Mobile!!!!!

Song of the day: “Lush Life” by Zara Larson. Well, something new, at least, and peppy. I like it, and for the moment don’t mind having it stuck in my head from time to time. Hah.

So, here we are, much too late, once again, getting sucked into daily life, leaving very little time to stuff like blogging, and such. Still, I try regardless. I do love to blog, and usually, with every day that passes, I will be in bed late at night, thinking: shaite, I forgot my blog again. Or I will try to write it, and sit at the table and find myself dropping off in the middle of a sentence because I’m just that tired. Ah well…we do what we can, don’t we?

What’s been happening. Quite a bit, in fact. Much of it involving work, naturally. Making long days at the moment, which is good, considering big brother and I had to fold to one of our resolutions over here and get a car. Yep. We are once again mobile. It was inevitable. Arranging for transportation every time, public transportation being on the costly side, in particular if there are two people traveling. One would be doable, two, definitely makes a car viable. Anyway. It’s a second hand one, of course, and we had to do loads of research (everyone thought they needed to get involved, so that was kinda weird) but we did find one that we could afford and that seems to be functioning properly. Luckily cars are a little cheaper here to procure, making it all possible. I gotta say that it is a relief no longer needing to borrow one, or to have to go bonkers wondering how you’re going to arrange this or that.

I applied for another job. This one for cooking. Had to wait until we had a car for it, but it was still there, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. It doesn’t mean I’m quitting this one, just that I want to add something fun to it. It involves cooking at an art gallery once a month. A 3 course meal, fully vegetarian dishes, which should be a nice challenge, if they want me.

Had our second meal with our father and his wife. A very cozy afternoon that turned into evening before we got home, pretty much running on fumes. Had a wonderful lunch, which they had prepared. Talked about the past some, looked at pictures from relatives and our youngest half-brother in various stages of his life. Vacation photos etc. Also, we went for a walk around the neighborhood, which was quiet and cozy. They knew most people, if not by name then by face, and we met with a couple of people from our past that we had just talked about last month or so, because we wondered what had become of them. They used to live in the same place our father did, and on the weekends we were there, we’d spend many afternoons at their place with their kids. Her, I didn’t recognize except for her short stature, but him, I immediately recognized, due to his height and curly hair. She recognized us, I think, but he didn’t, but they seemed happy to see us again after all these years. What has it been? 29 years? Weird, I know.

Anyway, we’ll be seeing them (father and stepmother) again in the new year. I was a lot less edgy this time around, which is reassuring.  The silences weren’t uncomfortable so how it’ll go further…I’ll keep you posted.

Went to visit tenant and Cousin Ed last week. Not a long visit. It was more of a spur of the moment thing because we were testing out the car, and figured we might as well pop over. Tenant was really happy to see us, so I was glad we bothered. She was rather sad about grandpa still, but she’s handling it, and that’s a relief.

Been doing a weekly day at the charity shop. More because my friend there keeps asking, and I find it hard to say no, rather than really an inclination. But, anyways, keeping busy is still a priority for me, so I’ll take it.

Lotsa extra hours at the sauna. No choice really. The building is new and there are so many problems that still need to be ironed out. I build a couple of carrier carts for the whirlpool covers, as requested, because those dratted things are heavy and some folks just can’t carry them. At the moment I’m painting a cabin that was procured for construction, which we’ll probably end up doing as well. Never a shortage of plans going on there, meaning there is always enough to do.

Cooking has been difficult lately. What with work, finding a car, visiting tenant etc. there just wasn’t a lot of time. Same goes for writing, despite the fact that I did manage to write a bit in the Banshee story last week. It’s sporadic at best.

I am liking my room, which is really comfortable now. Got quite a bit of furniture gathered already for when the time comes for us to move to a different place. It is not yet, but it will be soon. We’re ready for that independence, want it in fact. Our land lady is nice and everything, but our own place will give us more freedom for sure. So if the opportunity arrives (we signed up with a local company that works with anti-squatters, and we’re now a member due to one of our colleagues who sponsored us) we’ll see about achieving that particular goal. It should be marvelous having our own place.

Big brother’s B-Day is coming up (as is mine, for that matter) and our colleagues at work are thinking of doing something for it. First off he’s going to get presents, which makes him groan, and secondly, LL (the one he works with most) has talked him into going out on the town on the night in question. Should be interesting, especially since our other colleagues are going to go along. Hah. Nice bunch, still, and finally a newbie to help out. Very necessary, since we’ve been running ragged.

Christmas will be busy. Yeah, I know, weird right. We say we don’t do Christmas and get invited to two occasions that we can’t say no to. First one is at tenant’s of course. Second one is with our colleague, with both of them similar dinner plans. Hah.

Well, it’s late and tomorrow is a working day, so I’m going to leave it at this. I’ll be back.

Here are some pics.

 

One part of the house.

 Another

The woods

The heath nearby