blayka

Indeed.
Contrary to popular belief, I am still here. I have been lurking around for the past few months, not writing anything on this here bloggy.

It's not that I'm lazy. Honest.

I was operated on. Apparently had tons of gallbladder stones. All gone now. Feel tons lighter. The scales disagree, but who cares. They are a machine.

Nevertheless, if you feel a bit more sympathetic than my scales, feel free to express concern for my health. I am well enough to reply to comments (insert feeble, sickly, self-indulging cough here).

It is procrastination time at work. There is too much to do and I only have a few days before my annual leave. It only makes perfect sense not to do anything and give others the chance to prove themselves when I am gone.

I feel ever so generous today. Good to be back!

Ever since I heard about these guys I wanted to see them perform live. This weekend the wait finally ends! I'm going to see them in West End.... Can't wait.

We have -- yes, we do -- 25 degrees (in the shade) over here. It starts with a chilly 8 in the morning an then it turns into summer. With 30 degrees in the sun and all.

Needless to say, we are still all wearing winter clothes. It was winter only last week! Come afternoon and we are all sweaty and tired, we've had enough and we want air conditioning.

I don't understand, what is going on.

That is all.

I went to Italy for a spot of shopping last Saturday. My hubby was actually doing all of the shopping, I was just being a helpful little wife, who would bring him shirts in right sizes and all that.

Since I had a lot of time on my hands, I was naturally doing some observing. First thing I noticed: shop assistants. They were all gay. I love gay men (not in the biblical sense, of course). They have so much style and grace it is almost painful to watch. Especially for me, as I sometimes feel a little challenged in the style department.

So there I was, torturing myself with these self-depreciating thoughts, when it occurred to me. The gay shop assistants were very attentive to all of the attractive men customers. They are probably attentive to all of their customers, but I only noticed how they behave to handsome men, since my hubby is just yummy. Ahem. I understand why they would lust after him. And he enjoyed it, of course. Again not in the biblical sense, but in the purely egotistical sense. He loved being adored.

Just to test this theory, I strolled over to the women's department. There were a few quite grumpy looking Italian women pretending to be shop assistants there. They were all irritatingly skinny and good looking, I might add. I felt out of place. Again.

So I have a little suggestion for all you shop owners out there. I understand you need to have female shop assistants in the women’s departments, as we don’t like to discuss our bum sizes and all of the other dirty body details with men. Hire some nice lesbians instead. We will be relaxed around them and they will be happy to see us, but not in the threatening male heterosexual way. I would love to be adored as I shop. I think this would work for all of us quite well.

Of this here little blog, that is.

I keep posting about once a month and I have a sneaking suspicion that I just might get even worse in the summer.

Should I keep it going at all? Sometimes I think I should just kill it, then again I still like to post every now and then... And visit other blogs, post irrelevant comments...

Maybe a decision will surface in the next few months. It's funny how attached I got to it, even though I'm not very active at all.

I had the opportunity to have a sneak-preview of the Slumdog Millionaire and I have to say I rather liked it. Apart from the fairy-tale story, the film is very well made, I think.

But I seem to be in the minority. Most of the people around here think that it does not deserve the plurality of Oscars it received.

And what do you think?

I hereby confess to having read the following books during the past months (almost as long as I haven't blogged )

- The Kite Runner (generously left behind by Deana24 last year. Only managed to read it now. LOVED it - cried through the whole thing and kept telling myself it's fiction. I hope it is.)
- one part of the Kairo trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz. Loved that one too. I'm half way through the second book now.
- several books of criminal nature that I am for the life of me unable to remember. But there were several. I'm a sucker for the light genre, what can you do.

I also confess to going to the cinema three times lately, which was to see:
- Madagascar 2 (hillarious, cute)
- Rockenrolla (good, but Snatch is far better)
- Bolt (cute and action-packed)

You may have noticed that cartoons are somehow over-represented in this sample, which is due to my inability to say "no" when my 10-year-old invites me to the movies. I fear the time when he starts to fancy the slashers. I hope that by then I will not be on his invite list any more.

Again, weekend presented a stark contrast to the gloom and drag of my workdays. Just to give you an example, below is the picture of what I saw on my early morning walk with the dog (yes, he too is on the picture, all for the price of one).

Today, the snow is melting on overdrive, work is even draggier than usual and all is meh. Something definitely needs to be done about this soon.

Today I feel like an idiot. A big idiot. But nowhere near this guy.

What is more, I am way better than this guy (who makes the coconut guy look like a genious).

In other news, life is good, job is shite. It is so bad that I am (some may say finally) seriously considering options.

Meh.

I am having the best birthday. There's nothing special going on to speak of, it's just so right.

I woke up into a sunny morning with fresh snow. I'm at work now and even work is not as horrible as usual. Or maybe it's just this good mood which makes even the boring stuff less horrid.

A few people I missed a lot for the past month have all called with good wishes. I'm meeting a few of them next week, so that is extra good - verging on excellent.

Also, I am promised a chocolate cake this evening.

As I said, it is a good, good day.

I hope it is just as nice for all of you too.

xx