Close yet far, drop me a line and tell me how the hell you are

Thursday was a pretty productive day, I food shopped, washed ALL of my clothes and slept.  My friend Matt rang me while I was sleeping and then when I woke up we met to eat, although he didn't eat, he just watched me eat.  On my way to meet him I nearly got run over by a bus but avoided such a collision.  But then the bus and I were playing stop-start all the way into town as we took over each other at lights etc.  That was kind of embarrassing.  Cycled home in the rain with an empty weekend in front of me.

It was very much my intention on Friday to go to the library and do lots of good work.  I ended up doing lots of nothing, going into the city centre and looking in over-priced shops, knowing that I had no money and basically just depressing myself, went home and watched lots of TV and baked some lemon cupcakes. 

Thats right, I arranged the cakes into my initials.

Told Simon I was going to get up early and be at the library at 10, so good luck in his football game on Saturday.

At 11am the next morning, I was still lying in my bed.  Simon had already left for his game.  I did go to the library though and did some reading and note-taking for my oral examination for Scandinavian Political Systems.  Bought a couple of bits and pieces I needed and went home to find that although Simons team had lost the game, he had scored a goal so was off out to party hard.  I stayed in and baked banana bread. 

Then I lit some candles and had a romantic evening in with the Aerosmith back-catalogue.

Today has been tres tres productive.  Woke up and vacuumed the whole apartment and dusted my room while Simon did the dishes that had been sitting in the kitchen for a whole week!  Threw out a lot of stuff in my room and re-arranged a bit.  I have done some hand-washing that has been waiting about a month to be done, written a letter to Tanya, painted my toe-nails and eaten some banana bread.  As I have said before (to my friends Joe and Vikki at least) - 'a tidy kitchen is a tidy life', and I feel that today has cleared my mind, as well as my bedroom.  I find it very useful to have these moments of clarity of purpose pretty regularly as I get side-tracked by shiny new things very easily.