Beating the Wings

Better wing in mouth, than wing on ground.

This is the sign at our local hot wings place, where we escaped to after spending hours looking again for the millionth time at kitchen stuff.

"Wings on the ground" means to be depressed.

I guess that is fitting.

It isn't that I am depressed per se, but I do have that feeling of "the holidays are almost over", even though there is still about a week and a half left before I return to work. No matter how long they are, they always go so fast and no matter how hard I try, I can't filter out the long list of tasks that face me ahead when I return.

Well, except when I am stuffing my face with hot wings.

But that solution has its own negatives.

And I have enough of those problems already. Although, I have been starting to improve my eating habits and hopefully, the activity levels will go up as I start to see some results with my weight. Don't get me wrong, I am not exactly a pile of lard, but I am also larger than I want to be and feel it, which is the real problem. Looks don't matter much in this regard.

However, after I go back to work I will have to start ripping apart the kitchen, so that should be a bit of activity for a few days at least. And, I can't just tear it down as I would like to, because we have managed to "sell" the old cupboards to our main renovation guy. We haven't discussed prices, but since he is taking the fridge as well that is only a couple years old, it will hopefully knock off a few hundred from the work totals.

He will use it to replace the ancient one at his summer place, which is a common practice here for old kitchens. We would have tried to sell it or get it picked up for free by advertising it online, but this is even more of a win-win scenario for us and for him and as I have said before, this kitchen isn't bad, but the configuration just doesn't work well in this space and hopefully he will be able to make a nice kitchen to enjoy on his holidays.

Which is what he is on now.

However, he is still "working" as is the common practice in Finland, where the summer holidays are a break away from work, to work on the summer cottage and around the home. There really isn't the culture here of "sit around", however this is changing in the younger generations that prefer to travel instead of have a summer place, which in my opinion makes more sense - as it really feels like you have "got away".

But, perhaps this is why I don't feel that rested while on holidays as this is the 7th year in a row that we haven't travelled at all and last year with the health issues, all we really did was stay around the house for weeks on end, because my wife wanted to stay close to the hospital.

Still...

Holidays are holidays and they don't have to have quite as much work in them and, the work can be quite different. For example, cutting the grass, which is the next thing on my task list for today, which feels kind of funny because it is already 730 at night. I love northern summers.

The problem is, they are followed by northern autumns and northern winters.

And on that note, I guess I better be getting out there, as while it isn't going to be getting dark any time soon, the northern mosquitoes will be coming out in force and while they don't carry malaria, they are aggressive little bastards.

I wish their wings were on the ground.

Taraz
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