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It’s Friday again.
Having a few beers at home, and then meeting some friends for a belated birthday beer at a local pub! On Sunday, I’m watching the women’s cup final (football). Not normally something that interests me, but a friend of mine has secured some VIP passes at the national stadium, with free drinks and food. So I go for that. Any weekend plans?
Cheers!
Taking it easy until sunday when I go to my local congregation at 11, before meeting SOME of my extended family (I have 6 sisters and 1 brother) at 5.
No big plans here, but I really enjoy such weekends, as I can spend them doing some my favorite activities, like go for a run or a hike, listen to music, read, and watch a movie or a couple of episodes of my favorite TV shows. There’s usually not a lot of time for this during the weekdays. And being somewhat introverted, it’s fine if there aren’t social happenings every weekend. I need that too, of course, but lots of it many weekends in a row can actually make me tired.
I’ll also need to practice a bit on the clarinet, as my orchestra is having a Christmas concert in a few weeks. Music from HOME ALONE is on the program. 🙂
My current medication doesn’t allow any alcohol. So, I am currently on water, coffee and tea. And it is going to remain that way at least until next year.
Sounds nice, but drinks, Nils, what about DRINKS?🍷🍻🥃
He he.. nothing this weekend, probably, but when I do have some, it’s usually red wine – that’s definitely my favorite.
Today’s “Cheers” comes from the island of Fur in Denmark. Don’t know if the video below comes through, but it’s from a couple of hours ago – ordered a local beer at the pub down by the docks. The locals gave me a strange stare as I insisted on consuming it outdoors. Crazy Norwegians!
The locals gave me a strange stare as I insisted to have it outdoors. Us crazy Norwegians!
Weird, it’s nice weather and no rain 😉
About the same here, which means it’s the $%&§ non-descript piece of §%%%” weather that we get in these regions of Germany in the winter. I really don’t like it. No, that’s not quite accurate, it’s not that I don’t like it. I hate it. I mean, I love it when it’s sunny and scorching hot, and I like it when it’s freezing cold, I don’t mind if heavy rain falls, or when it snows like crazy, or whatever, but I can’t stand this undecisive slush… I just hate it. What I dislike, what I hate, what I can’t stand, that is the gray non-descript drizzle weather in the middle, that is not hot, not cold, not stormy, not totally still… just undecided entropy. I can’t stand it. Unfortunately, in the Cologne area of Germany, that’s what you get at this time of the year. There is not winter, there is no fall, there is just six months of a pile of §§%”§ weather. (The other six months you at least tend to get a nice summer though, and we had one this year.) Which is why I try to go on vacation in between at this time of the year. On the good news: no matter what the weather is going to do, chances are, it’s going to get better. 🙂
It’s the annual Christmas party (“Julebord” in Norwegian, literally translated as “Christmas table”) with my friends in a couple of hours – this time hosted at one of them rather than a restaurant. We’ll be having a form of lamb ribs that is common in Norway, called ‘pinnekjøtt’ (literally translated as ‘stick meat’) – more info here. Gearing up with a couple of beers, right now the draft beer from Nøgne Ø (Naked Island), the local brewery from my hometown in the south. Will be having some good red wine when I get to the party.
That’s a lot of Norwegian culture and tradition in one paragaph that none of you have heard of!
Anyone else doing Christmas parties?
We sometimes do/did kind of that with the tradition of “Julklapp” (we also call it “Wichteln” after – not sure of the English term, I don’t mean elves – the helping hands of Santa Clause) I believe is also known in Norway/Scandinvia in general. General rule picking by kind of lottery someone to secretly from a group who then gets a present without knowing from whom. Fun variant is “Schrottwichteln” (“Schrott” => “Junk”) with things as present you really want to part with 😉
Going on a julebord with four friends in a few hours at a restaurant, with all you can eat of pig, lamb, and great desserts!
Not good for the match weight..😅🙈
Relaxing at the cabin with this one now. I’m not a wine connoisseur by any means – I’m usually content if it has a rich, full-bodied taste, and this one fits the bill nicely.
Enjoy your «julebord»s, Thor and Jon! 😊
As for Christmas parties, we had one at work last week, but there they served tapas, and not any «ribbe», «pinnekjøtt» or the other traditional Norwegian Christmas dishes. I guess those might be a bit too exotic for many of our foreign employees 😊.
Come to think of it, I might not have any of those myself until Christmas Eve this year. There will be couple of gatherings at some friends’ houses, but that will be mostly eating Christmas cakes and drinking mulled wine («gløgg»), and including, on the 23rd («Little Christmas Eve», as we call it here), the traditional yearly tasting of my friend’s home-made (and very high-viscosity) eggnog 😊.
Ugh. Really hung over today. But fun evening last night.
We sometimes do/did kind of that with the tradition of “Julklapp”
‘Julklapp’ is Swedish for ‘Christmas present’, I wonder if they took the word from German or the other way around. And yes, many workplaces seem to have this tradition.
Relaxing at the cabin with this one now. I’m not a wine connoisseur by any means – I’m usually content if it has a rich, full-bodied taste, and this one fits the bill nicely.
Nice! Zinfandel always gives a kick. I’m not a mountain cabin person, but I have to admit that looked cozy.
Nice! Zinfandel always gives a kick. I’m not a mountain cabin person, but I have to admit that looked cozy.
Well, it sure is a nice place to wind down after a stressful week at work, as this week has been 😊.
Who’s the other drinker, Nick? Your wife?
And what’s that album in the background? The same as you posted in the “What are you listening to now?” thread?
Sorry, my fault, the image was probably too large; I just did it from my smartphone and should have reduced the image. I compressed it and hope it’s better now.
It’s shot from where I usually sit when I listen to music. The second glass of wine is of course my wife’s. The album in the Background is a Brahms Violin Concerto LP, it’s not what I was actually listening to at this point (though sometimes that’s a spot where I put an LP, even when I’m just listening digitally).
Having a very ME Friday, the only one I’ll get before Christmas. Finished work duties, cleaned the apartment, cleaned myself(!), now wrapping some Christmas gifts with red wine in the glass and HOME ALONE on the stereo, I’m soon going to make a pizza from ground up and then relax the best I can for the remainder.
Cheers!
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