.Until June.

Labels: - Saturday 22 May 2010

Until June.


Despite from being a title of a song, it is a phrase that I am constantly hearing lately.
People keep saying it, especially this week, during exam fever.
"I can't wait till June" or "When will June get itself here?!" is a very common mutter or yelp from the students which are seen lugging around folders or books, with scribbled notes piled on top, and highlighters in their hands.
I literally freaked when my yellow highlighter ran out today during the double period.
It was the only activity which was keeping me focused. It was early you see. And as you know, I am not the greatest morning person to be around. Because I am not that- I am not a morning person at all.
I just thought I'd share this little detail with all of you. (:


In any case, reality is that June is close and far.
And as I am the contradictory creature, it is rather hard for me to explain why it is close/far.
So I am going to be vague and leave it like that.

It was a rather dull day today.
Weather-wise especially. As I was walking home, suddenly a huge droplet of rain splattered on my forehead.
Not that I don't like the rain. It was a swift May Shower. (:
But you know, the fact that June is on its way does not seem to have any rainy weather accompanying it.
Or that is what I am hoping in any case.
Just to get in the JuneMood, which as you've probably noticed by now I am currently obsessed with at the moment, I am listening to a song by them.
Until June I mean.
Just to get in the mood.
June.

Well, it is my cousin's wedding next week, as I've probably already mentioned, and the whole family is completely engrossed in what/who/why is going to be there.
What dress, what shoes, what food, what time, what people...
You get the picture..
Luckily, I have already found the perfect pair of shoes to go with my dress. And I feel proud.
I will be wearing pale pink.
But I will not be dancing as expected by the rest of the cousins. I am not a very good dancer you see.. But they will still drag me on the dancefloor.
I will be sitting with my other cousin who just twisted his ankle.
In any case, I'm positive that it will be fun. (:

It was weekly dinner night tonight.
It's this tradition that me and some of my friends have- on a random day of the week, we meet up at someone's apartment and cook.
Might not sound creative, but the food some of us come up with is rather.. different.
In any case, I had the most beautiful chicken curry tonight.

Another tradition.
Field Photography.
Its what I tend to do when the sky is blue and the sun is out.. Not like today for example.
I choose a field nearby, grab my camera and snap photos.
But, the weather is not being helpful lately. And that fact is rather frustrating.
I am not in a good mood.
And I apologize if the negativity is passing through the computer screen.
I promise that the rest of this post will be extremely positive.

Starting from now.

I'm eating a cherry as we speak. As we type. Well as you read this in any case.
Actually no, that is wrong.
I am eating the cherry as I type, but when you read this, I will not. I will not be eating it.
It sounds too complicated, but I hope that in some very peculiar and strange way that you understand it. To some extent.
Things are just getting curiouser and curiouser around here.
I am not making any sense whatsoever.

So, I got a new phone last week and I recently found out that it has world clocks on it.
I don't know why I found this particular fact so interesting, but I think it was partly due to the fact that I had finally realized how to use the touch-screen.
In any case I have now.
But, then, today I noticed that the clock in room B2 for Geography had a clock on it.
May I just add that I do not like looking at clocks when I am in lessons- because it upsets me to find out that I have 55 minutes left to endure and I end up counting the seconds and minutes which tick by.
Anyway back to the point.
So, this clock had three little clocks underneath the main one-
They were labelled New York, Athens and Sydney.
And I found it very interesting to imagine that while I was learning about the coastlines of the world, some people were going to bed, or where just grabbing their morning coffee.
This kind of stuff fascinates me you see.
I then ended up counting down those 55 minutes.

Another thing that I find rather odd-
On most of my posts, you have probably noticed that I always say I will be posting tomorrow, but I end up posting about.. 3-4 days later than what I had planned.
Don't get me wrong, I am not the kind of person who is constantly late, not that there's any problem with that though.
However, I tend to start writing a post one evening, continue it the next, and then finish it the next after that.
And I end up posting it the next evening after that next evening of the previous one.
I am not making sense again.
The clouds in my mind are rather dense today- like a fogged up mirror.
I blame it on the weather.
But apparently it is going to warm up by Tuesday.
And that only means one thing... Shorts!
I feel content now.
I just hope that the weather does actually get better. (:

So I dropped my earphones of my Ipod in my coffee today.
Clever thing do to.
It happened while I was on the underground too, so the people sitting next to me were eyeing me oddly.
Anyway, I'm just a little clumsier than usual.
Again I do not know why.
Must remind myself to buy some new ones, because they are not working right at the mo.

My book is staring at me rather persuasively.
Not that it is the time to revise anything. It is too late. For studies mind.
I have decided that after 8pm my brain shuts off.
For revision mind.
And I haven't eaten hardly anything, so I better get off this sofa and get to the kitchen.
What should I make?
Such a hard decision.
I fancy a cupcake.

I'm going to make 26 cupcakes.
Guess why.

I will post tomorrow- which probably means in about 2 days.
But it might actually mean tomorrow too.
Have a lovely Saturday evening.
(:

Victoria xxxx

ps. The photo is from some of my field photography.
It is not very June-ish, I know, but I promise the photo in the next post will be much more June-ish.
(:

Petit Framboise.

Labels: - Sunday 9 May 2010

May.

May is a month that I have come to dread a little in the past few years.
But it is not because of the hayfever, or the mosquitoes which start to appear, but because of something else, knocking on my door in my head.
At first it's a slight tapping, rather gently on the door, which starts to appear at the end of April.
Then the beat becomes faster, the tapping louder. It is now described as knocking.
And by this week, the knocking is rather abrupt and fast, like a heartbeat.
Exam season begins now.
That is why I dread May.
But hey, the weather is beautiful :)

Piles of stuff.
Around me.

I really needed to find some papers. They are very important.
But, finding them consisted of looking through piles and piles of stuff.
I knew where I had left them, somewhere in the back of my mind, in that miniscule little hollow or crevace, but for some reason I decided to ignore it. I didn't follow my instinct.
Frankly, I find that it is not suprising.

So, I ended up on my knees, with papers floating around my head. And scattered on the floor of course. My Ipod earphones kept falling out my ears. Well, actually, out my right ear, because I was only wearing that earphone.
And I kept dropping the papers, and the books and the folders.
They kept falling and falling, just like Alice in Wonderland kept falling and falling down that rabbit hole.
Until she landed.
Just like the books landed with a large thump on the floor.

However, I did end up finding the papers, and I did end up with notes scribbled all over my hands.
I was bored you see and I couldn't find a piece of scrap, plain writing paper.
I also started subconsciously writing the lyrics of a song on my left thumb as my Ipod boomed in my ears. Actually ear.
All in all, it is not that bad.
I did find some suitable writing paper in the end too.


I really do apologize for my absence from the world of blogger.
I think I was missing 2 weeks? Maybe 3?
It was rather frantic around me, what with exam preparation and all.
I decided to completely focus.. Which is rather hard for me in the beginning.
But it is going well actually :)
And I am back to my blog as you've probably noticed by now.

Today, granted that the weather is so beautiful I decided to do a tad of gardening.
I am not very good at it, and even though I went to a flower festival locally last week, and read this book about how to make a perfect garden, I do not seem to be improving.
However, I planted some geraniums, so I consider that, in my brain, as a grand, great commitment.
I think it symbolizes the beginning of summer. And the beginning of summer is always a good thing. Right?

Another thing that symbolizes summer.
Smoothies. Shorts.
I've taken to doing all these summer-preparational things lately.
Firstly, I've been eating loads of fruit.
My mother always tells me how I don't eat enough fruit, and then my grandmother agrees with her.
So I decided to take their advice and listen to them.
And it feels great.
Especially the strawberries :)
They are heavenly. And if you combine them with yoghurt, or cream, or vanilla ice cream, they get even more mouth-wateringly heavenly.
I'm on a role now. I'm also eyeing my fridge.
And my chipped nail. Sorry, nails.

Two weeks ago, it was a drowsy Sunday afternoon and I had nothing to do.
So, I rummaged through my bathroom cupboard and found some nail varnish which I forgot I owned.
I bought it last summer, on a little Greek island.
So, I decided to use it. It seemed fine a year later, so I painted my thumb pink, my next finger orange, my next pink, orange...
I repeated the pink-orange thing the next week.
And, I am going to repeat the pink-orange nail ritual today. I am looking forward to it.

I also want to start wearing shorts. And flip flops.
And large straw sunhats, with jasmine and daisies, pocked through the holes between the straw.
I want to lie on the beach all day, with just an ice cream in hand. Or a book, with folded, ripped, yellow pages, and grains of sand stuck between these pages.
Or jump into a river for a midnight swim, and sneak back into the house, silently, with dripping clothes, but smiles surrounding the atmosphere..
Or just sit on the porch, rocking back and forth on the creaky wooden chair, listening to the cicadas singing throughout the afternoon.
Summer is on its way.

My cousin's wedding is on the way too.
I have exactly twenty days to find some new shoes to go with the dress that I am planning to wear.
So, I'm just making a mental list in mon head about the shoe.
Peep-toe.Beige/Pink? Heel?
I need to go on a shoe hunt sometime soon.

I also have to make this website for this project at college..
And the deadline is on Wednesday and I am really really worried about it.
I need to draw up a plan. And I need to get it completed.
Ugh.
I'll get it done.
Sometime.
Soon.
I'm not a good-website-maker-person you see.

Yesterday, I was reading a magazine.
Which isn't a big surprise, as my living room table is piled with 5 magazines at the moment, as I look at it.
But I do not waste them, I exchange them with my sister and my friends.
And we do end up recycling them :)
But back to the point, as I was absent-mindedly flicking through the glossy images of expensive shoes, and clothes, I stumbled upon a page with some big, bold font.
The writing was pink.
But it wasn't the colour or the font which caught my attention.
It was the letters, the four melodic letters which were so beautifully strung together.
B-l-o-g, I silently read to myself.
They have a feature on blogs.
I then found out that it was a feature on fashion blogs, but..
It made me think.. Maybe mine will appear in a magazine one day..
I surely hope so.
It's never bad to dream. :)

I just noticed that my yellow highlighter is on the floor.
Underneath the table.
No wonder I couldn't find it. I had to use a green highlighter instead, as I was flicking through information for my revision this morning.
I am attempting to write notes.
Which is a good attempt I guess.

By the way, did any of you notice that I changed the songs on the sidebar on the left?
I thought it was about time that I added some new songs for you to listen to, so tell me what you think about them :)
However, my Ipod is not feeling very well lately. It feels lonely again.
Hopefully I might be able to find some new friends for it today.
Time to browse for songs.

But I must be going, now because the fridge is eerily calling my name.
It's whispering it, like a soft breeze which rustles through the long wispy strands of grass in a remote, abandoned field.
In any case, the strawberries are calling my name.
And I cannot say no to them now, can I?

I will post tomorrow, and hopefully by then, my nails will be orangey-pink, as they tap away whilst I write the new post.
Have a sun filled day everyone :)

Adios for now,
from the petit framboise
or in other words, Victoria xxxx

ps. I've been going completely mad with my photography lately, so enjoy :) (:
The one I decided to include today, is a detail of this amazing Venetian mask that someone I know has.
It is for an art project, but I really like it. :)


And I added a new page to the blog!
I'm so proud! :)
If you go to the top left corner, above the Ipod, there is a tab that says pages, with a link to a page called "Victoria??".
It's a page about me, but it is a bit messy at the moment. I'm planning on adding more to it, and more pages too. XD
Tell me what you think!
(:




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