Friday, lovely day
I feel soooo good. Except for one day, it has been a while since I have felt like I will go to bed satisfied with life. I wonder if this is partly hormonal. I felt quite down in the week before my period in December. And now it came again after only 22 days and I felt quite down just before it. There are life circumstances as well that could have been getting me down and suddenly now people are back from holidays and I feel better. So it could be that. Who knows. I will keep better track of my cycle though.
This morning I was very tired. I didn't really get up till noon. That's because of what time of the month it is. I woke up at 9:30 but half slept till almost noon. But I wasn't sad or anything. Just very tired.
Then I ate breakfast and met up with my friend Paul at Indigo Cafe at 1pm. Hey, it is possible to have male friends you want to hang out with alone that you're not attracted to...he's a nice guy. Pleasant to drink coffee with. And he lived in Toronto part of his life. We drank coffee and hot chocolate at a very small cozy cafe. First we went into the bookstore beside the cafe. It is the smallest bookstore I've ever been into. I think I'd call it quaint. The staircase to get upstairs has very narrow steps. The upstairs feels slightly slanted. It has a lot of childhood classics. It was a trip down memory lane.
Then we went to the cafe for a couple hours. Then we went to the library. He picked out a few CDs to recommend to me but they are 1.10 pounds to borrow! I am used to libraries being completely free! So I didn't get them. I still have a goal to expand my musical repertoire though. But it wasn't meant to happen today.
As he was leaving the library I saw Aurelie! Well, not completely random since she is in the library almost daily but still. We hung out at the library, going online. Then we walked around the mall and hung out in the sex/lingerie shop for a few minutes. Then we walked outside and passed a fudge shop that was almost closing. The guy working there invited us inside. He gave us a couple free fudge samples and chatted with us about our lives and why we are in Cambridge. He said Canada has great comedians. I found out he was doing comedy before travelling and selling fudge (not sure why he doesn't just work at one store) and it is tiring him out because of the travelling so he wants to go back to comedy. So I invited him to go out for coffee with us and he said he will after work tomorrow! Nice. I like talking to random people and hearing people's stories.
Then we looked at an art gallery and then I went home. I ate a filling meal with my landlady and family and the other lodger. Then I went to meet up with two couch surfers to play pool (known as American pool here). A bit later Alban came and it was all very good and normal. : ) I like DOING things. I realized if I am just hanging out with people for too long at night I want to drink alcohol. But when I am DOING something like playing pool or a board game or even watching a movie I don't desire to drink. Well, maybe I still will on rare occasion for something different. There are times or have been times when I am happy and I drink and then I get happier. But lately I think it was more often that I was drinking when I was lonely or down or stressed and that is a temporary fix. Hmm. How many people drink partly because they are bored or lonely or stressed?
It's late. I'd better sleep.
This morning I was very tired. I didn't really get up till noon. That's because of what time of the month it is. I woke up at 9:30 but half slept till almost noon. But I wasn't sad or anything. Just very tired.
Then I ate breakfast and met up with my friend Paul at Indigo Cafe at 1pm. Hey, it is possible to have male friends you want to hang out with alone that you're not attracted to...he's a nice guy. Pleasant to drink coffee with. And he lived in Toronto part of his life. We drank coffee and hot chocolate at a very small cozy cafe. First we went into the bookstore beside the cafe. It is the smallest bookstore I've ever been into. I think I'd call it quaint. The staircase to get upstairs has very narrow steps. The upstairs feels slightly slanted. It has a lot of childhood classics. It was a trip down memory lane.
Then we went to the cafe for a couple hours. Then we went to the library. He picked out a few CDs to recommend to me but they are 1.10 pounds to borrow! I am used to libraries being completely free! So I didn't get them. I still have a goal to expand my musical repertoire though. But it wasn't meant to happen today.
As he was leaving the library I saw Aurelie! Well, not completely random since she is in the library almost daily but still. We hung out at the library, going online. Then we walked around the mall and hung out in the sex/lingerie shop for a few minutes. Then we walked outside and passed a fudge shop that was almost closing. The guy working there invited us inside. He gave us a couple free fudge samples and chatted with us about our lives and why we are in Cambridge. He said Canada has great comedians. I found out he was doing comedy before travelling and selling fudge (not sure why he doesn't just work at one store) and it is tiring him out because of the travelling so he wants to go back to comedy. So I invited him to go out for coffee with us and he said he will after work tomorrow! Nice. I like talking to random people and hearing people's stories.
Then we looked at an art gallery and then I went home. I ate a filling meal with my landlady and family and the other lodger. Then I went to meet up with two couch surfers to play pool (known as American pool here). A bit later Alban came and it was all very good and normal. : ) I like DOING things. I realized if I am just hanging out with people for too long at night I want to drink alcohol. But when I am DOING something like playing pool or a board game or even watching a movie I don't desire to drink. Well, maybe I still will on rare occasion for something different. There are times or have been times when I am happy and I drink and then I get happier. But lately I think it was more often that I was drinking when I was lonely or down or stressed and that is a temporary fix. Hmm. How many people drink partly because they are bored or lonely or stressed?
It's late. I'd better sleep.