frumiousb

I've gone jogging/running two out of three days this week!

Yesterday, while running, I ran into a woman walking her pig near my house. She's a known figure in Delft, but I really like to see her. She loves her pig very much, it's clear.

Dinner with pragmartist last night for the first night in months. Wonderful.

Coming home last night with the train and the tulip fields burning red and pink on the horizon. I love this time of year here.

Tomorrow and Friday off!

(oh yeah, and I really like Saving Grace even though there's probably some reason why I should not)

Just got a high estimate at work, prompting the need for this:

• An unexpected footballer. This picture was taken from the train while pulled into the station at Den Haag HS. The young man worked at a snack stand inside. When he had free moments, he was playing footie with a cup.
  
  
  
  
• Flowering trees. This time of year, flowering trees are a blessing.
  
  ( more blessings )

We now return this journal to its originally scheduled program.

( counting my blessings )

Thankful for rainbows from a train.



( more )


(another little fugitive glimpse of my rainbow)

Sometimes I get to feeling sorry for myself because I haven't been able to have the kind of simple happiness that others get so easily. No kith and kin. No children. No big close family.

But then I have a day like today and realize how very lucky I actually am. I haven't seen B. for two weeks, because of our travel schedules. He came home last night, and this was our first weekend together in a while.

This morning, we woke up and sat in the living room (a little bit messy). We listened to Jimmie Rodgers yodel and read in the bright sunshine. B. cut pictures of furniture out of magazines that he likes for the new house.

The cats alternately sat on our laps and played around our feet. We had warm rolls for breakfast, then took a long hot bath together. In a few minutes, we're going to walk across the city and see how our new apartment is coming.

I'm so happy he's back. I need to remember the good things a little bit more. I never had any idea that another person could be so much of my home.

As tagged by 68024

• Driving with B. this morning, and talking about where popular music links to current forms of visual art. Early morning thinking, and loving each other with every word.
  
  
• Waking up with one cat on my pillow and another under my arm. Autumn is the beginning of happy for a Maine Coon & they start wanting to cuddle again.
  
  
• Tulips not-quite-blooming-yet in my kitchen.
  
  
• Out for dinner with nikkyb on Friday. Good to see her. Good to be out and about.
  
  
• Long deep and dreaming sleep last night. Waking up rested and refreshed.
  
  
• Clean closet! My own accomplishment today.

And I tag all of you, in turn. Remember to count your blessings.

I'm home from Sweden, and can sleep a full night tonight. (My flight last night got into Denmark quite late, so I didn't get to my hotel until 1:00am.)

My guy picked me up at the airport, and cooked me a feast.

I brought American marshmallows to my meeting today in honor of the 4th of July, and it was a big hit. Swedish people seem to like American holidays more than Dutch people do...

Home again, home again jiggidy jig.