note to self

On my way to dance class today, I told myself that I will be good at dance class today instead of my usual uncoordinated and distracted crap that I bring to dance class week after week in spite of the fact that I really should be quite good at this through effluxion of time, if [...]

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that smell from yesterday

While leaving work today, a sampler vial of perfume I had in my makeup pouch spilled, resulting in wisps of a flowery scent wafting out of my handbag while I attempted to fish my security pass out. I stood in the lift alone, looking over my shoulder, taking in the scent which was both familiar, [...]

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staying together

I had a good chat with someone I haven’t spoken to in a while this afternoon and found out that she had actually left her husband after about five to six years of marriage. One of the things she had told me was that she was constantly unhappy with him for all manners of things. [...]

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almost closure

From One of our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde: I thought for a moment. Of the untidy chaos I had seen in the RealWorld; of not knowing what was going to happen; of not knowing what, if anything, had relevance. The RealWorld was a sprawling mess of a book, in need of a good [...]

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a little like doing court duty

From One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde: It felt like covering for a character in a book without being told what the book was about, who was in it, or even what your character was doing up until then.

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unimpressed

Said Peanut to me after the balloon man at The Buddha’s party handed her a balloon teddy bear: Mummy, I don’t want a bear! I want a BALLOON!!!

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