yay!

This jumper, honestly, i will wear it like every day.
Also, I love punctuation marks.

YAY!
M.

freaking out

Today is Sunday. I'm leaving on Wednesday.
I am freaking out.

In other news, we had another super fun day today. (Yesterday consisted of good lunch and gaming at my old friend's house.)
We started off being really useful and got stuff done. Then went for some coffee. Came home, went for bowling (I won, yay!) And then came home to eat stuff in our den (yes, we built a den yesterday) and watch BAFTAs.

And now I've realised that when I wake up tomorrow, it will be "I'm moving the day after tomorrow" which is freaking me out.

The massive saving grace of this evening is the fact that J. decided to give me her jumper that says "YAY!" on it, which I think is pretty fitting. And apparently it works really well in either inappropriate or really stupidly stupid situations, or just in a crap mood.
And I love this jumper.

Happy Monday morning that's around the corner. 
M.

old ones

Here's some photos from when A. was here, middle of Jan.
We had a great snow-day, which consisted of watching Dexter on my bed and eating a big big breakfast. Since I didn't have a breakfast tray I used a baking one instead.
And it was snowing.

And the gray long jumper I'm wearing in the bottom photo (bought from the pretty one) just induces useful-ness. So I'm wearing it today.

Happy Friday.
M.

sthlm

This place is circus.

And I don't know how to behave.

These two statements don't go hand in hand.
we're back home from town, I'm back to wearing the reindeer, and A. is napping.

Circus.
M.

my reindeer

sunbed cheeks

The best compliment I've heard this summer is "you outrageous lady".
What made it the best compliment was the fact that this was from a mature person, an esteemed teacher, about my performance of a Mozart aria.
SO MANY THINGS that don't usually count as outrageous.

But there I was. Outrageous. And a lady.
Love. IT. ALL.

So today I went on a date, with myself.
I am making a bit of a hoo-haa about it, but really - it was just that lovely.

I spend a lot of time out of the house. For some reason I don't get cosy at home, or comfy. Sometimes I do want to spend an entire night in, but this is so so, SO rare.
So I spend a lot of time out. And hence tonigh was triple cool. Because it was one of the best alone nights I've had, in such a long time.
Maybe it was the view from the large windows of the 9th floor, maybe it was the rain outside that was trickling down these large windows in the most cinematic way, ever, maybe it was the city lights, maybe it was the time (around 8pm), maybe it was the coffee, maybe it was what I was wearing, maybe it was the fact that I was warm, maybe it was the cheese on my risotto, or the 2 candles, or what-e-ver.
It just was.
And it was great.

One of those when you sit, and go, okay, this is life, I am here, and this is all good.

This is all good.
M.

(And 1am sunbed-cheeks. Yes, yes, yes,)

2009

I found this picture the other day.
This was a brilliant gig. A casual storm carried away the actual stage so the producer got us the keys to this old village hall, and off we went. No mics for no one, everyone was damp as ever. Wet dog smell. And my dress remained in the bag - hence the skiing-jumper and boots.
It was just so lovely. And extraordinary for so many reasons. There were people sat on the stage, including my best friends. And when the cello guys (quartet C-Jam) were doing their solo songs I sat down onto this blanket thing, on the stage, with my friends.
I don't really remember that many of the songs we performed but I remember it.
Hence the photo.

This is THE MOST Captain Obvious thing to say - but it is so entirely right - that however hard you plan, you just cannot know. And more often than not the best things just happen on their own anyway.
And that's kinda great.

With love.M.

the 1:39am post

Tonight we finished concert 13. And it was lovely.

Now then.
I can honest to God say, I'm extremely tired.

So to aid that, tomorrow I'm starting a jumper. As in, starting the knitting of one. Since manual labour is most often my answer to everything I've decided to follow my own advice.

I feel like that hedgehog looks. Go figure. M.