Started the day with a 25 minute HIT DownDog workout, then a quick breakfast with Keldor and we went into town. He said that he wanted to go early, as it was going to be crazy busy later in the day, and he wated to avoid that “total chaos”.
We stopped first at the Dollar Store, where he stocked up on bubble bath, bath salts, and snacks for the cats. Then it was off to the second hand store, where he bought a cheap pair of tower speakers (29 kr, so less than €3, or around $3 US), and I found a blue and white sweater in Marino wool and cotton, with a nice geometric pattern. I am unlikely to wear it as it is, but it will make pretty trim on a black or dark blue sweater.
The next stop was Biltema, where we bought a new set of screwdriver heads for the drill (this is why we came into town, the fine point Philips head bit had died yesterday, and he had no more in that size). Sadly, while they have boxes of replacement heads for the larger size Philips head bits, the size he needed is only available as one of a set of a variety size and shapes. We also bought some cable to attach the new speaker to the TV, and one each roll of black and of white duct tape.
We then drove over to where the grocery store and lots of other shops all share a parking lot, parked, and checked several stores looking for a replacement water bottle for me, since mine vanished.
I had it on Julafton when we were at Pernilla’s, and I refilled it for the drive home. I thought we brought it into the house when we arrived, but neither of us have seen it since. That one was one of the big ones (1.5 liters), with a straw and a sippy top, and I wanted another like that.
We checked three stores, and didn’t find one of the same type, but eventually found one in a 1 liter size with the straw and sippy top, so I bought that.
However, while in the stores I saw warm winter boots in a similar style to those I have used since coming to Sweden, but, unlike the ones I bought last year, don’t have thst painful seam on the heel, so I impulse bought them. We also bought a couple more futted sheets to fit the guest bed, since we will have a variety of guests.
Then we stopped by the liquor store so Keldor could get a copule of interesting beers, then got salad makings, cheese, etc at the grocery store before finally heading home, by way of Keldor’s dad’s to drop off the food we’d gotten for him.
While there was no traffic when we arrived to Solbakken (where all these stores are), on the way out we saw a huge line of cars on the highway, backed up awaiting their chance to exit and go shopping, and he pointed and said thst if it has looked like that when we arrived, we wouldn’t have hone shopping. I so agree.
We came home to a clean house, as the housekeeper had been here (yay!!!), and I set to work cooking. I had just enough time to mix up a lentil, sunflower seed, and pumpkin seed loaf and toss it into the oven with a pumpkin to roast, while I combined the spinach, cucumber, tomato, carrot and avacodo into a a lovely salad, and then mix up the batch of smoothies I have been wanting to make for a couple of weeks (this one contains spinach, avcado, cucumber, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, and mango) and freeze it in silicon muffin cups.
As soon as I had the dishes washed from all that it was time to drive up to the buss stop and pick up Hjalmar and Sofie, them home and eat all of that yummy food, and sit up late talking and working on sewing (me) And knitting (them).
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