Sunday 08 November 2009: Sarah has a weekend full of cooking, music with a bit of exercise thrown in!

Heidi says: An easy and quiet day, with a walk in de Gavers. That is exactly what I needed after a hard weekend. It was busy and I didn't feel well (especially in the head). Back to positive feelings. Sarah says:
Easy weekend full of music at Westtalent and cooking at home as well as a little exercise today... Calm, relaxing, nothing bad other than a weird toe of mine that is hammering up big time! It hurts! My oh my does it hurt... Not sure what needs to be done... Anyway - a new weeks starts soon and I will be seeing Morrissey twice next week so that as to be a good thing! I think I'll also be seeing Heidi twice, which is also a good thing! It's time for her photo on here again and more importantly - I miss her!

Thursday and Friday November 06 and 07, 2009: Sarah is tired...

Above is from today and below is from yesterday. I am tired and I look forward to having a lazy night watching bad TV with my kid... Lazy weekend ahead too other than Westtalent on Saturday night, which will be fun because Tom will join me so it's like a date! As I don't see him as much as I would like to during the week, it's nice to have some time with him on the weekend!

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 02, 03 and 04 November 2009: Sarah has some days off from work and fun with food, friends and family!

Above and below photos are from today - 04 November at Carmen's house with Tilly. So nice to have a whole day to spend with good friends - good female friends! Feel very lucky to have these gals in my life! The kids were playing dress-up and so we did too! It was fun. We also ate a lot of good stuff. I ate some bad-for-my-diet stuff - have been eating badly for last two days! But - Monday I got weighed and had still lost another 400 grams so that's okay! No rush at all! I am just happy I am able to lose some weight lately!

Above photo is from Tuesday the 3rd I think with my daughter relaxing at home at night watching some bad TV movie... Our house is still all a mess from the windows but we have one couch we can all sit on and watch TV on so that's enough for us!
Above photo must also be from Tuesday the 3rd of November - showing some weight loss. I see it so that makes me happy. Long way to go still but at least it's starting to show a bit!
Above photo from Monday the 2nd I think - cooking and in the kitchen as usual! Made more fish meals and another slow-cooker one! Being on a diet has made me enjoy cooking even more for some reason!

Friday and Saturday 30 and 31 October 2009 and Sunday 01 November 2009; It's Flashback 1st of the Month at Face The Day! It's been a while!

Above photo is out of order because today's photo is down below with the Flashback 1st of the Month ones. Anyway - above photo is from yesterday - 31 November 2009 - I like it. It's a good one. My eyebrow looks to be the perfect shape! :-) Not that it matters!

By the way - here's a link to an article I recently wrote about the Design for Persuasion Conference I recently attended in Brussels via work. It's been a while since I wrote articles so I am happy I had the chance again...
Out of order - but above photo is from yesterday the 31st of October 2009 of me and the kid on Halloween. She wanted to put makeup on me too so I let her do the lipstick and I did the eyes. We do have quite the same eyes somehow though different colors of course - yet she has this wonderful almond-Bjorky eye look whereas my brown eyes look so small compared to hers... Genetics are strange...
Out of order but above photo is actually from Friday the 30th of November 2009 very late - just back from Westtalent and with strange rash as you can see...

It's Flashback 1st of the month here at Face The Day - so Heidi - if you can - take a photo today and post it! It's so fun to look back! Above is a photo of me from today - 01 November 2009.

Above photo of me and below one of Heidi are from one year ago today on 01 November 2008! Click here to go back to that day to see what we were up to...

Sarah: There above you can see me 2 years ago today on 01 November 2007 with glasses and a red face late at night... Via this link you can see what was happening at this time last year in my and in Heidi's lives.

Sarah: There I am above three whole years ago today with my great mate MS! She was visiting! I wish she were here right now. It was 01 November 2006 above. Here's a link to go back to that day at Face The Day!

There's Heidi above 2 years ago today in 2007 with very short hair!

And there's Heidi three years ago and one day on 02 November 2006 as we had no 01 November 2006 picture of her. She looks different! (Heidi: logic, I just became mother of Yma a month earlier...)

And there above you can see Heidi and me on a very Fall day four years ago today on 01 November 2005! We have changed a lot and haven't changed at all in these 4 years! Looking back is fun. Via this link, you can go back with us to 4 years ago today!

Friday 30 October 2009: Sarah's kid goes goth for Halloween...

My kid has gone GOTH for Halloween this year! All she really did was put some black hair spray in her hair and some dark makeup on but it sort of suits her in a scary way! She's growing up!!!! Ahhhhhhhh! Now that is really scary!

Devil or cat of some sort? Punk or Goth?

The eyes, the eyes, the eyes.... She's so perty!

Watch out! She's going to get you! Boo! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Below you can see some more window work shots. You can see before and afters of two windows in the living room. They aren't finished so it's just to give an idea and show the changes. I will miss those squares of colored glass but it would have been way too expensive to get them made that way again and we had to replace all the single glass. A section strip will be added as well. And of course we'll have a lot of finishing work to do too to make the frames around the windows complete. I have to say that the house was already a lot warmer today than ever before? The windows and their double-glass are working well I am very happy to report as that is the whole point!

Thursday 29 October 2009: More new windows for Sarah!

No window to be seen above but lots of books! I really hope they aren't going to be too dusty!

It's coming along great! Still a lot to be done but when done it's going to look so much cleaner!

New window with changing image every moment depending on the light...

The tope floor is almost done and you might notice we replaced the missing stone finally!

Above you can see where we replaced the stone if you compare top before photo to bottom after photo. Today they will do bottom floor windows so those horrid boards above the bottom windows will finally be gone! Also - the strips will be added to the top windows in next day or two. Next week the carpenter will come and do finishing work inside. Exciting!!!

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 26, 27 and 28 October 2009: Heidi and Sarah are together in a photo once again and new windows abound!

Sarah says: I see Heidi passing taking Yma to school almost everyday but I forget to take a photo, don't have time or don't have my camera with me. I was taking photos of my new windows this morning just when Heidi passed with Yma so it was the perfect moment to snap a shot. I see that Heidi updated Face The Day down below with photos from the last week so make sure to scroll down and check all those pictures she posted out! Yma is on the back of Heidi's bike in above photo. It's a funny one of her? She looks sort of uncomfortably suspended in mid-air! Man do I look tored in the above picture. I have been sleeping so poorly lately and then finally last night I slept through from 10pm to 5am yet still I feel exhausted. I don't get that!

Above photo is from yesterday - Tuesday the 27th. I am trying to show you the new "door" behind me that was a window when I left in the morning. Eventually - meaning in like 20 years - we hope to have a roof terrace on the flat roof above our kitchen. That's why we replaced the window with a door. Good planning for the possible future... It gives the room so much more light and space somehow. I love it! Too bad you can't see it in the photo. Better photos of the new windows will come in the weekend when most or all of them are done!

I think the above photo is also from Tuesday the 27th - with our new kitchen windows behind us! Once again, more light, more space - but what about curtains? We have to put something on the windows or everyone can see into our kitchen and watch us as we eat like zoo animals!

The above and below photos are from Monday the 26th of October. Above, I am playing in the new glass of our new living room window. Below, I am just happy with the results so far!

Above photo is from this morning - of our new door and top window up there compared with our old door and window in photo below. Nice change, isn't it!

Again - above is our new door up close and below is our old one. From shabby to clean!

The below photos are some more before and after shots. More to come soon!

I like the shot above of our new window reflecting the tree and church tower. There will be a sectional piece put in on the top of that window - like a cross. I think it will be lined up with the top gray stones that you see. The bottom floor windows are so large that they have to have a real frame that has cross at tope to hold smaller windows within. So we want the top windows to sort of match the bottom ones and that's why we'll have that eventual fake cross-like thing.

The above photo is an ODE to the old windows... Just look at that sad old window leaning agaisnt the wall soon to be replaced by a new one. Makes me sad! I actually liked our old windows a lot. Problem was that they weren't double-glass and that was bad for our house, the environment and our bills! The new windows are good double-glass and should keep our home a lot warmer and quieter too! See - I am already talking about the old windows in the past tense and they aren't even totally replaced yet! :-) More photos to come in the weekend no doubt! Or later in the week...

Tuesday 27 October 2009: Heidi shows sign of life (although not very alife)

Heidi says: I am so so tired. I have been working the last week and a half and it is so hard to be pregnant, not to have worked for a while, and then suddenly to jump on a bike, ride for 25 minutes and then to work all day long, sometimes till seven in the evening. I am very exhausted and I don't know why I am doing this to myself :-).

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 23,24 and 25 October: Face The Day is not being updated enough anymore!!! And Sarah is getting new windows!!!!

Sunday 25 October 2009 above sporting pulled-back hair on a sleepy Sunday full of getting house ready for major window work to come...

That's my new kitchen you see above! They surrounded me with plastic to protect the coooking area from dust while the window work takes place! Our whole house is transformed!

That's me above on Sunday saying so long to the old, pretty windows...

Above you can see me on Saturday the 24th of October with window preparations taking place behind me... Thankfully my husband's parents are helping us (as usual!). We couldn't do all this without them! They are amazing!

That's me above late Friday night the 23rd of October. It had been so long since I remembered to take a photo that I just took this shot - as ugly as it is!

I just can't seem to keep Face The Day up anymore! I think it needs some Viagra at this stage! No time! And as I said before - without Heidi it is only half the fun. I have to see that girl again and get a photo! I saw her this morning (Monday the 26th) but forget to take a picture even though I did have my camera with me! It's a pity!

By the way, the following name: "Flange Mulgorp" keeps popping into my head. I have no idea why! It keeps coming to me in my dreams. I wonder who this mysterious person is? Do I know her? It's a woman for sure! If anyone out ther can help to solve this mystery - please feel free to let me know!