Rain, ice cream and reading in bed

1. After some fiery hot days, I woke up today to the sound of heavy rain beating on my windows. The cool, grey skies are a welcome change.
2. A post-dinner walk around a mall on Friday led me to a tub of durian (an Asian fruit that's an acquired taste, I hear some people equate the smell of it to that of soiled socks) ice cream. I savoured a scoop of it for dessert this afternoon.
3. Cold, rainy days such as this one are best spent curled up in bed reading. Something I'm doing at the moment. My book of choice? Jasper Fforde's One of our Thursdays is Missing. I highly recommend Fforde. He's a great read, in any weather.

Feeling down

I'm finding it hard to think of 3BT today. Mostly because I'm fighting a cold and my throat is painfully scratchy. I think I might be coming down with the flu. I do have 4 books I borrowed from the library last Friday and which I'm looking forward to reading. And with Good Friday coming up, I'm looking at a 4-day work week. Oh and I'm going on a short trip to Kuala Lumpur over the long weekend which should be fun. Hmm, I seem to have found my 3BT after all :-).

Rainy Sunday, lava cake and purrs

1. There's something very right about spending a rainy Sunday afternoon curled up on my bed, listening to my iPod and making jewelry.
2. I sample a friend's new baked creation: chocolate lava cake with cherry bits in the centre. Dee-licious!
3. Stretched out on the carpet, I spend several minutes petting and stroking my 18yo one-eyed cat. His purrs are music to my ears.

Term break, hanging out and Facebook chats

1. It's the school break right now. So I get to have a breather for another week before the students return. Time to catch up with my reading - for work, I mean. I already keep up with my leisure reading :-).
2. Just confirmed that I'll be hanging out with a few friends this Thursday after work. Take-away pasta, chocolate for dessert and some good gossip to look forward to.
3. Weekly Facebook chats with a friend in the US have resumed. I'm glad. I missed her when we weren't chatting.

A musical, a fridge and jewellery

1. Looking forward to meeting up with friends later this evening for dinner and a play. Well, a musical actually. A student production of West Side Story. Tickets were dirt cheap and I've always loved the songs from WSS.
2. Our new fridge is coming in a few hours. It was a bargain and the silver finish on it is snazzy.
3. I finally completed the necklace I was making. All those wrapped loops took time but I like how it turned out. I may post a photo here later.

Quiet, some cash and a necklace

1. The office is quiet today. There's time to think and breathe in peace.
2. My boss calls me in and lets me know that I'll be getting a sizeable performance bonus this month. I'm surprised and grateful.
3. I'm in the midst of completing a necklace. Wrapping the crystals and linking them with vintage chain components is therapeutic. It's a bonus that that necklace is turning out to be rather pretty.

Workshops, birthdays and new music

1. I survived my very first stab at conducting a jewellery-making workshop on Saturday. All but 1 of the participants managed to complete the 2 rings I taught. That one woman went home with baggies full of beads and instruction guides so she could make the rings at home.
2. This is way overdue - but I celebrated a birthday. I'm now a year away from another milestone birthday. Not quite sure if I should be happy or sad. On the whole, I'm leaning towards 'happy'.
3. Not being particularly hip or cool (as you can clearly see since I just used the words 'hip' and 'cool' in the same sentence), I've only just stumbled on Florence + The Machine. I'm now in love with Dog Days are Over. It's on loop on my iPod.