✨💙 Spreading some love and joy in people's ask boxes 💙✨ If you get this, it means you're awesome and I hope you're having a great day! 💗 If you like, copy and paste this message to 3 other lovely blogs to keep it going, and answer my riddles three: What is your favorite breakfast food? Would you rather be a bird or a fish? If you could move anywhere in the world, money's not an issue, where would you live?
Ohhh Hi!
God, this is so sweet and honestly helped a lot to see on a day, when I needed something positive. Thank you, Lilo, you are awesome, too, and I am so glad to be your friend! This message really meant a lot!!!
So I took a few days to answer, as not to let this be overshadowed by the not fully-great, overworked day I was actually having, or rather week. Now I took a few moments over the weekend, only worked part of the day, and am doing late shifts for 'real work' this week, so I actually had breakfast and am in perfect mood to answer these questions!
🫖 So, yeah, usually I don't eat breakfast. I think it's about habitudes and I am always to lazy to get out of bed earlier than I absolutely must, I roll out, wash up, dress and am on my way. Also I am not hungry at 6-8am, I couldn't eat then (let's not talk about how not having time for lunch break then results in not eating until dinner more often than it should recently).
So when I do make myself breakfast, it's on weekends or occasions and then that is a nice and special thing in its own. It's about the process of making it for myself almost more than the actual eating (almost).
First of all, tea. Back tea, preferably darjeeling. Ok, who am I trying to fool, if it's not my special darjeeling blend I will crinkle my nose in distaste (but then proceed to drink and enjoy it nevertheless). But I am a slow drinker, it takes a long time to drink my tea, and also I like having it in a big mug, 0,5L mug (with flowers on it, but my fav broke during moving :( ).
I love pancake-sunday! It doesn't have to be on a Sunday, it can also be pancake-saturday ;). I will stand there in the kitchen, either in my pajamas or freshly showered in a pretty dress (we are assuming it's summer because this is an ideal scenario, right), flour in my hand, pouring it into a bowl - I never use recipes, too much of a hassle, and I do know how to cook/bake - add sugar, vanilla pudding powder, margarine and oat milk/water, mix it, heat it, flip it. I need to re-practice the flipping part! Since I didn't have a real kitchen for a few months I didn't make any for at least half a year (and let's be honest before the move I didn't exactly have the time to cook anything for quite a while) I am out of practice. The best is if I have people to share the pancakes with, or at least leave some for them. With raspberries on top, of course!
But most of the time, I am more of a savory type of person? Not sure, but after having had pancakes this Saturday (as I said, I tried to take a few moments this weekend), I had to have bread with aubergines and apple and cookies yesterday and today. A few years ago I also ate a lot of oatmeal with apples and raspberries but I am a phase-kind of person and it's passed.
🐦/🐟: Well, I don't think it's surprising when I tell you, that I once, when asked what animal I would be in an application process, I said fish. I said I like to immerse myself in things and give 100% - I was young and naïve, okay? Now, I say, I want the calm embrace of the ocean. Also orca are not fish but closer to fish than to birds and have you seen their hippocampi? Their brains look so funny because of it, almost like a cube, it's just a big chunk added to something that looks like ours in the place where the hippocampus lays. It's because of their incredible sense of group and empathy. I would like to experience living with others connected like that. And to the surprise of no one: I like to talk. I talk a lot. I like languages. And orcas have that, too, so that's cool (this is not at all inspired by having worn my new orca themed yesterday, why do you ask?).
But still, this answer is not completely one sided. Being a bird, sometimes, I long for that lightness, that gliding, that clichéd freedom we associate with flying - that's when I get my skates on (ok, I do/did that everyday, but honestly that gliding on wheels is very freeing too. I never dare dance and move my body around as much as I do on my skates. But I'll have to see with all the moving going on at the moment where and how often I find skating spaces. I miss my old route, I was long, and wide, and with lots of flowers blooming everywhere).
I remember that I already told you that application-fish story, and also the follow up, but it's funny enough to mention again: what part of a bike would you be? At the time I said the handle bar (as in for steering), and at the time I think that was fitting, but since then I have been pushed beyond limits again and again and new boundaries that got pushed past and now I would be content to be the carrier, I think. Everyone likes having one, but if you are broken, it doesn't matter, the thing rolls without just fine. Maybe one day I will be the light, the pedals or the brakes again. God, I went off topic again, didn't I? Ok, next!
🏡 Where would I like to live? I would love to move back to Brittany. I felt very alive and at home there, even when I struggled with friendships and myself, just being there soothed me a lot. I loved the city I lived in, but also all the other places, the ones I know from vacation and the ones I just visited for a day, but work wise, the one I lived in would be the only place I'd want to be in. But while I am there, yeah, the problem with moving there would not be money, it would be the work system. Transferring was possible at some point but for the next few years will be almost impossible (if I am not willing to jump through one very big hoop, which I am not), and also, I just will not. I am sorry, our system here is already broken and horrible, but the one there is even worse.
I am moving to the place, I said I wanted to move to quite some time, in a few months, so we will see about that. I am not so sure anymore if it's a good fit for me, might be too big. I like middle sized cites, but after small town life for a few years I was ready for change and made these plans. I actually really like the place I live in at the moment, just city-wise. But the thing is...
What I really want from a place, have always wanted and needed, but with all my recent moves (4 in the past 6-7 months, wait has I already been half a year??? what is time even??), is a home. I loved my room in my shared apartment in that small town because it was my safe harbor, it was my home.
So there is that, and mostly because of this nomad life recently: I want to be in a place, where I have a past, a life (so that's not gonna happen until I create one because I am not moving back anywhere for sure), where I have people, friends. Not just nice acquaintances, who could become friends, if we invest time, that we all don't have, before moving on. People, I know, People, who know me. That I can easily spent time with. I long for the ease to just go over to my friends, or that other friend's place, without that damn distance that is always there, I just want to be there for the birthdays and the breakups, the new pets, glasses and dinners, and whatever happens. Zoom is great. It is, but it's not the same thing, and even finding time for phone calls is hard with most of my friends, everyone living their lives, going on and before you know it, months have past and you haven't talked but you still miss each other, but you just don't have the energy, the time, the money to go over there, and why did they have to move away in the first place? Why did you have to move away? And you know why, you are happy not be there anymore, you are happy for them to not be there anymore because it's better for them, and that is how life goes, but you miss the ease and the picnics and talks without 'lifeupdates' and ... - That I want that from wherever I move. Sorry for getting off topic again. As always.
Thank you so much again for the uplifting message and the positive questions, and letting me talk without . & , (not that I gave anyone a choice here, I mean you could stop reading, so anyone who reads this thanks for reading my blabbering!). Thank you and have a great day, too!
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