Happy Friday everyone, and a glorious midsummer from here, where the sun doesn’t set!
@erntedank oh that sounds way too hot for me too. I hope you get to cool off also. It’s barely 15 degrees Celsius here.
I’m gonna be packing my stuff some more. My friends will pick up the first load on Monday. I’m almost packed. There are some things I cannot pack yet, but come next week’s Thursday, the second, and final load will be packed away. I’ll stay behind and clean the apartment, I’ve been doing a bit of that already.
The other day we had a wee get together, like a farewell party with some friends, and it was lovely. I’m gonna miss these people here. So many great memories.
Today we’re also gonna have a bbq with my godson’s family. Should be nice!
Fridayyyyyyyy!
I was supposed to camp with friends at a tiny outdoor festival this weekend but I am just not feeling the outdoors, the heat or the idea of a lot of socializing. Maybe that makes me a party pooper but I am looking forward to 4 days to do whatever I want.
Who knows what I will come up with but it won’t involve work.
Happy friday all!
This also sounds heavenly
I guess I don’t want to leave my cool house. But I have to. One more appointment and 1 delivery in 1 hour and then … weekend!!!
Feeling sleepy it’s too hot, next week it will be 26, but without AC and in London it feels like the sun. Airless and smokey and noisy. I feel like every single water pipe has been dug up in our surrounding area for months and it’s so annoying to even get out of our little private close and onto a main road. I think you can only imagine this if you think of moving one mile every 35 minutes. We have been walking everywhere for this reason, but now it’s really hot. Anyway, humbug, I hate summer.
We have the option to take ourselves and the cats to the countryside for an extended time next week so we might do Wednesday to Sunday there instead of here in London, it’s so much cooler in a house with a garden and true terrestrial brickwork.
Will drag myself to yoga and the treadmill later today and then have a relaxing weekend. A few chores planned for tomorrow and a few hours sitting in the park with the crossword and coffee. Football. Need to get a good shop in as we have carrots and ginger beer left
We lose a minute of sunlight most days from the 30/6 onwards, roll on… I just wish we could keep an extended spring and autumn and a short summer and winter. We are hoping at least (and have the plans in writing) that our wooden balconies will be replaced with galvanised aluminium by Christmas which will mean selling is then an option with the mandatory fire regulations in place now. We are open to Wales, Wiltshire and Hampshire so far. So I might spend some of the weekend dreaming
I have been up since literally the crack of dawn today and alot of the night with a poorly daughter who has a very bad cough! However i have soldiered on and tackled my garden like a trooper…i have trimmed my bushes and cut my grass before i lost my little dog Reggie within the jungle it was becoming! After becoming a somewhat sweaty mess i am now showered, feeling fresh and accomplished! I reckon i have earned tonights take away
Mission accomplished
I can’t believe it, I ticked off EVERYTHING of today’s do-do-list!
Bought sandwiches from my favourite shop to reward and spoil me And the evening will be spend on the couch. Flat. I’m done, showered, tired, full. Inside it’s still tempered and I love my comfy farmhouse. What a nice & fine friday
Question of the week: what’s something you know now, you wished you knew then?
For me, it’s that your diet is for weightloss, lifting is for muscle and cardio is for heart/lung health.
I spent a lot of time in the past focusing on the wrong activities for the wrong reasons and was discouraged when I failed to see results.
Anyhow, I have work from home today, so it’ll be an easy low key day. Gym later this afternoon and my son’s last day of middle school, he’ll officially be a highschooler later today.
The weather is starting to warm up and plan on spending some time on the back deck today!
What a great question! I had to have a wee think there. I’d say, for me, it’s somewhere along the lines that I don’t have to please people in order to have them as friends. I can have my boundaries.
@Planipennia I so appreciate you. I always forget its Friday until I see you post.
It is after midnight so technically Friday here. No work today because I work the weekend so after I sleep I’m meeting my sister for lunch at our annual Art Festival downtown. I have a huge list of things to do so I might do those things, or I might skip them all. It is also one of my bestie’s birthdays so hopefully I’ll see her. I won’t be drinking.
I’m already busy, have been puttering around the house tidying and preparing for the people who help me mount some lamps
Cool morning, past 7 we are sitting on the balcony having tea Where my cat people? #3 - #2263 by erntedank
Maybe I post before/after pictures later, I’m happy to finally get the lamps on the ceilings.
Maybe fetch the mulcher from the garage later. Have to pick up a parcel at the post office. Either cook a yummi meal or order pizza.
Not thinking too much of all the garden/farmwork that needs to be done. First things first
Edit to add: No lamp mounting today, need to buy some parts first. And order drill bits (thanks ex for loosing ALL of the HILTI bits) So I’ll be happy next week
Had a crappy night so gonna try and recover and take it easy today. Reminders of bad drinking days… grateful I didn’t damage my body any further with that poison.
Happy Friday!
Made a curry for dinner, then after my kids and I enjoyed using my old calligraphy pens to write letters and designs. Cool to see them enjoying a hobby from my childhood.
I had a terrible sleep last night, couldn’t sleep until well past 1AM, woke up at 5:30AM wide awake…
Maybe it’s that I have a million things to do in the one day before I leave on holiday or maybe it was the sudden realization I am now 2 weeks away from my colonoscopy. Either way, I’m currently running on sheer pluck, moxie, and grit.
I’ve made my self a nice cup of coffee and shall now repair to my office for hours of titallating spreadsheet excitement.
It’s a lovely rainy, breezy and cool day here today. A welcome respite from the heat and humidity. I have the house opened up and have tackled my “depression room” aka my once zen den. Basically my bonus room (dressing room, craft space, lounge, etc.). What a difference a little decluttering makes! I had not dealt with the pile of items and my work bag after clearing things from my desk after being released from my job. I like the romantic wording of being released, it’s helped me wrap my mind around that whole shocking experience. A weight is lifting as I make that space more zen. Regrets for not doing it sooner don’t help, so I’m grateful to have the energy and will to do it now.
We are having friends over tomorrow for an Independence Day celebration, BBQ and bonfire before my city’s fireworks display at night. They set them off in the empty lot behind our house so we have front row seats. It should be fun. I am making potato salad today, which I haven’t made in years, but I prefer my homemade to any others I’ve tried so I’m looking forward to that. It’s a typical American potato salad but I put my own little flair on it, I guess. After lunch I will run some errands as the rain is supposed to let up for a bit, then I’ll come home and get busy in the kitchen. No big plans tonight other than a light dinner and a movie most likely. Today is a good day.
it’s too hot, next week it will be 26, but without AC and in London it feels like the sun. Airless and smokey and noisy. I feel like every single water pipe has been dug up in our surrounding area for months and it’s so annoying to even get out of our little private close and onto a main road. I think you can only imagine this if you think of moving one mile every 35 minutes. We have been walking everywhere for this reason, but now it’s really hot. Anyway, humbug, I hate summer.
