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We bought a houSe this morning. Signed more than thirty times, both of us. Got the keys and some big old maps. Went there and heated up two rooms.

We got two homes now, for a while. Tonight we’ll sleep in the city.

The birthdays of S and my youngest brother today. S is still sleeping and i wonder if we’ll make it to the second hand bike market before noon. Probably not. Since we didn’t get the keys yet, we had to alter our plans when it comes to a restaurant. So now we have a reservation in Amadeus for two hours this evening.

#gift hints: something from them there and this.

Oh yes, before we left to the camping S had sent me a mail but i only read it the evening we returned back home (which was yesterday). He surprised me with two tickets to Róisín Murphy in Brussel!

I’m a lucky happy woman. :)

We’re back in the city and the sun is shining still! Tomorrow we’ll go back in time in Ursel.

After three nights at the camping it feels okay to be home again. Three days in the green filled with biking around the area (nature and farm animals), barbeque-cooking, swimming (inside and outside), playing mini-golf, riding mini-train, driving to new home (a surprise for Gk), looking for a place to eat in Eksaarde (and finding an idyllic restaurant in Moerbeke), sitting at the sunny terras with fresh drinks and an enthusiast camping-car couple from Antwerpen, renting go-cars for Geike and Laura, feeding leftovers of the plop burger from our tent-neighbor Dylan to a hungry hedgehog, staring at the starry sky from our green corner..

Back home we found the house stinking of cat shit – a problem that required urgent action. Luckily the cats kept it all inside the box so the cleaning up was fast done. It’s all right now.

After the first visit to our dream houSe (on last saturday) we stopped in the center or Wachtebeke for one verwenkoffie and three duvels. We saw few boogschieters entering the second café (where a woman sitting next to us said those words). Our car was parked not so far from a corner bakery.

Barbeque at (current) home on saturday evening; tea party birthday in Brussels on Sunday.

We drove back to the High Street yesterday evening and took another step forward into the future! Papers were signed on the soft moss garden. Back to the concrete city. Next steps will bring us to the bank. They want both of us to take life insurances.

S came to sauna and brought me a towel as well.

It’s my birthday! Got plenty of flowers, a bottle of duval-leroy brut, a mighty mouse and full service (startig from noon) from S.. He’s upstairs now – out of duty until bubbles time ;)

We’ll have a dinner in amatsu tonight. I haven’t been out of house yet today.

*edit: mijn broer had voor de zuid-finse oerwouden gedoneerd, on my behalf, and thus protected 36 square meters of forest. Makes me happy!

Saturday: we took initiative and drove all the way to Ternat because of ikea. The shop will move in Gent by the end of this year but we just couldn’t wait that long. S selected components for a modular desk (which is now ready and waiting for his to-be-delivered self-selected modular apple package). And i picked up some yellow towels, wooden flower pots, white baskets, wooden shelves for the bathroom and a small kettle along the way.

We drove home via Nazareth. Again some crappy house next door! We’ll call anyway on monday.

Upstairs look fresher now. It’s been raining all day today so we haven’t been much out.

#link Yongfook [i like the blog design and open source food he made]
#photo my new desktop image [one of these days i'll try making HDR pics myself]

So tired day but luckily busy so i didn’t have to start to feel uncomfortable until when i left the office. But then back in our street i felt a relief because when Evi was outside smoking at the door of 23 with the neighbor whose name escapes me now and i stopped to talk about new year’s street party planned for mid-february S came home from another direction and joined us and we talked about he scouts before we both went in. And whatever it was is forgiven, for both of us. It should not happen ever again.

Untroubled by the chaos of our lives.

Today i finally received my first Mind Magazine home delivered. It came along with the Japanese patterns book i ordered not so long ago.

Last week’s unexpected phone call lead to goodness that will happen tomorrow morning.

I took a day off and arranged an appointment for the cats. Because of my free day I’ll miss the first meeting for film scenario. But we should not leave the choices for our happiness for hazard.* Good sleep is necessary now.

*want geluk was niet iets wat je aan het toeval kon overlaten

Both of eS home, sleep long and feel rested.. i woke up first and boiled some hot water to serve tea for my ugly cough. Then back in ‘t bed reading (still) andy’s diaries while S was playing war on ps. Later he made us black coffee, which i hadn’t had in seven days. Had two cups.

Most of the day we stayed in the top room – arranging – at ease with bubbleS.

Hier zijn we nu in onze blauwe kamer na het zwemmen in caribbean space.. alle twee au poil in ‘t bed.. S kijkt naar “boxing” en ik surf via wifi gratuit.

We arrived soon after 15 this afternoon, relaxed a bit after check in, then took a metro to place de clichy and walked down rue de clichy to see the shaving equipment shop that’s been there since the sixties. S was impressed by the wide range of items but didn’t buy a thing. He also didn’t buy a watch – yet – in any of the shops in gay Marais. We were the first customers in Politburo.. had dinner in Chez Marianne.

A lot of people were driving with the new bikes of Velib.