busy busy bumble bee!

I've been really busy this week. I got back to Lyon really late on Sunday night and I've been tired out ever since. I guess the 10+ hours of walking on the weekend didn't really help.

Luckily we have sun in France and the temperature is rising everyday, so it helps to take the edge off the waves of tiredness. Here's what I've been up to...

• Did something dodgy to my wrist on Sunday so I'm wearing a bandage to school but have to keep taking it off because it hurts more when I wear it?
• Spraying with TWO mosquito repellents and killing any of the bastards I can find in the room.
• Getting up before 7am AND managing to eat breakfast everyday :D
• Making and wearing a FANTASTIC superhero costume for the activity day at school (which was today)
• Getting a little sunburned because said activity day was outdoors and I didn't realise the strength of the sun :(
• Painting Kingergarten faces
• Writing letters (3 down, 2 to go)

I'm back to Italy this weekend, I had plans, but now the plans have changed, so it will likely be a lazy week of bike riding, reading and letter writing. Maybe with some baking thrown into the mix. Oh and we'll probably end up in Milan next weekend.

I've also been looking into various schooling methods and trying to figure out exactly what I want to do with my life. All this is terribly exhausting and as a consequence I can't remember any of my dreams... this makes me a little sad and I long for some restful days so I can wake up with the strange, yet fabulous memories of my subconscious play time.

I hope you're all doing well and looking forward to the weekend :D

p.s. I may be getting a hair cut, exciting times guys!

2010 Year of Change.

I make a lot of lists. I'm a die hard list maker. That doesn't always mean I do the things on the list, but I love making them. I made a list just before the start of this year and one of the things on my list was to read more 'new' books. I have a terrible habit of re-reading my favourite books until I know them inside out and while that is a great comfort to me, I want to branch out. I want to read something new, try new genres, new authors, new everything. I want to immerse myself in the written word as I have never done before.

As much as I love lists, I decided not to list what I intended to read, because I tend to pick up what interests me at the time (and that is also one of the reasons I always end up reading about 5 books simultaneously). I also have the luck/misfortune of having a boyfriend who is a prolific reader. This is great because he can recommend things to me without giving away the plot, but terrible because he reads about 3 times faster than me :( So I have a lot of catching up to do.

I was really pleased yesterday because I finally finished Catch 22. It was one of those books I bought some years ago and just struggled to get into. I brought it to Egypt with me in November and we instantly hit it off. This book is fabulous, I rarely laugh aloud to a book, but this had me in at least 3 real fits of giggles, much to the dismay of the general public (you aren't allowed to be happy in public in the UK), and when I had finished I instantly wanted to turn back to the first page and go again. I restrained myself. I even restrained myself from picking up another book!

I'm about 3/4 of the way through World War Z, so hopefully that will get finished soon enough. then I have Elephants on Acid and Murphy to finish (but I think I may pick up Journey to the Centre of the Earth before too long, it's calling to me from the book shelf).

What are you reading at the moment? Do you have any great books to suggest? Anything goes ;)

(found here)