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cimoreneWax and I missed the intended four-day weekend over Easter, but we are both reasonably healthy and we have a three-day weekend now for May Day on Monday! Which means Sunday is Walpurgis, Valborg in Swedish, or Vappu in Finnish. This is the carnival holiday where children get rainbow mylar balloons, streamers, and noisemakers, and the traditional foods include home-fermented mead and funnel cakes (Finnish funnel cakes are tiny and hard, not big and soft like the fair food in America; you can't buy them fresh at all, they come cold and already a bit stale to my tastebuds at the grocery store, made by bakeries). This is the most Carnival of Finnish holidays, that is to say, in terms of public disguise - silly hats are the main thing but also some masks - and in terms of public drunkenness, which is not, admittedly, THAT weird in Finland anyway, but definitely it's traditional to go to outdoor gatherings and drink outside, and then go have a picnic on May Day. There are two traditional picnic spots in Turku, depending on whether you're Finnish or Swedish speaking, but idk about here in Pargas.
This will be our first one in Pargas where most people weren't somewhat cautious due to covid still. Finns have COMPLETELY given up thinking about it or masking now, as a result of the terrible failure of public health messaging and policy. (As we know, outdoor gatherings are not a big risk unless you're extremely closely crowded, because ventilation is the main thing that impacts risk of infection, but that level of understanding was never going to be widespread no matter how good the public health messaging had been. And as it is, the public health messaging has completely stopped, but they never really moved beyond "WASH YOUR HANDS".) Anyway, last year there was still a dampening of public events in effect, which continued to affect outdoor ones as well as indoor ones Because, but that's over with now. Woooo.
Anyway, Wax and I have been sick, so we're looking at a bunch of vacuuming and mopping that are way overdue, as well as like three baskets of dirty linens, that we should probably finish. But Wax is also knitting the last little bits (pockets) of her niece's birthday sweater and then we have some sweaters to block, which is much nicer to look forward to. But in spite of that, we somewhat optimistically planned three extra-tasty dinners and two days of Skåne yeast pancake breakfasts.
Also, we're getting up early on Sunday to go fetch Anubis🎉 from the breeders'! We're looking forward to seeing him, but we're not looking forward to being "cat divorced" (as Wax put it) due to completely separating Anubis and Tristana from even seeing each other again. (And I feel sorry for Tristana's forthcoming stress.) This move isn't necessarily permanent, although of course we HOPE things might go better this time around. He isn't ready for stud work yet, so he can't be fixed, so even if things go well he'll probably be going back to them for a while for that later. He's just out of their house right now because they're playing host to Tristana's mother (and Anubis's aunt) for the birth of her next litter of kittens (she has an adoptive family but they are not prepared for kitten-birth duty).
This will be our first one in Pargas where most people weren't somewhat cautious due to covid still. Finns have COMPLETELY given up thinking about it or masking now, as a result of the terrible failure of public health messaging and policy. (As we know, outdoor gatherings are not a big risk unless you're extremely closely crowded, because ventilation is the main thing that impacts risk of infection, but that level of understanding was never going to be widespread no matter how good the public health messaging had been. And as it is, the public health messaging has completely stopped, but they never really moved beyond "WASH YOUR HANDS".) Anyway, last year there was still a dampening of public events in effect, which continued to affect outdoor ones as well as indoor ones Because, but that's over with now. Woooo.
Anyway, Wax and I have been sick, so we're looking at a bunch of vacuuming and mopping that are way overdue, as well as like three baskets of dirty linens, that we should probably finish. But Wax is also knitting the last little bits (pockets) of her niece's birthday sweater and then we have some sweaters to block, which is much nicer to look forward to. But in spite of that, we somewhat optimistically planned three extra-tasty dinners and two days of Skåne yeast pancake breakfasts.
Also, we're getting up early on Sunday to go fetch Anubis🎉 from the breeders'! We're looking forward to seeing him, but we're not looking forward to being "cat divorced" (as Wax put it) due to completely separating Anubis and Tristana from even seeing each other again. (And I feel sorry for Tristana's forthcoming stress.) This move isn't necessarily permanent, although of course we HOPE things might go better this time around. He isn't ready for stud work yet, so he can't be fixed, so even if things go well he'll probably be going back to them for a while for that later. He's just out of their house right now because they're playing host to Tristana's mother (and Anubis's aunt) for the birth of her next litter of kittens (she has an adoptive family but they are not prepared for kitten-birth duty).
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Date: 29 Apr 2023 02:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 29 Apr 2023 11:30 pm (UTC)Fingers crossed Anubis gets on better this time - I had a cat who after an overnight vet visit come back for the dynamic to shift from asshole fighting to oh hey I missed your dumb face
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Date: 30 Apr 2023 04:48 pm (UTC)And tragically, it's too big for us to completely clean this weekend unless we did nothing else and we don't really want to. We have done the kitchen and dining room today and yesterday I did the shower and upstairs bathroom. There's still 4 rooms and a stairwell concealing massive amounts of dust however 😭