NordenBladet – The mornings this week have all been super nice – quiet breakfasts (herbal tea or coffee with milk, oatmeal, cottage cheese, boiled beet, salmon, fresh tomato and cucumber, eggs from the neighbouring farm’s freely kept hens and homemade bread) and 1-2 hours or beauty and/or wellbeing time for myself! On Monday a massage of 90 minutes, on Tuesday depilation and eyebrow care, on Wednesday hair care, swimming and SPA. Today once more hair care (more precisely scalp care).
The stress that lasted many years has made the circumstance of my hair very poor, a lot of my hair fell out and it made me very worried. I have taken steps to alleviate the situation of chronic hair loss with a combo of scalp and hair care products developed by my own cosmetics brand Elisheva & Shoshana (Hair Energy Maximus + scalp spray with magnesium and Aloe Deep Detox scalp care shampoo), hair vitamins and D’Arsonvalization aka electric comb care which I do at Saku general practitioners centre.
The week has passed quickly. I have done a lot of work with NordenBladet (translating news stories, optimizing SEO, creating new plugins, building a freshlooking and smartphone-friendly design, setting annual goals and planning how to finetune the page even more). An endless list of to-do lists!
Nowadays it has become fashionable to work from a hotel lounge, a lobby-bar or fancy urban cafes, yet in my case this won’t work. Indeed, a formal meeting or a gathering is convenient to arrange that way, but in order to dive into work I need a proper working environment – an ergonomic desk, silence, privacy and peace, to reach maximum efficiency. A laptop on my knee is not my thing. A different issue is brainstorming – this can be done from anywhere. Our last brainstorming for example was carried out yesterday at a SPA! You’ll open up for quite some fantastic ideas when you tear your mind off the ordinary atmosphere.
Yesterday, September 22th, was our anniversary with Allan, 1 year and 5 months since we met. ❤❤❤ Time really flies!!! We have our own tradition worked out for this occasion – namely every month the 22nd aka “our day” we have a lasagne-and-whipped-cream-cake day! After breakfast Allan took the children to the town to school and continued on with his professional schedule. Ivanka Shoshana had an excursion yesterday as well as a dentist’s appointment, and after that she went to grandma’s and grandpa’s place in Mõigu until Friday. Allan brought me roses, then we went to the SPA to relax and discuss business plans and naturally we dined over my super tasty lasagne and whipped cream cake.
In the evening surprise guests Marie and Raido came from Tartu to Tallinn and stayed at our place (pictures are from this spring when we went to the neighbouring farm to bring eggs from their chicken and where we stroked their darling goats). Uhhh, how I can’t stand such suprises! I plan my time and such unexpected things mess the schedule up for many days. I prepare timelines where I determine the times when I have each thing done, and once I run late with these individual plans, I will feel like a loser. I like goals and striving for them, even when others laugh at my goals, ideas and plans…
And then again, in the case of my sister and her husband we can make an exception. Actually it is always a good time with them, it’s just that they are immensely intensive most of the time 😀 so that after taking free time off duties for them I feel I need a new period of time to rest, but I do not have so much time. What I like is a “calm and stable indulgence”, staying up until early morning is not my thing, at least not quite so often. Actually we did spend the evening peacefully – we talked and watched real estate TV shows from HGTV – Bargain Mansions, My Lottery Dream Home and Flip or Flop Vegas, where my eye caught quite a few great interior design ideas, that made me wish to seriously start renovating and designing myself. PS! These were my first TV shows after almost a year without television.
That’s all for today! Hugs!
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