Nothing. 

Nothing but beer and running nose. I had to work today and it resulted in running nose even though I had my winterjacket on. Yes, it was 16C today. Yes, I keep winterjacket on even in summer because the premises I work are like refrigerators. So for whatever reason I again ended up ill after full workday. Sucks big time. 

Tomorrow lab work. Which means I will be wearing civil clothes ;). Nothing interesting there. Made a TikTok about my labwork some time ago, really boring if you are not into worldwide logistics stuff. Or into chockolate. Or into green coffee. Things like that. I was born into these kinds of stuff. I love sea, trucks, tracktors, planes, cranes, oh, cranes!!! I do realise these kinds of stuff are boring for normal people, but I can just stare at screen and watch huge container vessels berthing hours and hours!

It promises to be summer temperatures from tomorrow on. I would like to see that. I have to start baking macroons now, maybe tomorrow eve already. Because the money is really tight and that means I have to open the cafeteria at the summercottage. More TikToks there! The idea is to have it open every weekend throughout summer. And the first bigger party already was on 1st of May with hundreds of people coming but….. but I did not manage to open that day. I had the house full of cocoa and had to get rid of it. I also have to clean it yet because there are literally maple leaves covering the floor. For those wondering what the fuck are maple leaves doing inside the house: it is a 202 years old house this year. And it has original doors. With plenty of ventilation above and below. Ventilation in this case means there are 5 centimetres gaps all around the doors. This gaps mean also that I have bird, toads and other creatures inside the house every now and then. Plus the toads, as I have written earlier, come into the house every autumn to settle for hibernation. And in spring when I leave the doors open to ventilate even more 🙂 they wake up and start slowly moving outwards. It takes them about 2 weeks to realise it’s wakiwaki time. The toads are very thin by spring, moving and breathing slowly. Luckily they are not afraid of me (or mayebe they are, but they are not quite in condition to run, aren’t they:) ), so I can take them up with my hands and they do not piss allover me anymore. I usually help them out of the house and take them to some place with shade. So they will slowly wake up, gather their act up and not get much trauma from sun.

So this year the house will be 202 years old. It is rather uncommon for private person to live in such unique house here as most of these kinds of houses are way too expensive to run. And so is mine. I have no heating, no running water and that is why I don’t mind if toads are sleeping all winter there. There is literally snow inside during winter (remember the “ventilation” gaps under the doors). I have invested huge sums into this but being single handedly alone restoring it, while running two businesses, and household, and being single mom takes it’s toll. Oh, it will be pretty once it’s completed!

I was hoping to get water in this year, together with building a bathroom-toilet but hell, I again have just 200 Eur left for the whole month and it’s just 13th!!! I am doomed. So I already see no water, no toilet, no kitchen in my cottage for unforseen lenght of time. Which means no income from this house either. Just in case the reader is new to my blog thing or in case I actually have not introduced the cottage earlier. The grand final for the cottage is to be small luxury boutique hotel with four, maybe five rooms, kitchen, sauna, etc. Two years ago I built sauna house separately by the lake. Now this is stuck aswell because I have no money to complete it. Floor is not done, hence there is no stove nor water in yet. It has lovely sleeping room though, very nice fresh air. I slept like teddy there until some animal came knocking on the terrace at sunrise at about 3 at night! 

All in all I hope I get the fancy french-themed cafe running more regularly this year, every Saturday. At least to cover some costs. However I already know I have to invest (yes, the money I don’t have) into new coffee machine as the old one is giving up on me since ever. That means I have to find coffee machine within few days now…. How to get coffee machine for 1200Eur if I only have 200Eur beats me. 

That’s why I have to start with macroons tomorrow, get the sides ready and filling I can make later on and put the macroons together and pack already in the cottage while we are open. 

So the daydreaming is gone now. Again. I assume everyone realises there will be no Cannes filmfestival for me. No Nice, no Italy. For 200Eur whole month to survive is a challenge. And to get roundtrip flight to Nice is 300Eur, so i am a bit short of money 😦 I also suppose I can’t live on the streets there even though it’s nice and warm. Just have to hope the orcs will not attack us yet. Imagine having 200Eur to run away to other end of the world, with cats and kids. Not interested in such excitement.

Today again all our online banking was down, apparent cyber attack from orcs. Yes, we are famously the pain in their arse since ever. I love being in such list. Why don’t they just get busy at isnotreal and hack all the terrorists into halves, by the go also free Palestine from squatters. They would collect nice plus points.  

Spare with me. Take a look at film “Island in the sun” from 1957 with gorgeous Harry Belafonte starring. He is 30 years old in this movie. Gorgeous! No more words needed. Just rum, island and sunshine.

Stay hot and cool

XOXOX