In Stamford

back to summer for a weekend

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November 9, 2020

Good Morning you beautiful people! How are you doing? I feel amazing! Congestion and a runny nose but other than that I feel great. This weekend we went back to summer and I love it. Temperatures of around 22°c and blue sky, how wonderful! Took Thor out in a t-shirt and the sun was so nice and warm, felt way higher than 22 degrees. Today they say will be the last warm day of the year (same temp as the weekend) so I’m gonna try to spend as much time as I can outside today. 

This weekend was more or less about shopping or spending time outside🙈 On Saturday morning we drove to Mianus park but the parking lot was full so we couldn’t go hiking. Instead we drove to a small but cute park nearby. We let Thor off leash and he had so much fun.
We dropped Mr Fluff off at home and went to costco and we might have broken our personal record on crap to buy hahaha. I had to reorganize all the cabinets when we came home in order to fit it all and some still need to go upstairs to our storage:)
In the evening we watched my favorite movie, Leon the Professional. I’ve seen it so many times I’ve lost count, haha. 

So nice to sit outside in November!

We wanted to spend Sunday on Manhattan, but after seeing a lot of footage of people celebrating out on the street practicing no social distancing, we decided not to. An Election doesn’t change a Pandemic. We are in this together, we have to stop this virus together, each and everyone of us has to do our part. Celebrate all you want but please remember that we are not done with this chapter yet. 

Instead of driving to NYC we spent some time at Target. Probably not much better, but at least we went early before everyone else decided to go there. We have a big list of things we need and since we had to return the dog costume that was too small for Thor anyway, we decided to go there. Crossed off some things, but probably have to order some stuff on amazon today as well. Just boring things like garbage bags, detergent etc. Everything weirdly always runs out at the same time. If we have to go into some sort of lockdown again (you never know) I think it’s good to start buying things that we would need for the next few months.
When J was watching a terrible Bears game, I went to our terrace to do my daily practice. The sun was gone already so I had to put more clothes on but still nice. I love doing my yoga outside. 

In Partial Molar Pregnancy

November 6, 2019

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November 6, 2020

On this day one year ago I got the best news of the entire year of 2019. My doctor called me and told me that my level was at 0. Sure, I wasn’t cleared for another 8 months but this was a giant step and well worth celebrating. Months and months of absolutely nothing happening in my case, every single week I would wait for a phone call from my doctor to see if she would tell me that I needed that other more aggressive chemo or not. Then in October my level finally started to move and in November I was told incredible news. 

On November 6 last year we were all also so happy to hear that our nephews surgery had been successful. It was a wonderful day. What happened a couple of days later is not something I want to think about today, I want to stay in that joyful memory of November 6 when our smiles were from ear to ear. 

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please, no xmas talk yet

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November 5, 2020

People outside of America are all talking about Christmas already😳 Excuse me, but that’s insane. You’re welcome to talk about gingerbread, decorations and wrapping gifts in December, but hey, November just started, take a chill pill😎

The past week or so, everywhere I look people are talking about Christmas. If I watch some youtuber from  lets say the UK or Canada they are talking about Christmas decorations and gift shopping, and if I happen to open facebook for only a few minutes everyone I know in Sweden mention something about Christmas. This morning I spent maybe less than two minutes on FB and I saw like twelve posts with and without pictures of how friends of mine has started to decorate their homes, they are baking gingerbread houses, their kids are writing lists to Santa and someone was talking about how he likes glogg (Swedish mulled wine). IT. IS. ONLY. NOVEMBER! Here in America we just had Halloween and now we are slowly getting ready for Thanksgiving. Once that’s all over we can start thinking about Christmas. 
When I was a kid, my parents didn’t put up the tree or decorations until like the day before Christmas Eve. I think that is a bit late since you take down the tree like a week possibly two weeks later, I am fine having it up for most of December. But these day the stores starts to prepare you for Christmas already in September, and Halloween stuff is up already in July (and gone by the time xmas stuff is out which is weird). That is crazy. 

Nope, no Christmas talk until December 1 or later, ok people, you hear me. Lets enjoy the fall first!

We had over 20°c two weekends ago and then the temperature dropped drastically down to 0°c and we even had snow! (only for 10 minutes though but still). We’ve been icicles all week but now the temperatures up by the 20s again. I’m gonna enjoy the heck out of this weekend and ignore all the Christmas talk. 

In USA

Halloween

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November 3, 2020

Thor as the Mickey Mouse Wizard in Disney’s Fantasia

How are you guys doing? Did you enjoy the extra hour of sleep this weekend? I’m feeling really great. Lots of energy and feeling productive:)
However, I am so sick and tired of this election now, I can’t wait til it’s over tomorrow! It’s one thing if media wants to puke campaign stuff all over you for a few weeks before the election, but here in America it starts a year, or rather two years before. This whole year has been about the damn election and I’m sick of it. I’ve been avoiding social media the past few weeks cause not only do people post about it and share articles with false info, the apps are filled with reminders. When J took T out this morning he had seen a line going from the church next door to us (voting station there) and all the way to downtown, people will probably stand in line for over two hours. Insane. Why the heck did they not vote before? My husband voted by mail weeks ago, super easy (I can’t vote since I’m not a citizen).

Ok enough about that.

We had no good ideas for what to dress Thor as for Halloween this year. Our building has a competition for the pets and we wanted to join. I ordered a kinda boring costume just few days before, it arrived on time but it was waayy too small (Thor is a tiny dog but it still didn’t fit). So I came up with something in the very very last minute. I put Thor in one of my long sleeves and put J’s Disney hat on him. I’m quite proud of the pictures I took, and also proud of the photoshop edit I did:) This was obviously not a costume T could walk around in, so he had to wear some of his other shirts during the day. Our building had a grab-n-go of treats in the lobby – to avoid trick or treaters coming to peoples doors – this is not the year for any kind of holiday or event celebration, we can all wait one year.
I bought a headband witch hat a few weeks ago. Felt silly to dress up, but this is the one time of year when I like to have fun with makeup, so even if we were just staying home I “dressed up” (only from the neck up  though haha). J was wearing his Svengoolie t-shirt. In the afternoon we watched a favorite movie of mine, “High Spirits”. That movie is so bad that it’s good. I must have watched that movie like 5 times a year as a kid hahah.
Looking on social media I can definitely say that the majority of humans was dressed as the tiger king (like why? that documentary is old by now) and the majority of dogs was dressed as ghosts. At least we picked something creative for T this year.

On Sunday we enjoyed sleeping in and then we walked to the diner next door and picked up some waffles for breakfast. J watched football most of the day while I was housewifing; did some laundry, cleaned the apt, hand-dished (ya, I made that word up), baked an apple pie and cooked us dinner. Also took a quick snoozer in front of the boring football game at one point:) Pretty easy weekend but that fit us well. 

And speaking of nothing, how cool that it was full moon on Halloween/All Saints Day. Also cool that October had a full moon twice, that’s rare. 

Seriously, he’s too damn cute!Both J’s phone and mine always want to create albums called
“cat” when there’s pictures of Thor🤣 So he was my cat on Saturday
I really miss Swedish candy, but boring american candy is ok on Halloween