We had an extra long weekend as it was Easter and Easter time is for us just fancy cooking. On Easter Sunday we decided to do the ol’ fashioned Dutch gourmet, which means you grill small pieces of meat on a large hot grill. The one we own is for eight people but we do it with the two of us. More space to grill haha. And on Easter Monday, when the weather was better, we fired up de BBQ. This year we opted to get our foodstuffs from our local farm. They had a handy order online system. The quality was fantastic and just a little more expensive than the supermarket. Very happy with the result on both days.
Work was uneventful, due to the holiday, I only had to work three days this week. Yay! Got acquited with a new tool that launces soon. The rest was like any other workweek.
I had decided to go to the Natuurmuseum, after seeing my friend post about her visit during Easter. It’s been years since I went, last time was a schooltrip. It is not large as other similar museums but it was very educational. The visit was on a Wednesday and they have several school in there doing their schooltrip but it wasn’t chaotic. I had to giggle when at the two lions mating, the kids were asking the staff why they were on top of each other. Oh sweet innocent child. The display cabinated were numbered and you could access info of each exhibition by filling in the number on the display. Sad to see some of the animals as extremely endangered.
The museum had a good little animation made, you can also watch it in English, about the impact man has on nature. And ended with: Nature will do fine without us, but we cannot live without nature. In times of politicians screaming that climate change is a hoax while parts of the world either drowns or is set on fire, this piece of making kids aware does give one hope. The future is in our children and not the smelly billionaires and corrupt heads of state who are tearing the world apart.
There are a lot of fun shops in Tilburg like Cool Bananas and Sounds but I skipped them as I didn’t want to spend a lot of money only for me to walk into the local arts and crafts store to spend €60 on art supplies. *sigh* And the pharmacy also had my favourite face masks. So ouch to my wallet. Lunch was nothing special, just a freshly baked cream cheese bagel which I devoured in minutes. And I treated myself to a iced mango matcha latte.
It could have been a good day but some fuckwits decided to invade my privacy which spiked my anxiety, had me furious for the rest of the day and caused me a lot of pain the next day because the adrenaline was gone. Just because some lowlifes thought it was fun to stalk me. And before the racists chime in, they were white. Little disclaimer this is not your rancid echo chamber, this is not a safe space for bigots. And to all the men that take enjoyment feeling up women, following them, filming them with your pathetic glasses, making sexual inclinded comments, tell us to smile, invade our private spaces – I hope your cock rots off and you die. 🙂
The next day I wasn’t able to use my legs much, the stress off the day before did a number on me and I just wanted to relax. I gave Blacksad – under the skin on more try. I don’t know why but on Switch 2, even with the patch the game crashes. I could move past the terrible voice acting but crashing every 30 mins is a no go for me. Data was not corrupted after I preformed the scan and I was able to play for a short period after reinstalling, but this game is now unplayable for me. Luckily I’ve only spend €3,99 and that is already too much for a broken game. As a huge Blacksad fan, this purchase really sucks and I deleted it from my Switch. Do not recommend at all. If you want to read about a new game that I did have fun with this week, check out my Tiny Bookshop post.
This week we listened to the album of Robyn and Akira soundtrack. Robyn is amazing. Her work has so many tones, I love them all. And the Akira soundtrack reminded me that Tetsuo is such an insecure asshole, that I can’t stand him. Will watch the movie soon to see him get destoyed by his own powers.
This blog was written by me, Maankatje, a real person with feelings and ideas. I do not support AI. It is a creativity stealing, environment destroying machine, used in propaganda by henious governments. I do not give permission for this post to be scraped by AI to train.