How to make a point

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Sometimes it's everything 'how you put it.' 

This is a bowl off perfectly scooped strawberry and rum- raisin ice cream, in a plain square bowl, but on a printed table cloth, and done perfectly, many a gelato salon would hire my stepdad for this. It's simple, but done so well, it's elegant. 

We could dine like we're at the raw edge off civilization with our plain foods, and take it like garbage, we could also be a little more romantic and tidy, and treat our foods with respect- and make that table, shape our food and give credit to it like it deserves. Civilization- it makes such a diffrence, but people seem to dismay it nowadays. It's how they like to see us, as unmannered pigs, but what if this savage tells you we could prove them diffrently, and bring it a bit more civilized? You have a chance they take you more serious if you are aware off how you put it. Just an idea. Add a little style, a little know-how, a little touch off je ne sais quoi class to your work- and see how it transforms. 

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Good evening at the 16th off October, 2025.

 Good evening everyone, 

This is the gift for my birthday brother tomorrow 

I hope they don't find me cheap, it's been pricey for a HEMA gift. And I hope they don't find me a tauck. I also had one for my other brother's birthday in June. It's a bit silly, a bit childish, a bit cheap- But I got a gift for them. That's already a whole lot off something for this year. And like I said, it's not wrapped in an old newspaper. It's in real wrapping paper. 

I hope we can find a little cheer in our heart for it. I feel so depressed and so gloomy, as if Dementors from Harry Potter are haunting the streets off this old place, unseen by muggles like me. We used to have a soft spot for these kind off silly gifts. I feel as if I'm barely in the mood for it. It used to cheer us up, but this rotten situation in the world enlowers my personal mood. There's mood enlowers, there's mood enhancers. I hope we never grow too old or too serious for presents like these. But I feel I'm doing difficult. 

And something to end my blog with for this evening, a picture off my dessert 😏 I hope there comes a day where these sort off things will truly cheer me up again. 

It's a bowl off low fat forest fruit yoghurt, topped with blueberries. This is what I would call a mood enhancer, and it's good for our body. Just the plain sight off it used to cheer me up. I just don't know what my problem is tonight. Or I do know, but I'm doing hard with it. I'm severely cranky, on top off delusions. I hope it vanishes by tomorrow. I have to attend a birthday. 

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I still have it!

 Good evening everyone, 

I, poor unfortunate soul, I still got it. Not my mind, not my husband, not my pet, but this: 

There used to be an awfull lot off coffee in Brazil like Frank Sinatra sang it, but due to harvest problems and price increasement due to economic crisis, I think barely anyone has it anymore. But de Boed, community centre in Zaandijk, still serves it every day to it's clients. Morning, afternoon and evening. We have three fullfilling coffee moments a day. With fresh black pot coffee. Made by a volunteer in our kitchen. I'm the coffee lady on Thursday morning. On a volunteer base. If people would know they'd fight me over this. Out off jealousy. I think I make the best coffee in Zaandijk at Thursday. I'm good at what I do. And they admire me. They love my coffee. 'It's almost Parisian.' Like they say about it. I think they serve this only in Paris and London by now, given the incredible prices off coffee. But they have it for me. I'm gratefull. 

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Good evening at the 15th off October, 2025.

Good evening everyone, 

Today I painted euro coins. These are two euro coins, and a few cents. It's done with metallic gold and silver paint. I also painted one with one and two euro coins. 

It's money on a painting. I thought it was fun. I painted money today. I thought it was fun. It's what we all crave nowadays. Most people are not rich and doing insecure. A little money was my inspiration. 

I wrapped a birthday present for my brother, he's almost celebrating his birthday. 

I'm not good at wrapping, but let's hope he doesn't think I'm cheap on him with this. And it has self-wrapped wrapping paper. I hope I get away with this. But from here to Eddinburgh, it's a present and I'm glad I got it to begin with. This Friday I will attend. 

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Good evening at the 5th off October, 2025.

 Good evening everyone, 

It's been a stormy weekend in The Netherlands. It's still windy and rainy. 

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'It enhances your heart...' Dáár knapt een mannenhart van op... But I never had the chance to actually share it with the right guy. I make the best coffee and soup in town, That's what I claim all the time. I'm the coffee lady, and sometimes I sell pretty good soup to my friend, the retired zookeeper. He asks me all the time. When I'm about to make vegetable soup, and today was for a good portion off cauliflower oven dish with a bowl off low fat strawberry yoghurt. 

I think it helps, he's underfed and low on vitamins. So he can use my food. But it's never for Mr. Right. Still, it's making me happy to improve his health a bit. But having no man is a bit off a miss. It hurts a bit to have a hole in my heart. I'm at that age, but a man is not preferable, and neither is having kids. Economics are too bad. My health sucks, I think I'm about to die all the time. Every morning I wake up after an evening struggling with headaches is a gift. The cramps hurt an incredible lot. It's rotten. Every day, every year is a gift in my opinion. But I struggle and it hurts. But to cook heart enhancing foods keeps me alive, in a wide sense off the word. And help my neighbour. It sets my mind off off things, and we eat. 

'I make the best in town.' I brawl a bit, but it's a joke and they got it. Maybe they even agree. I'm a bit cranky, a bit moody. It's that war-feeling, Autumn and the gloom off this old town. Food keeps me up. I don't mean over-eating, I don't have money for that, but I can cook a well cooked meal, and I enjoy. Despite it's every day food. The World used to be more rich, I wish I would not compare to the old situation all the time, the situation from 5 years ago, when we seemed rich and invincible. But I have to keep up. Though I must admit, sometimes it's even a bit soothing to dwell in that crankyness, I did not know I was capable to feel an emotion like that. So gloomy, so desolate, dealing with bad economics and the weather. And meanwhile I take pictures off my every day food and post them on my Facebook. I like to think I mock Russia that way a bit. They want us to be poor and starve, but I still have healthy foods on my table. 'Look, Moscow, I. still. eat!' Despite prices. It's not luxurious, but compared to the old situation, this is luxury off the day.  And I'm a sick nobody without a job. But I eat healthy food. 

I think Russia should hate me for it. This is what they're after. But I got wartime food. I'm not wealthy. And it's basic. Every 90's dad could tell you this is utmost basic, but it's kinda good. Come to think off it, to have a man and extra mouths to feed would be too much. But selling a mundane portion to a skinny old grandpa does it with this. I sell portions for 5 euro's each. I always say he 'owes up for the minced meat.' In an oven dish, or for soup balls. I make my own soup balls. And this way I can afford beef mince. Prices are expensive for us, on the lower scale off income. But I manage to come round. I try not to be expensive, and a bit giving. Tonight's portion was big, and he got a dessert with it. It enhances a heart. That's what I do if I feel well on a Sunday. 

But this world and being poor, that's why I never got married. And offcourse, my own impossible self. It's a calculation, but I think it's fate. Just like Jupiter in Libra in the Fourth house on the horoscope off the Kingdom off the Netherlands, I'm blessed with the home and doing home work, but I'm not fit for anything outside this place. Mars makes a square in Capricorn, and Venus opposes it in Aries. It's not preferable for work, or wealthy elegance, and forget it with love and romance. But it's the comfort off a home. And I got that. The blessing off a Dutch home. I'm sincerely lucky with it, but love is not in it for me. (I tried to read the Dutch horoscope. It's kinda interesting.) And it's both fortune and faith. I hope that doesn't sound too vague to you. To work with this horoscope chart makes me understand things a bit better. Horoscopes aren't complete gibberish to me. It's what keeps my mind buisy. 

So, that's what's on: The gloom, foods, selling them and the horoscope. 

Allright, that's about it for now- 

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