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March 26, 2019

Good Morning! I started this Tuesday like every Tuesday nowadays. At 6:15 am, I had more blood taken. After I was done, I walked next door to the coffee shop, it was dark in there but door was open. I asked the guy in there but nope, not open yet. So I went for a walk back past our apartment and all the way to Dunkin Donuts instead, bough a coffee black and walked home. I took Thor out and then made myself breakfast to eat with my coffee and sent hubby off to work. Felt pretty good to walk that much first thing in the morning, even if it was freezing outside.

I started to write a post yesterday about our weekend but had so many other things on my todo list that I didn’t finish writing. So…
We had a fantastic weekend as always. On Friday, we went to an Italian place, Siena Ristorante. Surprisingly lots of people there around 6pm when we got there. We ordered a bottle of red and duck for starters. J got some lamb pasta for his main course and I ordered hand made fettuccine with truffle flavored cream and mushroom. Omg, delicious! I’d go back for that!

On Saturday, we woke up early in case the cable guy would show up at 8. He didn’t. We made coffee and had a nice and relaxed morning together. Around 10 or so, I took my coffee and Thor downstairs and met the guy. T and I stayed by the fireplace down there for quite some time while the guy was in our apartment changing our tv/internet provider. When he had left, J and I went to the gym. I have been on the bike a lot lately, it actually feels ok in my knees now. At 2pm, Thor had a spa appointment, and we were starving so we drove to some bar/restaurant in Darien. And then we just waited for our fluffbutt to be done. We picked T up closer to 7 and then had a very relaxed evening with J watching basketball and I watched first season of Game of Thrones (I’ve seen it before but don’t remember).

Avocado BLT and Lagunitas — Almond latte from Lorca

Sunday started with a walk to Dunkin. Around noon, we went to Tigin for brunch. Their bloody mary’s are really good and spicy. In the afternoon we had decided to have a full cleaning day (meaning; I clean and ask J for help from time to time, that’s a deal I made with myself when I moved in with him 7 years ago). Before living here I said absolutely no to ever have carpet in my home, but then I had to admit that it’s kinda nice to walk on carpet in the bedroom (plus this one was brand new) and when we have been talking details for our house, we have picked out carpet for the bedrooms. But after this weekend I once again hate carpet. There are places I can’t vacuum on my own on my regular cleaning days, like behind the bed, behind the big mirror etc, so now I asked J to help me move furniture. Oh man, so disgusting. Two years of dust, yuck.
J was having fever and chills that afternoon, so after super duper cleaning of the bedroom and dealing with laundry, I made him some tea, he watched basketball and I watched GOT.

Warmer outside for a day
yummy brunch with avocado toast, bloody mary and fried goat cheese

That was our weekend. Lots of eating out, cleaning and tv watching:)
I hope you guys had an awesome weekend! Did you eat out as much as we did or did you cook some awesome things at home?

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my Buddha man

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March 22, 2019

I married a man that is the complete opposite of myself. I’m the goofy, sometimes stormy and dramatic, funny and weird one, while Jimmy is….Buddha. He’s always calm, he’s very smart, (he’s secretly nice) and he only speaks when it’s needed. I have always had giant dreams that I’ve worked hard for while J just got himself a job that he could earn money for something he happened to be good at. He wants to retire young while I want to work til I die (if I only knew with what🤪). I am nice and smile to every living thing and people seem to be drawn to me like moths to a flame whether I want to or not, while J hates everyone and is only nice if he has to be, hahahahha, no, not really…but kinda:)

He’s Ron Swanson in many ways except that he would never build the canoe himself and I am Leslie Knope, or at least used to be, except that I am more organized – the episode when they go to her house..oh my..that’s my nightmare! (I am like the blonde version of Marie Kondo, so if anyone wants to get organized and learn a better way to fold your clothes, then you can hire me, just send me a message).

But we are very similar as well. Our values in life are the same, we believe in a lot of the same things and we make a great team. The best team. We never argue. We can disagree on things of course but nothing more, we have never had a real fight. Like I mentioned above, I can be stormy sometimes but it only last for a few minutes, or even seconds, and then I brush it off and everything is good again. J just ignores it, hahah.

I love this man. He’s exactly what I need and I think I’m what he needs. We balance each other out. And we learn a lot from each other, we have so much fun together and most of all, we want to be there, support and care for each other no matter what. I’m the luckiest girl in the world to have found such wonderful man to spend every day with ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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what you wish for

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March 21, 2019

On Sunday morning, Jim got up to take Thor out. I was still in bed. I heard him leave and 20 seconds later he came back in and said “there’s a palm tree outside the door with a note that it needs a new home”. Our neighbors are moving to a house this week so I figured it was theirs and they don’t want to bring it to their new place, so they put it out for any neighbor to take it. After dealing with a poopy butt in the tub (Thor was still having troubles) and driving to get breakfast, we finally decided to bring the palm tree in to our apartment.

I have a list, and I have vision boards with pictures, of things I want in my life, that’s something I have done basically my whole life. Palm trees are always always on my lists. When I was a kid, my friends told me about their family vacations where they were swimming in pools at hotels and there were palm trees everywhere. First time I saw a palm tree in person was in my grandpas apartment. I asked what kind of tree that was and then I begged and begged my mom to get me one. I was 18 years old when I went to Bulgaria on vacation and that was the first time I saw palm trees growing in the ground (and that’s also the first time I got to swim in a hotel pool).

Every day for many years, I have wished for palmies to be in my life. Imagine how happy I was living in Lisbon:) We bought one when we moved in here two years ago but it ended up with what I think was like white spiders or something (I read that indoor palms can get that). It was placed on second floor and I think it died due to the air condition that was blowing right at it.
When you ask the universe* for something, you have to pay attention to in what way you get it. I have been wishing for a life with palm trees, and on Sunday morning there was one standing outside our door. When Jim told me that, I thanked the universe. I had pictured living in a warm place where they grow naturally, but if the universe wants to give me this tree now, I’ll take it and I say thank you.

Now I just hope that I won’t kill it. We placed it in the living room this time instead of upstairs. It won’t be direct sunlight, but we do have morning sun on this side that comes in slightly next to the palm tree, so I’m hoping it will be good enough. It’s so pretty ♥
Please, if you have any tips on how I can keep it alive, send it my way, anything is helpful!

*I have decided to call it “the universe”, you might call it something else. Whether you want to call it God, Manon, meatballs or Miss Piggy, it doesn’t matter, it’s the same thing just different interpretations of it.

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Copenhagen for a day in January

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March 21, 2019

It’s been two months since we were in Copenhagen for a day and Sweden for a week. Thought I would share some bits from our day in Denmark now.
Jim and I spent an afternoon in Copenhagen a few years ago and on that trip we did most of all the touristy stuff. On January 18, we landed around noon, grabbed our bag, found the train, traveled two stations and then walked over to our hotel. Quickly dropped our stuff off, freshened up and then went out in to the city. Beautiful sunny day but oh so cold. We were both pretty hungry so we walked down to Nyhavn and just picked one of the restaurants there. All the good restaurants in Copenhagen have seafood so it was a bit hard to find things on menu that I could eat since I was pregnant then. But we found a small place, I ordered meatballs and was so jealous of J’s shrimp skagen (that’s a must when you go to Scandinavia). We continued to walk around but it was just so cold now. There was one super old and very “denmark’y” bar that we went to the last time that we only stayed at for about 5 minutes before they closed then so J wanted to go back there. After-work Danish people in this old wooden room, haha, it was just too good:) Then we went to check out bar after bar. Not very fun for me who didn’t want to order sugary sodas everywhere. When you ask for seltzer water in Scandinavia they give you a bottle (like one you can buy in stores) and charge you for it and asking for a lemon with it seemed like a strange thing to do. Not at all like going out in America where they just keep filling up your glass and give you as many lemons you want.
We actually didn’t have anything to do in Copenhagen. It was nice to be there again thought cause unlike the last time we were there, everything was now open (it was a Friday night this time, last time it was Sunday and everything closed before 7pm). We had dinner reservations at The Olive Kitchen & Bar at like 6:30 pm, which seemed a bit too close to our late lunch, but whatever, that was the only reservation they had available when we booked. A very cute place. No walk-ins welcome because it was fully booked. We picked this restaurant out of all the fancy ones (Copenhagen is known for their restaurants) because it had things I could eat on the menu plus it didn’t seem like tiny portions for a billion bucks. We are ok spending some extra money on food but then we expect to be full. A lot of times, especially in Scandinavia I’ve noticed, you first overpay, they make an effort on appearance rather than taste and then you walk out of there being hungry. We didn’t want that. This was a fancier place with real plates. For starter we ordered ribs and this is the first time we ate ribs with gloves on (see the last picture of Jim hahah). Felt like we were going to color each others hair 😀 Ribs were really good. And then I ordered salmon and J ordered some meat and both dishes were very yummy. Good choice and I would recommend you to go there if you visit Copenhagen, but make sure to make a reservation, we made one the week before.

After dinner we decided to go back to our hotel. It was only 8:30 but it was freezing outside plus I had only slept for two hours in total the past two days. Back in our hotel room we started to laugh at ourselves. Going to bed before 9 when we are on vacation, nah. So we went to the downstairs bar where we met an Australian CEO of some big company. He kept buying J beers and made bets about random stuff. I just sat there with my seltzer water in a bottle.

And that’s it. That’s all we did. Ended up going to bed before midnight, I slept for maybe an hour in total that night and then had to get up at 6am to shower, repack our stuff and then take the train to Sweden at 7 am.

I filmed our Denmark/Sweden trip as well. I haven’t decided if I should make a video or not. Would you like to see a video from our trip? Also, I have written before that I would post a video from Charleston but things happened and I put it away. Would you want to watch that as well? Please comment and let me know.

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happy spring equinox

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March 20, 2019

We go from cold to warm to cold, winter to spring to winter. It changes every day now
Quest Diagnostics, such a sad little place

Guess what I did yesterday, and guess what I found out today… Yup, yesterday morning at 7:30 am I did another blood test (noone there, it’s always at least 4 other people in the waiting area no matter what time, I was shocked), and today I got a message from my doctor that the level isn’t down enough yet. Yay me, I have to go back on Tuesday. I made an appointment for 6:15 am, aah I hope I can get up that early, hahah. Fingers crossed this is the last time I have to go there now.

Around lunchtime today, my neighbor came down to join me at the gym. We only stayed to stretch for about 20 min and then we went to grab Thor and were out for a walk with him for over an hour. We haven’t seen much of each other lately so it was nice to catch up (she’s the one with the cat that we help watching sometimes). We talked about doing a full moon meditation tonight, but I’m pretty tired now to be honest and I haven’t eaten dinner yet, so I just texted her to do it another night. I might meditate for a few minutes on my own before bedtime tonight cause it is full moon and Spring Equinox after all:)

But first I’m going to sign up to some yahoo thing for March Madness and hopefully win a million bucks.
Have a good night!

Eating out all weekend

my Buddha man

what you wish for

Copenhagen for a day in January

happy spring equinox

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