5 is not enough

there is barely 1 km between the border and my flat and there were, until last week, 5 roundabouts in between. apparently, that wasn't enough cos they've now set up a 6th one. although currently made of plastic, there's no doubt that it is no doubt that it is there to stay.

sequence of bad luck?

it seems that i'm very unlucky these days. first, i had to get my boiler descaled before it burst (lucky catch, that). one week later, one of the bathroom cabinets decided gravity wasn't just a concept. not 5 days later, my rolling shutters broke. then the flat tyre last week, which can't actually be fixed as the hole is too big so i need to get a whole new one - this started a whole conversation on whether i actually needed to get another new tyre or whether my less than 10,000 km in 2 years would be ok in terms of difference in wear. 

oh, and there may be a cockroach infestation in the building and the main door seems broken. 

i sure hope this means some serious good luck is coming my way in other areas!

jumping to conclusions

i was out for dinner with a friend the other night and she asked if there was anyone i was interested in these days. i thought there was no harm in telling her i did have my eye on a guy but that was all there was so far. within 2 sentences she'd already jumped ahead and said something like 'oh, great, when you guys are married...' and i just thought, wow, hang on a second! i barely know the guy and i have no idea whether a) he's single (i really should find out), b) interested and c) whether this would even work - and with my track record, it probably wouldn't. and now i kind of feel this huge pressure to deliver, which i really didn't need.

flat tyre

i couldn't quite figure out why the car was so slow at reacting. it had started the previous evening, on my way back from town and as i left home yesterday, i had the same feeling of unease. then i thought i heard metal. i reversed back to my building and took a look around the car and there it was, my first flat tyre. 

i was due in town about 30 mns later so the easiest would have been to leave the car and take the bus. but then my sister wouldn't have wheels for the evening out later on, as i wasn't going to change a tyre in the dark, so it was kind of a now or never thing. i texted my friend that i'd be half an hour late and started changing the tyre. i've done this loads of times but being pressed for time and not being on the best of surfaces - a mix of cobbles and grass, into which the jack was sinking - made it take a lot more time than usually necessary. at the end of which my jeans were stained and my nice city shoes ruined - i hadn't bothered changing, which i should have, really, seen as i couldn't meet my friend looking like that so ended up changing anyway. or, as my friend pointed out, we could have rescheduled for another day. or he could have come to me. didn't even cross my mind. 

only the worthy...

i went to see the latest Thor movie last night. and i am happy to announce that i am one of the worthy! out of the whole room, only half saw 99% of the movie and only 3 of us actually saw the whole thing. how? well, we stayed till the very end of the credits - i've always made a point of doing that cos let's face it, all those people made the movie possible. 

anyway, after the first set of credits (the main characters in pictures), there was a 2-minute extra part of the film, after which the rest of the credits showed and at which point most people left. only 3 of us stayed till the very end and got to see another minute of the movie, the actual end of this particular installment.

oh, and great movie by the way!