NordenBladet – To start with, HAPPY INTERNATIONAL MEN’S DAY, DEAR MEN!! What would we, women, do without you?! We just wouldn’t do without you! 🙂 As always, I do not know where to begin with the blog and what to leave out of the story, because a lot that can be reflected on is piling up. It would be easier to blog each day separately… But I will try to bring to you the highlights of the week.
MONDAY—we made a cool app for the Estonian and Finnish NordenBladet site—a synopsis of electricity prices: ELECTRICITY PRICE GUIDE.
I promise that for those of us that love to economize, the electricity price guide is a game changer. Estonian electricity prices are lately very high and sometimes they are so high that it makes sense to consume less at those times (i.e. it’s not worth to cook meat in the oven for three hours and to do the laundry another time). A good example is the 15th November comparison for Estonian and Finnish electricity prices. The difference is so big! (see below the comparative table)
Our table is very easy to understand (like the traffic lights, showing good prices with the green light, medium prices (10-20 euro cents per kWh) with the amber light and the red colour shows prices that are 20+ euro cents per kWh. The table displays today’s as well as tomorrow’s electricity prices and info is visible on the web page and also from the cell phone. The more considerate use of electric power is nature-friendly, so that in any case it is reasonable to compare electricity prices and to consume at a suitable time. Read more about the app here: ELECTRICITY PRICE LIVE.
Talking about economizing, I would like to mention the Scandinavian Vogue that is issued six times a year. I like their business concept – the magazine can only be preordered, thus there will be no edition lying on the shelf in the store. I preordered the first two volumes (which have been published thus far). Wonderful work that has been done by Martina Bonnier and her team of editors. With every breath you feel the haute couture and the quality in the magazines as well as on the web. Fingers crossed – I hope my daughters will be able to become sufficiently successful so that one day our tiny Nordic family brand Elisheva & Shoshana will find a spot for ourselves between the covers of the magazine.
TUESDAY—Marketing of the electricity market price guide
The alarm went off early-early so that we could take Ivanka to school, and I was tired-tired, because on Monday we had pushed the electricity prices observation table live and the testing of this was still going on late at night. Even today the written code is still only just a few steps down the road and there’s a plan to create many extras (for example also the price with VAT) and also we plan to prepare a gas price guide. Since there was great interest and lots of feedback (well, it indeed is a necessary tool!), then we also plan to create a new improvement so that bloggers, webpage admins or anyone actually who is interested, could display this electricity price table on their pages. The entire Tuesday was spent marketing the app.
Oh, gosh, something very odd also happened on Tuesday.. Namely, when I was driving Ivanka back home from school, my ex husband texted me while I was on the road, and due to this I became so upset that, you know what: I GOT LOST. I took the wrong turn on the road that I have been using for nine years from day to day, and kept driving in an emotional state of affect until I was 40 km away from home. Then I stopped the car, called Allan, calmed down, switched on „Waze” and got back home. Not possible only in Russia, possible also with Helena-Reet.
⬇⬇⬇ This is what I look like early in the morning 😀
WEDNESDAY—Bernese mountain dog and comedy show „NUTA või NAERA” (sob or smile).
My previous neighbour’s (yes, the same woman that makes the wonderful Napoleon cake) dog had puppies a few months ago ? . They are crazy cute. Already in 2012 I planned to get a dog.. I even posted two blogs about that: We will take a dog VOL1 (this article is available only in Estonian) with the subtitle „Why do we need a dog, which dog, and how to get the husband to agree”and VOL2 (this article is available only in Estonian) with the subtitle „preparations”. Mhmmm.. So far we do not have a dog yet. The main reason for this is actually that the dog will be binding. When there are a lot of business trips it won’t be reasonable to keep a pet. The cat would generally be pretty much OK on its own for a few days. Anyway, she still has two male puppies left and so I simply had to check them out „just in case”. 🙂
There are plenty of cultural events happening. For Wednesday we had planned to visit Keila culture house where Henrik Normann’s jubilee performance named „NUTA või NAERA” took place and where he shared the stage with the brilliant Brigitte Susanne Hunt. Brigitte is almost like the young Anu Saagim… actually I don’t know if it is proper to say so, because Anu Saagim does not appear to be more than 35 years of age and she is probably invincible when it comes to acting boldly. Okay, let us leave this be. The point is that Brigitte is fine, enterprising and very cool and it is even inspiring to see how energetically she goes about the entertainment scene and how confidently she is doing her thing. And Normann indeed is worthy of the praise! Though it sometimes may seem that he cannot leave behind his Maie-character, this probably is mostly just a little whining remark on my side. Comedy is the most difficult among other genres. Well wouldn’t you try it yourself to come up with good jokes and make the audience laugh for several years.. Ain’t easy. The atmosphere of the event was very friendly and the evening was a great one. By the way, to all fans of Normann, I recommend his recently published book „Tee nalja, Normann!” (Make jokes, Normann!).
THURSDAY—A day for the family and for the children.
While I myself am now also observing the daily electric power prices, then in the beginning of the week with the higher prices I did not wish to do the laundry. However, yesterday we already had a huge pile of laundry, and with yesterday’s more suitable prices I started doing all the laundry. I refilled the washing machine several times, cleaned, praised my man, stroked my cat, and dealt with the children. For several years already Ivanka and I have been attending an individual clay class with a private teacher, and it is a pure pleasure to watch her become more skilled in the craft. In our family we highly value handicraft. Currently, for many hours we have been making ceramic presents for our friends. These same beautiful clay containers as yet work in progress are viewable HERE. They are cool, aren’t they? I myself am such a fan of those snowman-knob containers designed by Ivanka.
FRIDAY—International Men’s Day
In our house celebrations on all kinds of holidays are held in high regards, because we truly enjoy dining and on a good occasion we also enjoy the drinks 😀 hahaaaa. Today the children didn’t go to school, Estella Elisheva has had distance learning lessons for two weeks and we also let Ivanka stay home today. We had a nice long sleep, prepared a nice breakfast (buckwheat porridge, egg, olives, fresh cucumber, herbs and sour cream) and then I went to the dentist. For the second time already I went to the Unimed Clinic, to Jelena Jegorova, and I must admit that she is the first ever dentist in my life that does not miss out on the anesthesia part.. It is a rather different emotion to be seeing the dentist when you need not feel the pain from drilling the teeth. After that I came back home, with half of my face completely numb, and began laying the Men’s Day table. I cooked a crispy chicken fillet, pasta, and as a side dish offered canned peas, cottage cheese and tomato-sour cream salad. For dessert I made a juicy curd-whipped cream cake with abundant almond and banana coating.
And to conclude today’s blog, once more: LONG LIVE MEN! It is great that you exist, I would happily celebrate your day every day 🙂
Hugs-kisses! Until next time!
And for a suitable mood a nice song for all men: Yaki-Da – I Saw You Dancing
Do read also my previous blog posts (all posts are available in four languages – Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and English!)
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