piping hot chicken soup at pret, chilly weather, a warm maroon knit sweater, christmas stuff EVERYWHERE including gorgeous christmas lights at brunswick, a grande toffee nut latte and even though I have three essays to complete by the coming Friday...I love where and when I am right now ( Read more... )

sitting here happily munching on a peanut butter & jam sandwich at 3am after talking to my best friend on the phone for an hour (or was it two?) for the first time in what felt like aaaaages. :) I love simple happy pleasures like these.

I suspect that secretly, I am actually a morning person. that is, when I sleep early enough to wake up in the morning on my own, without the urging of an alarm clock. it's really nice to sit here with the precious daylight (I wouldn't say sunlight, there is no proper sunlight in this city today) streaming in and a steaming mug of whatever hot drink ( Read more... )

things that are currently making me happy ( Read more... )

I have no classes on thursdays, and my cousin is in town, so I went with her to borough market and portobello market today.

there are very few things that are as wonderful as delicious, piping-hot fish soup on a cold, might-as-well-be-winter-weather day. very, very few things. *______* (mulled wine in flurries of snow with a christmas choir in the ( Read more... )

in this moment warm evening sunlight is streaming down strongly on me through the huge windows in my room, I am freshly showered and the bells from the church down the street are ringing and ringing and ringing. I like this moment; it is a good one ( Read more... )

and today: having eaten a mark & spencer's salad on a bench along tottenham court road, in bright streaming sunlight and weather warm enough to wear a single striped top, shorts and mid-calf boots, rhamnousia & I then had coffee in the caffe nero in paperchase. we sat next to the floor-to-ceiling glass (windows?); I soaked up the sun, watching people go by ( Read more... )

another nice moment; I seem to have a compulsion to record them down every time they happen probably because they don't happen everyday:

iron & wine's on your wings playing on my ipod touch, wearing a short navy-blue sweater dress and maroon tights and my new pair of dark brown boots, my brown satchel bag slung on my shoulder, sipping a caramel ( Read more... )

it hit me today, when I was halfway through walking down the flights of stairs to the subway station for my first subway ride: a certain quiet yet exultant freedom in anonymity and invisibility. I thought, I can go anywhere I want to go. I don't even have to end up where I intended to go, or take the right train route to get there. I can hop on and ( Read more... )

drove with my family up to the Cotswolds today and ambled along a small English village filled with the most gorgeous little brick countryside houses ever, with all colours of flowers and roses everywhere and swans in the small stream beside. and blue skies and rolling white clouds overhead. it was all very ridiculously, irrationally PRETTY. *_* ( Read more... )