“Sometimes, you’ve got to work a little, so you can ball a lot.” Tom Haverford

So I spent a lovely extended weekend in Atlanta a couple weeks back. It was nice to get a chance to stop home and see family. Got to spend time with my parents, grandfather, and my aunt even drove in from South Carolina for a day to see me! My parents and I, god bless them, spent Saturday going through every single box in our storage unit that was mine leftover from Nevada and made donation piles, take with me piles, and repack piles. In the ultimate Jeffrey Marks efficiency fashion, we were in and out in about 6 hours and turned 40 boxes into 20 (we unpacked every single item to repack). True genius, this man.

Sunday I got to relax, ahem…shop, a bit. Still not quite used to EU styles (or sizes!). Then, the wonderful Brittani came in to the city to see me!! We all, family included, hung out for a while before Mom had to head to the airport and then went out for dinner to what people call a "Diner", but they served pretty fancy food too, so I'm not sure how I feel about that.

My repacking for my return was focused on 3 things: baking, clothes, PS4. All three of those items were able to make it in my suitcase(s) back to Amsterdam! So as you can imagine, after a long week at work, I HAD to bake this last weekend….and of course play some games. Ultimate de-stressors. I made my first EU attempt at our pumpkin bread recipe. I'm starting to just accept that everything I make here, even if it should be identical, is not. I'll have to make some tweaks to the recipe next time I make it to see if I can improve.

Other than that, not much news to share! Just chugging along until this project is complete and I’m onto the next one! So long for now.