Wednesday 19 January 2011

Leaving tomorrow

Buenos Aires, that is. After a good five weeks living the grand life down in good old Baires, meeting up with friends and family and working my way through far too much carne, it's time to call it a day and go back to Tokyo.

After taking Mr M's parents to Ezeiza airport this morning, my dad and I came back home and I started work on the suitcase packing. Thank God I bought an extra bag and got the Uniqlo manly baby-bag. In the end I'll be checking in one big suitcase and two bags. Didn't feel like I bought too much stuff, but when is time to pack, all those bottles of shampoo and hair dye and cheese and quince paste make up for a lot of space and weight.

Packing is more or less done. Couple of things still, but I have tomorrow morning to take care of that. My head now is filled with dread. Dread at the "goodbyes" moment when my parents walk Bibu and I up to the entrance to migrations. I don't want to think about it, it will be HARD. It's always hard and you would have thought by now I should be a pro at saying "see you in four months". But no, it doesn't get better, and with Bibu on the equation, it just gets worse every time.

En fin........ it's part of the reality I live in, must put a brave face on and get on with it. Anyway, not looking forward to that AT ALL.

Also not looking forward to 36+ hours travelling with a two-and-7-months boy........... Why oh why must Tokyo be on the other side of the planet? Grrr......

Bon, I think it's time to go to sleep. I guess this will be my last sleep in a horizontal, comfortable position in the forthcoming 50 hours, so better make the best of it.

Over and out, back in a few days from the land of the salarymen and the OLs, the TOTO washlet and the green tea kit-kats.

Monday 17 January 2011

Online happiness is...

Still living the summer life in Buenos Aires. Cannot say I miss anything about Tokyo, except Mr M,  who had to go back a few days ago as someone has to work and bring home the bacon in the Detoured household. Bibu and I are coming back in a couple of days........not looking forward to the trip back home at all. But well, until teletransportation is developed, will have to brave the gazillion hour flights up to the land of the rising sun.

In the meantime, these are the blogs that manage to put a smile on my face every time. Pure visual bliss:

http://www.designspongeonline.com/
http://www.desiretoinspire.net/
http://emmas.blogg.se/
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/

Alert: these blogs will make you want to redecorate. You have been warned!

Sunday 9 January 2011

2011 starts on the 10th

So, new year, new life, right? Except for me the proverbial 2011 penny only dropped today.

People, we're in 2011.

Welcome you all and buckle up. The pages are blank (much like this blog, in a fashion), possibilitties are endless, many forks lay ahead in the road....

Love it.

Me, I've been in Buenos Aires for three weeks now. It seems, and actually is, a long time, but it feels like they passed in a blur now.  First week: first meetings with friends and family and the cheerful pandemonium that is Christmas. Second week: trip to Chile and Mendoza with Mr M, Bibu, Mr M's parents and mine. Loved it all and had great weather. Towards the end Bibu got a bit "lack-of-any-kind-of-rutine" crazy, but well, it's to be expected with so much going on, so much attention on him and the fact that everything happens later here in Argentina. Third week: more get togethers with friends and family and Mr M going back to Tokyo yesterday (someone has to work in the Detoured household, after all) He should be arriving in a few hours. Missing him already....snifff.

Anyway, since we're already on the 10thg day of this new year, I thought it's high time I polished up my resolutions for the year. Every year they are a slightly re-incarnation of the previous one, but I just love making them, so here it goes:

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS v.2011

  • Lose those 5 kilos once and for all
  • Relax a bit more and worry only when it's actually called for (and know the difference)
  • Get Belgian driving license (deja-vu all around)
  • Infuse this blog with a breath of life (a.k.a write more often)
  • Focus, focus, focus (hocus pokus focus)
  • Family-related resolution (not forpublic consumption)
  • Work-related resolution (ditto)
Cheerio!