Our new car has come home! Mercedes 320E, 2006 model, with more bells and whistles than we have had time to explore. Tweaking the driver seat to be juuuuust right will take forever! Then I can go poking around with the 200 or so other buttons.
Baloo and Leo hanging out on the verandas =) If we were to live here for a long time we would probably have Leo over for playdates, but I'm not putting that on the future buyers of our home, that Leo is used to coming inside our place.
The building permit finally arrived today! So in 1 1/2 weeks the work will start on adding 85kvm to this 141kvm building (numbers according to the latest, submitted drawings), that will become our Forever Home. The addition will be handled by a company, we'll take care of the renovation of what is already there. The addition is supposed to be done by September 1st, ours...? No clue. We'll move when we are done, whenever that happens to be. I'm not living on a building site!
My new, sweet ride! I'm the coolest kid on the block... eh... no, but I do have a cool toy =) Out-of-the-blue present from my husband. When he said he had ordered me a gift, I thought he'd found a new antennae for my car or something else from my wish list. This wasn't even on the radar! It's crazy fast. I'll never bottom out the gas on this thing. NOPE! Don't wanna die!
The weekend of All The Things! Saturday morning started with a local flea market (bought nothing), and then we drove for 3 hours to Sarpsborg. Amunds old Audi died on Friday, so we decided to have a look at a used Mercedes there. After a test drive and some poking it was decided that it's ours, but we didn't take it with us, I'm just not in good enough shape to drive that far yet. Then we went to an electronics store and got me a new Fitbit by giving them back the old, broken one (consumer right... moreThe weekend of All The Things! Saturday morning started with a local flea market (bought nothing), and then we drove for 3 hours to Sarpsborg. Amunds old Audi died on Friday, so we decided to have a look at a used Mercedes there. After a test drive and some poking it was decided that it's ours, but we didn't take it with us, I'm just not in good enough shape to drive that far yet. Then we went to an electronics store and got me a new Fitbit by giving them back the old, broken one (consumer rights in Norway are good), and even got free burgers! Wroom wroom, back north for a bit, and to the event that brought us on the road in the first place, celebrating the naming (not christening, but similar) of my cousins first child. Lots of people I haven't seen in ages++, and some I've never met before. My family have never been super great at keeping in contact with this side of the family, but I hope we are going to get better at it and find events to share in the future as well =) I haven't really talked to my uncle in ages and ages, so it was really nice to catch up =) And the weather was PERFECT! After the party we checked in at our hotel, went for a walk to a grocery store, bought some snacks and then crashed in bed with NCIS. Today it was bright and early up, for a nice hotel breakfast and then to Sweden. Several kilometers over the border! Stocked up on Monster and some other drinks, and then we went back north again to visit a friend and eat lunch at her place =) After we had our fill of food, company and kitty/doggy cuddles we started on the way home, but stopped in Lillestrøm. We and just about everyone else... Apparently there was a big festival going on in the town, the local fotball team had a match, AND there was a big air show on the local airport. Oh my f... Thankfully I had the smarts to have us park outside the town on the "right" side, and walk trough the train station to get to where we wanted, finding a parking spot on the other side would have been impossible without loads of local knowledge. Anyway, we got a nice stroll and the place where we got dinner was no more busy than usual =) Got back in the car after walking trough some of town to look at what was going on, and when we got to passing the airport some fighter jets were doing their thing, so much so that it even started car alarms! Oy. We stopped and watched them for a bit, but there was a lack of space and we moved on homeward. I feel like I've been in the car for way way way too long, my car isn't the most superb long distance hauler (not what I bought it for), but it was the only car we could trust at this point. I'm happy to stay home for a while now. I'm definitely not going to come along to pick up the Mercedes in a couple of days!
My lovely old car, I miss you so! Some day we will ride again... Had a nice sit down in it today, omg, those seats. So comfy! The Subaru and the Audi can just ... *shakes fist*
O hai! Social media slump continues. We are all alive, trying to enjoy the warm-ish summer-ish days. Let's just say last summer was way way way WAY better than this one. My veranda garden is sloooow growing, nothing like last years burst of growth! The salad is the only thing that gives me anything to eat at this point, but it's very productive!
This week has a slow start, with an "extra Sunday" (all of Norway is closed today), but the rest of the week is busy busy! Hopefully good-awesome-news... moreO hai! Social media slump continues. We are all alive, trying to enjoy the warm-ish summer-ish days. Let's just say last summer was way way way WAY better than this one. My veranda garden is sloooow growing, nothing like last years burst of growth! The salad is the only thing that gives me anything to eat at this point, but it's very productive!
This week has a slow start, with an "extra Sunday" (all of Norway is closed today), but the rest of the week is busy busy! Hopefully good-awesome-news on Wednesday, and seeing loads of great people! Hopefully I won't get swamped with work, because I just don't have the time! Hard to say no though. Need the money too!
Just had my first shower after the surgery, including washing my hair. Marvelous! The outer bandage layer is off, not without a fight mind you, a part on my right arm must have been glued on with something quite special, maybe something like the stuff the ornaments on the cats small Christmas tree is glued on with? (The tree still has ornaments after 16 Christmases of terrible feline abuse) No fresh blood, but spectacular bruising, and some parts that might look very weird for quite a while. I w... moreJust had my first shower after the surgery, including washing my hair. Marvelous! The outer bandage layer is off, not without a fight mind you, a part on my right arm must have been glued on with something quite special, maybe something like the stuff the ornaments on the cats small Christmas tree is glued on with? (The tree still has ornaments after 16 Christmases of terrible feline abuse) No fresh blood, but spectacular bruising, and some parts that might look very weird for quite a while. I was supposed to put on another layer of bandage tape now, but that would result in fainting from pain, so I've just put the compression garment back on instead and see if that is enough, at least for the night. Afraid it will gnaw a bit here and there, especially in the armpits. It's not terribly uncomfortable to wear, but that, two layers of tape, bra, bruises and stitches, you know it's not a happy place. Speaking of stitches, I put on some backstitches in a cross stitch project today, didn't push it past one thread, but I hope to be able to stitch like normal in a few weeks Tomorrow I'll probably work a bit, but I won't take on anything with a hard deadline at this point. Forcing myself to rest is key. Yesterday I went grocery shopping, but compensated with a looooong nap, before staying up to watch ESC. I quite like the winner song, but also the fact that Norway got the most votes from the actual public. And the fact that I can watch the whole spectacle on an alternative channel, with three radio hosts that talk and act like no one is listening or watching (split screen all night), that is just awesome
Tibbs just truly discovered the TV. It took a zookeeper show for him to get there! He has watched birds, red pandas, moose and here he is watching someone feeding a rat to a crocodile. He also watched this crocodile get treated by a vet with much interest. Apparently we have been watching the wrong stuff until now.
Nah, you are not in my way Baloo... and I didn't need blood in that arm either!
*sigh* I can't lift the cats after the arm surgery. Someone has caught on it seems.
