And tomorrow is another VIP birthday, my wonderful, patient, funny, smart and strong husband is finally catching up with me in age tomorrow.
And today was such and unusual day, that turned out so great, that I had to think of this song. And with this song, this clip:
There are some movies I can quote word for word. Not all of them are classics in the general view of the rest of the world, but within our household some movies have left their mark. Aaah, memories....
So, today. The plan was alarm clock, wake up, get crackin' in the shed and garden, do a few rounds to the dump and then do the rearranging of the furniture in the living room. Eeuuhh....that's not how it went. To start, we went to bed waaay to late to have the alarm go off on a Saturday at 8. So we did the wake, renegotiate and back to bed thing that only the blissfully childless can do. After checking the door to the living room that Looup was ramming since 6:45. Hmm, maybe her wiggle is from repeatedly hitting her head against the door, for such a tiny cat she can make some serious doors open by pure persistence....
So, an hour later, we started to get moving, basically that meant, into our robes and Joris to coffee, me to my laptop and there I got stuck in a Buzzfeed loop. You know what I mean, when you get stuck in the funny thing and cute picture slideshow vortex and realize only at least an hour later that you have been hungry the whole time and just forgot...
So yeah...a few hours later that planned, we moved into the shed. Did I mention that it was 2 degrees when we woke up? Most of what I have stored in the shed is baking molds, when are made to transfer heat evenly and quickly. That goes for cold too. So after getting some gloves, we cleaned out the shed, got the car full to go to the dump and I moved to the garden.
Still not feeling it though, so I sat there with my good music on, enjoying the quiet, before starting to haul gravel as was the plan. When my ample behind was numb from sitting on the ice cold steps, I started digging through the stones to fill the buckets. Bucket to back of the house, gravel under house and repeat.
So after 2 garden utensils broke doing this, I was ready to quit, so I dug out some plants that had been bugging me from the garden, waiting for Joris to come home. Bye bye rhododendrons and rhubarb. No more rh-plants for us.
Joris got back and we did some more shoveling, but I was done with that. We went in to have lunch and then it took no convincing at all to get Joris to nevermind our to do list and just go to Amsterdam and go shopping.
Which was so much fun! Sometimes you plan your shopping and EVERYTHING just goes wrong. You can't find what it is you went for, so you try finding something in a panic, nothing fits, or fits right and the store close sooner than you were expecting...
This was the complete opposite. This year we have allotted ourselves a clothing budget, so we had that covered.We got everything we went for within minutes, a lot cheaper than expected, had a lot of nice tryout sessions and there was sale EVERYWHERE and more stores stay open until 19h on Saturday now. And the magic moment when not only you stumble across your size in the sale (not once but several times) and then you are in the fitting room and it all fits.....MAGIC! So Joris got my birthday present today, new Vans:
I got some new stuff for school and we had some awesome quality time. (Joris shared his cookie with me, I'm keeping him!)
So we came back home, had our leftovers anyway and are now chilling with a crappy movie and good rum, with 2 out of 3 cats, waiting for midnight. Another magic moment!
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