Good afternoon at the 10th off November, 2024.

 Good afternoon everyone, 

Today is a cold and gloomy day in the town off Castricum 

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This weekend, I have been at my mom's. She has her birthday tomorrow, but I've been here all weekend. My family takes me being here very well, sometimes my brothers got a bit annoyed by me. When my Schizo symptoms show up a bit too much. But it has kept quiet this weekend. I have two younger brothers. 

The eldest is going cookie baking today. He's up to making gingerbread. Last time I was here, he had prepared pumpkinpie, and he's kinda good at it. I think he loves baking as much as me. There was a time he got all into home made chocolates, and he's great at preparing Asian cuisine. he's easy to purchase gifts for. Asian cookbooks usually do it for him. Or any kind off 'manly' cookbook with cool receipes he wishes to try. And yes, he cooks well. I tasted it, it's fine. 

My mom has her birthday tomorrow. 

 

I have a cute gift, aside from the usuall big box off local handmade Zaandijk chocolates she loves. My mom adores those. But yes, this year it's sided with a gift. it's also easy to purchase my (picky) mom a gift, she likes the old fashioned Zaandijk culture, so usually a gift in that style does it. Or the biggest box off chocolates from the chocolate shop. I have set money aside for that. It's just that the retailer is going to retire, and she doesn't has a follow up. It's better than Leonidas, and it's really one off a kind vintage chocolate shop with spaces for artists to hold a gallery. It's so cozy and sweet, it's like coffee and chocolates at a decadent great grandmother when I sit there. And the coffee cups are pure gold vintage at that place. 

 I couldn't resist to purchase a small bag off it for myself, and I'm spare with it. One or two at a time. She's perfect at chocolate making. And she has the perfect, decadent old fashioned interior. In Zaandijk, we all hang to the 1930's sometimes. It won't get any more modern in our minds than that. And I love it. I can't help it, I just love that old fashioned decadency from decades ago. If you're not up to that sort off style, it's not on you. It's just that this is the real old fashioned style off the Netherlands. And if you love it, it's perfect. I'm kinda fond off the old fashioned. like maybe you can see  and feel on this weblog. It's mainly love I feel for it.

My home even leans to the vintage style. It's classy furnitured. Not too old fashioned, but still it's nice and coquette like. I think everyone is secretly a bit vintage at heart. I can't help it. Somehow I think it's something most people love, or secretly hold a soft spot for. The vintage, the 1920's-1950's, the old fashioned, the styles, it's in all off us somehow. I live in a place where the classics never die, and where Chatlie Chaplin, impregnating a woman at the age off 80 is still talk off town among baby boomers. They still talk about that. And where they still love Laurel and Hardy, and where those rock classics never die. Perfect for an old soul like mine. They got me into Sam Cooke and the Buena Vista Social club recently. It never gets old among them. I love it.  

Allright, that's about it for now- 

Thank you for reading.