Get-together

 August 20th is a national holiday in Hungary and on that occasion we had a "little" get-together yesterday in the local park. Didn't knew there's so many of us living in the town! It was nice to meet with so many of them and speak hungarian. Everyone was supposed to take care of their own food only but as is good hungarian custom everybody bought more then enough and shared it with others (yummy meatloaf and cakes...) Of cousre we had some palinka too :) Most people stayed until the park closed but i left quite early so missed the fireworks. Also, this was the hottest day of the year so far (and probably will stay so) we actually hit 30°C!!!

Last weekend

So, this was the last weekend of october. P had to work unfortunately so i had two days on my own. Saturday was ok, he went to work from noon, and i wnet for a coffee and a mini-shopping - mini coz my budget was mini too. Sunday was a bit rougher, wanted to do much more housework then i managed but i did start the christmas jumper and progressed quite a lot on it.
Then P made me watch a movie - he tries to make me watch a horror but i adamantly refuse it. I have enough cr@p going on with my head don't need some stupid scary thing as well.
So he made me watch Green Mile instead, which i was also afraid of though from different reasons. Gosh it was three hours long.
I could've cried all along if i didn't check myself but i managed.

Long weekend, part 1.

Long weekend, again - i could get used to these! I made it even longer for myself and booked tuesday off after the monday bank holiday. This weekend is Airshow - weekend and as usual, it's cloudy and windy. Don't know yet if i'll be able to drag P out but hope i can.

Last two weeks were mental here by the way. We paid the rent on time, in full, with enough money left for groceries, for the first time since we moved in; and as we have 5 weeks until the next payment instead of the usual four, had paid all the debts and leftover bills, i was looking forward to finally not having to worry about money and basic living. That lasted one day, because on tuesday, P got a call that his best mate is in hospital. I wished back all the financial cr*p in a second. The last two weeks were spent whit worrying, phonecalls and more worrying, but finally there's light at the end of the tunnel.

New flat, new snow - Új lakás, új hó

Early this morning we signed the contract for the new flat. This will be the second place i live since i moved to england 5 years ago, and this is the second time we had snow this year 8the first time lasted for a week :P) The nerves with the paperwork and workplace problems in the last two weeks pretty much took away the exitement but it was still a very good feeling to have it all settled. I had to fire up the boiler - 'coz i'm good with boilers - ha ha... Took a couple of hours to warm up, though a breakfast did help to feel less numb of the cold. We tried to ring up the landlord too as according to the contract we have to ask his permission for any redecorations but he didn't answered - P thought that's good as it means he doesn't really care what we do. So we did some measurements - until i broke the tape measure, then sampled a few paints in the bedroom where the wallpaper looks actually quite bad, so can't think that the landlord would have problem with that being taken care of.
Around one o'clock it started snowing, which was looked quite pretty and really cold considering how close we are to the seashore - and not some protected estuary but the actual North Sea. Wind was blowing from the direction of the shore blowing the snow paralell with the ground. We started to think about getting to move in spite of all this as we knew it can get really bad at least considering public transport. Well we've been a bit too slow (or too quick?) because we just missed a bus, then for about an hour, there were no buses nor trains going, and the snow just kept falling. When finally a train came and did depart too the snow was almost over but i was so numb that even the hot shower weren't enough to warm me up.
Then in the evening the girls tried to convince me to go out to dance - well i'm really not in the mood for clubbing and definately don't want to stick my nose out of the door until i don't have to at tomorrow morning.Hopefully i wont be numb then.

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Sometimes its just too hard to come up whit a good title. Or any title. Anyways, today is only about...


... will come back tomorow frozen to the bones if im really unlucky :D

10.10.10

Komolyan, egy ilyen dátum mellett nem lehet elmenni :) 2010. 10. 10. Rosszul indult nap után nagy lelkizés, megfejelve egy kis vásárlással délután - valami tényleg lehet a levegőben, mert vettem egy vállpánt nélküli miniruhát, ami még sosem forult elő az elmúlt 29 évben. Meg balerina-cipőt is hozzá, mivel csak sportos cipőim vannak. És még tetszenek is :D Tegnap is vettem pár holmit, bár nem (csak) ruhákat, hanem paplant meg hizatot is, úgyhogy a számlámra rá sem merek nézni, szegény totálisan anorexiás ez után a hétvégi fogyókúra után...

Seriously, how could a date like this go unnoticed? :D 10th of the 10th month of the 2010th year. Wow.
Today started badly, followed with a hefty discussion, topped off with shopping in the afternoon - something must be in the air as i bought a strapless minidress - something i never did in the last 29 years. Plus balerina-shoes to go woth it as i only own sporty shoes. And strangely, i like them :) I bought couple things yesterday too tho not only clothes but duvet and cover too so my poor bank account must be totally anorexic after this weight-loss diet....

Begging puppy eyes - Könyörgő kiskutyaszemek

On saturday i was hanging around in Canvey, eating ice cream and playing with a dobermann so big i didnt needed to bend down at all or he to lift up his head for me to pet him. He's heeling from a small surgery - there are stitches on his chest, and two more on his side - and needed company so i was helping out dog-babysitting :)
He made this begging puppy-face for the 15 minutes straight, as long as i was eating. I resisted. I'm experienced in this :)
Was a bit surprised though to realize that dogs can and do make this begging face no matter size or age and invariably look just way too cute...

Szombaton Canvey-n voltam, jégkrémet ettem és egy akkora dobermannal játszottam, hogy nem kellett lehajolnom vagy éppenséggel neki fölemelnie a fejét ahhoz hogy megsimogassam. Egy kisebb műtétből lábadozik - látszanak is az öltések a mellkasán, meg van még kettő sebe az oldalán is - úgyhogy kellett neki a társaság, én meg besegítettem a kutya-bébicsőszségben :)
Végig ezt a könyörgő kiskutya-pofát csinálta amíg ettem a jégkrémet, kb 15 percig. Persze ellenálltam, van ebben gyakorlatom :)
Azon viszont meglepődtem, hogy ezek szerint mérettől és életkortól függetlenül, minden kutya tudja ezt az arckifejezést produkálni - és egyszerűen túl édesek ilyenkor...

Where did july go?! - Hova tűnt a július?!

I did overtime yesterday and read The Little Prince in english for the first time. I finished it on the train which was full with people going home after a day at the beach... I still remember full paragraphs in hungarian, said by the voice-actors from an audio performance of the book. I wished i knew french though, some nuances can be so lost in translation.

After i got home, i realized it's august already - i'm afraid i missed out on this summer. Not the first time. Though on friday we went for a drink with a couple of collegues and sat in the back garden, wich is definetly something very summer-y as other times its just too cold and windy to sit outside after work. It was a bit crazy evening... ended up at some flat with eight or ten girls in it and only one (very ugly) guy, aside from us. Not the best proportions for a houseparty i think. We came home shortly with cousin K and climbed onto everything along the way, like building materials, rails, fences, fountains... damn snowboard movies have a bad influence on me :D and K likes it when i'm a bit "loosened up by beer". Thanks.

Still dumb... - Még mindig...

Started a simple cardigan pattern. Instruction: Cast on 115 stitches. Using markers, that's 30 + 30 + 30 +15. Right? It was for me, for 5 cm of ribbing and another 8 rows of stocking st, at least. After that, I felt really really dumb. Have to take up crosswords or some logic-boosting thing before i sink into the level of a holstein-friesian.

Mooo.

Probably because of this (another...) failure, i led myself persuaded by my cousin K and cousin-in-law C to go with them to a club after the pub instead of going home. I dressed deliberately casually, jeans and training shoes, as the clubs here all have dress-code. Unfortunately for me the other two wasn't too dressed up either plus the place wasn't full so they let me in too. Before i knew what's happening i was paying the 6 pounds entry and got to the edge of the dancefloor... Luckily the bar was nearby too. It turned out quite nicely though, somehow i found the don'give a damn rocker in me and even the music couldn't bother. We had a funny evening, girls night out while my other cousin was babysitting his daughter at home :D
And thank god - or whoever invented it - for the green tea. ;)