videos from our helicopter ride. I love when they give you usb’s like this:)
Yesterday afternoon, I started to swell up in my throat and ears. I was really sore and couldn’t swallow or speak like normal. I didn’t really have any fever and I wasn’t too tired but my throat hurt a lot. I was zipping tea with honey all night. My dear husband went to buy me ice cream and candy, best husband ever. I have felt much better today, mostly just congested especially when I come back inside from a walk with Thor. My ears hurt and I loose hearing at times (I can barely hear on normal days, so this is a bit frustrating). Rest is all I can do today and hopefully I’m good for the weekend.
Have an awesome day and happy world tutu day (2/2 😀 )!

I have no photo from today, so here’s one from our last vacation (St Lucia)

I mentioned earlier this week that one of our neighbors who come to do pilates/yoga/stretch taught by me at the gym is a masseuse. Because of my tight back and that one spot between my shoulder blades, she invited me to get a full body massage in her home. I’m not just saying this to be nice, but that was probably the very best massage experience I’ve ever had. I was so relaxed, felt so cared for and I trusted her completely. Her massage was amazing, I can’t get over it. Everyone should have someone like her to go to. 
My back and body is not magically fixed now, but I definitely feel ready for long flights tomorrow and vacation in Hawaii. I have a few things left to do, like packing our bag and Thor’s bag for his week with the sitter, but I’m already in vacation mode. So excited!! 

I had no idea what to give my husband for Christmas. He is probably the hardest person to give presents to. I always just end up creating something on my own, because he doesn’t need anything. For his one year work anniversary (that he didn’t even know or care about, but I did), I created a flower bouquet out of blue gift paper and blue straws to put in a blue vase. In America they love to sell cards for any occasion and for some reason they think it’s a good idea to write long poems or other shitty crap on them which I think is impersonal and boring. I try to buy blank cards, but usually I’m better off by creating something on my own. Ya, I’m kinda like a child, hahaha, making my own drawings and stuff. My husbands desk at home looks like he has a five year old daughter:)

A lot of cars here have the family stickers. I looked on their website and it all sucked. I created a Thor cartoon kinda right after we got Thor and I thought it would be more fun to have our own design for a family sticker. So, I drew stick figures, custom ordered online and stickers showed up right after New Years. This weekend we got a car wash so we could put the stickers on my husbands car. I love it! It’s nerdy but fun. Noone else has a family sticker that looks like that. Kinda looks like I’m peeing on Thor though, hahahahha. 

We woke up from the loudest fire alarm today. We quickly put warm clothes on. I grabbed Thor’s travel bag (cause I have read somewhere that you should grab your pets bag in these situations, J thought I was stupid). I went to get my two external hard drives that usually is in our fire safe but I have been using them, and it was quick and easy to grab and throw them in T’s bag (if we were in real danger I would not grab the bag or even a jacket, I would just take Thor and walk out of course). While I was getting ready to save us, Jim was trying to check if it was just our alarm that was on and wanted to turn it off, hahah. No, hun, it was the whole building and we need to get out.
Down the stairs we all went in our pj’s with our dogs in our arms. We came out on the street and soon three firetrucks came (not like NYC when 12-15 trucks come for any small or big situation). We walked around the building across from ours to get T distracted to do his business and back by the entrance, we could all go inside again. No idea what the reason for this alarm was, but who cares, we are all safe and that’s what matters.

Now we know that the alarms here works, haha, that’s one positive thing about this morning:)

Jim and Thor is asleep now. I just made myself some coffee. The alarm went off at 6am and I thought that I could stay up now and maybe take a nap if I need it later today. 

Today’s sunrise. Beautiful orange colors waking us up every morning

I love my new music player that Jim got me for Christmas. Small and weighs nothing

Thor was not feeling too awesome today:( He didn’t eat his breakfast, only wanted to sleep and when I took him outside he did a lot of stretches which he does when he has tummy pain. I was ready to go to the gym but instead I did an hour pilates at home next to my sleeping pup. My muscles weren’t really tired after that, but my body was completely dead. Pretty good hour I’d say:) Thor finally ate his breakfast around 2pm and he started to play with toys a couple of hours later, so he seems ok now. 

Our watershoes arrived today. Jim’s fit perfectly, but mine is way too big. I even ordered a size smaller. But I think they might have sent the wrong size. It says on the package sticker “39 40”, and if that’s the size (which they look like), then that would be a 9. I’m 35 and we ordered a 4.5-5 shoe. So, now I’ve been online trying to find a store here that has watershoes, but if a store has it, then they are too big. Might have to try again and order online even if I don’t want to. 
I also can’t seem to find normal looking sneakers (need for every day use and for hiking in Hawaii). When it comes to sneakers I’m very picky, but even if I lower my standards or requests, they still look retarded.  My last ones got Thor’s poop on them and they were too broken to be worth putting in the washer, so I need new ones. And I don’t have winter boots either and with all this snow and cold weather I probably need it. My last pair was in 2011 when I first came to NYC and the salt on the streets here broke them. I. Don’t. Like. Winter. So. I. Don’t. Want. Boots. I have some shopping to do, and so far, it’s been frustrating. 

But to something more fun. A few minutes ago, we tried our new camera in it’s case under water. We should probably have done that when we got the camera a month ago, but whatever. It seems to work. And to my surprise, there is sound too. I thought this camera couldn’t record sound when in it’s case, or that’s what Jim told me. Very nice, I’m excited to use it!