March 6, 2020

7 years later, my answer is still “of course”🥰

Seven years ago, I came home from dance class to eat my lunch there before going back for tech rehearsal. I had all these super strong feelings towards Jim and decided to write it in an email – a modern love letter:)
I felt so in love and he needed to hear it❤
When he read it he had freaked out a little bit, he thought that I had somehow figured out what was going to happen that day. But I had no idea that he had planned to propose to me that evening💕
I love you and I like you, and of course I’ll be your ‘poof’ forever🥰💗💍

And fun fact: it says POOF 2013 inside our rings😊

March 5, 2020

Even if we are probably gonna end up living here for another year or so, I have already started to clean out our apartment. I. Don’t. Get. Where. It. All. Comes. From! Really, where does all the crap we have come from, how did we end up with this much stuff? The sad thing is (or good thing, I don’t know) that I really like a lot of the little stuff we have and I keep thinking of where it will be placed once we have a house, but for now it’s just clutter. I have no space to have it out to enjoy some of it so it’s just packed in boxes taking up space in our storage room. And all the boxes drives me crazy, same when we lived in the apartments on Manhattan. We had no storage then but some of those (big) boxes we just couldn’t get rid of cause we needed them for when moving (like special boxes for computers and such that you can’t really buy when moving). So, in a way we don’t really have stuff, we just have boxes with boxes in boxes hahah. Or, no, ok, we have a lot of crap as well:)

My sister has just found out that they got a new place to move into in a couple of months and I told her to start packing and sort their things out right away. You always end up stressed out packing in the last minute either way, so the more you can deal with stuff before the better. When I was pregnant we really thought that we were gonna move “soon” and I started to declutter already then. But then shit happened and the whole moving and house hunting process was put on hold. I still have no idea of when we can get out of here, it might be a few years, but I want to be prepared for whenever that happens 😀 

March 3, 2020

I had a long list of things to do yesterday, but I ended up with a slow morning and then facetimed with my sister for a couple of hours. Baby Mila was asleep the whole time so we got to have some real sister time:) In the afternoon I started to feel like I had fever. I had been ignoring that I didn’t feel that awesome all day (probably why my morning ended up being so slow) but then I just felt blah and stayed on the couch watching crap on my laptop and drank lots of water until bedtime. I feel much better today, yay! 

This weekend we didn’t do much. We took Thor for a long windy walk on Saturday. So nice to be out in the sun. Then we decided to go to Costco but the line of cars started on the exit of the highway (!!) to get in, so we drove back home. Went to the gym, cooked dinner and then watched Svengoolie (or Jim did and I watched something else on my phone next to him haha). On Sunday we drove to Costco again. We were there not even 10 min after they opened and the parking was full. Apparently they had opened fifteen min earlier that day and there had been like 300 people waiting outside, one of the employees told us. Crazy! Our shopping cart ended up full. Again, just in case, we bought a bunch of stuff with long expiration dates so if the world is ending then we have a lot of food:) And as always, I ended up buying a new sweater – even though I’ve told Jim I can not buy any more sweaters hahaha, but I like it:) Super slow afternoon and evening not doing much. These days we just try to stay away from people and enjoy our own company, I’m totally fine with that. This morning we heard that a man who hasn’t been traveling, works on Manhattan and lives in Westchester (it’s near where J works) has been infected, that means it is spreading between people with no connections. It will be here soon. Not worried about us two but it would suck to be someone who spreads it around without knowing it. Are you guys worried at all? 

Ok, time to get shit done off of my ToDo list. Have an awesome possum day!

My baby boy, so cute but his hair is waaayy too short, hope it’ll grow back soonBuds, spring isn’t too far away now:)For some reason there aren’t any disinfect wipes at the gym these day.
Good thing I carry this gel around. I have one in my coat pocket as wellLots of chips, bread, meat for Jim, new hand towels, coffee, dishwasher detergent, vitamins, veggies, juices and a billion lemons. With all the shopping we’ve done the past two weeks we don’t have to buy anything for next six months hahah

It’s quite cold outside today and we don’t have any plans this weekend really, so today is a good day to reflect on how this year is going so far. February 29, an extra day of this year to take advantage of 📝✨

I have seen little flowers popping up everywhere ♥ One house near our apartment has the whole yard full of blue flowers. So exciting, I hope spring is knocking on our door soon!

February 27, 2020

Last nights storm kept me awake and once I succeeded to fall asleep I had weird nightmares. So I’m a bit tired today, but maybe it’s ok to have a slow end of February:) All I’m doing this morning is organizing my saved pins on pinterest of inspiration for our future home 🙂 Kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, bedrooms, exterior and interior inspo. It’s sooooo overwhelming but also so much fun to look for a house and things we like to have. But where should we live?? This thought is driving me crazy.

We didn’t really check Tampa like we should have so I have no opinion on that city. Charleston made me disappointed and sad, cause I really wanted to fall in love with that city, but we didn’t, it’s not a place we will consider to move to. I would absolutely recommend everyone to go visit, it is so cute, but move there, nah don’t think so. We liked Jacksonville a lot and I can probably see us live there, but…when we started talking about moving years ago I said no to Florida before even visiting. I don’t see Thor or a potential child running around safely there, I would constantly be afraid that they would be eaten by an alligator. I don’t care what people in Jax said, they do exist and there are signs everywhere that you have to keep your distance from the water. It stresses me out already and we don’t even live there yet hahah.

Unfortunately there aren’t many cities by the ocean that we can move to. California is a no no and the south states like Texas and Louisiana is not even up for discussion. We can’t stay around here either cause a) it’s expensive! and b) it’s cold!!
Wherever we move we need to be able to work and get insurance, we want good schools for a potential child, I want a palm tree in our backyard and the option to go to the beach, we want to live somewhere preferably with an international airport or at least good connections for my family to come visit, we would like to go to sporting events and concerts plus we prefer lower taxes and cheaper living (who doesn’t). Where is that place? If any of you readers are from a coastal city or have lived in one, can you please tell me a little about those cities, pros and cons? 

Inspo for if we had unlimited money to spend and we could live anywhere in the world 😛

| all photos were found on pinterest |