Everybody wants to be outside, see flowers, feel the sun on their face. Only two more weeks and then it’s officially spring. Yay spring!

However, the fit test was concluded with the addition of a couple of new exercises to my routine and HOLY FUCK I am going to pay for this tomorrow. I already do. I’m all stiff and achy already, so this should be fun. It doesn’t  help that I also did my fitness routine yesterday – I felt guilty because I haven’t done anything about my health in the past week, so now that I did have time & energy, I kind of overdid it. But all for the good cause, right?

In other news, Bodhi seems to be more chill about Charlie’s presence than we initially feared. He obviously doesn’t see Charlie as prey, but more like something interesting, a potential playmate. He often goes to Charlie’s cage check him out, and tried to lick him today. How adorable is that! <3 However, we’re not going to put the two together so they can play. I think Bodhi’s a bit too rough for Charlie. I’m just glad that if Bodhi does escape downstairs (as happened earlier today) it is not a disaster waiting to happen in regards to the bunny. So far, so good.

So unfortunately by the time I had taken Bodhi for a walk (through the rain), it was 10.30pm and too late to go to fitness. Olli should be in the jam studio by now. And tonight or this weekend I got some work to finish up on. All very unglamorous, don’t you think? Oh well. A quiet weekend is just what we need, I think. Hanging out with Bodhi, cleaning the house, enjoying each other’s company… sounds good to me. I realized the other day that the past month’s been pretty crazy, between my tattoo, reiki and the new puppy. What do you mean, life changing things all happen at once?

On an unrelated note, why does this old journal entry gain that many hits? It’s been over three years since I posted that story and I haven’t worked on it since (even though it is still on my mind). But the amount of hits it gains is much higher than should be expected, and I don’t  know why people keep finding it. Anyone got any ideas?

I voted D66, if you want to know. They sounded the sanest on their local website, although that doesn’t say much of course. On local level it really doesn’t make all that much of a difference to me.

However, when the REAL national voting comes, I’ll be sure to vote D66 again. At this point they have really been one of the sanest voices in the craziest political times I’ve ever seen. I’m glad I backed them when they pulled the plug on the cabinet in 2006; they took a huge hit over it, but they’ve come back strong and clear – for as far as you can be strong and clear under these political circumstances. I’m not agreeing with them on all subjects, but it’s as close as I can reasonably get. And yay sanity!

Olli’d had to sit with him downstairs for most of the night, and couldn’t go to bed until I got out. I felt so guilty I couldn’t help him with that, because I had to work.

But things being as they were I got 5 hours of sleep and had (of course) an insanely busy day at work (the whole week is going to be busy, until we’ve finished up the project with bitch-ass client I)… I walked around all day in that state of half-despair that comes with too little sleep. Thankfully I was able to do a lot of work yesterday. Bodhi got a lot of playing in, of which Olli made an adorable youtube movie, which you’ll find under THIS link.

And last night I was able to nap on the couch and then went to bed at a reasonable hour. Olli and Bodhi joined me in the middle of the night, but even Bodhi went to sleep quickly (he really likes our carpet in the bedroom, it’s all nice and soft) so the sleep deprivation is mostly out of my system now.

Here’s to hoping Ol and I can go to fitness tonight

Bodhi however is really tired and nervous, he’s peeing constantly. Poor bugger, he’s just been in transport for the better part of three days. The good news however is that he loves everyone, people and dogs alike, and that the first thing he did when I met him was lick me in the face… so yeah, it was pretty much love at first sight. What a terrible sweetheart he is!

We’re keeping him away from Charlie at the moment, first we should let him get used to us and the house and the environment. Lord knows that it’s all weird enough for him at the moment. But I’ll keep you updated!!

Turns out I have a knack for this stuff. And it all kind of felt familiar, and logical, and like coming home. All you have to do is love everyone, and that’s what I’m doing anyway.

So, who wants some reiki energy? I got it all for free for you, all I do is pass it through, everyone deserves it. Each and every one of you

Hardly ever was I so glad it is weekend than I am today. Blessed, blessed weekend full of awesomeness. I’m completely spent.

I had a few anxious days at work where we’re teetering on the edge of losing an important client (yeah, client I, see below, and my own efforts there were not really helping, I made a few mistakes). Today was the day I was supposed to shine and do things brilliantly. I had my training prepared into the details. It was solid, it was sound, it was very, very good. And then we arrived in the virtual classroom and the client had tech issues that I couldn’t do anything about.

Seriously, Murphy and your law? Go fuck yourself. This did NOT help.

But at least I know that this was not my fault; I did everything in my power to make this work. And I did well. But pouring all that energy into them, to create some semblance of structure and awesomeness despite everything… holy crap that was draining.

So yeah… weekend. Whohoo!
Time for me to think of other things but work.

Will you think of me today?

Now let’s be honest here, it hurt like a motherfucker. My skin is still really swollen, and it still needs to be bleached out a bit. This will probably happen in the next week. Also, you can’t really see the colouring yet. He used pink and yellow for the cherry blossoms, but right now you’re not able to see anything from it so I am already wondering whether I should go back with it and have the colouring re-touched. But first I should let it settle.

I’m really happy with it, really proud that I toughed it out. (and of course I’m already thinking about my next tattoo…) And soon you’ll have the pictures of the real & finished product.

Today however, really sucks. Maybe the timing for my tattoo wasn’t all that great in the end… I got my period and I think that maybe something was wrong with the sushi I ate later, because I’ve been nauseous and suffering from diarrhea all day. I’ve mostly slept the day away today.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t still have a pretty new tattoo!
*pleased*