I really need a holiday. I know I came back from my last vacation less than a month ago, but going on a trip to Finland is the least restful thing I could do on my day off. I don't go to bed early enough, and I can never bring myself to sleep in. Maybe I just want to make the most of my time with my SO. Anyway, I have planned on taking a week off in August. Haven't decided when yet, but I'm looking forward to it because it will be the first time I stay home when on leave from work since July 2009.
So I went to my gyno appointment at the end of my three-month hormonal treatment two weeks ago, as planned. She did an ultrasound and said my ovaries are back to a quasi-normal size now, which means the treatment was effective. It's not bad news, but it's not great news either, because we were just treating the symptoms. The syndrome itself is not treatable. I don't want to dwell on that, though. She decided to put me on another three-month course of the same treatment: anti-hormonal pill to lower my testosterone levels, and the good old pill, a brand which I find that I'm responding quite well to, as I got no real side effects besides the lowering of my libido, but I can live with that for three more months. I'm seeing Timo in 4.5 months anyway
It's hot season down here, which means that temperatures very rarely go below 30°c in daytime. Last weekend it was above 40°c, even. I don't mind so much. Or wouldn't, if my car's AC was working
But I'm in the process of getting that fixed. It's going to cost me of course, but that's the price of independence and coolness. I really want to go to the beach, but at the same time I don't really want to tan. When I spend a few hours under the sun I turn almost black, and I don't like that. Maybe I can talk my sisters into going late in the afternoon, or as the sun is setting. Since my life is so boring right now, I'm mostly thinking about/planning our next trips/visits together. So far I have three lined up: a weekend in Germany in mid-November, a (most likely) ten day visit to Finland for Tommi and Jaana's wedding (probably end of November/start of December, they haven't set a date yet) and a week in Athens in March 2015.
Naturally I'm focusing on the weekend in Germany because it's the first one I have lined up. We're going to attend the same festival we have been going to in Würzburg since November 2011, which will be on Friday/Saturday, so I'll be flying to Frankfurt the Thursday before (Timo will go a day earlier), we'll take the train to Würzburg, stay until Sunday morning then go back to Frankfurt and leave on Monday. It's something that we have done a couple of times already so it's like a routine trip for us. This time will be slightly different because his (our?) friend Seppo has moved to Frankfurt this summer and at his farewell party when we mentioned we'll be there in November, he offered that we would stay with him, provided that he'd have an apartment by then. It'll be nice to stay with a friend because Frankfurt is such a dreary city and there's nothing to do there because we always go on a Sunday
Seppo is currently in a LDR with a Spanish girl, a cellist who was studying at the conservatory in Helsinki, and he said she'll be moving in with him in Frankfurt in a few months, so at least we have that in common!Another thing we're going to do differently this year is: I'm giving Timo the night off on Friday. The festival we go to isn't really his cup of tea. He agrees to go because he knows I like it, and also because he likes going to Germany where good food and good beer is so cheap! He is as much into metal as I am (probably more) but doom metal isn't his favourite style, and this festival is called Hammer of Doom
Usually he finds a way to occupy himself even if he doesn't care for the bands, but he mostly sits around being bored. I think it's really unfair. So I told him that on Friday (Saturday has much more interesting bands for him) he could let me go to the venue alone (it's 200 meters away from our hotel) and he could take the train to Bamberg to make a tour of their famous breweries there. I know he really wants that, and we discussed going on Thursday evening but he said it would be too late and it was better to go straight to Würzburg. He agreed to my plan very reluctantly, because he doesn't want to leave me alone, but I know that deep down he's very happy. It might sound stupid to lose a whole evening of being together after being apart for almost 5 months, but ehh. Being at the festival together isn't really being "together" :P And I'm happy knowing that he's happy. And it also relieves me from my guilt of having him there being miserable, although he wouldn't admit to it. I always have fun at that festival, and I have a couple of friends to hang out with (literally couple, husband and wife. They met on the same forum we did a few years before, were in a LDR and then got married and she moved to Germany from the US to be with him and they just celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary 
awesome people) and it's always easy to talk to strangers in Germany anyway! So that's my plan for the festival. Before we get to that, though, we're going to celebrate our second wedding anniversary on Thursday
It'll be 11 days late unfortunately, but what can you do! We have agreed on the presents already. For our anniversaries we like to take the pressure off by telling each other what we want Also I have found out about this supposedly fantastic restaurant downtown that we never walked past before for some reason, so I'll make reservations for dinner there, and we'll have champagne and everything! He doesn't know that I'm planning this carefully (down to my outfit for the evening) so it'll be kind of like a half-surprise. I can't wait I wrote too much already. Lucybelle is never going to read it all. Speaking of which, how about blogging, eh LB?
Rach: That sounds really wonderful, although I suspect Yellowstone would have been equally wonderful. Some other time, hopefully?