better, faster, stronger

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Diana

Life is great when your 30 days project of doing something new turns out to be actually a sort of a new life style. No struggles, no thinking what to do next or what if I don’t find anything outstanding for today.

It may sound cliche but happiness (no, not the devil) is in the details. When you connect the dots between all the small gestures and simple pleasures, life does not seem fuller, it really is.

I think that my statement from some time ago “I’m going to find out what makes me happy and who it is that makes me happy and I’m set” is working out wonders.

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odd little me

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Diana

This book I’m reading now, “La mecanique du coeur”, in it’s bittersweet, whimsical and gothic way makes me feel like a Tim Burton character.

If people could see inside me, would they like me more or less? Would anyone, anyone out there love me?

I could have fallen in love a thousand times before if only someone had known me.

*Poets of the Fall – King of Fools

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dare to differ

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Diana

There are a million things I wish I could tell you

but I’m only going to say this:

You don’t make life easy, you make it interesting.

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Day 10 – black beer & friends

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Diana

Did not had that cup of hot chocolate, I had better: black beer & old friends.

After finishing cooking my salads guess who gave me a call for an impromptu meet-up? My good all friend who just came back from Winchester last week. I promised her tea from Finland, she promised me an original Early Grey from U.K.

Did not had the chance to taste it yet as our waitress from this local bar of ours made a strange face when we, very seriously smiling, asked for boiling water and milk to make our own tea. So we went for the black beer then.

Therefore what started as a gloomy day where I only wanted to stay in bed & die a little turned into a great night out.

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Posted on August 10, 2011 by Diana

I was thinking of staying in bed and dying today.

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Day 8 and 9 – new route and fluffy brooches

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Diana

I guess I got caught up a bit in Day 7 … which is not bad at all.

Thing is my body still hurts a little, a pleasurable and enjoyable pain I might say; just like 4-6 intense yoga sessions.

So, on day 8th I only got home on a different road than usual and unfortunately not because I wanted that way.

And now, on my 9th day of doing something new I acted far beyond my age which means completely childish and, in just a few clicks, I ordered online 4 hand-made big, fluffy, colorful brooches .

I have no idea how exactly I’m going to style these; I just saw them and felt I have to make them mine.

Ah, life is wonderful!

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Day 7 – he’s my ride home

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Diana

Never in a million years I would have imagined myself riding a motorcycle on Cheia this Sunday with the coolest biker I know.

Loved the way he got everything ready for me and mostly how being my ride home made me feel alive again after such a long time. He doesn’t know and I guess I don’t neither but the rock-chick is starting to breath a little.

Now I understand from where it comes “you never forget your first time”.

It was just like getting my tattoo over one year ago:

Puuure awesomeness.

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Day 6 – hug a tree

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Diana

Like nearly every Saturday I went to the country side.

Today this meant walking barefoot on the grass and on some rocky roads, hugging and kissing a tree and, above all, getting my legs shaved by my kittens.

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Day 4 and 5 – chocolates and mango

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Diana

Yesterday I had such a lovely surprise to receive Russian chocolates. I kind of get them once a year when my friend’s Nastya family returns from vacation. This time her dad brought me some of the Volgograd’s best chocolate assortments.

It was a truly decadent night.

Today, on the 5th day of my challenge, for the second time if the chocolates don’t count, I tried something new for dinner.

I had a mango salad with goat cheese. I’m a sucker for all kind of cheese but I never thought I will end up pairing it with mango. It was super tasty and gave me a feeling of an exotic summer evening!

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Day 3 – tofu

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Diana

On my journey to a healthy diet I try to find new eatable things. Being inspired by some recent dinner invitations I thought this would be a good day to taste something.

So I tried for the first time Tofu.

It wasn’t bad although I was expecting for something tastier.

Tomorrow I will try some fried tofu with spicy sauce. Yammy!

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Day 2 – compassion

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Diana

Yesterday I tried

Every Tuesday and Thursday I have yoga classes and I take the tram on the way back home.

Every Tuesday and Thursday a little girl takes the same tram at the same hour and goes from the back to the front and backwards trying to sell band aids to the passengers.

I usually have a zen state with my earphones plugged in, holding my balance without grasping on anything and ignoring as much as I can everything messy around me.

However, this time I did something different.

I took out my pack of biscuits (I always have sweets in my bag) and hand it to her.

She smiled, I smiled.

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