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Loved up Bliss and Roots....
Been awhile since I've updated as I've been very busy with work and life.. Some ups and downs in my work this year so far, but the downs haven't gotten me as down as they normally would have probably because my personal life is a lot more stable now... I still can't believe my good fortune to have met my future partner last year. It only gets better every day.. I never thought I'd ever meet somebody with whom I'd have such a great connection with all on almost all levels and makes me feel so safe and loved...loving both the good and the bad and making me feel like such a beautiful person. When I was a kid, I always thought I was such a weird loner that I would never find anybody who would accept me as I am, but life works in mysterious ways I guess... Life throws many curveballs, but if you keep at it, sometimes you might hit a homerun...
Enough mushy stuff.. I'm looking forward to seeing my Cali friends and sister this summer very soon. Although I live abroad most of the time, I try to go back to the States at least once every year to keep the connections, friendships and family relationships alive and reconnect with my "roots" I realize I now have roots in several places and need to water those roots regularly because I want to keep those friendships and connections growing and flourishing..
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| The U-Haul has landed! Getting Hitched..
The U-Haul has pulled up to the curb...
The rabbits are going to have a bunny wedding =)
EDIT:// yes I am engaged  To be married in the Fall sometime.. Lmk if you want to attend the wedding in Europe. Now back to the regularly scheduled programming....
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MJ and more Bad Houseguest behaviour..
Tried to get tix for the O2 Michael Jackson concert but couldn't get on ticketmaster the day of... but there is no way all those scalpers can fill 40 concert dates in that humungous 02 stadium.. But a minibreak to London is just what the dr. ordered...
Addenum of BAD HOUSE Guest post: Out of the goodness of my heart and because the opportunity just presented itself, I secured a free 4 week housesitting gig for the previous bad houseguest who asked to stay at my house for a month.... After leaving my house after a stay of 2 weeks, Bad houseguest mooched off for another week at another friend of mine who he met at a dinner party at my house...then moved to the housesitting gig I arranged for him.... Since being installed comfortably there in his own free pad for 1 month in an expensive European city, where even shitty hotels normally cost more that $150 a day, not once has he invited me for dinner etc but instead asks to come over to my place to, do laundry, borrow more food (he already cleaned out my fridge without replenishing it ) and print his papers on my printer....
I have never met such a shameless houseguest! As a friend he's funny, wellspoken and great to have a laugh with... But as a houseguest and now ex-houseguest, he's HORRIBLE!!! I'm even reconsidering the friendship part.. Friends help each other out, but at this point, I feel no reciprocity or gratitude and feel a bit taken advantage of.... and I really don't like that feeling.
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Love
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Love is a many splendored thing...
Splendour in the Grass What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
-- William Wordsworth
I believe in seizing the moment... that moment in the grass, when the glory in the flower shines bright...because in love like in life, you never know what tommorow brings... Treasure those moments and keep them in your heart..
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House guest etiquette Rant
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There is no real house guest etiquette manual I suppose.... but I've had some BAD house guests in my time, as well as good ones.. I kind of like Benjamin Franklin's saying.. forgot the saying but it's something like... Fish smells bad after 3 days like guests.. I always have guests stay over and I love catching up or chatting with friends from all over the world. But sometimes friendship can be challenged by bad house guest etiquette!! One of my pet peeves is when someone eats all my food but doesn't replenish it or offer to chip in for groceries...or at least bring me out to dinner. If I stay at someone's place, (which I do often as well) I always try to cook, buy groceries and take my host out for dinner once or twice. But I've had some houseguests just kind of use my place as a free hostel/hotel or think I can spend every day being a tour guide with them...or the opposite, sleep all day and never go out.... The bummer is that otherwise I find them cool, intellectually stimulating people...just BAD houseguests.. I also value my private space a lot...but love company...quite a dilemma....You never know if someone has good houseguest etiquette...
Good house guest etiquette:
-Offer to cook, clean sometimes ( I am not your MAID! I like cooking, but not your breakfast, lunch and dinner! )
- Take host out to dinner once or twice.
-Replenish groceries ( had house guest clean out my fridge and cupboards, then tell me that I needed to buy more groceries! )
-Be independent, buy a map
- Keep space neat.
- Give host some personal time and space
- Don't overstay! ( 1 week or a bit more is max.. I just had one guy ask if he could stay a month! Plus he knew my housemate was moving out and asked if he could stay in his room for a month! I was kinda miffed by that...I am not your MOM or charity institution! ( of course if I had a friend who was sick or in dire poverty/circumstances and needed help that would be different )
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