Alexandra Leaving

First of all – happy birthday to lage_nom_ai!!!!!!!!! I am so sorry I am late with this! I wish you every wonderful thing and more!.

RL update: Holidays were great as holidays usually are but I missed you all. Things experienced:

Good
- Visiting my dearest's parents

- Cooking roast dinners and consuming them

- Attending the church convention thingy, much fun for young and not so young.

- Visiting Hampshire. It is beautiful, especially New Forest (it is only as new as 1079 and was created as royal forest by William the Conqueror). Lyndhurst is as pretty as a gingerbread village.

- Going to see Isle of Wight on a ferry. Isle of Wight is one of the places I really would love to live in if I was sure about the quality of the Internet access there.

- Doing obligatory sales shopping with our Russian friends. I have bought 3 new pairs of work trousers a three pairs of new jeans. I like sales shopping.. :D

Not So Good
- During the first half of the Hampshire adventure I went sick with Once In 5 Years Flu. The type of which makes you want to lie down and die and after you start getting better makes you sweat.. But there is an upside to this as I have lost some weight and now I can fit into all the trousers I have bought on sales nicely.

( Pictures of few peculiar houses seen in Lyndhurst and Isle of White )

Please let me know if I missed anything important..
"Moonlight" haven't been cancelled yet, right?
Anything I should be watching/reading RIGHT NOW?

Being stuck in the traffic for an hour and 15 minutes on a morning and being late for work doesn't make for a good start of the day. Though I was half-asleep through it and was absolutely zen about the whole experience. The winds were quite bad during the night and became even worse during the day. And now apparently everything is in chaos with lorries blocking motorways and trains being cancelled. (And I am half afraid to drive back home). No, not just yet, I wait for another hour and see if things clear up a bit.

Instead I will post some pictures of our office plants. They have a crazy floweing period recently with the orchid and the Christmas cactus spoiling us with gorgeous blooms. My friend and colleague J. brought his camera today and we made some pictures using the "Macro" feature. The pictures are behind the cut to brighten your day (the best ones are made by J. :D)

( Flowers for all the lovely friends on LJ!!!! )

+ I am having a great day!! I had a "rethink" on Friday and decided that I must go to bed in a good time (before 12 pm) , no matter how much I want to watch the lovely things I have been watching lately. And I must make myself to go to the park with the dog at least once a day (good for me, good for the dog) to keep my RSIs away. And it seems that after three days of self discipline I feel marvelous. I am alert, I don’t forget anything and I feel LIFE is WONDERFUL!

+ I have been craving all sorts of Chinese/Japanese food lately. It must be somehow connected with the recent Asian drama addiction. Especially lately, Yoo-rin from Korean drama “My Girl” is such a good eater that this totally tipped me over the edge. My friends and I went to my favourite Chinese restaurant in Leeds, "Red chilli" for lunch. They make wonderful exotic dishes, like Sea cucumber and Pig intestines and that sweet dish my dearest hates, “Donkey rolled in mud”. The lunch menu is more of the main-stream, though also fantastic.

( Red chilli! Fooooooood pictures. Not dial-up friendly )

( And just because I was wearing them, my favourite pair of shoes! Very comfortable! Yes I love shoes as much as I love food! )

+ And because it is such a wonderful day, my friends persuaded me to go and see "Casino Royale" with them. Yay! Daniel Craig! I am going to see you soon!!!! In half an hour, in fact!

+ I am right in the middle of lovely Korean drama "My Girl". More on My Girl I posted in dorama_chat