Oh what a perfect day....

....I'm glad I spent it with me....

I love my own company and the company of Oscar above all I think. This may sound strange, but I really had a brilliant day, all by my lonesome. Sniff sniff!!

I wont go through all the boring details of what I did, but it involved cleaning and reorganizing my apartment to the point where I do not want to move to the unit next door now. I really have to decide this soon! But my landlords are such good people, and they are MY kind of people; slightly nosy, but helpful (LOL) and I like them a lot. I think I would hurt them by moving out into the next unit.

I also realized today that I can make any place a nice living space. Just a few little changes, and it reaks of Katrin. A few flowers, a couple of plants, pillows, and tablecloths, and voila; a home. I wish I had brought my kilims from Iran. Maybe I can convince my mom to throw then in her suitcase when she comes for a visit, or maybe, just maybe I can buy a couple of nice ones here. OH! Hello! Turkey! I am going there in a few weeks (I think) for my visa run. There. Problem solved!

I also read quite a chunk of the Glasser book for my course. I don't know if I agree with his philosophy, but its open to discussion, which is actually part of the online course. I did ALL my laundry, bought groceries, took Oscar on 2 loooong walks, had breakfast in the back yard with espresso strong enough to put hair on my chest, and wrote OGA (see previous blog for explanation). I also held up the Faridani tradition of listening to Bach on Sundays. I did squeeze in one Dvorjak, but it was the cello concerto, so its acceptable (I make the rules after all).

Now I have the evening ahead of me, and I plan to make Armenian Cutlet, and have it with the rice salad I made last night. Brent my American co-worker came by for us to go for drinks, and I whipped it up in a few minutes. It was damn good. He was impressed. However neither of us was impressed by the night-life here or rather, lack thereof. This is going to be a good town to do a masters degree in, I think. Especially since the few nightclubs will be filled with my students.