Gelfling

Hey Ingmar

well I don't cook like that every day. Mostly on the weekends. When I get home from cooking all day, I feel like soup

Hey, nothing wrong with meat and vegs

yeah Italians would be sad

I loooove lasagna. I don't make it very often because cooking it for two is just as much work and I don't have a freezer

it's just as well, trust me. Chinese food, much like most Asian cuisines, is very produce oriented and you need the right ingredients. And even when they're not too hard to find (here, they are), they take up a lot more room than I have

most of the time they don't either (Engrish

yeah cats are the bosses, get used to it.

Hey Kate You should get your ass over here and I'd cook for you

I knoooow, right? so fluffy!

wardengrill

I will, I promise



Need to buy some

Gelfling

Maybe I'll make it to Poland first and we can all have dinner at the brand new Casa de Aga when she's done renovating.

What are you doing with it? Not that it needs more than a spoon

wardengrill

Oh that sounds awesome I'm in

My mom does some desserts with it but basically yeah,I use the spoon most of the time So it does not last long in the fridge

Gelfling

mmm now I'm drooling

yeah when I need it for cooking, I usually get two because one of those will be gone before I need it

wardengrill

Yes that's the problem

How was your weekend?

Alwayshappy

This weekend Jos' brother came by for a visit with his three kids. They wanted to see the cats. Before arrival we made them promise a few things (no picking them up, etc), but as it turns out they were true kids. Didn't listen, so they left earlier than planned. Cats were pretty scared, because they would gang up on the cats while making hard sounds. We saw they were scared, so told Jos's brother that they really had to calm down. He decided to leave earlier than planned, since it was clear they couldn't behave theirselves. It went a bit better towards the end, but it was only for a short while. At least the cats slept through the rest of the day, so we had a quiet day

Gelfling

That's not a problem, that's a bonus

Weekend was good. I didn't do a single thing off my to-do list so I guess that's why it was good. How about you Kate?

Today I came home to find my fridge had been opened all day so I had to throw everything. Ugh. That'll teach me to have a full fridge because I'm too lazy to shop

yep. Sounds like kids and kitties. How old are they?

all this emotion made them sleepy, poor things.

wardengrill

Right, my bad


True,those are the best days

I was home the whole weekend but obviously it didn't stop me to spend too much money online (but part of it was spend on books so I'm telling myself is not that bad )

Also,I'm currently on the pay leave and now that I got some rest I'm bored I need to find some new things to do

Oh no

Gelfling

Lazy weekends are the best. And then you have to deal with the guilt for the rest of the week

Ack! Damn internet

So not all on jewelry and accessories? Wow
By the way, how were those books you were starting the last time we talked books?

well, when I was bored and complained as a kid, my grandfather handed me a language book and said "you're bored? here, learn something"
You can never be bored when you learn and bonus, it keeps you young (not that you need it but you will later )

And seriously, I don't mean learn something boring but find something you never had time for like... ice skating? () or making bread, or origami or the harmonica
Is there anything you always wanted to learn but never really got into?

I know! and I had some great things in there. My ricotta , some beautiful duck, farm goat cheese, ox cheeks! Argh! I'm getting a lock for that thing!

wardengrill

I know!


Oddly enough, non Not sure how it happened though This time books and cosmetics


Hmm I guess talked about Svetlana Alexievich and a polish author and I can't remember now anything else But those I read I enjoyed very much. Recently I read a beautiful book In the absence of men (not in original French version though),really touching. And I'm reading some Polish authors Oh and a little great crime novel by a Bohemian author

That's a good point
I knoooow I just don't have any specific idea on what I could do,need to think about it more I have almost one month left


Oh not that's too bad You should!

Gelfling

Just to confuse the NSA

You were just starting Les Bienveillantes

I like Besson but I have never read that one. I should read in French again a bit, I'm starting to lose my French for good

That's intriguing

Life of Reilly! then you really need to learn something. Hey, it can be fun. Buy a book about cocktails and get some bartending going

I have to get ready for work now enjoy your day of leisure

wardengrill

You got me


Ahhh that's right. I couldn't get over this book for quite some time,it's terrifying. I think it's great, I would recommend for sure


That's the only one I read so far And what else would you recommend?




It is I mean it's not the best crime novel ever but it has a great vibe and well,takes place in Prague so I can't find the English title,I'm not sure if it was printed in English


Ok I will think about it

Have a nice day! And thank you!

Alwayshappy

The kids are respectively 6, 5 and 3 if I remember correctly So yeah, pretty young.

Bummer about your fridge :/ Such a shame.

I don't know if you know ''DHL'' (a package service)...I have had nothing but trouble with them. A while ago I ordered some pet supplies. I think I told you about this...3 of the 4 packages arrived fine, but for some reason they had issues delivering the fourth one...saying that our adress was ''closed for business'', followed by us not being home, etc. We ended up buying the product elsewhere, only to have the item delivered after all, so we sent it back.
After that experience I only had two experiences with DHL and they were okay. This week I bought some clothes...and of course DHL delivers it the issue? They should have delivered it yesterday, but the tracking says I wasn't home Again. I was home, even camping at the front door, lol. Just called and they promised me they would deliver it today...I am super curious.

Gelfling

Aww they're awesome at that age. But um yeah not in groups of 3

me too! Now every time I see a site that uses them, I go do my shopping somewhere else! The only ones I've had a worse experience with was Fedex but DHL, damn!
The first online purchase I made, they lost my damn package and couldn't track it. They had me run all over town trying to get it.

DHL: Screwing with your online purchases since 1994

yeah that's code for: delivery guy had a lunch appointment and just didn't feel like getting out of the car

Sounds like my kind of books Haunting and depressing. Bonus points if it's over 800 pages

I have only read his first novels. He's been very prolific in the past five years and I haven't had the time to catch up but my favorite of the ones I read was "Un Garçon d'Italie". I'm sure it's been translated because it won him a lot of prizes. It's a complicated love story between three people, a man who was just found dead, his wife, and his lover. His death pretty much shatters the "cover" he had made of his life and you get the perspective of the woman and the man who loved him, as well as his, from the grave.
Bonus point: it takes place in Italy

"Se résoudre aux Adieux" is also pretty good. It's an epistolary, with letters written by a woman to her ex-lover who went back to his wife. She writes to him about their life together and her life now that she's lost him. It could be depressing but it's more a journal of her travels, figurative and literal, to get over that part of her life, take the best of it, and move on.

I guess I should know Polish

How's the vacation going? Not too bored?