My weight loss has slowed down, actually, I'm at a steady -4 kg for some time now, occasionally dropping & gaining 1 kg. But that's OK. All my pants & skirts are loose. I am planning on losing more during summer months when eating anything beside salad and watermelon seems like suicide mission. I plan on not cooking during the summer heat, but I still lunch out, so that's really not a problem.
My mom's garden started giving fruits. I got my first larger supply this weekend (salad, spinach, onion, carrots, strawberries, cherries, potatoes) and plan on zucchini next weekend. Let the season begin :)
The weekend was unbearably hot. We had 31-32°C during the day, which is about 5°C hotter that the usual temperatures. I've spent the weekend painting wood panels for a hut, picking cherries, playing with the dog and sleeping at noon when it was too hot to even breathe. But it was alright, only that today I'm all sore and every muscle in my body hurts, arms especially. Also, since summer officially started, looks like everybody was spending the weekend on the seashore, since my return trip looked more like a tourist cruise on the highway than actually driving, due to heavy traffic, so that at one point, about in the middle of my journey, I left the highway and voted for the byways. At least I was moving forward. I hate heavy traffic and I hate drivers who drive the overtaking zone at 90 km/h, when they should be doing 130 km/h.
In other - more splendid news -, my boyfriend decided to buy me an early birthday present and ordered me a Kindle from the USA! We were talking about it for some time now and we were waiting for a UK delivery, but since that has not been an option so far, he just went and ordered it for me from the States! I LOVE reading books, and love owning them, but have absolutely no place to store them, and I hate the libraries, because they never have the book you want. Now I'll be able to have about 3500 books in one device! And no heavy packages for holidays :) How cool is that?
Anyway, my Kindle has just arrived, delivered in a gift-wrap straight to my office! :) Can't wait to come home and start using it! (and I will need to buy it a pretty cover to prevent damages).
So, family news. My brother is getting married in September. We knew that part for some time now, but the latest news is, I am said to be the "best (wo)man" to my brother (not best man, obviously, but having that position in the wedding ceremony). Does that make me a bridesmaid, since that position is entitled to the bride's attendant? I am not sure. We do have a more common title to describe, without the sexes, it means something like a "witness", since you attend them and witness to their wedding. Anyway, my brother has not said a word about it yet, not asked me, for that matter, so I'm officially clueless, but my mom told me he told them. Since he so much loves playing games with me and keeping me in ignorance, I might just play dumb along and pretend surprise and tell him, that he should have told me sooner so that I'd save the money for it! :) And yes, that will leave me quite a few euros short, being a best (wo)man is not cheap! :) so I'll need to get married, too, some day, to make him my Man of Honor to get the money back :))
I have some even more exciting news, that are sadly not mine to share, not for now. But I'm super thrilled about it and I pray all goes well!!
Oh wow, so many news! :))
ReplyDeleteHmmmm, you see, I never understood the purpose of Kindle until you explained it to me now - no heavy bags! Until then I just thought that the same could be done with iPhone (or some other phone like that) or iPad or something.... but now I understand :-D Huge memory, no heave books. Got it :D
Oh, we have the word "witness", too! :) That's soooo great, congrats to your brother! :) And you definitely need to get married some day to get the money back, hahahahaha :-D (is there anyhing besides the dress and the gift that you need to buy? or as a witness, you¨re supposeed to buy a really big gift?)
what what, what is the "more exciting news"? :-))
Oh, and at last but not least - CONGRATULATIONS ON 90 DAYS!!!!! :)
ReplyDeletePeta thanks, on everything :)
ReplyDeleteYes well, you could read with iPad or similar too, but that's like reading on computer - you can't really read for too long without your eyes starting to hurt due to the lighting. While Kindle, on the other hand, does not work like a computer screen. There's no lighting so if you want to read it, you need to do just as you do with a book - read during the day or switch on the light in the room. The technology makes it REALLY easy to read. I've spend my yesterday evening reading on it, of course, without any problem at all! The only thing that bugs me is that I am now so used to touch screen that I want to flip pages like on an iPad and no, that doesn't work on Kindle, you need to push buttons. But it's better for this purpose, works splendidly. And it's small and light and you have no problems with book bindings when the pages won't stay open :) And yes, 3500 books in one small device is wonderful! You can always have it with you! And you can get many books for free, like old classics, Jane Austen and similar. I think I got like 55 books on it yesterday alone. Plenty of reading material to last me a summer! :)
Oh yes, and I would be grateful for book recommendations!
About the wedding: it depends, every couple has their own expectations and you need to talk it with them, what they expect from you. Some couple just want a "witness" others demand them paying the rings or the honeymoon and such. Knowing my brother, he won't say anything about it, but I do plan on giving them about 500 eur, no matter the form of it (be it rings or money or a baby stroller). If I were not a witness, I'd give them about 100-200 eur, possibly some of it in some sort of a gift that I have not decided about yet, just for memory's sake. But since he hasn't asked me about it yet, I cannot discuss it with them, can I? :)
The more exciting news :) I cannot talk about it, but the answer lies inside this reply :)
And, that's 91 days now :)
:-D After midnight ow -> 92! :)
ReplyDeleteI'll reply more, but for the moment, I have a guess: the code for the exciting news is the baby stroller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-))))))
I cannot say :))
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