The blinds

This is my "street". It's a canal! And a nice one too :-) I live somewhere on the left, can't see my house.

I had no real plans today, only thing I really always *need* to do on Saturday is water my plants, which I usually do soon after I get up. I thought I'd maintain my garden a little bit but instead ended up at nic's shop where I wanted to deliver my old laptop. But since I was there I thought I fix some more things instead of next week.

So I put up this blackboard.

And some blinds.

I can't wait for the shop to open on Thursday. I wanna be the first customer and I think I want the classic combination of a cappuccino and chocolate cake :-)

Meat balls!

This is my 8 year old laptop. It's rather a useless object just good enough for gathering dust unless... you are about to open a shop and just need it for streaming music and web browsing! So I have re-installed it and will give it to Nicole.

I felt like cooking so I made meat balls. They were actually very nice. I really should buy some apple sauce. God I love meat balls with apple sauce :-)

I also steamed some green beans. Very nice. I'm so glad I found out about steaming veggies.

And to not make it all toooo healthy I added over fries.

Bon apetit!

The counter part II, shelves, frames and a fire extinguisher.

You wouldn't say so but I do actually have a full-time job as a software engineer that occupies me for over 8 hours a day ;-)

So in the evening I went to Nicole's shop again to finish a few more things. Starting with stabilizing the counter and putting 1 shelf in it.

Then some shelves in the little kitchen.

And some frames on the wall.

And finally the fire extinguisher.

The counter.

I worked on a counter for Nic's shop.

It went very well but now I'm a bit knackered. Good thing I have next week off :-) The counter is not 100% finished yet by the way. The corner will get a bit of corner profile on it and the side of the top will be glued on as well. Oh and it also needs shelves on the inside.

"Mic"

The "ship-art" has been restored to it's former glory. Now they can put it back so the hooligans can tip it over again...

This one's for my mate mic - hehe.

The HEMA office.

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When walking Marjolein to the tram stop I spotted this "person" standing on the sidewalk.

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It turned out to be the charging pole for electric cars!

Happy birthday mom!

I went to the DIY store with Nicole today to buy wood for the counter. I'm having big bits cut at the shop. Should all be delivered on Wednesday so hopefully I can put it together Wednesday night. Gonna be a nice little DIY project!

Also today is my moms birthday. Happy birthday mom!

I went to Alkmaar *again*

In the supermarket this morning, I found 5!!! packets of cake mix that were well past their due-date. I took them to one of the 8 year old employees who managed to stutter an "Oh my gawd" to her 9 year old colleague behind the counter...

I spotted this little fella holding on to one of my plants. I dunno if it's eating. I don't even know if it's still alive!

In the afternoon I visited my family. Tomorrow is my mom's birthday.

My mom and Ilse.

My dad and Cassie.