Had a... nice day. :) Zipped off to gymnastics in the a.m, where I got terribly dizzy doing front tucks and walkovers but still had fun. It feels good to be moving again, training my body to defy age and be strong, flexible,
able.
Headed home after that and took a quick bite, shower and nap before heading out with D to take advantage of the 20%-off-everything sale at Kinokuniya. Apparently that's their way of marking the June school holidays. I approve. :) So I stocked up on books and some craft materials I've been meaning to buy, but never got around to buying.
All in all, I spent some $200+ at Kinokuniya, but it would have been $300+ without the discounts. I figure I might as well take advantage of all the sales and the fact that I actually have spending money at the moment to get stuff I've been or will be needing. I mean, I'm okay with normal spending — food and transport and phone bill and stuff like that — but this is non-survival-but-good stuff.
I also picked up new (blue and green!) contact lenses and a skin treatment while I was out, so I'm feeling good and pampered at the moment. I think that'll have to be it for the time being though, until the next project and paycheck come in. :)
One last thing though: I plan to re-do my bedroom to make sure that I have room to work in while I'm back in school. So I'll be dismantling my beautiful wrought-iron bed and sticking it against one wall of my bedroom. I don't want to sell it because I love this bed, and someday, when I have my own place, I want to have this bed there. It's a queen, but my room's really small, and I really only sleep on half of it. I'll miss it though; there's something about a lovely large bed that seems so conducive to dreaming.
In any case, I'll be buying a $200 single loft bed from IKEA and chopping the legs off so that I have a low loft. Then I'll have space for more storage and a studio under the bed. I'll also be tossing as much stuff as I can out: old documents, old clothes, things like that; and re-organizing the stuff I have left. I think I can't afford to have clutter inside my head when I want to focus on learning, and having physical clutter usually translates into mental clutter for me.
I'm excited about all these changes. It feels like I'm in a good place, and that good things are around the corner. I feel like I can see clearly and the way ahead is going to be interesting and rich. I haven't felt this good in months, maybe even in the last couple of years. My theatre group had our AGM this evening (I headed there from Kinokuniya) and Nicky, a girlfriend who just returned from the UK after a 5-month visit to family, commented that I looked good, settled and happy. Then someone else told me that I looked "smashing". :) That's always nice.
I think it's more than a physical thing. I look happy and busy and rested and at ease. I'm bursting with ideas and energy and motivation at the same time, which is rare for me. This combination means I get things done, without killing myself at the same time. D is a wonderful person, I'm getting along with most everyone, I'm losing weight, keeping activity and energy levels up... I'm just at a
good place. I'm happy, and I really hope this is where I'm going to be for a
long time.
