one week ago
Original Post: Saturday, March 3, yet due to home Blogging difficulties, as noted, is making first appearance now.
I have this tendency, when I miss a certain place in time and space, to compare the now to the then, as is the case at the moment. A week ago I was gathered around a table adorned with homemade chicken curry and the air was filled with the sounds and scents of a dinner of perfection. See right. And shortly thereafter we headed out on the town - I hadn't been clubbing in Barcelona since summer 2001, and although the times and people had changed, the spirit was still there.
Now that's not to say this evening has been unpleasant by any means - night in with dinner and a movie with the family (ie bag o' salad then a laptop DVD ha ha) but I suppose you notice what you miss the more you start to recognise what that is, and even more so when you get a taste of it that is shortlived. But the day in general was filled with our usual laughs and spontaneous busting into song that we have built our daily life around. AND made better with a lovely afternoon with T, complete with Brunch at Crunch although started to wonder if our little cafe is located a little too close to one of those infamous Dutch coffee shops as none of the orders seemed to be easily and correctly fulfilled.
Also telephonically caught up with a friend today who I hadn't heard from in WAYY too long. It was super ultra fab to chat! Mutual friend of GP (and in the same friendship category) we had lots of laughs and our conversation led to post-Brazil Congress plans which sent the excitement bugs all a-flutter. Him, me, GP, and LB - a trip to rival them ALL on the beaches of Rio! I have very much come to love these people, my Urban family, scattered as they are across the continent. So much so that they have grown significant enough that the fear of at any point being faced with having to move back cross-continent, and therefore far away, is exponentially escalated. Let us banish the thought.
In other news I am constantly reminded that there are just over 5 months until all must be ready for Brazil. One would think that most focus would be on work, and well of course that is the most important, but naggingly enough there is not a second that goes by when I do not think that I have just that amount of time to attempt (in vain, as usual?) to get myself in a shape personally deemed acceptable to don swimwear in public. I am not optimistic.
I feel like a banana. Or eating one, rather.
*10 minutes later* mmmm that was perfect. Washed the dishes too, which MY GOD we seem to have a lot of. Or maybe it just SEEMS that way as I am constantly doing the dishes of 3. I can just hear my mom: "WHY aren't you using the dishwasher?!?!?!?!" to which I would try to explain my disdain for both the loading and unloading of said "convenience".
WOW just realised its past midnight already. The days are flying....and soon there will only be two in Flat Occupation. Mehhhh. A blender of thoughts on that.
OOOH a Rob Lowe movie is on tv. What an excellent way to slide into Sunday
Now that's not to say this evening has been unpleasant by any means - night in with dinner and a movie with the family (ie bag o' salad then a laptop DVD ha ha) but I suppose you notice what you miss the more you start to recognise what that is, and even more so when you get a taste of it that is shortlived. But the day in general was filled with our usual laughs and spontaneous busting into song that we have built our daily life around. AND made better with a lovely afternoon with T, complete with Brunch at Crunch although started to wonder if our little cafe is located a little too close to one of those infamous Dutch coffee shops as none of the orders seemed to be easily and correctly fulfilled.
Also telephonically caught up with a friend today who I hadn't heard from in WAYY too long. It was super ultra fab to chat! Mutual friend of GP (and in the same friendship category) we had lots of laughs and our conversation led to post-Brazil Congress plans which sent the excitement bugs all a-flutter. Him, me, GP, and LB - a trip to rival them ALL on the beaches of Rio! I have very much come to love these people, my Urban family, scattered as they are across the continent. So much so that they have grown significant enough that the fear of at any point being faced with having to move back cross-continent, and therefore far away, is exponentially escalated. Let us banish the thought.
In other news I am constantly reminded that there are just over 5 months until all must be ready for Brazil. One would think that most focus would be on work, and well of course that is the most important, but naggingly enough there is not a second that goes by when I do not think that I have just that amount of time to attempt (in vain, as usual?) to get myself in a shape personally deemed acceptable to don swimwear in public. I am not optimistic.
I feel like a banana. Or eating one, rather.
*10 minutes later* mmmm that was perfect. Washed the dishes too, which MY GOD we seem to have a lot of. Or maybe it just SEEMS that way as I am constantly doing the dishes of 3. I can just hear my mom: "WHY aren't you using the dishwasher?!?!?!?!" to which I would try to explain my disdain for both the loading and unloading of said "convenience".
WOW just realised its past midnight already. The days are flying....and soon there will only be two in Flat Occupation. Mehhhh. A blender of thoughts on that.
OOOH a Rob Lowe movie is on tv. What an excellent way to slide into Sunday
posted by Myrtini @ 10:50 am
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