Whilst away I finally finished both Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, so to make up for the lack of updates, I will post a review for each in the coming days. Right now I am reading Night Train To Lisbon by Pascal Mercier and it has come of to a good start, when I’m done I will review it as well.

And finally, may I just add how much I missed my piano? The first thing I did as soon as I was back home was to delight the walls with the touch of my stiff fingers to the piano keys. Tomorrow I will play some more.

Cheers.

In other news, my writing is going well. Yesterday I wrote well into the night, and today I wrote some more. There is some editing necessary but my project is going well, and I have produced a couple of shorts as well. They might come in handy sometime.

Cheers.

Last night, I danced, which is rather unusual, and today morning, as soon as  I arrived from celebrating the New Year, I didn’t go to sleep, I booted on my computer and wrote for hours. And when my sight got tired, I continued writing on my notebook before snaching a few hours of sleep. I have played the piano, read and cooked and rested as well throughout the day, all in the purpose of starting the decade as I wish to spend it, writing , reading and playing piano and resting, improving my cooking and dancing skills wouldn’t hurt either.

So to everyone, I say this, Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!

Because yes, today I finally left the house and went to look at pianos. I must admit I wouldn’t have gone if my roomatte hadn’t practically forced me out the door, but it was well worth it. We went to a house dedicated to selling cheap pianos, and there I saw some really great ones. The downside is, both the pianos I liked had already been sold, and the others just weren’t good enough. Of course, more pianos will soon arrive, so I left my contact information and they’ll call me if something interesting shows up. And at least I got to play a little. In the meantime, I will seek out other pianos, it won’t be long, I know it. Soon I will have my piano, and with it’s help, I’ll hopefully be able to kick this depression away.

London was great, I stumbled upon Leicester Square the day of the premiere of Harry Potter, man, were ther hundreds of brits in line! Then it began to rain so we didn’t stick around to see the actors arriving (and Emma Watson’s dressing issues, lol), although it brings a smile to my face to think how soaked Potter’s fans must have ended.

Next stop was Oxford, and let me tell you, walking around MAgdalen College really makes you wish you were studying there, it is beatiful and let’s mot forget thet the University of Oxford is one of the best in the world. And Trinity College wasn’t too shabby either. And the Bodleian Library, that holds at least one copy of every book ever printed in England, or Blenheim Palace, the greates palace in Britain.

Then we went to Stratford-upon-Avon,  Shakespeare’s land, and marry, they are obsessed with the Bard of the Beard. Everywhere you turned you saw something like; Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Shakespeare’s mother’s house, the church where it is believed Shakespear was christened, the tree that is a descendant of the one Shakespeare planted, Shakespeare’s tomb, and so on. It’s a great buisness, because these places aren’t cheap, but they are swarmed all day long.

The original plan was to go to Cambridge as well, but it was not to be, because it ended up being too complicated getting there from Stratford, so we returned to London (by the way, did I mention that all the time we were in London we stayed in a student’s Hall?). There, we went on Wednesday to The Old Vic Theatre to watch my favorite Shakespeare play; A Winter’s Tale (curious how it was midsummer at the time, and it was also night, so A Midsommer’s Night Dream would have been more fitting) and on Thursday we went to Shakespeare’s Globe to watch another of Shakespeare’s plays; As You Like It, which was really fun. And on the final day we watched a kind of Juggling Show (the only thing in the whole trip that was free, well, that and air) which was hilarious. And that was it, and now I am missing England, especially every time I get into a car and feel all the heat, wheras in England we had template climate and some rain, aww, I miss it. Oh well, see you all later, cheers!

Today there was some conflict. My sister and my mother went shopping together and we were supposed to meet at seven outside the store. Not only did my mother arrive without my sister and late, but she complained to us that she hadn’t had enough time because she had gotten sidetracked seeing other stores, she didn’t apologize for being late, no, she instead took us to a pair of seats as if she were doing us a favor and then resumed her shopping! We left an hour later. Oh well, that’s what you get.