I know

Yesterday I heard these beautiful words, which I never expected to hear in my life: You know how to make a man happy.
This made me feel very very happy, especially that I heard this from my beloved. So what have I done? I just got some letter trays for him to put on his desk and organize his papers... :)
... or maybe there is something more?

Mission not accomplished

I would so much like to say: essay plans - mission accomplished, but I can't! On Monday I was so tired that I couldn't write anything. On Tuesday I spent hours and hours writing this what was supposed to be done on Monday... Today I am trying to chase up yesterday's stuff... I wanted to work on it during lunch at work, but my fantastic and super-protected work mailbox rejects emails from myself! :P
At least I made it to the gym - for the second time this week today, as I promised myself, although some parts of my body hurt terribly...
I still have some time to write the essay and then finish it off, but maybe... I will wake up earlier tomorrow, just to write a little bit? My brain really isn't eager to create intellectual paragraphs after 8.00pm...

Achievement

Yesterday night we've made our first small step to celebrating the real Polish Christmas altogether. I taught my fiance the chorus of one of the Christmas carols. Just three lines, from which the first two are the same, but still - in Polish! And with very accurate melody :) I just had to call my parents tonight and tell them about it. I can't wait when we will sing it together, and when my beloved signs it to my grandparents as well. I will be so proud! Of course I am planning to teach him much more... ;)

A little bit of sunshine

Tonight when I came back home, I saw a bunch of white and yellow roses on the table. They look like huge, bright piece of warm, shining joy in our room. And my fiance said that they looked just like me :)

First signs...

On my way to the gym I sticked my eyes to the ground in the park and between leaves I found chestnuts, acorns and beechnuts lying around. Already! That reminded me of my childhood and the times when we used to go with my sister for walks in the forest with my dad or my mum. We were collecting beechnuts to later give them to the woodman to feed the animals in winter.
The autumn is creeping from the corners of parks and forests, she's looking around from behid the trees and spreading her beautiful signs of presence...
I wish it was more colourful here though. In my home country, autumn turns the nature into mixture of greens, reds, yellows, browns, golds... Well, maybe I remember it so well, because I could see a forest from my room's window.
Here I have the seaside, instead :)

Goals

I am starting this week with guns blazing. I have two goals: first, go to the gym, and not once only - three times! Second: write at least half of my final essay (well, 12 out of about 18 pages would be actually about 2/3, but let's not make the expectations to high...).
I really have to strain my muscles and my brain, and try to do the most of it. I know this will make me feel good. Though, hard work at work ;) doesn't help much, really.
I managed to get to the gym tonight and it felt gooood... Now it's time for the first two pages of the essay, assigned for today. The process of creation is not as easy as the process of physical tortures and sweating, but I have to hold faith in myself :)

Movies' time

September means shorter days, darker evenings, colder mornings... It's time to prepare for autumn and take the warm sweaters out of the wardrobe. And get ready to spend lots of time on - at least in my case - reading books and watching movies!
This year I started this second activity quite early (have I ever stopped that at all? ;) I can't live without good movies!), probably because when we came back from our holiday, there were so many movies I wanted to see...
The day before yesterday I saw (500) Days of Summer - a really nice comedy, which I heard about during this year's Sundance Film Festival, an event where independent American movies have their time.
I must say I really liked it, although there was no typical happy-ending. The truth is sometimes bitter, but it's good to see a piece of a real life for a change, instead of sweet, unreal stories. Or maybe I am wrong? Well, that's only my choice I guess, but I warmly recommed this movie.



And yesterday I watched Broken Embraces, a new movie by Pedro Almodóvar, with - as usually fantastic - Penelope Cruz. This was a typical Almodóvar piece of art, with hot blooded Spanish women, mysteries and funny situations. Actually I think that this one was maybe less funny. There was more of a complex story in it, with many characters involved, with different points of view, emotions and desires. There were no good or bad ones in this movie, no clear answers to all the questions. Of course it was worth seeing.