How is it already the last week of June? How is it already 2024? How am I possibly going to be turning 60 in a little over a month from now? The mind boggles. It’s been a mostly relaxing weekend, with one beautiful sunny warm day and one chilly, rainy grey day, though the skies have mostly cleared now at 8 pm and the sun is shining again.
Yesterday, I had a to-do list that consisted of housework: defrosting the freezer, lots of laundry, vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms, emptying garbage cans. I got it all done and had plenty of time to hang out in the sun in the garden swing and then on the deck. Our garden is looking great, though the lawn itself is a bit patchy due to moss-killing stuff that Anders spread a while back. I picked a huge bowl of ripe cherries as well, the first of the year, and the first time we’ve had any cherries to speak of in more than 2 years.
It’s been a pretty good week, with lots going on and lots of sunshine and beautiful summer days. Martin started working at Beachgarden, where Karin is working, though he’s in the kitchen, and she’s working the bar and serving. I am super pleased that he has something for the summer, even if it is still in restaurant work, which he doesn’t really want, but after 5 months of fruitless jobhunting, he couldn’t really say no.
Karin went to Copenhagen with her two friends that are apartment hunting to look at a place, and they will be taking it. She doesn’t find out if she’s gotten in to Copenhagen University until late July (which is crazy), but she plans to move there regardless, and just work if she isn’t in school. She’s not worried about finding a job and she has the Beachgarden gig until into September and even later if the weather stays nice, though she’ll then have to commute back to Malmö, since they will move into the apartment in mid-September.
She left today for a week of volunteer work at the Roskilde music festival, which she’s done for the past several years with her best friend. Anders and I spent today doing a few chores, and then spent a couple of hours booking most of the rest of the Ireland trip: trains to each of our destinations, and tickets to the sights/day-tours we have planned. I’m starting to get excited! We also booked what seems like a very nice restaurant for my actual birthday in Galway. We’ll spend the day out touring to the Cliffs of Moher and the sights along the coast, south of town.
I thought this week coming was going to be calm but it’s turned out to be anything but. We are meeting Martin and Theo and Theo’s parents on Tuesday in Lund for dinner, then Wednesday I have to go shopping for supplies for the AIC Independence Day BBQ, Thursday we are invited to Lisel & Martin’s for dinner, and Friday I’m having dinner with Debbie and Camilla. Then Saturday is the AIC BBQ that we are hosting here. There are currently 53 people signed up, which isn’t up to our record participation but which is still quite respectable. I just hope the weather stays nice!
Mood: accomplished and anticipatory
Music: B*Witched—Blame it on the Weatherman