I usually don’t comment on stuff here, but Madonna deserves the exception. l always had a soft spot for her, she used to be such a visionary in music. Doing stuff everybody would copy two years down the road. That can’t be said about her latest single. She is going senile fast and now produces a pleasant non offensive (just bleep the word shit included in the HTS version) pop for six year old girls to dance to.

The show itself was pretty good. I get so amazed how awesome visual effects are these days. And I must say I was very glad Madonna has enough sense to cover up, there is nothing more sad that ladies in their fifties trying to convince us of their sex appeal by showing us every inch of their wrinkly body. So thanks Madonna for leaving room for imagination (for the ones that choose to imagine). 

First week of February is already here. My tax job is starting this Saturday with a half day, it’s time to get into the groove again.

Jason got into the redecorating mode and went to IKEA and replaced some more of our ugly fixtures that came with our home. Well done honey.

I tried some new baking variations. We limit the amount of flour we eat, so my baking is getting rusty fast, but I bought some gluten free, high fibre and protein content flours to try. So far the first banana bread was fantastic. I also wanted to try baking without any eggs, because my dear colleague is keeping vegan fast to honour her late nephew’s passing. More trials are to come and I’m quite excited to experiment a little.

Sun is shining into my windows this morning and it really makes you going, plus the Tanzania coffee Jason got is soooooo strong, me liky 🙂

So let the busy week begin.

Oh by the way, Sara’s doll house has most of the siding on it and brand new king size bed for the parents. 

No painting, because the lights we could find were just ugly. So we searched a little longer and we will need to search some more I think 🙂

I was allowed to get my beautiful Marimekko pendant light, now I have to wait five weeks to see it. 

The egg chair arrived, but I broke the leg off when taking it out of the packaging. oh well…I tried to fix it, but all the different techniques failed. Krazy glue is my last resort. 

I haven’t been working on the house for a week and I’m lacking energy for doing anything else than surviving 🙂 Aching shoulders, dry cough and a very painful canker sore on like a third of my lip. I’m just falling apart these days. Luckily the sun came out after 4 weeks of rain and darkness and I the sun rays make me feel so alive. I want to get flowers in the house and feel the spring and renewal. For now new tea towels will have to do.

You know things must be really extreme when the failing kitchen track lighting sends you into a frenzy of home improvement. That night had happen tonight…

Down to only five functioning lights on the track we are drowning in the gloom and the long talked about improvement project is in the motion. So let’s get ready for painting the kitchen ceiling and installing new, this time flexible, track lighting. I have never painted a ceiling, I’m not looking forward to the long pole, I hope my freshly recovered shoulder will survive this. The weather man promises a whole week of sunshine, I can take that for sure. Well, I need to get to the laundry so the weekend can be devoted to our kitchen.

Maybe  I can dream a little too… Uniko Poppy is just so beautiful.