Recently the movies haven’t been too kind to me. A few slight disappointments (In Bruges was supposed to be a damn comedy…) recently had made me a bit wary of the Oscar nominated animation. However after seeing the movie, I can say my fears were a 100% unjustified. The dialogs are witty - an interesting mix of childlike cheerfulness and black humour. The animation itself fit the story very well - I especially liked the slight variations depending on who was telling the story and which timeline it was.
No, don’t worry, I haven’t changed my job or anything. It’s only the heating not working, AGAIN. It really seems to be a Monday problem. Or maybe just engineer incompetence… I didn’t count the number of times we had the heating fixed, just to break down again in the next couple of days. It would probably amount to around ten times by now.
So, today instead of the usual undressing at work, I had to do just the opposite. Put the sweater on, put the scarf on, and finally put the gloves on. Good I don’t use hats, as that might start looking silly…
I haven’t written for a while, shame on me. I guess my excuse would be being really busy with finalizing the flat purchase. I’ll try harder in the future, and you can expect some updates on a few of the past days. Of course if I don’t freeze to death at work tomorrow…
My Personal Male and I were delighted to go to London to attend a cat show. Organized by the National Cat Club, the event took place at the Olympia National Hall.
My biggest hopes were to actually be able to see all three forest cat breeds together. Descriptions are a one thing, and theoretically knowing the major differences, but being able to look AND touch is definitely another. Maine Coons proved to be quite a surprise, as all of them seemed to have the nice rounded faces - not as rounded as the Siberians, nevertheless surely they were not representing the typical American long-faced line.
On one hand this made me very happy, on the other made things slightly more difficult. Before the show, I was 99% decided on getting a Siberian soon after buying my first house. I was going to MAYBE shift my decision towards a Norwegian based on the cats I saw at the show. However with the current situation, I’m actually thinking of going for a Maine Coon. I always wanted a huge cat, and not fat, but just strongly built. The main reason behind my decision not to get one of the Coons, was the long, square face. With that out of the way, I’m having a hard time convincing myself, why shouldn’t I get one.
And I’m even not so sure anymore if it’s going to be ginger… Though definitely a male.
Sometimes during the weekends I end up having nothing but breakfast… and even that meal turns out to be consumed around 6pm… It’s not a strange new diet, it’s more of a I-have-no-time-for-food thing. Distracted by the presence of my Personal Male I do forget about eating, and as we all know, once you go through the initial craving, you actually stop being hungry for a good couple of hours.
But all that rambling just so I can boast that I have lost 4kg recently. Which isn’t bad considering my diet consist mostly of pizza, fried chicken, chocolate and sometimes a sandwich in pretty much a random order, with some chinese on top. Today’s lunch consisted for example of ice-cream…
However I think I might be getting slightly better - I managed to actually make my own supper - ham and eggs with toast. Which is quite an achievement - not really in the cooking department, but because it involved doing something, rather than ordering.
Once you start house decorating, it’s hard to stop. Especially when each end every concept has something missing. There are many problems you have to face when you can’t afford a full-blown house. My first property will most probably be a flat (until I actually have the keys in my hands, I’m still afraid something might go wrong… despite the fact that if all goes well I’ll have them in a few weeks ^-^). And to be more precise - a studio flat. Then again, I shouldn’t be complaining, as it was my choice to get a studio rather than a one bedroom, or more.
The benefits:
definitely less cleaning
no getting stuck in a different room than your partner
less chances of getting stuck with a ton of junk
The downsides:
you have to squeeze the kitchen, living room, office and bedroom on 20m2
one door, one window, never enough walls
Other than that there’s loads of annoying clauses in the lease, which I found out about late enough to shatter some of my dreams… uhm, bye, bye wooden floors… However I think I managed to prepare a neat little plan for furniture arrangement. With a slightly extravagant chest-sofa instead of an office chair… If I manage to pull that one through, you’re surely getting a photo
Another brilliant idea of mine was to have one dark wall behind the bed, which would then seamlessly transform into the light colour. Staying up late after waking up at 5am, doesn’t help being reasonable, thus you can see my transition idea at the beginning of the post.
I think recently I’m stuck in some vicious circle of disease. Sore throat oscillates from barely there to almost killing you, then when I’m feeling better I get flu symptoms, when these go away, sore throat comes back… And it has been like that for the last 2 weeks… With an occasional stomach problem. *sigh*
Also running out of interesting things on a project I’m currently working on didn’t help staying alert in the office. From 3pm I was praying for 5:30 to come. That’s probably the least productive afternoon since quite a long time. Now it’s mostly tedious fixing this, and correcting that… There will be a few larger bits to do once the client signs off inside page concepts and provides some input for the forms that are supposed to be on the website.
The sad thing is, it’s almost another week without any work done on the projects I should be doing at home. I’m totally not proud.
Last week I mentioned to my Personal Male that I might go this week to some Bollywood movie, as I haven’t seen one in a long time. To my surprise he suggested himself, that he’ll be happy to join me, especially as there weren’t any other movies we haven’t already seen on at the cinema… He wasn’t even scared away by the hefty 169minutes the film was supposed to last
When it comes to Om Shanti Om itself I must say I really enjoyed it - humorous, a lot of dancing and singing, which the movies I watched lately had sadly less and less. It seems some of the modern Bollywood movies are slightly shifting towards normal musicals, or even (dare I say) normal films
The part I particularly liked was the final song telling in short the plot of the movie. Done beutifully - the lyrics, the music , as well as the choreography - purely breathtaking… And the story itself although as usual at times a bit too idealistic, vas quite interesting. Bollywood fans will also appreciate the massive guest appearences half way through the film.
We both found the idea for movie credits a nice change from the usual boring list of names. I think they should do it more often in films. It really is fun to be able to put a face to all those names. And you could definitelly distinguish the accounts department by their stiffness
I always wanted to go to a cat show. Once I even almost made it… Almost.
Together with my Personal Male, we were browsing, probably for the hundredth time, cat pages, and then we noticed some information about cat shows. This reminded me that maybe this is finally the right time to attend one of those events. Especially considering I want to get one pretty pedigree kitten sometime in the near future… and the online presence of cat breeders in the UK is far from helpful.
One of the intriguing points in this years show is the Cat Agility event. I am really looking forward to seeing that.
Have you ever wanted your Man to close the toilet seat? If the answer to that question is yes, here is my quick recipe:
- Take one Male with germ aversion
- Tell him, the very interesting story, about the fountain of bacteria spreading all over the bathroom - INCLUDING his toothbrush - the moment he flushes without putting down the toilet seat
… and presto, you don’t have to worry about the toilet seat ever again
And we’re baking again! This time it was a vanilla and chocolate cake. And boy did that turn out to be delicious… Slightly burnt at the bottom, but we’re getting used to that, aren’t we
Next time we do cooking I think I’ll make photos and give out the recipe, so someone can prove us to be lousy chefs, and maybe save humanity from some kind of poisoning
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