1. The last of Easter chocolate.
2. Random hearts.
3. Spring summer weather…
4. …with spring summer clouds.
5. Art on walls…
6. …and on jam jar lids.
7. Cat posters.
8. Forget-me-nots…
9. …and roses that don’t lose their colour.
10. The inside of this tea box.
11. These missing two volumes I found at a flea market to Volume 2 that I’ve already had.
12. Visiting the Taizé prayer semi-regularly again.
1. Other people’s cars.
2. Random fireworks I saw from the balcony the other day.
3. My ladybird earrings. They aren’t new, but I find myself wearing them every day lately.
4. Sea salt chocolate made in Piran.
5. Books from an English bookstore in Ljubljana. I’ve already finished the two Mma Ramotswe stories but haven’t started The Cuckoo’s Calling yet.
6. Speaking of books: new bookshelves. This is a never-ending battle between me and my books in which I’m still on the losing side.
7. Mini bottles of nail polish, bought in Maribor. I’ve never really gotten behind the ways nail polish rules the emotional life of women but Hungarian Health Care System is a weird, cruel place and I – being emotionally not exactly the toughest lately – need every bit of glittery distraction I can get to survive it.
8. That my time in Hungarian Health Care System is almost over. Only eleven more exams to go and I’m free to choose my own path again.
The sad truth is, if you are working as a nurse, low-carbing is practically impossible.
I spent the whole day with shopping and getting myself frustrated. I bought things I really needed (or badly wanted, ahem, hello, 99% Lindt chocolate and flowery clothes with lace) but I always get The Guilts if I happen to buy something. It’s the result of spending my childhood and studying time in most poetical and romantic poverty, I guess.
my world of melancholly 