Hot, hot, sweating my pants wet

From the beginning of this week, it's hot at least 19 degrees Celsius in the morning. I haven't been bringing my coat with me for a while. Normally, I don't care how hot it becomes I still take my coat with me. These past days I took my foldable coat in my bag.

At work it's not hot until the sun shines through the window. I am quite fortunate, the sun shines in the afternoon. In the morning I have the window open and let it freshen up. Only in the afternoon the airco is on and the window and door is closed. Few hours before closing, the airco goes out and the door is open again.

The only thing I really dislike about this weather is my wet pants after driving. My car is old and the airconditioning is not so good. When the sun shines in the car it's like a sauna and I am sweating while driving. So bad that when I return home I am in a wet pant.

There is basically nothing I can do about this but just thinking about the stickiness and having to change out immediately when returning home is bad. I see this experience like: fortunately it's not always this hot in this country.

This makes it bearable for me!

Receiving gifts

Often I receive snacks and chocolat for souvenirs. I remember few years ago, my family was into collecting shot glasses but these are filling our cabinet. So no more shot glasses anymore. Before that it were magnets. All the magnets are on the refrigerator without any real purpose. Sometimes I do make use of it when there are coupons for that week. But rarely I use all of them.                                                                                                                                    As mentioned before I like to have something tangible like a T-shirt or food. I used to love buying small stuff as souvenirs but this has been changed into buying local food. I received this year for example this bag of chips from Spain. How awesome is that. I love food and this is amazing. Food that can't be bought in my supermarket. Receiving goods also meaning I also have to return the favor after I go to places. And most of the time it also means bringing food back for them. 

My family is know more into healthy snacking like almonds and nuts. I myself have a little allergic reaction from peanuts but won't need insuline. I will get a rash and a sour throat but that doesn't stop me sometimes from eating it. Next month I also planned a trip and also expect to bring back some good food. Because receiving gifts also means giving back!

Lipbalm

For the last past two years I try to only have one item that fulfills my needs. Unfortunately this is one item that I have multiples and scattered around. I have one lipbalm for winter, summer and all round. The Burt's bees wax is the one I use for almost everything, from lipbalm to rescue hand cream. The Lip Ice is the one SPF included, this one I use in the summer. Another one not in the picture is my winter balm for those cold days.                                                                                                                                                   The Lip Ice is the one I bought on my holiday, this is the last one because I didn't have it in my back up box. This brand has been one of my favorite and with the added SPF it's also great for in the summer. I do miss the SPF factor in a lot of European brands. This makes me always reach back and with the different flavors it's great. I don't recommend the sweet ones. I love the black current, apple and lemon. 

The Burts's bees balm is also great the only disadvantage is the box. I never use my finger to lubricate my lips but just use the container and twist it around. This resulted in the empty part in the middle. But it's not a real problem after scrapping the balm around the sides and make it easy to apply my lips.

Crying while watching

I am a total sucker for emotional scenes. I can cry with almost every movie even cartoons. The emotional outlet for watching a serie or any movie makes me feel relieved. Last weekend I even saw the movie Belle & the Beast.

I still remembered the cartoon and even watched it multiple times as a kid. The movie is really nostalgic an all the songs where so easy to sing. But watching movies is not as fun as drama. In one week time, I finished an almost complete K-drama.

I watched the MANxMAN which is funny but at the same time has a little bit action. I really like to watch the drama's when it's almost finished. This way I don't have to wait every week for a new episode. This year I followed the Light diary of Saimdam every week but it was so bad waiting every week.

The crying I did for all drama's, tv-series and movies can easily fill up a whole container!

Switching out my wallet

As you may know I have one small wallet and an additional cardholder for my most used card. Now I go from one to two but I still only take two pieces with me.

My to go wallet is still the one with the zipper. I still like to use cash instead of cards. I love it and am afraid when it will break but luckily I can still can replace it or let it be repaired when it's really necessarily.

My blue box uphold 12 cards which is great but it's a lot more bulky than the gold one. Sure the leather one also with a secrid knock-off is huge. I was thinking of buying a Secrid one but the price of this one was just to nice to pass on. The gold one cost 10 euro and the right one 15 euro. The leather finish from the Secrid is really nice.

I have now my regular wallet and the gold cardholder in my bag, which is great looking, light weight and taking less space. I freed one of my insides pocket.

Enjoying the good thing

I like to drink once in a while but never got drunk, yet. It's because I value myself and drinking alcohol is not a way of indulging myself in happiness. Drinking wine is tasting the sweetness and enjoying the good benefits of wine. To me it's the same as eating a new dish. Sometimes it's great and sometimes it's just yuck.

There are also certain rules I uphold when drinking. I don't drive after I drink and I drink a lot of water. It's a way to stay hydrated especially during the summer while drinking. When drinking I sit at a place where it is cool.

This weekend I had a long weekend and in between studying and submitting my homework I take an occasional sip. Working and enjoyment can go hand in hand. The only bad thing this time is the wine taste was not to my liking.

But hey that's fun about drinking a new bottle, you never know its inside!