It's a personal concept. My SO and I were born in the same year, him on December 26th, and myself on February 1st. So once a year, during the month that goes between those dates, we are the same age.
Now that month is coming to an end, and it sucks.
I don't recall turning 30 having been any difficult. Maybe it had to do with me spending both my birthday and our anniversary with my husband, in Germany. My eldest sister did tell me than turning 30 is a piece of cake and that 31 was the real challenge. I didn't believe her then, but I do now. I have been agonizing over it for months. It's like my life is about to end. It feels like it's too late for everything, now. I know I'm being melodramatic, and I know that some of my older friends want to kick my butt (sorry guys
) but I can't help it. I'm sure I will get over it. It's just that it sucks growing old. My graying hair is more and more visible with each passing day (I'm going to have to start dying my hair real soon), my metabolism is slowing, and I'm starting to notice wrinkles that are probably not visible to anyone else. In the meantime, Timo has never looked younger to me. Sometimes I look at him and I feel like I'm dating a teenager. Also, last week a (26 year-old) coworker asked me my age and when I said I was turning 31 soon, his face looked something like this: D:< Very flattering, as you can imagine!Oh well.
On to less depressing things. We did a rather good job planning our short trip to Vienna. I managed to score really cheap plane tickets, back in December. A bit confusing too, because I'm going with Air France, so I'll fly via Paris, and when I did a simulation for a round trip to Paris on the same dates, it turned out to be more expensive than the trip to Austria. No idea how that works. But of course I'm not complaining. My only complaint actually is that it would have been expensive to take the 7 am flight, which would have allowed me to land in Vienna at 3 pm. Instead I had to take a later flight and I'll get there at 7 pm. Timo, on the other hand, will arrive at 10 am, so we're almost losing a whole day together. But it's better than nothing. At least he'll have time to figure out public transportation, getting us our weekly passes and checking into our apartment before I get there.
This time we decided we didn't want a hotel room, so we went with an apartment (through Airbnb) and found a really nice one for relatively cheap and located in a great area. Extra bonus: the bathtub works as a jacuzzi
I have become a bit obsessed with bathtubs lately, to the point of mentally dismissing any hotel room or apartment that only has a shower. The reason is that the last time I saw Timo, on our last night in Frankfurt, we got a room at a Best Western hotel (great deal) that had a tub and we decided to take a bath and it turned to be one of the greatest thing we ever experienced together. A couple of nice coincidences, about the Vienna trip: once we agreed on the dates and booked our flights, it turned out that there is an amazing concert taking place during our stay. The headlining band is one I have been wanting to see for a while (Atlantean Kodex, if anyone is interested in looking it up!) and another band is one we had seen in Germany back in November, and which we had really liked. Second coincidence is that once we booked the apartment, it turned out that the club where the concert will be held is 200 meters away from it. That means we can get wasted without having to worry about getting on the wrong tram/bus on the way home
Oh yeah, and we're going to meet up with Lilly9886 and her boyfriend the day before we leave, so I'm really looking forward to that!
That's it for the Vienna trip (btw, OF COURSE there will be pictures!) which will only last for five days. But it'll serve its purpose, which is to break off the loooong wait before my next trip to Finland in June. Of course I'm happy about going to Austria, I've always wanted to, but I'm more looking forward to being home with my SO. I want us to have some alone time and enjoy the beautiful Finnish summer. This time I'm staying a little bit longer than the last few visits (17 days instead of 12. Might not seem like a lot, but it's a world of difference to me) and we have decided that we will spend the whole first week in Espoo. Usually we just spend a couple of days there and then go to his parents' place, with the intention of only staying for three or four days, but we'd end up staying for over a week. Of course there's nothing wrong with that, and we both love it or we wouldn't spend so much time there, but it usually leaves us with regret and the feeling of not having appreciated the visit enough, when the time comes to say goodbye.
It's not like we're going to lock ourselves in his house, though. I expect a lot of football-watching parties with his friends, since the World Cup starts soon after I get there. That's almost as exciting as just being with Timo
I just wish the weather would be a bit warmer than it should be, because I want to go swimming. But you can't really do that when it's 12°c. Unless you're Finnish, of course. I think I'll stop now. If you don't know what to comment on, I won't be mad if you don't
I'll be there April 2nd to 7th. So I'll miss you but not by much :/ And I quite agree with you about traveling together. It's really special