A real update

This is a real update. Apparently when you’re absent for four months one of these is required.

In the last four months - in order of occurrence - I have:

1. Purchased (and am now raising) a parrot called Dick Dastardly. He’s very single minded and I am besotted. But, even I have to admit, if he’s not raised correctly he has terrorist potential. It’s in the eyes.
2. I got married. And amazingly I’m still in love. I am however finding the whole wife label very unnerving.
3. I honeymooned in the Transkei where it rained nearly every.single.day. It was beautiful.
4. I went skiing for two weeks. Every time I go skiing I come back with dreams of packing-it-all-in and following the snow around the world for a year. I can’t work out if it’s fear, ambition or proximity to my family that keeps me from doing it.
5. I started to, and am still, unpacking wedding gifts and writing meaningful thank you cards. It’s difficult to be meaningful when there’s a time limit. I have also discovered that my handwriting is terrible. At school it was OK, at university it was better and now its illegible.
   
6. My work was good four months ago. It was good in-between and it’s good now.
7. I have a love project. I thought last year was the year it would meet the world. It wasn’t. I think 2010 has the right feeling about it.
8. I haven’t baked at all in the last four month. No cheesecake. No chocolate cake. No crème brûlée. This needs to be addressed urgently.

There is more, but nothing I would label as significant and if it’s not significant it doesn’t make the update.

I’m ruthless like that.