head full of books

today is the last day of january. the end of the first month of the year and i've yet to upload all of my holiday photographs. i've yet to do a lot of things, but the new year has been brimming with so many new possibilities that i'm finding it hard to catch up.

this week was a very book heavy week. without a lot of reading.

toby was a little surprised when i had planned to go to a bookslam on thursday after work and then bookgroup on friday after work. you're doing an awful lot of book related stuff...he said (more or less). everyday, 9 to 5, 6ish i work with books. you'd think i'd be sick of it, but it just makes me really happy to be surrounded by something with so much potential as a book.

bookslam is a literary reading in a little club under westway in notting hill. it's a little tricky to find, but worth the wandering around in the dark. they had 4 published authors read from their latest works with the director of cannongate dj-ing in the background.

i recommend.

eye-xcellent

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you had to dust plants as well as water them?

some people may be horrified

we have not unpacked our suitcases.

there are many, many reasons for this. i promise laziness is not one of them.

home

i'm lucky to be able to call a lot of different places home. i'm even luckier to have toby as my home home.

we're back in london in our little flat in forest hill. by london's standards, it is COLD here. -2 c (28f...i know we got used to colder in the midwest, but you can never get used to it really) our flat is taking ages to warm up and i've just stepped out to purchase a hot water bottle to warm up our bed. the only one they had left in the shop was a little pink fuzzy one with a kid/angel/princess thing on it.

we got home, ate, and watched 3 episodes of spaced. now i'm typing away and toby's fixing his new red grips from milwaukee's cycles' to his bike.

things are as they were and it is nice.

pictures to post in the next few days. toby and i are both feeling pretty happy about our visit. it was much needed.

you people are awesome.