And now

Who me?
Having my morning tea in light drizzle and cool winds on new garden chairs I assembled last night.
And you?

Drink a drink

It's in bad taste I know but I had to try it. I think I am going to drink coke after perhaps a year. But a vanilla flavoured one will be my first.

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I'm happy to report it was delicious.

And food

I'm a happy girl 

Shopping for outdoors

Machete for your head please 

Update

Plants were bought 

Garbage

It looks so but this is where one deposits glass bottles for recycling 

Up there

Clouds today

In the thick

Dear gods!
What is with today?
I am getting calls since morning and they're no WhatsApp calls! No sir. They're calls on the telephone that people make after typing in a number! and then they're followed up by emails which I have to reply and what not.

It's Friday finally and I am contemplating coffee after eating a kilo of salad with soba noodles.
I don't know how it that I get so hungry around noon but I do and perhaps lunch is my main meal wherein I eat to my hearts content.

What's was I saying? Yes that the day I busy and what am I doing?
Going to make coffee now.

New day

Morning from Muizon.
At his contemplative best looking out at the rains sits Meera.

Fingers crossed

Who me?
Finally in bed and can I say that I'm exhausted
Some might be in part due to my extra hard cardio which is already making itself felt and the rest might be in the lots of little things I was up to today and I haven't completed them still.
Tomorrow as they say, it shall come as today and perhaps maybe I can finish what I set out to do.

All gone but here

How am I so busy that I disappeared from everywhere and now there are notifications all over the place.
Cooking dinner now and trying to understand how I can manage my time better.
Either I omit out things or I delete some part of the day that consumes a lot of time and I won't miss my workouts which means I'll have to stop sleeping to fit in everything else.
Such is life they say.

New ting

Bought a bench for garden. 

Not sure about its waterproofing quality 

Keeping it indoors until I buy some waterproofing paint and paint it. 

Step on

Clearly I'm going through something!! 

my daily regular life. 

Pretty things

How utterly gorgeous is this lovely vase! 

Lyfe and days

Morning and I'm in the mix of things.
Currently patiently waiting for some deliveries.
Bought a couple cabinets, a garden bench and some outside chairs for the garden because I think we need those to happen! Right?!

Yes there's no problem in living minimally as I currently am with two plates and two bowls and five spoons and five forks and one knife and one chopping board and one pot and one pan and one wooden spoon to cook stuff but there's a way to life with each step moving forward.
That ways there is no problem with just a mattress on the floor and one small table to eat and one chair to sit on but I'm not a member of that life and do not subscribe to the lifestyle.

Yes I do live minimally with not too many things to clutter the house or kitchen. I do not possess many cooking pots and pans, nor do I have a multitude of crockery sets, but what I do have are small things, a sort of collection of life and I like to live among those.
They're my memories and none bought ideally to be forgotten about or thrown away in their box of purchase. There is not one item in my house, not the smallest thing that I have simply bought out of some mindless whim.
I have never just gone to a shop and started picking up items and I have therefore not much in terms of clutter, but yes, there are things in my possession which if not abundant are more than a few, and so I need cabinets and w beautiful furniture to put those away and these cabinets I look forward to with great excitement because they were absolutely beautiful when I saw them and they blend right into the mood and tones of my house.

I may be extravagant but I'm never wasteful.

Updates

Night and it's time to wind down for sleepy time
Two days in a row I've had the most ghastly sleep
I hope to turn the tables today and sleep contentedly.
Day has been oddly productive, in that I've been busy and on my toes but couldn't get anything of mine done as such. Just stuck with a lot of tasks which feel strange right now.
Tomorrow I'm walking to the vet again because I have to take some injections for gogi's medicines and the clinic will then be closed for 2 weeks.
The skin on my entire body feels scaly, dry, flaky and not the usual smooth taut finish because something has happened to my skin ever since I came here. It's itching, it's always distressed, there's something going on all the damn time.
I can feel texture all over my skin.
I hate it.
Need to figure something out.
This weather is dry and has stuff in the air my skin does not appreciate.

Babes

My everyday wonders 

New tings

My latest addition to kicthenwear!! Hah

An apron from Poland with their typical drawing style. 

Itsy bitsy

Wee progress 

Day 2 day

And a busy day it has been

And scene

Lunch today is an extremely light affair of fish baked in parchment with some lemongrass and mushrooms with a side of yogurts and fruits.

Yuck

Yesterday I ate brinjals
Spent an agonising night
Woke up to sickness I cannot describe
Allergy was neglected
Only because I thought maybe today
And it was silly of me
How very stupid

Through a window

Last night. 

Pendant

A latest addition

How it’s been

A ghost from my past albeit a pleasant one in the form of a very dear pen pal or rather e mail pal has resurfaced and boy am I glad.
We've known each other for 15 years and the past many years, almost maybe 6 we were completely out of touch and Lo and behold! We are back at e mailing and talking jauntily of each others life again!

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Yesterday was a strange and lovely experience of a festival /picnic, in which people flock to the music grounds for a taste of beautiful classical music, opera, fireworks while enjoying it all as a picnic.
Thousands gathered with their food baskets, champagnes, wine glasses, desserts, table, chairs and even candles to make the most of a gorgeous evening and gorgeous it was.

The venue sold champagne and gave complementary plastic champagne flute glasses and it was such a lovely atmosphere of typical French sensibilities and touch. Bravo! Really.

I met up with a couple girls from Senegal who were sans guardian and they requested me to tell if anyone asked that they were with us as they weren't adults yet, and those kids joined my group of two to make a 4 and we all had such a lovely time. I've never met anyone from
Senegal. It was most endearing.
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Sunday was spent lounging, buying some groceries early in the morning and lounging some more.
Thee weather is cool, windy and unhinged in its romantic quality.
Days like these I simply want to fuck!

And now

Who me?
At a music festival
And you?

??!!

Also wtf is a masala incense? What in the astral projection mess is this? 

Whaa

Just received a heavy ass fucking parcel and wtf is this??

Snacks and agarbatti?!! 

And done

Starting tomorrow I will begin strength training. I think I've done enough conditioning to get back to where I'd left off, or at least start somewhere around there. 

List of list

Morning from Muizon 

The morning is crisp and there is a severe weather warning around 12 which is thunderstorms and rain. 

Today is going to be hectic. 

I'm going to edit pics of my recent cake for the food blog and there are a few other things. 

I'm upset that my hard drive with all the food pics is somehow in the luggage meant to be coming via sea :( 

Step

Yikes! 

What did I do today? 

Start week

The house gets deep cleaned as is its wont on Monday's and the babes look serene and sleepy 

*}{

Nighttime and the weather is cold
My skincare is done only satisfactorily as I've still not bought most of the essentials
The cats are eating late night dinner for the fifth time cuz that's just how they like it
And I've been missing thee.

:/:

What has this day been?
A huge pile of fuck no!
It was glorious

Today’s

Wow!!
Okay Sunday
I woke up to an empty house

Apparently people have gone out to buy groceries or 'things' as today is Sunday and everything will be shut before noon and I didn't even have to ask for anything.
A lot of these efforts including yesterdays shopping trip are being made to assuage my irritable mood.
My only hope is that it doesn't get worse.

Right then.
Sunday!
I feel like cleaning the house and doing things about the place.

It’s all today

Today?
I have been out since morning to a nearby town for shopping
Yes I was or rather am shopping. Just a few things. I need shoes which I couldn't find cuz the ones I lived from Timberland couldn't accommodate the width of my foot and the ones I liked in another place didn't have it in my size and the other ones I liked were all suede and I wanted something easy to slip into.

Other than that I bought denims, a couple tops and lovely wine glasses from a beautiful German pottery shop.

Other than that phew.

This place we came to is a sort of a village meant only for shopping, a bit like the outlet malls in Shanghai.
Why is it so difficult to find lovely clothes in cotton?

Fire

On our way back from the movie we found that the fields twinkle has been living in caught fire, Apparently a rogue firework from tonight's celebration of national day set the fields on fire. 

To run to the spot of this devastation and get caught by the police while trying to get to the fields in a very Bollywoodesque move was for me a thing of the moment. 

It was late at night, crowded with people which made it look like some freaking Harvest festival pagan ritual made me wonder why so many people had actually gathered here. 

I don't know where twinkle is. :( 

And scene

So I just finished watching the mission impossible movie which is apparently the first part and it was an incredible movie! I mean the action was spot on and the main villain is chatGPT. 

The movie was so good. Definitely a recommend. Edge of the seat awesome. 

Also it's sometime after 11 in the night here and the life looks just about started 

Today it is

Today was a holiday

Spent outside had lunch
And now out again for movie

First time after John wick in a cinema and I am excited.
Oh yes I am.

Unpopular opinion

I don't like Christopher Nolan movies.
I'd much rather watch Barbie than Oppenheimer.

Most of the times I find myself getting bored and zoned out before he gets to his artistic peak in most of his movies.
I only liked the dark knight. In fact I loved it.

Ugh

It's French national day here.
The day bastille prison was stormed and there's a huge parade happening in Paris. (Something like January 26th) and the chief guest is our dickhead of a prime minister.
The amount of Indians gathered for this shitfest is staggering and I know this because 'people' have got some nationalistic vein throbbing in his underpants and he's watching this entire mess live.

I mean come on!

I barely ever watch our Republic Day and here is someone in my house watching it.
Makes me want to throw his laptop out the window but my house is a secular and one has to be okay with this kind of distortion.

Bananas

And I made not one but two of these babies 

One for me and one for the neighbours 

And now

Can you tell I'm clicking pics for the blog and making a mess of my kitchen 

Salade

I just kinda get the feeling that I need a bigger plate 

Disappointed

Morning from Muizon. 

Where once I was an early morning riser (unwilling) I have now downgraded to being simply a riser who wakes up anytime between 8-9 and although this is most ideal I find it a massive deterrent to my daily chores. 

When usually I'd be awake and done with many things much before 9, I find my usual life beginning at that time. 

This is not done. 

It delayed my workout timings, lunch timings and ultimately my sleep timings which are the reason I don't wake up early. 

But my lord to wake up early I have to sleep early and I find it most relaxing to walk around in the garden and sit on a chair until it's dark which happens around 10PM. 

I start unwinding quite late and after that I read my book or manga and I end up sleeping around 12. 

But also earlier I stuck to the same schedule in Shanghai and no matter when I slept I'd always wake up around 6 or sometimes earlier. 

So now all I gotta do it tell myself to wake up early. 

And I'm lacking sufficiently in that discipline. 

Sighs. 

Let's try again soon.

Monstah

Some flavour? 

Yikes

Wednesday morning and it's cloudy all over.

the rains this time were catastrophic in the North but I'd never thought you'd get water in your house. It always felt like an urban legend and now we know it to be true.
It must have been horrific.
I can only imagine the annoyance and the bother it all must have been. Water on the floors and walking in it to get to anywhere in the house.
Oh dear it is making me stupidly angry just thinking absout it. :(

I hope everything gets back to normal soon and there ain't much water damage.
Ah, it's quite brave to actually put through all this especially when there's no electricity an no Internet either!
Ugh. What a horrible time.

Lame

My stuff is still 3 more weeks away.
Agh!
I am angry with everything.

Meal meal

Lunch is gyoza!! 

Mood suck

Argh!!
I don't know what it is but I'm feeling meh.
Want something fun, something interesting.
Haven't been on a vacay for pretty long now. I want to get out of a rut. I want to stay in a hotel room and not care about fixing the house and have everything done for me.
I want to roam around a resort and have coffee in different places.

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I just mentioned this mood to people and he replied saying that 'you always want to be on a holiday' and it has sparked an angry fight cuz what even? I have just mentioned something I feel and it doesn't need a reply that is so sour and untrue.

I am so angry about these idiotic retorts that have become quite commonplace with people and it's dulling my affection and sympathy I've long held for him.
Just fucking say 'yeah I understand' and that's it.
I fucking want to kill this man.

In the sky

What are these gorgeous clouds today 

Ho hum

My carefully coordinated colour palette seamlessly adjusting with the babes that makes for a space I'm beginning to love 

Stuff

Regarding funky things 

Just bought this 1 ltr owl shaped glass mug

Such fun

And also

Ahahahahhh

Sunlit

Today is Friday 

The babes are aware 

They've been eating and chilling just as I want to. 

I will now make coffee and sit with my darlings and do a bit of reading cuz why not 

So it goes

My body hurting 

My mood sulking 

My beer icy  

Uplifts

Once again this morning I'd an appointment with the vet and I walked a good 2 kms to reach her and now Gogi is a part of the French vet system and his medicines etc will be provided anytime I require as the vet will now make it a point to stock his injections and tablets on a monthly basis.
His next check ups are already scheduled for September or October and I can finally breathe with relief as I wasn't sure how to go about this entire situation with Gogi.
Well the system here is different cuz back in Shanghai I only had to send a WeChat message to the hospital and the medicines in surplus would get delivered to my house via the powers of Asian delivery systems that our countries have surplus of, but that doesn't exist here! Here everything has a system. Gasp!
Also things work via e mails. No WhatsApp or any of that informal messaging crap. It's e mails or messages.
If the the hospitals are shut they will send me an e mail in advance to pick his medicines before they close for whatever holidays and I'm case I need to book an appointment I should send an e mail too. Or make a call will also suffice.
The doctor has taken quite a liking to me. She finds me rather interesting as I'm the only foreign clientele who isn't used to their way of operating things. She's also amazed I'm
able to give Gogi sub cutaneous injections, something most people here don't give their animals.

I have also got the rest of my babes insured. Pet insurance is apparently a thing and what am I if not a part of all things?!

Ah well. We are all getting to know each other.

Coffee grind

I absolutely do not like our coffee grinder.

I had intended to leave it back in Shanghai but just a day prior to leaving people saw it knocking about in a drawer and packed it.
They produced it out of their luggage like a magician would pull out a rabbit out of their hat and showed it to me expecting me to be surprised and happy and it was quite saddening for them when I registered only the surprised emotion.
Ugh. This damn machine doesn't grind well. Some parts are fine powder and some parts are thicker chunks. No consistency and I want to throw it out of the window.
I'm gonna buy a nicer one soon.

Yuck

The last couple days I've just not been hungry. Everything feels ugh and I am PMSing hard this time! Arghhhh!!
I think what I want to eat but I don't want to eat anything and I'm wondering if I should just eat some fried rice and then I realise I don't want to eat it at all.
I just want to dunk my head in a big vat of hot tea and that's that!

Well

Got back from the vet.
The doctor wanted to check on Gogi before giving his medications. Something about it being the law and what not.
She's asked me to come again tomorrow to give some more of his injections and I will be taking his vaccination cards etc so she can feed it to her computer and have his medicines provided to me on the regular.
Things have a strange way of working here.
Strange for me I guess, since I'm used to another way of working. This style is probably normal for people here.

Right then.
Dinner is getting cooked as I type and my mood is still not where I'd like it to be.
Ugh!

Questions ?

I just watched the trailer for 'solo leveling' anime.
Is that right?
Is it happening?

Empty asleep

My house sparse
My furniture bare
My babes sleepy

To be out

The weather is pretty cool today as there were thunderstorms and rain all night and I feel like shutting my windows and staying cozy inside.
The babes have other ideas though.

Voilà my darling

Nighttime and I read 'whispers of the dead'

Two cats by my side
My mood somewhere between annoyance and ennui
My plans for tomorrow exhausting
My body aching
My clean sheets exhilarating
The scent of this morning's sandalwood powder on my wrist invoking memories that have no place being so pleasant when you're so far away

She doesn’t like it

Apparently there's a storm outside

French press

It's only after I've washed dishes, applied cream on my hands that I remember I forgot to wash the one thing I had actually gone with the intention of washing in the kitchen!

Tuesday

And then it's lunch!!

Walk

My stairs climbed is a lot less but my step count is high.

Muah

Bundles of love

And now

The quietness, the almost deserted expansiveness of this landscape makes me feel strange when I barely encounter another person whilst walking.

Who me?
Walking to the local village vet to enquire if they have cat renal medications for my Gogi.
The supply I brought from China is slowly dwindling and I want to be able to buy in bulk before supplies begin exhausting.

And food

And lunch is yet again a noodle salad spicy and heavenly delicious with some chicken.

Stuff etc

I might have over eaten today!
That's a bit of an understatement cuz not only did I eat through the day, munching on crunchy things but I also ate all the sweet things I bought today.
They were shared but I ate most of them.
What does this say? This strange mood of mine where I want to couch and mindlessly munch.
Ughs are on their way!!
Argh!!

Okay. So now I'm guilty.
I need to stop doing this.

Monday again and I have to get things in gear!

I shouldn’t but I will

Sunday decadence