Post-Honeymoon AMA (Within Reason) (Real Housewives of Cologne, Episode 7.5)

Your Blogmeister’s German Desk

The only way we could have had a better honeymoon is if we were filthy rich, which we’re not.

To keep my tracks behind me well covered, I’m going to let some time pass before I write that much here about everywhere we went and how we went to those places.  However, from the Dracula joke I kicked here in my last post before leaving, you can probably figure that Transylvania was one of our stops.  Also, on my social feeds, back on July 19, that being the three-year anniversary of that day, I stated in that post that we were in Thessalonica, Greece on that day.  So now you know two of the places.  You’ll just have to wait awhile until I tell you the rest.  Just as a teaser, I’ll say that it involved a surprise along the way that even I had no idea existed, but turned out to be the highlight of a trip full of highlights.

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But now, fun time is over, real life kicks into high gear.

Today is going to be a day full of laundry, ironing, housework, backlogged domestic matters, responding to non-critical messages that backed up during the month.

As for the future beyond today, I already told you before departing that we’re thinking twins, because of the way her morning sickness was worse than usual and lasted longer than usual.  Now we have another piece of circumstantial evidence that started up in the later days of our honeymoon:  Her appetite and weight are starting to pick up sooner than it should.  Frau. goes in for the sonogram later this month, but I think I know what it’s going to tell us in terms of number.  The only open question is sex(es).

These next five months are either going to go by at a snail’s pace or at a cheetah’s pace, or maybe some of both.

Two big things we have to get done in that time:

(1)  Our apartment, hers before I proposed, but ours after I did, and legally ours after we were legally married, only has one bedroom.  As you might guess, we’re soon going to be in need of an extra bedroom, eventually two if they’re mixed sex fraternal twins.  Which means we’re going to have to go apartment hunting and move from our current one to it, provided we can find something, and that’s not exactly a given in major German cities.  It will also mean that I’ll be dealing with a Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung for the first time since moving to Germany.

(2)  Whether one or two, our anticipated bundle(s) of joy mean(s) that Frau. is going to want a larger more practical car than her little toot toot VW Golf.  Which means car shopping.

Those are the big things, in addition to all the smaller but just as important things.  And all that is on top of the fact that Frau. goes back to work on Monday, (her job got back to near full strength even before the honeymoon), and mine goes back to close to full strength starting Thursday.

All I’m saying is that you probably shouldn’t expect much in the way of posting from me either here or on the social feeds, for quite awhile.  Of course, when our bundle(s) of joy actually arrive(s), that will take up even more of our time, so expect “quite awhile” to be a very long time.

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Onward and upward:  You can use the comment section to ask me anything within reason, about the current news, or whatever.  During the honeymoon, I interacted with online pretty much at the bare necessary minimum, and only kept up on the really important news in a superficial sense of “read the headline speed read the body” only.  But that was enough for me to formulate what are probably some unique takes about what has transpired, and the stuff that was hot before we left.  Also, being away from the grind and the negativity gave me an opportunity to clear and reset my mind, and, with current events in mind, come to terms with some cold hard reality about several things.  They say that, sometimes, not thinking is the best kind of thinking.  What I have come to realize, I don’t think I can write openly, even here or on AR.

Have at it, peanut gallery.