Together

They met after a week last night because Gogi wasn't home with them as he was under vet care while we were away and now they're inseparable. 

all of this and that

 Finally, after several hours of cleaning, changing, washing, mopping, wiping and vacuuming here we are in a somewhat cleaner house than what I had come to.

I say somewhat because I am still a bit undecided as to what looks not completely in synch. I know what it is, it's the windows and glass panes that need a good squeaky cleaning up and which I couldn't finish today because I ran out of juice.

I mean I was able to finally have lunch at 3:40, which is hardly a suitable time to eat lunch and almost too shamefully late.

I feel like a total novice to a keyboard. This new keyboard is throwing me completely off balance with its noise and the keys that are so extremely blocky. I am so used to the soft tap of the previous laptop's keyboard that this feels like I'm typing on a typewriter. 

So where were we?

Right, yes to the house, back from the vacation which was alright I guess, as vacations go, I'd have preferred it to be with someone other than 'people' but that what can one do?

The pitfalls of marriage are that you're destined to spend time with that one person you've got yourself societally glued to. Anything else is fundamentally wrong.

The cold has finally begun to bite and a lot of my plants have been sacrificed to the frost which has a way of turning to a thin sheet of ice over every surface these mornings. 

I found myself greatly disturbed this morning when a man in my full view hung a rabbit to a tree and skinned it while I thought it was thrashing about.

I complained about it as well but I'm not sure anyone's going to do anything about it. I mean my sensibilities getting hurt are no one's concern when a man was flaying a rabbit to eat and not on my property either.

It left me feeling angry and aggravated to a point where I think I shall not find myself being nice or civil to the people of the said family and if my hunch is correct then this is the rabbit I have been seeing inside their house for the past few months. The same rabbit they've been feeding and playing with.

Last day of the year they say..

I have no plans, not this year. Will just sit with my cats, drink some sparkling water and call it a night. 

Morning litany

That I'm drinking tea first thing in the morning, before any chores goes on to show that today we are in for a long haul.
That I returned to a filthy house would be an understatement because the house is dirtier than I've seen it since forever.
The housekeeper only fed the cats and cleaned their litter but didn't clean the house because I didn't ask her to.
Yes!
That's alright is what I said to myself the moment I entered my house and I kept thinking 'tomorrow' over and over, and after a sleepless night here we are. Today!
I have to clean from top to bottom.
Added to my woes is something people did in my kitchen this morning which let to a minor flooding and the kitchen is wet with dirty foot prints, the sofa has throw up and hair ball stains, the floors are littered with paw prints and foot prints from all the wet shoes around the house. I have to clean up everything!
Seriously everything as in change the tablecloths, the runners, the throws, the beddings.
There's going to be a fuck lot of washing up!
Also, there's frost all over the backyard.
It's cold and I'm looking forward to cleaning up!

At peace

घर के WiFi की बात ही कुछ और है

Phew once again

So things got sorted 

Some colours

It's too sunny and hot today and I'm almost happy to return to my very cold abode. 

This day

Today, my last day here in the beautiful city of warmth and beaches. Tonight I get back to my cats whom I miss so very dearly. 

This morning I was besieged by the most disturbing messages from friends in my old compound. 

I am trying to figure it out and understand more. 

Spotlight

Beached

A little burnt a little kissed 

Blues

Last afternoon on the sunny shores for another long while. 

Gah

People who talk so loud you can barely hear yourself think!!
Why?
It's breakfast time.
Please stop shouting.

Sunbitten

A startlingly gorgeous morning this to upend all my year long anxiety and depression into the ocean and start anew.

Tomorrow night I will be back home with my little babies whom I have desperately missed and who I'm sure have missed me not a bit.

And now

Evening time

At the beach again to look at the glorious sunset and it's a lot more crowded now. 

More people are here than in the noon time , some bathing, some clicking pictures and some just enjoying. 

Many wedding shoots happening. 

:)

All cleaned up 

Salty

My hair has the sea in it and looks a bit like the palm trees in the back. 

Sighs

Before a soak

Current view

Blue glitter

Even the pools are glimmering and I wonder if I shouldn't just pop into the pool while 'people' are napping. 

The only downside is that these pools have made swimming cap mandatory and I don't like to wear one. :/ 

Looks good

Morning and the weather is extremely beach appropriate. 

Today's warmth is filled with sunshine, the breeze is cool and pleasant, the sea is azure and beckoning and I am just getting ready. 

Just read it

It's like they were trying to make some sense but then just said fuck it. 

Unmatch

And a mandatory mismatched swimwear pic 

And now

Beached 

Food aggression

People come in some fucking aggressive mood for breakfast buffets.
I don't know how it is but these are denizens staying in pricy five star hotels who immediately upon entering a buffet style enterprise forget their most basic manners.
Case in point today, a lady who cut me off just as I was placing my cup in the coffee machine.
She very rudely cut through the line and immediately placed her cup upon the pedestal where I was supposed to put mine.
Most irksome.
I uttered a small 'wow' and 'I hope you spill all your coffee' loud enough for her to hear and she shot a sharp look at me and that was that.
We are enemies for life now.

Of course I could have pushed her back and placed my cup instead but I didn't care to make such a fuss over a small cup of coffee.
High road always.

Dear gods

Steeling hearts

It looks like an open clam shell but really these are two chrome hearts stacked opposite each other. 

Midst

The city 

Yes indeed

My clothes green 

My hair crazy

My steps 15K

And now

Come on

Why the fuck have I not learnt to not come at peak breakfast time where the entire city of Sanya has fucking decided to eat in my hotel?!!
It's madness!
Why do people have to spend an hour in the shower before breakfasting?
Why can't they just slap on some nice clothes to breakfast and shower later like I do?
I mean come on!
I hate overcrowded hungry mouths at breakfast time who want to pile up their plates with all the food and not eat half of it!
I am angry.

Watch this

Came across this channel and it gives such good information regarding genetics and bodybuilding specifically for Indian males.

Really excellently done, in depth and most helpful.

https://youtu.be/VUp0E5_J-ws

Morn

Morning and the weather feels just right.
What's happening today?
Roaming about in lightly rainy slightly overcast weather and eating whatever I feel like.

Talking of eating, why on earth am I so hungry? Devouring so much food ever since I got here.
Also, once again, I have decided to give up chips.
Yes, I will not eat anymore chips because it's such a trigger for me, and I find myself unable to eat it healthily, like just a few. No I want it all, I want to finish everything.
So chips will be gone from my life.
What else?
Yes that's about it.
Now, I'm drinking dip tea, after which I'll dress up and leave for breakfast.

Furry

Apparently this is the sanya mascot. 

Mood

Ultra casual in the rains today 

Views

I can see the ocean too but not the way I'd like to. 

Ugh

My room with a fucking pool view 

Not again

Conveyer belt testing happening at Sanya airport. 

I had to get tested yet again. Eughhh

Aww my lords

That this guy didn't need a cage to bring his cat says something about the fantastic nature of this feline. looks like one obedient little cute darling. 

Meh

The weather isn't good in sanya. 

Not sure how much beach I'm gonna do. 

Well then

Lunch today is my delicious coconut rice noodles with chicken that I'd clicked pictures for as well. 

Sweat not glitter

Today, a difficult intense cardio session that had me sweating. Perhaps the last proper workout session of this year. 

Oh yes!

My second round of tea proper after an especially vicious covid test where the over zealous doctor thought it fit to stab my nostrils with instruments of pain. 

I say second round because the first one I had was at 6:30 in the morning and it doesn't count. 

This is my more relaxed version. 

I bought a couple bao's on the way back cuz I got hungry and the best part is I finished my chores before leaving, that is to say all the cleaning etc was done too early to realise and now all I've got is workout left after which I cook a recipe and click pics and done! 

I mean then I have to pack. 

Lame

I've to be up early and leave my house tomorrow morning at 7:30 to reach a hospital to get covid test done before embarking on an out station holiday.
Argh!!

Hmm

Do we like this new keyboard? 

I'm not sure. It's too clickity. Makes a din. 

Munch crunch

Lunch was a huge huge huge salad with lots of everything. I cooked up some fresh tuna for my salad with a couple eggs, lettuce and apples. 

A delicious mustard dressing with a few dashes of sriracha while watching Aggretsuko season 4. 

Labyrinthine last night

Last night things got a bit hectic after 10. That's the time when all the cats are home, and anyone outside is called and brought home especially in this weather.
Twinkle hadn't come back and no matter how much his name was announced he didn't make an appearance which happens rarely.
The location of his air tag suggested that he was a bit further off and that was his last seen location. There was no live location broadcast which was a bit alarming and my mood, annoyed as it was got worried.
Around midnight when there was no twinkle in sight I found myself in bed thinking the worst.
Somehow my dreams didn't help. They were the most bizarre montage of confusion and desperation and sometime around 3 I was awake and unwilling to sleep.
At 4 I donned all the clothes on my nightstand and went out to find little twinkle again.
I had so many anxious thoughts and my dreams helped none.
The cold out was a slap to my face and my twinkling fairy lights around the garden were looking eerie. It was almost like a fevered disco from my dreams and once again twinkle was a no show.
I kept looking around the garden, calling his name, walking around the front yard but nope!
I contemplated going out of the compound to check for him around the roads when a tree near me began whispering in spooky susurrations.

I looked up and in the twinkling lights I saw my little white rabbit of a cat climbing down with nearly as much as worry as me .
I opened the door to let him inside the house and he shot in like a bullet.

I wanted to ask him where he'd been all night, but he looked so shaken I let him be, and soon both of us were fast asleep.
That I exhaled in relief for almost a minute would not be an understatement.

Oh god

I screamed today!
I yelled and lashed out and got so angry my head is about to burst open.
What the fuck is wrong with me?

I need to get high.

Tuesfuckingday

Sometime after 3 and I'm finally sitting down for lunch. 

My errands kept me too busy and this morning got late what with me typing recipes and running out of time and finally heading out. 

Lunch and workout had to be forfeited. 

Anyhow the errands are midway and I am hungry. 

So here I am eating a set meal. 

Tuesday buzz

Only just 9:15 in the morning and I am having my tea. The weather is up and down, in that it's both sunny and overcast.
I have a couple errands to run outside today and maybe sometime after lunch time I will see myself out.
The house gets cleaned as we speak and for that I am utterly glad.
I woke up upset, slept angry and am annoyed still because of something small but significantly irritating that husbands are sometimes prone to do.

Sometimes I find my patience running thin and do not like myself that way. I get easily bothered and even catch myself raising my voice out of sheer upset.
I hate that it's so difficult to make someone understand minuscule, most basic things after all these years of so called togetherness and I loathe how impossibly blood curdling some moments, absolutely insignificant otherwise can be.

I do find myself sympathising with people who go on a murderous rampage and knife strangers out of sheer frustration.
Perhaps if I were a little unhinged I might do the same. Sanity I feel is my most interrupting virtue and for some reason I have copious quantities of the damn thing.
Had I been an emperor of some sorts during more forgiving times there would have been days when I'd have executed people for just looking wrong, and then there would be days when my benevolence would know no bounds.

Life strangely didn't turn out that way and for that maybe I'm glad because I'd not have held on too well to all that irresponsible amounts of power.

Right then!
Off to surviving another day.

Lunch that was

Lunch today was this fantabulous salad with some grilled pineapples because damn how delicious are grilled pineapples?!! 

Mondayzzz

Monday came too soon.
One moment I was wallowing in my weekend and the other I'm suddenly attacked by a weekday! That's some shady propaganda inflicted upon us by time.
How does it happen that on weekdays my body refuses to muster the courage to get out of bed but on weekends, and this happened yesterday on Sunday with a continuous recurrence that I wake up quite early in the morning. Almost around 6 and get on with chores to be able to free up enough time by late morning.

Ah then!
Today!
I'm about to start my workout after which lunch and then let's see!

Grump

Look deep

Watching Witcher and Henry cavil has just the two expressions. Intense and very intense.

Fur stuff

Do we love my winter slipper socks! 

These are cozy and volcanic. 

Just the thing for this season 

Idiots

Are people fucking stupid?
Nigella Lawson is known to make such puns in her kitchen while cooking, her impeccable English and astoundingly correct pronunciations of her language aren't even questionable.
One has to see her at work and the way she talks and demonstrates food, to know that she totally meant it as a joke and makes similar such wisecracks through her episodes.
To actually drag this is ridiculous.
I mean come on!

Twinkle

Star this morning 

All things nice

Saturday morning has me lazy.
The housekeeper is doing the chores that have me sweating through the week, sun is up and jauntily exuberant, cats are calm and in their zone, tea was excellent and the overall mood is rather uplifted.
Now all we need is a totally horrid thing to rain all over it, which I hope doesn't happen.

Chairperson

Sunlit winter mornings 

Besties

Sock sick

These days 

I am obsessed with socks. I have been buying them and gifting them and buying them and wearing them. 

Do we love my new socks? 

-/—

My hoodie pink
My feet cold
My drink beer

Hmm why?

Another bunch of ugly shit! 

What's this supposed to be? 

Dogs? Deer's? 

What the fuck ever

What manner of ugliness is this structure? 

It got photobombed by an aeroplane. 

Our and about

Phew

I'm so done. 

Tomorrow is gonna be a better day .

Whoa!!

Who me?
Watching 'hellbound' and loving the fuck out of it.
I mean what even? It's bizarre, it's poignant and precariously poised between wtf and wow! And it's excellent!
Try it! You gotta!!

Bakes

My many carrot cakes 

on things next and future

 The world is dreary dark and dull and I have things to finish and get done.

There's a carrot cake that needs baking because this year I am not doing the usual Christmas stollen that I generally do but carrot cakes and I will be making quite a few of them because I intend to give away many. 

Next week I will be gone for my small vacation (if things go well that is) and chances are I won't meet many people around Christmas time so tomorrow I will meet my friends and gift them their cakes. 

I have in mind to make a richly dense and nut-filled cake with lots of walnuts, sultanas and dates. Let's see how that goes. I am giving myself a short breather right now, after which I will give myself up to the warmth of my kitchen and get cracking.

Brazilian

Such dense dark colour. This has the most intensely delicious aroma, full bodied, Rich and not too bitter. I love it!!