Recovering… 20. April 2018

 Some pomegranate-raspberry yogurt.

 A banana and some rice cakes.

I was still feeling weak and slightly queasy after eating, so I mostly stayed in bed and rested.

Breakfast buffet… 29. March 2018

 Breakfast buffet: green smoothie, coffee, rice cracker sandwich, some grapefruit and orange, pancakes, scrambled eggs, wieners and fried potatoes.

 Coffee and raspberry-cream cheese brownie cake.

 Rice with tuna, soy sauce and some salad.

Morning view… 14. May 2017

 Oven omelette with asparagus and eggplant + some avocado

 Rhubarb cake and coffee

 Oven omelette with asparagus and eggplant; rice with soy sauce, some salad and a rice cake with sausage

 Totoro in the greenery ❤

Pre-birthday… 8. April 2017

 Coffee and I shared these rice cakes with milk chocolate with my boyfriend

 Some gummy bunnies

 Toast with salted salmon and a boiled egg

 Radish salad and potato salad

 Mashed potatoes with garlic sauce and oven baked chicken

 Kringel that my grandmother made

 Coffee

My grandparents came to Tallinn to celebrate my and my brother’s birthdays a day early. We helped my mom to prepare all the food and then I overate so much xD

Things happened… 21. February – 2. March 2017

Things did indeed happen, some of them bad, some of them good and this is why the break in blogging happened too. I was either busy, not at home or I was simply too tired to blog and decided to take a nap instead. This post won’t have photos of all the things I ate during this time, because in my busy and tired state I simply forgot to snap some of the photos, so instead I will post some of the nicer photos. Plus, I’ll tell what I’ve been up to for the past two weeks and what some of the bad and good things were that happened.

On the 21st of February I had an appointment in the unemployment agency. I thought it went quite well at first, I had sent out a bunch of CVs to places and had attended two job interviews (one job I didn’t get, because the company decided to close their establishment instead and the second place I rejected, because it turned out to be partly a bar and I don’t want to work in a bar); Also, I named some new places where I was thinking of applying to next. Quite well done for a job searcher, right? I had shown that I am actively searching and working on finding a job. Well, apparently not, because after silently typing for a while, my agent said: “Next time you will see a new agent.”
Me: “Okay. Why?”
Her: “You are a difficult case, so you are assigned a specialized case worker.”
Me: “Okay?!??!?!?!?”

Now this wasn’t really such a big deal, but I think my old agent just flat out didn’t like me; I mean she never said anything good to me and always made me feel bad and demotivated instead. However, this still bothered me as I’ve been doing everything properly and… if *I* am a difficult case, then what are the people who are unemployed for years in the unemployment registry? To be honest, I felt upset and depressed over this for the next few days.

 A banana and a couple of rice cakes with mashed avocado (21.02.2017)

 A semla with almond cream filling and a cup of coffee (22.02.2017)

 Rice cake with cream cheese and salted trout; fried eggs and bacon, some avocado and cucumber-tomato salad (22.02.2017)

 Scrambled eggs with tomato and cucumber + some bacon (23.02.2017)

 Something new for me: sweet cottage cheese pelmeni with raspberry jam. I had never had sweet pelmeni before. (23.02.2017)

On the 24th of February, Friday, which was also the 99th birthday of Estonia (Yay!), we drove to Aidu quarry for a hike and car safari. I enjoyed the hike part a lot, but the car safari was a bit boring for me as I don’t really enjoy driving around in a car. Still, it was interesting to hear about the quarry’s history and learn about oil shale.

 The hike was like a small adventure

 It was a sunny winter day

 The canal crossing part was a bit scary, because the raft looked like it would sink any moment, but after the first group of people crossed safely it didn’t feel as frightening anymore

On Saturday, the 25th of February, we took the train to southern Estonia to visit family in Karula National Park. They had a bit of a house warming party happening. I helped Loviise to finish up cleaning, then took a nap and in the evening, there was a party with lots of food. The main dish of the evening was lamb meat that had been roasted underground. It was delicious!

 There is meat cooking under the bonfire underground

 Lamb leg with some roasted potatoes. It was heavenly good! The meat fell right off the bone.

On Sunday, the 26th of February, we spent most of the day getting back home to Tallinn. Travelling is super exhausting, but hey, at least it’s comfortable to read a book on the train.

 We ate some nice doughnuts in Tartu before catching the train

On the 27th of February, I went to the gym together with my boyfriend and the world, to my surprise, didn’t end and my boyfriend didn’t break up with me after seeing me being sweaty and disgusting and weak. So yeah, my boyfriend is going to the gym with me now. Go figure.

 Baked zucchini, potatoes and tomato (27.02.2017)

 Heart shaped potato chips 😀 (27.02.2017)

 Oatmeal porridge with raspberry jam and chia seeds + a couple of sandwiches with sausage and tomato (28.02.2017)

 Matcha whipped cream and red bean paste semla from Tokumaru and a cup of coffee (28.02.2017)

On the 1st of March, this Wednesday, I had a job interview at small café/bakery/grocery store. It went over the top well and I was invited in for a trial day on Friday. Yay! Take that, rude unemployment agency lady, for labelling me as a difficult case! I CAN get a job, or at least a chance for a job, with the parameters that I want.

 Fried eggs, boiled wieners, sandwich with cream cheese and tomato (01.03.2017)

 A lemon doughnut and coffee (01.03.2017)

 Lentil soup with sour cream (02.03.2017)

Wow, this feels like an actual proper blog post, despite it not having even half of the photos I usually post. Anyway, I will, hopefully, be back to daily posting again from tomorrow. Cheers!

Spicy spicy… 8. Dec 2016

 Wakame and egg miso over rice and a cup of coffee

 A couple of rice cakes with chorizo and avocado

 A spicy sloppy joe (had 2 of these) and some salad

We went to sleep late the previous night, so I ended up sleeping until noon The day felt super short thanks to that and I didn’t get much done other than getting groceries, doing the dishes and making dinner. Not that I had any magnificent plans in general, but I still felt disappointed in myself. Oh well.

Celebrations… 4-5. Dec 2016

4. December

 Coffee and a banana

 Cold table: devilled eggs, tuna salad in lavash rolls, marinated cucumbers and beef paté, potato salad, smoked chicken, roast beef and sparkling wine

 Omnomnom

 Boiled potatoes and roast duck

 A Twix bar I shared with boyfriend. My little brother so graciously offered us one :p

 Omnomnom

There was a get together at my parent’s place to celebrate my mom’s birthday and the upcoming birthdays of my sis and father. Lots of food wa shad xD My parents went overboard with the food again.

5. December

 Potato salad and coffee

 A couple of rice cakes with avocado

 Rice with chicken and soy sauce, salad with bok choy and some pickled cucumber

 Tea and chocolate

At the vet… 30. Nov – 1. Dec 2016

30. November

 Bran and seeds porridge with honey and 3 tangerines

 Rice cakes with boiled eggs

 Pasta with creamy avocado sauce and some salad. I used this recipe for the avocado sauce. I don’t have a food processor so I tried making it in a smoothie blender and that didn’t work that well, so the sauce was a bit chunkier than it probably should have been. In hindsight, I could have probably used the hand blender with better results xD Too bad I am such a slow thinker.

1. December

 Two slices of fruit bread and a cup of coffee

 Another cup of coffee and a Danish pastry

 Oven omelette made of leftovers (spaghetti and whatever frozen veggies I found in the freezer) and some salad

We took our two cats, Totoro and Loki, to the vet in the evening. Totoro has lost quite a bit of fur on her paws and tummy and we had no idea what to do about it. She potentially has a urinary tract infection and is most likely stressed, so she was prescribed a special food, some antibiotics and also antidepressants. I guess the pet matches the owner now. My mom used to joke about this happening years ago, apparently, in her view, I had depressed the cat beyond repair

Loki has some sort of cystic bump growing on his neck. The doctor wanted to draw a sample from it for testing to see if it was anything bad, but it wasn’t easy. I fled the room, because I am uneasy around blood and needles, but kept kind of observing the ordeal through the glass door none the less. Eventually it was four people in the examination room, trying to hold Loki down, to get the test sample xD He sure is strong for such a tiny animal.

PASTREEEEH… 13. February 2016

 A smoothie made of a blood orange, two pears, a banana and some rice milk. Had two glasses of it.

 Rice with an egg, wakame and wasabi-sesame spice

 Two rum pastries and a cup of coffee

 Pea soup and a couple of rice cakes

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These pastries, with a rum flavoured soft cookie (?) filling (not sure what exactly that is really), are my favourites. I used to buy these from a bakery near our high school whenever I had the money to do so. Since I moved away from Pärnu to Tallinn, I hadn’t found this type of pastry anywhere anymore. A few years ago a pre-packaged version popped up in some stores that was a rum and cherry jam combination, but it tasted terrible (tasted like saturated fats and bitter). On my last visit to Pärnu, I got a chance to visit that old bakery again (they had moved to a different location), but turned out they had stopped making the rum pastries 😦 I was very disappointed and for whatever the reason the lady standing behind the counter got angry with me for that.

Some time ago, however, we discovered that on bigger Rimi store in Lasnamäe sells rum pastries and I was overjoyed xD It seems to be just that one store, because I haven’t found them in any other Rimi. Sadly the store is super far away and we rarely find ourselves in that part of the town, but whenever my boyfriend goes to ride his enduro bike, he will pop through that store if it’s on the way and get me some of these pastries 😀 Omnomnom~happy!

Back in Tallinn… 5. July 2015

 Coffee, cherries in chocolate and Kinder Bueno Dark chocolate

 Ice cream. It had an apple-black currant jam filling.

 Rice cake with cream cheese, cucumber and ham; a cup of tea

 Blueberry smoothie

Miso soup, salad and lavash with cream cheese and ham

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I’ve had some pretty stressful times lately and I didn’t deal with it too well, so I have once again fallen behind with my blog. There were even some days where I didn’t take photos of my food due to either forgetting to do so or due to being ashamed of how much I ate… but I’ll try to get the posts up none the less and catch up again quickly.