inconvenient coincidence

I was scheduled to have a wisdom tooth surgery today. I first called for an appointment in July. That's ages ago! And what happens? I get a fever few days before the surgery! I mean, come on! Dear fever, couldn't you find a more appropriate time to visit me? Well ... I had to skip the surgery today. I was re-scheduled to December 4, that's another 100 years of waiting. :(

But I have to look on the bright side of life ... at least I skipped all the pain and unpleasantness too. I changed all that for shopping for my new dorm room. I found 3 beautiful flower pots, but there is still no postcard in my mailbox ... hmmmm :)

Poppy

Awards and obsessions

Hello hello,
I got 2 awards from Skye and I think It's time to show off now, ha ha. :)
Since I don't write or check other blogs regularly I assume I have exactly two and a half followers who read my posts. And I am happy that at least 2/5 of my readers like my blog! :D

So... 5 things I'm obsessed about:

1) The first one would definitely be my laptop and my mobile phone. That's a bad one but still. :P I have to check my Facebook and my Gmail and my blog and our university webpage for any news and my Google Reader for any news and then all over again. As if I would miss something really reeeeallly important if I didn't check everything all the time. :) On the other hand.. no one waits for my answer for a long time. :)

2) Definitely food. I love food. I enjoy food. A lot. I really like to plan eating something delicious, for example, I am having artichoke - rocket bruschetta for dinner and for Sunday we're planning roast lamb and sauté potatoes. Mmmmm! :) Can't wait. I love the flavor and the good feeling I get after a good meal. :) I take Nigella as my role model. :P

3) Baking & making pastry! One of my favorite hobbies. It's fun, it's delicious, it's a result of your work, it can be creative, it makes me happy, it makes other people happy and that makes me happier! I love to see those happy expressions on other people's faces when they enjoy eating my toffee pudding, for example. And I made chocolate chip muffins for Brooke and Acacia when they arrived to the train station late in the evening. One of them said that was the first thing that reminded her of home since she had come to study to Florence. Of course I was happy to make them again - double amount. ;)

4) Sour cream on my pizza! Sounds weird? Does anyone else have sour cream on a pizza? A pizza without sour cream is weird. :P I love the fresh taste of it, although it's probably very fatty. I don't care. It's so delicious. :) "Let's order a pizza!" "Yeah, let's do it ..." "Is there any sour cream in the fridge?" "No." "Ahh.. please order mine with some" :P I just had it yesterday for lunch. ;)

5) Doing everything fast. I hurry too much. I walk fast, I get cranky if I know I won't have enough time to do everything I want. Sometimes I get cranky already in the morning and that crankiness prevents me from doing anything at all, I'm just nervous about it. :D One of my "hurry" things is hurrying home at the end of "school-week". I pack everything the evening before and the minute I finish my classes I rush to the train station but these trains are so slow! It's so nice to go home I never get home quick enough. :))

Well, these are my weird obsessions... but who should I give these awards to? Hmm.. Well I guess I'll take some time and think about it, just like Skye did. :) Do I even know 5 people who blog? Hmm... :)) I'll let you know. ;)

Poppy

Best postcard contest!

I have just moved today. I moved to another dorm room. I changed my double for single, finally! :) I spent the whole day cleaning it, I am sure my predecessor wouldn't pass any of those sanitary inspections!

Anyway ... now I have to decorate it, because it is still quite plain ...

So here's the contest! I am kindly asking you to send me interesting, cute, funny postcards. :) My address is:

Katja Krapež
Študentski dom 4
Gosposvetska 83
2000 Maribor
Slovenia

Deadline? When I get enough of them :D

And the prize for the best one?
One of those beautiful paperblanks 2010 dayplanners! Mailing included. :)

I look forward to getting your mail ;)

Poppy

My beautiful new notebook

I hate going back to school every October. It's just so far away from home and nothing much to do there. I need some consolation and support and I mostly find that in cute, beautiful and funny school equipment. :) Yesterday my mom bought some to me. It's the most beautiful notebook I have ever had! Of course ... I chose it. :P

front:

back:

open:

It has some beauuuuutiful art! A self portrait called "Soul and Tears" by Laurel Burch. I'm going to use it as a planner with a calendar for this school year. I hope it makes it a little bit better and easier. There's also an interesting thought inside:

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."

... yes ... we have to experience bad things to appreciate good ones. And we obvously have to go away if we want to wish to come home again. :)

Poppy

pursuit of new goals. :)

I have a little bit of a bad day again.
Another study year is coming to an end and I'm not very happy about beginning the next one. I just happen to fall into that lazy stage that includes resting, sleeping, reading, cleaning around (very calming thing for me) and decorating my new nest. I have become exactly the person I said I would never like to become - the person whose life consists of job (which is school for me) and family, a person who is slowly becoming a wife-and-a-mother person with no other interests and a pretty much boring life. Damn!


Let's see ...

*I used to be crazy about stunts and tumbling in cheerleading, crazy about dance. Last year I took hip hop for my P.E. class and modern jazz for my free time activity. My goal in my cheer season was to learn back somersault. That project ended exactly 12 days after the beginning of the cheer season when tore my groin diaphragm that still hutrs today, one year later. Exercising not recommended. What now?

*Well yes, I started baking and I really LOVE it! But it's a fatal combination ... less exercising, more pastry ... You probably know what I mean.

*I auditioned for a musical that some students from my faculty were making and got accepted as a dancer and even got a small part in it! Unfortunately people just weren't serious enough and the whole thing fell apart.

*I was lucky enough to have a room mate who was the editor at the local student radio station and got me a kind of internship there. What an interesting month! I was visiting book premiers, attended interviews with authors and wrote some pretty good reports. Unfortunately politics and personal relations got involved and the editor was sacked by the director and so was I as her "apprentice" ...

Am I a bit unlucky or just too lazy to find another interesting goal in my life? Something that I can do despite my stupid useless leg?  Suggestions please! :)

In some camp few years ago we had a workshop about success and discussed that topic. I said that for me a successful person is a person who achieves his/her goals. I had a lot of goals back then: to find a good summer job, to be accepted to uni and be a good student, to train hard in my cheer squad ...

People have to aim somewhere and pursuit their goals! It looks like I lost my direction at the moment ...  and I hate it. So maybe another study year - as much as I hate being away - will be a good opportunity after all. Moving back to the dorm and being alone in the afternoons will probably force me to find something. :)

I'll open up my eager eyes, 'cause I'm Mr. Brightside ...

Is it possible to be cuter than that?

I'm babysitting my boyfriend's nephew from time to time ... today I was doing it with a camera. I like photography but I don't really know what to do with an SLR camera so I was practicing a bit. 
And look at him!

Isn't he the cutest little thing in the world? :))


Poppy

Howdy! How's it goin'?

:)

I am SO tired right now. This weekend really was exhausting. I still speak and think in English every now and then :) My friends Acacia and Brooke from US came over. They are studying in Florence Sept.-Dec. so they decided to visit me for a few days. We have driven all over this small country (we've really done that too much :S ) and have seen so many beautiful things. But I think that the beautiful things aren't always the one that make our day. So can I tell you some extraordinary or not so "every day" stories that will definitely represent this weekend with my friends in my memory? :)

1) This poor guy! We were driving down the street and there was this guy pushing his car on the sidewalk because it has broken down. We just thought that was bad... but what a bad luck! When he was pushing it down the street he had another accident - he accidentally pushed his car into the pole and damaged it even more! Ahh :/ :)

2) Japanese tourists - so annoying sometimes! We met a group of them when we went to see the cave, we were kind of late and some woman asked me to take a photo of in front of something completely insignificant. OK. Half an hour later that same woman annoyed me again and I took another photo of her. We took of for Bled which is 102 km away and THAT SAME LADY came by again and asked us to take a photo of her. I mean .. what the f... ... ? :D

3) The dogs thing: Acacia was taking photos of the village for her landscape photography assignment and she wanted to take a photo of some cows. They were really cute but then a bunch of dogs rushed down the street, barking and snarling. Sounds horrible? They were all 20 cm tall and they looked like a bunch of rats. But still, they were brave as lions, ran into us and ripped Acacia's trousers. We were laughing and being shocked at the same time! Those dogs are crazy, for sure :P My boyfriend's mother is really good at sewing, luckily. :)

4) Today we went to Slovenian coast and we found this great second-hand book store. Acacia bought some prayer books for her father and I also found something great. 2 Balzac's books, one Voltaire's, Hemingway's For Whom the Bells Tolls and another one I can't remember right now. 5 books for 10 €! That shop definitely is a great find and the owner is funny too. We saw him few hours later, lying down at the beach and just chilling. He just said: "I have a great job, don't you think?" .. and smiled. :)



5) The great view: Acacia wanted to go paragliding. We were all ready to go so we went up the hill, she was already equipped to fly and suddenly the wind changed. We were waiting for the right wind to come but it just didn't come. We sat upthere for 2 hours! But we really had a GREAT view. :)



... aah I'm just so tired right now :S I hope they arrived home without any problems - Italian railways are unfortunately not known for their reliability. :) I'm going to head to bed now ... What are your non-typical stories from your trips? :)

Poppy