1. Dry September - 3 weeks of sobriety. You read correctly the first time. Not a drop to drink from 6th September until 24th September.
2. Commitment - Mattress Shopping on Saturday. Big bucks spent means more long term comfort for moi. Previous hesitation to spend up on household items went out the window since I slept for the first time in comfort on a FUTON in Hamburg in a little while. It's just not right.
3. Vegetables - I had delicious homemade carrot and sesame seed soup tonight, with a rice, carrot, beetroot and apple salad, a la Laura. Bellissimo!
4. Reading - It's the quiet life for me, for a little while. And that's A-OK with me.
5. Hamburg - This city has got it going on. What's not to love? Cosmopolitan, with a bit of a gritty edge, it's where media and shipping moguls wheel and deal, and it's flat. Also the city where I found an original Russian produced 1994 Lomo LC-A camera (discontinued, limited edition!!) at a Flea Market for 5 EU in prima working condition. A restored one made in PRC costs 200 EU online!! OMFG!! Lomographer's HOLY GRAIL! Check out more here.
6. Reunions with old friends and making new ones - Italy and Germany was good for seeing them and meeting new folks.
7. Nice guys - Love it when friends find a good one.
8. Having nice colleagues - Surprise Tim Tams from one that came back from Australia, cheery and helpful colleagues, and lovely colleagues you don't often work with that notice you were out of the office for a while.
9. Random 16 piece brass bands killing time in German Railway stations.
10. Scandinavian clothing labels
What's Not
1. Trains - No more travel by rail. For a long, long, long time.
2. Restlessness - Need to find a cure from within.
3. Faux-mance over Romance - Not playing anymore.
4. Carbohydrates - Overloaded in Italy and Germany.
5. Rain - It returns tomorrow for a week and may stay for a while. Like 8 months.
6. Aching - It hurts. Everywhere.
7. Overthinking mortality - Good time or a long time?
8. Indecision - It plagues me.
9. Facebook politics - U.G.H.... I just DON'T want to fret for another nanosecond about this.
10. Wanting a holiday after your holiday, and realising your next holiday is going to be just as frantic.
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