Healthy food!

Among different decisions of how to make our life together sweet - such as the one to buy some fantastic bamboo chairs for the garden, or the one to download a lot of series and movies to watch together – we decided to start eating more healthy. This was a big project, because, separated we're not the best example of healthiness when it comes to food. But when we are together, our joy, enthusiasm and natural gourmandise drive us to believe ourselves to be in eternal holidays and feast every day with all the deliciousness we can find.

So, we – or rather Wendy – established a little program of very healthy and low energy food. We followed this program bravely, eating a lot of fruits, vegetables, and proteines, and (for now) saying goodbye to all our edible sins.


But this week…this week we have succumbed! Thursday, we made a rich dinner. With a spoon of potatoes and meat in pepper sauce! Then we yielded during our geek night, and we eat Swedish cookies with our tea. Not so much however…It was almost reasonable.

Friday, our laziness agreed with our gourmandise. Always a very bad combination! Instead of preparing a nice light dinner to compensate our earlier excess, we ordered Chinese takeout; some springrolls and other dishes. The much heavier food was so different for us at this point, that we only managed to eat the first meal left the remains for the morrow after. This dinner still didn’t stop us from buying a big pot of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream: chocolate and marshmallow.

And then, Saturday. We should've stopped here, and started being more reasonable again, as was our initial plan. What we really did though, was to eat the remains of the Chinese takeout, and at the evening get another box of Ben & Jerry's. Caramel and macadamia nuts! “Whatever", we thought, "It's saturday today, we'll be more reasonable tomorrow.

But today, Sunday, we didn't find that courage at all. As we had been either inside or in the garden for the last few days, we decided to pay a visit to the Museum of Music. And after our educative excursion, we finished the afternoon in a thai restaurant. It was very good, and so was the third bin of Ben & Jerry's we ended up eating afterwards.. (Cookie dough!!)

Mission in Bruxelles

Today, we took the trip to Bruxelles. The travel time is a bit long, 45 minutes - especially in this heat.Today's mission was to find an outfit for Thaïs (Wendy’s daughter) who will participate for the first time to Avatar, a yearly famous LARP event in Belgium.

This she will attend with her two uncles (Wendy's brothers), Corentin and Thomas.

So, our adventure started in the middle of Saint Gilles, an area in Bruxelles with a particular atmosphere. It's basically a cocktail of poor population, artists, strangers of any country and older people, it’s easy to find cheap shops there of any kind and every taste. This including the world-spanning arabic shops: cheap, exotic and kitch. We visited four shops in a row, where we at each found one piece for the costume. End result: little rogue! Not bad.

However, we were not done. Just so we didn't make the drip just for this outfit, we decided to go further in the “normal” commercial area and buy books in the Waterstone English Library. We got two books for Wendy (the book 2 and 3 of The Runelord serie writted by David Farland), Fredrik had enough books to read for now.

Hungry, thirsty and tired, we ended to stop by one restaurant Ekxi, sort of bio fastfood for Bobo ("Bourgeois boheme", aka rich but ecologic/spiritual/artist-esque people) After some back and forth, we got a chicken salad. Nom nom! 

On the way back, we saw the typical street musician, but with a fairly non-typical instrument. The easiest way to describe it would be a big bell / wok-pan with lid on kept between his knees and used as a percussion, apparently an instrument concieved in Switzerland, year 2000. The sound is not much unlike the kind of hammered-to-shape "beach-style" metal drum that's often heard in tropically themed music. 

At the point of writing we're back home - still warm from the sun, but cooling off with some lemonade Wendy made (also nom nom). It's almost time for dinner (and later, more slacking?). 

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Sun day

For today, we had big plans. We were to arrange the garage and the room of Wendy's kids, which up to now had been mostly used as storage space. We were firmly decided to be efficient today!
However, the sun was generous since the first hours of the day, so we decided instead that we would atleast enjoy the morning outside in our little stone garden.
We get our breakfast, comfortably sat onto the blanket, with our books ready to be read.
And we enjoyed the morning, and also the afternoon. And we didn't put one foot in the garage...Not yet. Perhaps we'll find the courage to be more reasonable this afternoon? And afterall the question is : is it really reasonable to work enclosed in a garage while you can get the sun nicely along a summer day?

Week one!

Fredrik arrived in Brussel airport in the evening! It was so unbelieveable that we were finally about to live together for real! After seven months of waiting, dreaming and hoping, this moment was finally arriving. He was there with only one suitcase (monitor and clothes), and a big box (computer and pillows, pillows are very important). The rest of the afternoon can be easily summed up as follows: Hot weather, sunshine, and cherries. When the evening came we decided to go to a little restaurant / bar (La Pomme) and have a nice dinner and get some drinks, with Wendy's two brothers Thomas and Corentin. After we'd had some nice food and had some mojitos, Thomas and Corentin had some additional whiskey shots, which culminated in Thomas eating a grasshopper, alive.

Notable things happening later this week would be several, like how we went to Ikea and bought the following:

• Computer desk
• Chairs (One for Wendy, one for Fredrik)
• Two shelves for our books
• One shelf for our DVDs and CDs
• One shelf for the bathroom
• Two shelves for general storage
• A nice little lamp!
• Stuff for the kitchen
• More random stuff (like clothespins.)

We set up some of it the same day, and the rest during the following day. We rearranged the whole living room, which now looks fantastic!

All in alll, our new life is just sweet. Instead of beeing stuck behind our screen separated by three countries, one sea and 3000 km, we can now spend our time together, and enjoy life as it should be. This blog will speak about the enjoyable adventure ahead!