Today

I'd bought a couple kilos of chocolates thinking of Halloween and thank heavens for that because kids have already started coming to my door.
It's apparently a thing here
It wasn't that big in China in the sense that kids dressed up but didn't really come knocking on doors. In some places they did, like my previous compound but some people complained about the incessant door bell ringing and it was curbed to an extent but till now I have already given treats and showed a couple tricks to a bunch of witches, two Harry potters, one zombie and three fairies.

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Also tomorrow is French national holiday and it's a holiday :/

And now

How do you like my new incense stick holders

Sheru and I

Ho hum

11:30 in the AM
But it's a Sunday
And it's dreary
And this is wine made in the nearby village

Nothing

Today then
Woke up and it was still quite early when I thought I'd slept in till a bit late
Turns out daylight savings have started
What was 9 earlier is now 8
Which means the time difference is now 4.5 hours 😢
I don't like this
I don't like anything right now.
Not the weather which will keep raining for the next two weeks
Not the fact that my washing machine has broken down
Not the gloom inside my house

Autumnal hues in the village

And now

Moods

Savine turned done Orso but why do I feel so heartbroken?

Right then.
Friday
Busy as busy can be
I uploaded another video
Going to make pizza and get drunk cuz why not?

Talk to us

Who me?
About to embark on pizza for Friday night
And you?

Silky

I forgot to post this picture of my lunch which was Chinese steamed eggs with a chilli soy topping which is one of those incredible things that one makes when there's nothing to cook.
Delicious!

Morn

Morning and I kept hitting snooze on my alarm and woke up quite late.
Later than I care to admit because it throws my entire day out of loop.
I can't keep doing this just because it's dark and rainy outside and the duvet is a cozy comfort world.
The tea was delicious and I had two leftover paranthas warmed in a toaster and they were delish! That's breakfast done!

My bed is a sea of blankets and warmth and the little babes are sprawled all over it.
I'm not ever complaining about this sight.

Stuff

Who me?
Making an incense stick holder
And you?

here we are

And here it is
My shrimp noodle soup which is just what I need today

Small bowls

Guess what I'm cooking today :)

Of the Tuesday

Morning and I couldn't find myself to crawl out of the duvet.
The time was way past 7 but the outside sky had midnight hues while the weather inside the house was cold.
That I willed myself to shrug the warmth off me and knowingly stepped out into the reality of world is quite accurate and it required a steel will, something I do not posses at many a times.
A woollen will, yes but one that's iron, I'd say No!
Argh!
The house feels colder than outside which is what I dislike sometimes because a house is meant to be warm!
The temperature outside feels quite pleasant in that cold wet way and my agenda for today is not confirmed yet!
Let's see what I'm going to do?!

Complaint

There aren't any good vampire movies as there used to be during the mid 2000's!
I loved 'underworld' movies and campy as one might call them, they were so well made and seriously good to watch.
Even Blade was good.
Why no more good vampire movies??

And lunch

With wine

Two drops of alcohol in me and I turn into a beet root

Champagne route

Everything is grapes

Hmm well

Well went to a nearby village called hauteville which is the home of 'from perignon' the saint who started it all. Champagne and what not and this is his tomb.
Imagine a monk mistakingly creating champagne instead of wine and the entire world taking his word for it.
Dom Perignon is a very premium champagne and I never thought it was the name of a saint.
Also it doesn't taste any different as I went on a wine tasting route to this area and there was a lot of champagne tasting today.
To say that I didn't understand a damn thing except realising I like 'Chardonnay' better than most was a bit strange cuz I didn't think I actually cared that much.

Selfie with Gogi

Why no one saw this ?

Why I don't like Ben Affleck as batman?!!

Because Batman's identity stays a secret. No one can know or knows he's Bruce Wayne but in Affleck's case he has a butthole on his chin! How can one not know this batman and that Bruce Wayne have an ass in their chin and so probably they could be the same people!
It's like come on!!

Gimme a machete

Not only has it been raining
But it's also been that higher some day when I'm totally done in the dumps with ughs and getting annoyed at my mails in the junk folder that are from my bank telling me to update my kyc.
What even?
I've been getting these mails since I was in lockdown.
But didn't I already update the kyc?
I mean what??
I am so angry
I can't do it online either apparently cuz my passport details have changed
Which means what?
They better not lock me out of my account until I get there with my documents to show to the branch!
Fuck everyone!

And done

Etc

Also,
Should I drink something?
The food I'm ordering has an attached wine recommendation with it and I wonder if I should drink it?
Maybe not.
Cuz who drinks in afternoon?
I mean it's raining and all.
The weather is fittingly humid and cold.
A strange one at that.
Majority people here are the elder variety.
I'm too well dressed for here
Most people I feel have just worn something slightly better than their house clothes and draped a scarf around .
Maybe that's the latest trend.
I've got a nice jacket and a good thin sweater. Accessorised even. Albeit sparingly. :)

Outside

So I am outside
The place if quite full
I never expected that
It's also quite strange to be alone sitting by yourself at a table when there's everyone around you.
Talking, eating and just enjoying while I sit like this loner, a sort of center of attention because people are like what even? Cuz this is such a local place no one expects a foreigner and the one they see they are assume is a tourist and although the people here are from surrounding villages I doubt any foreigners live there.
The village right next to ours has a population of 500 people!
Can you imagine that?
They must probably think I'm a tourist and getting upset that tourists have started frequenting local places?!! Haha.
Right but even so, I wish I wasn't sitting bang in the middle of the restaurant.
I'd have preferred a table by the wall or in the corner where I could look at memes and laugh.

Moods

Morning and the weather has been dull.
Overcast
Wet
Rains
Yuck!!

Seems like this weather will continue till Sunday.
What's on my agenda today?
Nothing perhaps though I will go out for lunch to the nearby restaurant called Le Poje and eat something scrumptious.
Totally in the mood for it.

Evening time

Voila

As you might have noticed there's an utter absence of anything green or salad like and that's because I'm in no mood to be a good girl today.

Meal fun

I'm deathly afraid of deep frying and so shallow frying it is!

Mood

To hell with it all!!
I'm gonna make me some fried chicken today
Also what's with this gorgeous cloud?

Missing steps

Monday morning and I woke up quite late
Not least because the sun refuses to rise at its designated time that I finally got used to but also because what on earth happened to the weather?
One moment I was sitting outside in sun drying my hair and the other I had to whip out my warm shoes and bid adieu to my usual house slippers cuz it got damned cold!
I mean it's autumn now not winter!

The thing is that one small step that is light layers of thin jackets has been completely bypassed in one giant step.
Suddenly it's thick sweaters and big jackets weather.
But what about my gorgeous wind blocker pastel hued jackets that I'd expressly hung out in the closet with the intention of wearing it in autumn just as I usually did.
What on earth?!

Good stuff

Sunday and I sit alone drinking tea. Seething as it is.

This birthday weekend has been a bust and a flop.
Problem started last morning at 9 when my suggestion of going out for a nice celebratory lunch on Sunday was squashed with some pitiful remarks about his tragedy in family that didn't permit celebration.
Fine I understand but there's a way to discuss it and not least because how is this going out any different than other times that we've gone out to eat and how is buying bottles of champagnes and drinking them back to back never made him feel like the tragedy doesn't permit!

It's become a cycle to thwart everything I say which has happier tones in terms of doing something fun while anything he wants to do is permitted.
I mean of course it's permitted and I've never stopped him but to be so acidic in replies when I say something that too for his sake as a way of celebration for him!!

The cake I'd made didn't get cut, he just ate a slice of it for dessert and when I'd mentioned about cutting it on 13th he was unbothered.
When I wanted to make a table full of delicacies he asked me to make him soup and I relented if that's what he wanted.
He mostly stuck to his phone and didn't much talk solving sudoku puzzles.

This is quite strange but suddenly his fathers reflection is becoming stronger in him.

On many an occasions his father would get irritable on days when something good or different was planned, like a Pooja or road trip or anything.
He'd get annoyed and expect everyone to pander to him and ask him repeatedly as to what's wrong with him and ply him with compliments and good words .

Is what people did something similar?

Because it resulted in a miserable weekend wherein I kept to myself.
I didn't cook anything or eat anything.
I slept well cuz 'happy pills' and I woke up sullen and made tea.
I will go out and buy some groceries and grab a bite to eat just by myself and that's how I'm going to treat myself cuz I don't understand this strange shift in people behaviour in the past year.
Oh, and I was told quite a few things about my sullen mood as to how I need to see a psychiatrist :). Cuz I got so offended with his (simple) reply.

And also how my forever support to him is actually just me pretending to be nice. Lol.

I don't know who needs a psychiatrist but by the heavens something is breaking inside of me and I might soon come to a point where I won't be able to repair it.

Marmalade

My fabulous orange chocolate cake 

And lunch

Come

Come to us
We wait by the usual place

:;(/

Nighttime and the mood is sour
My heart feels sullen
Caught in an affection famine
My frown cements

Things happening

So the person who was supposed to come yesterday for the diagnostics of the house is here today and he informed me that it will take a minimum of 2 hours!
He's walking around the house (in shoes) tapping away at his tablet, counting steps, checking things, enquiring about my Japanese toilet seats and generally trying to look industrious while tap tap tapping on his tablet with a pretty nifty pen I must say.

Sunlit babes

Little things

Teeny mushroom in my garden 

Clean up

The mess that is my kitchen when I bake anything 

Oh the day

Afternoon and I sit soaking in the sunlight through my window because the sun here can be quite compelling.
It's the kind of heat that immediately burns as witnessed by my house plants which is kept outside for a bit to soak in some light and their leaves turned yellow and then transparent in just a couple hours of exposure.
Never again are my little plants going outside for extra chlorophyll.
Also, the technicians coming to make real estate diagnosis didn't arrive and they'll be here tomorrow.
What a pain.
I shall make some apple cake now cuz why not.
(I have some very tart apples)

Buggy

News of bed bugs all over Paris and now other cities and I'm getting sort of worried now.
They better not make their way here.
I don't know how to deal with these things.

Morning hum

Morning and I woke up early with the alarm! 

Now sipping tea in my room as outside is still a bit dark and quite cold. 

I feel like another tea. 

Today a technician will come to the house to carry out a real estate diagnosis (whatever that means) but I need to get done with everything before that which is my lunch. 

I'm in a terrible mood today. 

Feels like I'm in a terrible mood everyday that I have to live through with 'people' 

Is that normal? 

Something about his face ticks me off 

His everything has gotten annoying. 

How is this sustainable? 

Maybe just a mood I guess. 

And sweets

This delicious dessert my absolute favourite from the local boulangerie is called 'sablon' and it's comprised of meringue, crème patisserie covered with a milk chocolate fold. 

It's quite large and very sweet and it takes me two days to eat it. Today is day 2 

And meal

Okay so now

Steaming cabbage cuz I mean why Not?! 

I will then pan fry it! 

Hahaha what?! 

Chirp

Monday morning and I am already upset that weekend wasn't five days long 

Today I'm the agenda is deep cleaning, lunching and bla bla 

The weather is gorgeous. 

The cats are idling and lounging and enjoying the beautiful weather and garden. 

I am contemplating mass murder. 

Champagne local

Lots of vineyards

At the grape picking festival 

Vineyards

And meal

Bliss

Before I could make my bed it was inhabited by three sleepy babes who did not appreciate the foggy autumnal cold morning!

Teeny bits

Say one thing about today say the weather has gotten a bit cold and my house clothes combined with the open doors and windows around the house made the interiors quite frigid, so much so that I began shivering while unwinding watching 'bad and crazy' and had to retire to my bedroom.
Not even ten and I'm sitting bundled up!

Started listening to 'a little hatred', just to get off the high of the last book which I can't stop thinking about, before I head on to 'engines of empire' by Richard Ford .

Also my drawing is taking a while but I think it should be finished in a couple days.

Also I think soon I will start a very large drawing meant to be hung in the house.

Ouch

It's that weather again when the pin prick like sudden gush of cold water from the tap sears your heart.

Through a scope

Now trying to assemble a telescope cuz there are stars and we gotta see them

Needs

Thursday afternoon
Demands delicious coffee
Demands a good fuck

Gonna

Who me?
cooking up some squid today
and you?

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Nighttime and the warmth leaks out of bedroom
My bed turns to ice

Grief

Feeling kinda withered cuz I'm at the last twenty minutes of the final book of winnowing trilogy and it's an ultimate battle scene and by the heavens this book has some fantastic battle scenes that will have one screaming and cheering and even crying. At least I did. And now I'm sad that this book will end!
What am I going to do?

Wooden slates

Who me?
About to embark on dinner routine and as usual at a loss as to what to cook.
Also am I too busy these days or what? Ugh! But also the weather is glorious. Cool and sunny. How long this will last I can't say but soon it's going to get cold and I'll crave cozy cocooning warmth of hot chocolate. Which reminds me I gotta start looking for it and stocking up on it.

And lunch

And so

My bed unmade
My cats sunbathing
My Wednesday mundane

The hit list

Tuesday night and I got hooked watching a movie on Netflix called 'reptile' which is essentially a murder mystery police detective drama starting Benicia del toro and Alicia silver stone and Justin Timberlake and it is good!! Quite good!!
I've still got 30 minutes more in it and I had to pause it cuz nighttime and I want to utilise my time to get enough sleep as well.
To be able to stay active from 7 to 10 I need a good 7-8 hours of sleep, seeing how I do not nap whatsoever, a good night sleep is most essential and sometimes if my reverie breaks at night I find sleep hard to find.
It happened last light. For some reason Meera woke me up at 3 and then I was awake for the rest of the night after.

Anyway then.
Wednesday
I guess it's sitting number 2!
Best wishes my darling.

Madame

In the light of none

Tuesday then and the weather outside is wet.
I thought the last few days of full sun and warmth were going to stay longer but as autumn hit I think the weather will progressively get gloomier.
Hopefully that won't happen immediately.
Today is to stay indoors.
Today is to reflect and recuperate
The moody darkness has brought forth ombré shadows into the house and I'm reluctant to chase them away with any lights.
There's something about dull natural semi coherent umbra during daytime that darkens a space ever so whimsically.

Late update

Say one thing about me
Say I've been irregular here.

Sunday was the usual. There was nothing to report nothing to talk about.
It went by as just Sunday's do.

Today was a Monday
Had me deep cleaning the house and I was diligent about it.
The house sparkles like sunbeams atop a wave and it will stay this way for a few more hours until tomorrow when things begin going haywire.

Right then,
I've been watching this series called 'bad and crazy' which is a Korean action packed mystery thriller series which started one way and has now gone another and it's not bad at all.
It's pretty good. Lots of decent gore, fantastic action, funny, lots of edge of the teeth fight scenes and as usual the Korean dilemma that is starting the series from one end while adding multiple story lines into it and making it into a melange of 'what even' which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't! In this case it works rather well! It's one of the more entertaining series I've watched and I'm loving it.
I think even our South Indian movies suffer from something similar. There are multiple movies in one movie!

Anyway tomorrow is a Tuesday !
God help us all.