I Think Weeks Do Evaporate
In case you were wondering: Yes, the husband is fine. As Kjersti confirmed, men do have the tendency to get lost in whatever they are doing, so that it takes them about twice as long as it would take under normal circumstances and naturally they always leave their cellphones at home, so the women can worry. Thankyouverymuch.
My whole week of vacation evaporated into a great nothingness. I don’t know where it went. I can’t believe it’s over yet. Where did it go? Why was it so short? What did I do? Why is it already Saturday tomorrow?
I can’t say. I haven’t even finished Kafka on the Shore, but I did get three new books, so at least I have a pile of book now and don’t have to worry about new book orders in the near future.
But, actually I know where the week went to. It went to cleaning the apartment, a trip to IKEA included, new furniture (mostly storage space), old things put on ebay for sale, sorting all my papers and finding out that I have even more money saved than I thought I had (I like when that happens). It went to my cousin’s birthday and configuring my aunt’s router so she can go online again. It went to leaving one highway because of a traffic jam just to be stuck in a much much worse traffic jam on the other highway. It went to throwing stacks of old magazines out, but that was part of the cleaning things. I just thought I’d mention it. It also went to a whole day in Cologne where I couldn’t decide on any bed linen or table cloth and I wore new and terribly uncomfortable tights, so I was so exhausted after my first trip to the changing room that I just gave up instead of giving it another try. So all my spending-money-like-crazy-plans were subtly changed into buy-marshmallows-and-orange-juice-plans. I didn’t even buy the fancy book on translating and the toy-store disappointed me by its new and surprisingly small collection of boardgames I do not care for.
Also, parking is so damn expensive, we should have come by train.
BUT, the apartment is very tidy and clean now. I love our new furniture, love that we have new storage space and putting the dishes in the living room might actually have been a really good idea.
This is the news. I’m tired and I have only watched eight episodes of Gilmore Girls so far. What’s wrong with that? Oh yeah, the cleaning. I forgot. Oh no, I didn’t. Too much evidence around me.