I have a new phone - my first Smartphone - and I am trying to learn to use it... naturally, the first app I got was Kindle. (still, it's weird to touch screen - I try to wipe it all the time!)

Now what else do I install. Life is hard.

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So, TV channel 1 tells us that anyone who doesn't believe in Putin assassination attempt is mentally ill. Why, hello, Soviet punitive psychiatry, is that you peeking from behind the corner ( Read more... )

Me and my mother, we clearly have differing ideas of style. Like, when I attracted her attention to the combination of my pink plushy dressing gown and my baby blue plushy slippers with crocheted roses, we agreed that it needed some small detail to make it complete - only she thought it should be a garter, and me, another (bigger) crocheted rose in ( Read more... )

I keep thinking about my attitude to blogging. Thing is, diary keeping is a habit of mine, but blogging - a public exercise by its nature - sometimes makes me worry that I am doing something merely to blog about it; or that I only ponder on things to blog about it. Does a thought exist if you do not declare it to everyone around? I mean, I do love ( Read more... )

This is the first year that I had problems with composing a wishlist - and I do socialize with a lot of people on my Russian-language blog, so I was asked for one ( Read more... )

Why wasn't I provident enough to go and start learning Japanese five years ago? Silly me ( Read more... )

A bit earlier there has been a splendid rain outside - I couldn't resist opening my window to listen, even if that required wrapping myself in a blanket. I do love rain at night... both for the sound, and for the way the city looks in the morning. Also, it's so nice to put on woollen socks at night - and wriggle my toes a bit from enjoyment of ( Read more... )

Today was itchy and unsettled. Maybe because I awoke to a friend's phone call about her family problems, and kept worrying about it - and checking up with her - all day. And then, maybe not only that - it feels like a transition time. Last year's October was really physically difficult - I had no strength and felt like sleeping all the time; now I ( Read more... )

In the spirit of cataloging new experiences I have to mention that today - well, make it yesterday already - I went sailing for the first time ever ( Read more... )

Today I learned to row.
Well, kinda sorta learned to row, as in not obstructing the other nine people rowing. And not catching crabs - any more crabs. The whole process of actually moving water with an oar... I think it's a bit beyond me for now.
It was fun.