We had both my family and the inlaws over for dinner (for the first time in our 14 years) and so the day was spent cleaning the apartment, which included 4 hours of washing up (Not kidding, again everything was dirty. How do we manage to dirty everything we own in just a few days?), half an hour scrubbing half a years worth of food splatters from the kids' chairs (porridge is a bitch to get off) scrubbing the bath while my nose dripped snot everywhere and rearranging all the crap in the kids' rooms so they'd look relatively tidy. We need a maid!
Hubby made Salmon a l'orange et basilic (I'm totally making this title up and my French is horrible) and everyone got a small chocolate easter egg for desert and had to read aloud their proverbs*. Even had white wine and apertifs of different kind.
Now the lot has gone, the kitchen is once again filled with dirty dishes *headdesk* and my body decided that it didn't like this cleaning thing and is punishing me with severe muscle aches. Ow. *pouts*
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*Anyway, proverbs. Well, in our chocolate Easter eggs there is candy of course and then a small paper slip with a proverb. Some are very entertaining, others not so much. To this day the best one to ever have surfaced is the one hubby got when he was 12, so notorious that he recites it every Easter in case anyone hasn't heard it yet. It said:
Ekki fretar mús eins og hestur nema rauf rifni = A mouse cannot fart like a horse without ripping its anus.
Now if that isn't a good proverb I don't know what is. *g* (Ps. I know I told you about this last year and probably the year before that. I'm just like hubby)
This year we got (translations are not my thing):
Flest verður glöðum að gamni = Most things delight the joyful
Bragð er að þá barn finnur = The taste is right if a child can tell
Spyr sá sem ekki veit = He asks who doesn't know
Eigi leyna augu ef ann kona manni = Eyes cannot hide if a woman loves a man
Margur rasar fyrir ráð fram = Many run farther than they can see (not literally but close enough)
Jöfnum þykir best saman að búa = Equals make the best match
Margur heldur mig sig = Many see only themselves in others (literally 'Many think I'm them' Probably means they think all people share (or should share) their view or opinion)
Betra er brjóstvit en bókvit = Better to learn with your heart than your head (gee, I suck at this)
They all sound very stupid in English.
The kids still have three eggs left so who knows what they'll get. Aside from sugar shock.
Got one day left off, then there's work on Wednesday, day off on Thursday, work on Friday and then it's the weekend. *happy sigh* All weeks should be like this. Hubby has to work tomorrow though *smirks* and the kids go to kg and so I thought I might go downtown to write. Never get any real work done at home and I'm sick of staying in anyway. (Probably will get sicker going out but frankly I doubt it will make a difference.) So writing and fancy coffee and maybe even cake. All days should be like that.
9 weeks until summer holiday. *sighs*
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