Of birds and other annoying things.

 You know what's annoying? Birds! Yes. Fucking birds! (I guess I gave that away in the title, didn't I?)


Your daughter is sleeping through the night after months of night-wakings and then, the fucking birds start coming out again, because its spring or something, and start making the most annoying sounds you could ever imagine! Right outside your bedroom window!


Now, you might say: "Mayu, just close the window." In theory, that is a great idea, except Sarah get's really hot at night and demands to sleep with the window open. So I guess it is all her fault! But that's OK. She is pregnant after all. :-) Sorry about the rant, but it had to be said.


Oh, by the way, you might have thought that I was exaggerating with the tomato plants thing on my last blog post. "How many plants could Sarah really have planted?" - you may ask. Well see for yourselves:

Yes. Those are all tomato plants. The thing is that when Sarah planted these she didn't know that 70% of all tomato seeds will actually become plants. "Come on Mayu, that doesn't look that bad." Well, Sarah also didn't know that every plant, once it becomes a bit bigger, will need a gigantic fucking pot! Yes. Each plant needs a giant pot like the ones you see on those chairs. 


Those chairs that used to be for humans. That means that all those little plants you see by the window will be needing huge pots. I don't even think we have that many chairs.


Oh, and the plants you see here are not all of them. There are more in Olive's room and Rachel already took like a thousand. So yeah. It's a lot of tomato plants.


I guess I should be happy because I will be eating tomatoes for free for the rest of my life. Thing is, I don't even like tomatoes that much. Any ways, enough about the tomato plants. I guess I will just have to deal with it.


So, other than the birds and the tomato plants that are taking over the apartment like some kind of really aggressive mold, the day was actually pretty good. I mean, there were still some annoying parts, but hey, it's not realistic to not have any annoyances at all, right?


We finally found a cheap grocery store close to us (Lidl). It's just a few stops south of us on the train and we never knew about it until like last week! Amazing. Guess we should have tried going the other direction on the train some time sooner. Or just asked a neighbour or something. It's just that the further south you go, the more graffiti you see, and we all know what graffiti means: GHEEEEEETTOOOOOOOOOOO! But then Sarah mentioned that Berlin is practically covered in graffiti, so I guess I am from the ghetto. Touche Sarah. Tou...che! (Don't judge me if I spelled that wrong. It's French after all.)


Later a friend came over with his daughter and Olive and her played outside. The thing about Olive and the outside is that it can either be really awesome, or really annoying. This afternoon, it was more on the annoying side. See, Olive loves to destroy plants. And usually I am all for that (as long as they are not on our property), but today, of all plants out there, she picked the one with these huge thorns! I warned her that she would hurt herself, but she didn't listen. So she hurt herself. She cried and cried. Then calmed down and as soon as I put her down again, she ran back to that same stupid plant! I guess 13 month old humans do not have the ability to learn from their mistakes yet. So really it was a lose - lose situation. If I took her away from the plant, she would cry. If I let her play with the plant, she would sting herself and cry. So I let her sting herself. Then we went inside.


In other news: Olive and Minuet (one of our obese cats) are now officially friends after being enemies for a loooooong time.

Cute. 

So, I guess I should wrap this up since Sarah is waiting for me to watch The Time Traveller's Wife. She is really excited about this movie because she loved the book, but it got shit reviews, so I am not so excited. But nonetheless I will watch it. The things you do for love.

Any ways, hope you guys had a nice Saturday too and if you want, you can tell me what kind of things you find annoying in the comments. :-)

Until next time!