Day in the car

A sunny start of the day. My parents picked me up after breakfast and then we went to pick up my sister. Then we’ve spent the day in the car driving down to our paradise.

Hardly any traffic at all fortunately and the trip went well. Arrived at a rainy paradise in the late afternoon. Now we’ve unpacked and crashed for a bit while waiting for more family members to arrive later on this evening. So nice to have some quality time together – hopefully away from some stress.

Yesterday I came down with some sort of cold and cough but no fever or headache. I took a covid-test this morning to be on the safe side and it was negative. Good.

Time off

Midweek and my last workday for a while. Easter break coming up and tomorrow I’m going down to our paradise with my parents and sister.

I got a lot done at work this morning so I’m ok with being away for a bit. Nothing that stresses me so that’s good.

Been busy this afternoon doing laundry, ironing and packed my bags. Don’t need to bring that much but there’s always a lot of things in the end for some reason. Unfortunately I am getting a cold – I hope it will go away quickly. Runny nose, a slight cough and hoarse voice. But, I feel ok, no fever and no headache so that’s good.

Star for me

This morning we shut down one of our systems at work and updated it with a new way to log into the system. And everything worked beautifully – puh. A star for me and our it manager!  Maybe I can sleep tonight now that I don’t need to worry about that anymore. Perfect.

Had lunch with a dear friend today – our monthly lunch dates are very precious to both of us. Nice.

Got on the same subway as my hubby on the way home. Of course we missed the bus by a minute so we took a walk home instead of waiting for the next bus. Nice. Now we have finished the last leftovers in the fridge – so different meals for all four. Lol.

Soccer

Easter-week means short week. Great. Made a few stops on my way back from work to try and see if I could buy an extra pair of the jeans that I wear, but no such luck. All out. So I ordered them online instead.

Made myself some toast with creamed mushrooms for a late lunch. Mmm. Then some beef for dinner. Saving the leftovers for another day. Lol.

Tonight we have been watching our national soccer team playing a practice international game towards Albania. Haven’t impressed me so far but we are in a 1-0 lead as we speak. They lost towards Portugal 5-2 the other day. Our new team coach is up for a challenge..

Wrong shape

A gray Sunday with some rain – not very inspiring to be outdoors. My hubby went with me to the mall to try and see if I could find something to wear for the birthday party I’ve been invited to in a couple of weeks. No luck. I’m the wrong shape for the clothes available in the stores. Bummer.

We might pick up some dinner tonight. Made some bolognese so that my youngest has some for his lunch boxes. Glad I can help.

Three more days – and quite busy ones – then Easter break! Next weekend we are switching over to summer time too – spring is really arriving now. But the forecast promised some more snow the next couple of days. Oh well.

Me-time

I had booked some me-time this afternoon and it was just what I needed. Almost fell asleep during the massage – perfectly relaxed. Great. Have another massage booked in 3 weeks. Something to look forward to. 

Made burgers with mash for dinner – haven’t done that in a while. 

Now we’ve crashed in our corners watching another couple of episodes of the Netflix series – “Fubar”. It’s ok. Not great. 

Rain

A grey and rainy last day of the week and I really look forward to having a couple of days off. Tomorrow I have some me-time booked – great! 

A busy day today with a lot of meetings all day. I got in a bit early and stayed an hour late to assist with the technology in the meeting rooms. Glad I could help. 

Now some corner time after a nice family dinner. First episode of Masked Singer starts tonight – might be fun. I have some fun Wordfeud-games going on too – love a challenge! Just look at the amazing start of this game! 

Back again

Our youngest came back safe and sound this afternoon after his ski-trip with his friends. Good to have him back home again and I think they have had a great time. I’m glad! 

Me and my colleague went out for lunch after work to a nice place in the Gallerian where we’ve been a couple of times. We had a very “Hammarby”-looking dish – all green and white – lol. It was steam baked haddock with herb sauce and mash with parmesan and garlic. Really tasty! 

Tonight we can enjoy a nice dinner all together as a family again. Lovely!

Win 33-26

Since I was going to a game tonight I switched my Wednesday and Thursday schedule so I worked my full day today and get of early tomorrow instead. Lovely.

Met up with my parents and two of their friends outside the handball arena. Three more games before the finals start – facing the leading team tonight and we are in second place. We can’t advance in the tournament but we still needed to win to not risk being passed by another team. And we won! 33-26 – clear numbers. The arena was sold out and it felt like everybody who had a ticket was there too – amazing 1850 people (I think the arena can take 1800 or something).

Thank you for a fun evening!

New menu

I decided to give my category “Castle-of-the-month” a higher level so I put it up by the rest of the headlines so it is easier to access and look at all the castles we’ve visited so far. If you have any suggestions of castles to see, please leave a comment there. 

Today we picked up lunch from DinDin in Mood Galleria and it was really nice. My dish was called “Sneaky Samurai” and had chicken as protein. They have a lot of funny named dishes – all delicious! 

Our heating pump broke down last night so hubby stayed at home today to get a service personnel here. Fortunately, it was repairable so he could fix it while he was here. Perfect. Otherwise it would have been a big expense for us if we would have had to replace the whole pump. But, I guess we need to plan for a replacement and save up.