you+me+switzy: update

it has been too long i am sorry. during the day i have been busy emailing those who signed up to be emailed pictures of themselves at the photo booth at my wedding, took up the last 3 days of computer time. (i emailed them large files so the loading took forever also while editing them and loading them to my blog which also took far too long). you can see them over HERE at my all things lovely blog. i just love them, so worth the effort.

here you have, a very detailed telling of our last couple days...

we have been keeping ourselves busy, as usual. we live west of and jachen works east of st. gallen and all the stores...so whenever i need to go with him somewhere he hast to pass the city and pass the stores to drive up the mountain to come pick me up and then go back down. he never complains and is always willing to take the extra time to get me. after work on friday jachen came and got me and then we went into st. gallen to turn in the license plates that were on the car we purchased. we parked about 5 blocks from the building and when we just walked up to the building jachen realized he forgot something in the car and he had to run all the way back to the car because the licensing place was closing in 20min...he never complained he had to run there and back. i for sure would have complained...oh wait i did, i complained about him forgetting something even though i asked him at the car if he had everything. but he was speedy and we made it in time. jachen never complains...he just does what has to be done. after turning in the plates, we decided to do a small amount of grocery shopping but along the way found a hardware/garden store(like unto Lowes or Home Depot) called OBI. it also has a small random craft and framing section. we went in hoping to find myself spray paint...after taking a generous amount of paint chips(solely because i am addicted to color with no real reason to need paint chips...jachen had to pull me away) we found the spray paint. not only where there not many colors to chose from, but the spray paint was 11.50 a bottle. OUCH. however, we bought some. then both of us got giddy when we found the craft section. another reason i love that jachen of mine...he loves to make and create things as well and we both get equally excited. however, i was then at that point reminded how outdated switzerlands craft selection is. however i found one thing there that i am particularly excited for come Christmastime.

saturday morning and into the early afternoon jachen and i worked on yard work and a bit of house work. before i began yard work, i spray painted our chandelier...which i will reveal the final outcome on another post. jachen and i have a pretty good sized yard/garden. well i guess compared to many yards and gardens it is small, but that fact that we have a yard and garden makes us have to work out in it regardless. i pulled weeds while jachen clipped bushes and got ride of bushes. our ideal garden...is to not have a garden. so we are on our way to getting ride of it. neither of us know how to have a garden nor does either of us have a desire to maintain it. i will show you our yard and garden later in a video another time.

in the afternoon jachen and i went in search for more thrift stores. not successful. one of them wasn't even there anymore, one of them was overly priced junk and the third try...it closed 10min before we got there. the thrift stores here are a joke...they are all overly priced and have junk. and when i say junk i dont mean "because all thrifts really are just junk" no, i mean euro junk. i dont mean to be cruel but imagine an already poorly furnished/decorated/home furnished country and then a store filled with all the junk that THEY dont want...get it? i have managed to find myself a handful of good pieces in the past, like last week for example(again, will show that to you another time) but still a bit overpriced. for example something that would be priced $2 at a thrift store in America, is priced $6-$8 here. a nice piece of framed art in the US would be like $20-30 and here is $60-80. well enough of my disdain towards their second hand stores.

after not having success at the second had stores, we headed to the car where we heard someones back car plate fall off as they drove off up the street. we decided to pick it up and turn it in so they could have it back. we decided to head into downtown st. gallen to the licensing office to drop it off there and of course the office was closed. we parked and walked into rainy st. gallen, not ideal, in search of the police station and arrived to find it closed. while headed back to the car jachen spotted a police officer and ran over to hand the plate to them. finally we were rid of it. i forgot to mention our stop into the candy store when first walking into the city. that was a vital part of our day. we left st. gallen candy in stow and headed to Austria to have dinner with jachen's friends at a chinese restaurant. we enjoyed the evening with his friends and enjoyed the chinese food.

sunday was lazy and monday evening jachen and i went on a walk/trek into the beautiful meadows and woods. it was an enjoyable evening walk/trek and i regret to say i didn't bring my camera.

tuesday evening we went grocery shopping. every two weeks we go on our big grocery shopping excursion.

wednesday, yesterday i went on another long walk and last night we watched the bieber movie on my laptop that i rented on itunes. thank you itunes. jachen and i very much enjoyed the movie and afterwards he told me he was glad i made him watch it. i knew he would like it.

that sums it up.

random other news...the Heinz ketchup is too sweet here, i got a nice little sunburn yesterday and the other night i found a hole in the side of my back tooth, SCARY, i am afraid to know what that will entail. i have no idea when it happened and why it doesn't hurt.

photos of the last few days.

what it looks like driving into St. Gallen

before i painted the chandelier.