chrysania

That is one thing that will always be my favorite. The feeling of fresh sheets on my skin. Just perfect.

What can I say? Interesting, very different, a bit scary… but still a good time and great food.

Now, this is getting difficult to find something. Another day of being sick… hm… so what made me happy was …drinking tea?

I was coming down with a bad cold so I stayed home – weak, voiceless and in general not so happy. But the good thing was just lying in bed and letting the world go by.

I didn’t feel well all day and spent the lunch break going to the pharmacy to pick up some stuff. What I noticed though, that it feels so good to just go for a walk after sitting in a meeting all day. I doesn’t even take long and it made me feel a lot better than sitting in the cafeteria eating bad food.

Whenever I come back from travelling and I wait at the airport for my luggage etc. I call home to tell them I am ok. It’s always a good feeling and part of coming home.

Classic example of how something bad can turn into something really nice. We got stuck in traffic for ever so that in the end we didn’t even go to the airport anymore – i was too late anyway. So I changed my flight to the next morning and had a wonderful evening with strangers, which I am so glad I didn’t miss.

My hotel room had hot water for about 30 seconds only so the showers I took there have not been particularly enjoyable. So today I had a shower in my colleagues room and enjoyed the pleasure of standing under scalding hot water for a long time.

Had a long wonderful chat with a friend including friendly gossiping, some confidences and just a good time.

Travelling is always exciting for me and that first bite of local food is always good. I didn’t have any food all day due to a hectic day with lots of meeting and no time for anything. So when I finally had the time, the food tasted amazing.

I had a terrible connection and was so tired at my stopover… so I fell asleep in the lounge chair and slept so deeply I don’t even sleep in my bed. Didn’t make me particularly happy, but made me feel sooo good.

I love random conversations with strangers and taxi drivers are always a good source for that. Today I had a young and endearingly naive taxi driver on his third day on the job. We had a fun discussion about the world and the art of taxi driving… made me happy.

I just had a huge laugh at myself looking in the mirror. I had ordered a couple of tunic shirts for my upcoming to trip to A. ... and they look absolutely terrible on me. Two of them look like I stole my mother’s nightgowns, one looks like I chose to wear a tent and the third one looks like a dress. The problem or the hilarious thing (depending how you look at it) is that I don’t really have a choice to not wear them. So nightgowns here I come…. I am sure I will not be the only one having a laugh at it.

This is not going well. I go to bed around 11 to midnight and then wake up around 3.30 and am awake for an hour or so. For no reason I can identify – no nightmares, no particular thoughts keeping me awake. No matter at what time my alarm clock rings 5,6,7 or 8 I still feel exhausted. This is so annoying and I don’t know what to do about it. Any ideas are welcome.

I have been thinking about buying a car for a while now, but haven’t been able to come to a decision. The car would be for a few pracitical reasons (getting groceries, going to my parents etc.), a few good reasons (being able to go horse riding etc.) and probably another lazy reasons (go to work in half the time). On the other hand there is the huge cost involved even if I leave out the cost of buying (which I don’t mind as much) and the environmental cost. I am not much of an environmentalist, but I do feel bad sitting in a car all by myself, while there is a good public transport system available.

The next slight challenge is actually buying a car given my lack of expertise or interest in cars. Luckily I have brothers and friends willing to help, but in the end I guess I need to make a decision and I don’t even know where to start.

Anyway, I don’t want to leave this hanging forever. Either I buy a car or I leave it for another year and take a decision then.

I knew I shouldn’t have read this book. As much as I like the author’s “Bosch” novels, I absolutely dislike the “Haller” ones. I dislike the main character, the story only made half-sense to me and overall just disappointing.

As a start I have identified three difficult things that I have no choice but to do. I am almost paralized with fear (for no obvious reason), just for “me reaons”. So I have decided to do one each day -C. on Friday, B. on Saturday and P. on Sunday. And then see what is next.

My books are on its first step of the journey…. somewhere on a ship in the atlantic. A few more weeks and they will arrive at my friends place – not the right country, but at least the right continent.

This is really all about focus…. and motivation to a certain degree. Once I had made the deal with myself to be on time, it was suprisingly easy. But I had to get back into the habit of sleeping less. Actually, I feel a lot better sleeping 5-6 hours per night than sleeping 8. The problem is that when I do sleep 5 hours, I do accumulate tiredness, so that at the end of the week I am done with the world. I guess I still have to find the right balance, but that has not a whole lot to do with this goal. So I will leave it at that.

I am really quite ashamed that I haven’t been to Greece before. I really think it’s a place people should know… it’s a pure history lesson – it’s pretty, too. Despite all the current problems (and those are huge) people are really friendly, interested and helpful (even to me:-)