Monday, December 31, 2012

ohmigottididit

(Kimbra - "Come Into My Head")

Friday, December 21, 2012

Remembrance, Return

They are absolutely right - café's provide the perfect background noise for heavy thinking. Much nonsense, but the good kind.
Mārtiņa Beķereja, we meet again.
And the traditions are more insistent than I presumed, I was very happy to see this Meteņu gājies, viņi vilka *&$*! bluķus pa zemi, this has to be a gutsy thing to suggest.
I have two gingerbread cookie hearts from Rasa, Burtniekam pēdējais mēģis bija slapjš, and we celebrated the end of the world at the office. Kat sketched me.
Yesterday was quite the productive day.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Discipline

Well, fuck. This taught us nasty kids.

Maybe it's for the best.

..for now.

The spark in life that I had noticed was gone is still gone. I'm doing my best to find it.
Something appears, now and then, but I need it's reassuring light..

Times is hard, times is confusing, and foggy. I feel foggy. I must stop feeling foggy.

All that remains is no stick to what we've got and slowly work our way towards independence.
Good luck, for the both of us.

And now, a sad song.

(Low Roar - "Patience")

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Monday

I guess my eyes were so accustomed to the dark, they relished it. Lying in bed with a book, recovering, it feels like the old days. The winters past.
The words "bad", "nausea", "trembling" - they sound so light in my head. It's like when you've gotten hurt a few days ago and you're looking back at it, thinking "Yeah, I could take that again." But the fact is, I don't remember any other time when I've felt as physically horrible as I did yesterday. I'm still sort of trying to find a good reason for writing it up here, as if it was a sin to share the bad along with the good. It is a bump in the everyday life, so why not reflect on how it offered change, no matter how slight? That, and writing it down in my notebook wouldn't have been as satisfactory. If it would have been one of the kind I scribbled in a year ago, with the lovely format and fascinatingly shiny covers, the documentation would have felt superior to this, but I guess the one I have now doesn't seem to capture whatever I try to write down. Maybe it's because it has thicker pages and wavy lines and four different openings that repeat themselves. The design simple and a pleasure to look at, but it seems to be made for just that purpose - to be looked at. Not to harbour the wonders and dregs on the mind.
Yesterday Rudy called and asked if he could stay here until his parents picked him up. I don't know exactly what was the cause, but the result was feeling like "a pretty fountain", bent over the toilet bowl. He arrived about an hour and a half later, and I took joy in being the caretaker instead of being the one taken care of. The poor thing. And then, another few hours later, I was hit by the same thing. That, and menstrual cramps. Only these were the kind that make you moan out loud from the pain. At the end of the day I found myself on the bathroom floor with my eyes watering, clutching a blanket and hoping I'd pass out. This I didn't do, and after a while I summoned the resolution to get back to my bed. Painkillers offered relief, and sleep came, at length, interrupted by visits to the ugly pink bucket on the shelf at the end of the bed. Rudy was gone, I'd wished for him to stay, but then again, being sick is something you can only comfortably be at home.
I woke up at 10am, feeling more or less like a human being, and after calling Rudy, it appears he was feeling the same. The day has passed in reading and worshiping water, and I feel I've enjoyed it. I might brave some yoghurt later, but for now I'll take my slightly perverse joy in being thin and pretty - the wane beauty of sickness.

"Stories", edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantono.

Hope you feel better, sweetie.

Friday, December 7, 2012

Quiet

Do any of us really listen to the silence anymore? Everything seems like a rush, an obligation, or a dream. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm going where I don't want to so I can say that it's really not what I want.
Some things that are close at hand are a distant memory to me. And yet I clutch to the past.

(Edvard Grieg - "Solveig's Song")

It's still snowing outside.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Commitments

I'm straying off my original idea of how to live, whether it is still or again, I do not know. It does keep changing, so following a certain path can be awfully inconclusive. That, and I'm cripplingly indecisive.
The "I'm happy." post is just as true as the self-and-world-hating posts, and that simply makes finding a theme for myself so much harder. I don't really have a certain theme to work with. Muh.
My body is alerting me of need of change of thought by making my lovely dreamland of sleep very enticing in the mornings. Not that I can't get up because I'm tired, but I can't get up because I really don't want to. This is what happens to depressed people, since reality pales in comparison, but I'm not depressed, I enjoy my life, so there must be something else to learn by this.
The problem probably is that I've engaged in too much, and too little planning. The best solution I can see right now is to go outside and build a fucking snowman.

(ThankyouthankyouIneseforunderstanding.)

Still the need to create. Build. Write. Almost anything, just please occupy my mind.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Monday, December 3, 2012

agubadada

Is it okay to start feeling Christmassy now?
I think it is. THE ICY SIDEWALKS HAVE ARRIVED YESHGOODWINTERFINALLY
It must be okay, at least to make the feeling last.
Chhhhh... Time, time, time.. Tom Waits reference

(Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful (from the road) Julia Nunes)