((((Dina))))

Sorry to hear about your hurting toe. Maybe it is some hurt in the joint. They take months to heal. I once had one in the thumb and middle finger of my right hand from a bad accident while skating. Actually I am sure it was a pretty impressive stunt from the viewers' point over view, lol. I remember it was early spring, I was still young and slender and living alone in the city. There were still a lot of pebbles on the streets from winter. They are thrown there to reduce the slipperyness when there is ice on the streets.
I crossed a big street at the traffic lights, one of those where all the heavy trucks were driving. So there were some depressions in the street from their tyres, and in there lots of pebbles. One can't skate through pebbles, so I decided to jump over them, not for show, but because I was too fast to stop in time. So I took two nice jumps and while in the air during the last jump, I noticed I would land exactly on the edge of the sidewalk.
As I didn't want to break my leg I did something that resulted in a somersault. Somehow I came to my feet during the movement and just drove on until I was out of sight. Then I looked down and my whole right arm was scratched open, as was my right leg. There was blood too. I think I rolled over my right side and came to my feet as if on purpose, lol.

What I wanted to say. The thumb was ok after a few weeks while the middle finger took half a year to stop hurting.

Hi!
(((((DC))))) (((((Dina)))))

I finished Warriorborn today. So I can finally read through the spoiler section. I liked it a lot. I'm also quite fond of Benedict.

I've read the Aeronaut's Windlass, but it's been a few years since the last time. I haven't read Warriorborn but I don't know if I will before the new book comes out.

I have to agree with Dina. It's worth reading.
I hope you find a new and better job soon. I just changed departments about one year ago. I am much happier now. People ask me, if I now have no more night or late shifts or weekends, and when I say no, the same, they are surprised. I didn't leave because of the work, I left because of the management. I can deal with the work. I even like working at night, which most people not working night shifts don't understand.

@Dina: someone should tell them to turn on the lights in those movies.

Explosions are always fun
That's sad about your tradition.

The kittens are getting bigger. They already eat some meat and run around chasing each other and fighting. Absolutely adorable!
We have decided: the male will be Leonardo now, not Loki.

Btw we are watching Ragnarøk on Netflix. It's  a fun Norwegian series. The theory is: Ragnarøk has already happened. The gods lost, but the Jötnar are still there. Disguised as a family.
And it seems like Ragnarøk is supposed to repeat itself, because there are some people who can be awakened to be the gods. One boy is supposed to be Thor, he has a brother who (surprise!) has a different father: the Jotun family father.
In the episode today he had a tapeworm. A very big one, which has survived its extraction. LOL the Midgard Serpent is a tapeworm!!!!

Then there is an old one eyed man in a wheelchair. Surprise! Odin.
And LOL he is called Wotan Wagner. Wagner!!!!! 
Yes, I am having fun with this.
Now there is a valkyrie. They didn't say she was, but today she chose a boxer to fight for their cause.


I also have purchased Warriorborn and have already started reading it. So far it is interesting.

I am having a fun problem with my Paramount+ subscription. When you choose the language as English and the subtitles in English too, it shows the subtitles BOTH in English and in Spanish. For example, the character says "why?" and the subtitle writes "why? Por qué?". it is super annoying. For a while it appears to be solved, and then it begins again.
I had to watch the last Strange New Worlds episodes with Spanish subtitles, and I guess I am going to do the same with the current season of Lower Decks.

So you usually watch with English subtitles? And now there is double text. That's annoying, indeed.

Today was the first day of school here. Micro is already home, Mini will come in 20 minutes, except if she talks with her classmates longer.

I am just a little bit annoyed, because I have trouble writing in English with my new phone.
I still have to find out how to change autocorrection to english. Because I have to tip back at every single word to correct it back to what I have written.

Would I just let it be like autocorrection corrected, it would look like this:

World Internet justieren let IT be live  autocorrection corrected, IT World Look live this.
LOL
So, sorry if there are any weird words in my text.

But at least the program is learning, not like the one I had before.
And the rest is also a great improvement. I can continue with Codex Alera, because my Audible app is working again. There seemed to have been an update a few months back which was not compatible with my old android version. I could open the app, see my books, but not listen to them.

Today I finally got to defreeze my deep freezer. During the last weeks we ate a lot of the food that was stored there.
Micro once left the door open, and so there was a thick coating of ice, which had to be removed. And of course the freezer was quite full.

We finished Disenchantment 2 days ago. I am almost a bit sad, that it's over now.

The fruit flies sound interesting.

Micro's tooth is purulent. She already had parodonthosis there and the tooth was repaired, but now it has to be removed. She is lucky that it is still a baby tooth and the adult one is already near. So she has to take antibiotics and then the doctor will remove the tooth in 2 weeks. Until this time the tooth is open.

We are watching Killing Eve. Very funny and crazy.

So, I drove my bike along the river on both sides today, to see how it looked like after all the storms and the almost flood. It's OK now, though there was a tree across my way, but I managed to climb over it with the bike.
There is still a lot of water in the river, but no more danger that it will spill over. We were lucky, the rain stopped in time.
The last two weeks the temperature dropped from 36 to 16°C. Now it is 27°C. That's perfect for me. And everything is green again.

We visited the kittens yesterday. So cute! We will get all three of them. They are already bigger than my hand, toddle around a bit, but their eyes are still blue.
It's one male and two females. The male is very dark, but not completely black. I call it dark grey with light black stripes, lol. One can see the stripes only in sunlight.
The females are both dark grey with black stripes. One has tiger stripes and one has more rounded lines. I don't know the English name for that kind of colour scheme. In German it is called "gerädert". Our old cat was coloured like that, too. But she was brown, black and red-brown.

The kids are very excited. Now we can think about names.
Do you have any ideas?

I would like to call the male Loki, but then I would need fitting names for the girls.
Or maybe all names starting with the same letter.
Nero would be a cool name, but then I would have to worry if he will burn down the village. 

For the girls I have maybe Mara, Dora, Mia, Cleo, Nora...
Short names. I am open to everything, except names like Fluffy Puffcake, Sugar Candy Cotton or something cringy like that, lol.


Edit: lol
We had a discussion about names and I threw in Leonardo. Micro and my husband immediately said Mona and Lisa.
Leonardo, Mona and Lisa. The more I think about it the better it sounds.

Hey weird people! I am back home.
The trip to Austria was good. We did not do a lot of sightseeing, it was mostly relaxing, but we managed to go to a museum of art, which was mostly boring for Micro, but interesting for Mini and amusing for us grown-ups. One room made us laugh a lot, though it was somehow disgusting: it looked like a room full of waste, but the artist sometimes did something with it. There were sections with old bottles standing around, an almost full body plastic with two heads which looked like something a mentally ill serial killer would leave for people to find and be shocked. But what amused me the most, were patches of wiry dark hair nailed to the wall. I hope the hair was from the artist's beard, lol.

There were several themes, so there was art for every taste, not just the weird stuff.

We managed to go swimming in a lake twice and we rented a small boat in my husband's town of birth. And we tested two ice cream vendors, one before the boat trip and one after, lol. Just to be able to compare, of course.


Sad news:
Did I tell you that our cat died in the last week of July? We were with her all the time. This was the first cat who had a good death in my opinion. We noticed on Sunday that she would go now, because she even refused to drink and she had trouble standing up. She died during the night from Sunday to Monday.

But there is good news, too:
One of my husband's colleagues told him that his cat is pregnant. We said we would take 2-3 babies. The kittens are very cute and we will have them at the end of October. They are mostly dark, one I think is almost completely black, as far as can be seen in the pictures.

So there are kittens to look forward to.

You know, it's been a minute since I've been here, but I'm just now noticing that the symbol for the spoiler tags is actually a radioactivity symbol. That humor was lost on me when I was younger. Also hi.

LOL
I think everybody has these moments, when we come back to stuff we have read, seen or heard in our youth. And we go : ooops, THAT's what it meant.


We have found accommodation in Austria near my husband's stepmother's home. So we will meet her next week, go see the city, go see the lake, maybe go up a small mountain and generally have fun.