End of slavery, the art of filling a freezer, or waving goodbye to a Panda.

The fun has ended. She is gone. I’m all alone now.

It’s been a great week having my friend Panda here, we shared laughter and gossip about those at home. She made me food, I ate the food. She carried my stuff, I bought some new stuff. She helped me with encouraging words when my creativity was low. I gave her a place to stay that involved loads of free-time, and a open cabinet to whatever she wanted to eat. She made me bentous, I paid for the food. My fridge is full of nomns, and as a parting celebration we made the Swedish sweet bread cinnamon-buns together..  But the timing was a bit of, so suddenly I realized that when my buns were in the oven, her bus would leave, and therefore I couldn’t go with her. Sad story. and I feel somewhat bad about the whole thing. Not even a bun could I press upon her. Because as the bus left, the first plate was ready.

Now the buns are all done, the apartment is silent, and I’ve eaten myself sick on first the apple-pie we made with the leftover dough from yesterdays hot-pocket cooking. And then I ate some buns, so my stomach is giving me a hard time, and a stinky eye asking me about, did you think about eating anything healthy today? To which is reply without a quiver in my voice and breath of sweet things and cinnamon. “No. I will even finish the day of with Cheeseballs. You can’t stop me. Taste before Health!” And then my brain tries to butt in, and say stuff like. “ouhm.. mayhap, maybe, you wouldn’t have such an upset stomach if you ate something besides sweet bread and pies with whipped cream today?”. I ignore. It was a WONDERFUL DE-LI-GHT!

But yeah. My brain is not fast today to think quicker than my mouth. I think it’s because it’s been quite a full week. Every moment have been up to something. Monday – Taconight with friends and laughter. Tuesday, market for lost people, and finding myself some very nice Pots, and a wok. And then getting home around 8 and practically falling asleep at dinnertime. Wednesday, more friends, more food, more yawns. Thursday, long bloody day, ending in scones and then snores. Friday, getting off early, coming home to yum and then having a movie. Watching Drunken Master and loving the Jackie Chan moves the way the are to be loved. Saturday- friends, markets, city, Munchkin. Ending on a low key with a documentary on Atlantis. Sunday, having a slow start, then trying to finish my mural, buying all that was needed for buns, making them, packing, cleaning, enjoying the last moments together. Hurried and abrupt goodbye. And now?

Now I’m thinking of having a shower, doing my nails and maybe watch a episode or more of Top Gear and then going to sleep. Because I’m totally knackered. Such a great week it have been! With Panda, Night and Co-worker no 1. Let’s hope tomorrow will mark the start of another amazing week.

If not, I at least have a freezer full of buns and food. I can binge.

A birthday card that I’m to late to send by snailpost.

One of my best friends. The glorious and wonderful Panda have her Birthday today! And that must be celebrated! So therefore I’m going to tell the world about her, in a sort of amusing and loving way.

She is one of the shortest people I know, but that don’t bother me much unless going by the escalator and she stands on the wrong step and I end up having to bend over to even see the top of her head, but then we switch. She shares my love of books, and when she comes to visit me, I almost always push some new books I know she haven’t read onto her. And talking about books can keep us going for hours. Or anime, or manga, or food, or cooking, or any other of our shared loves. She is one of those people who stands for being who she are, holding her head high and doing what she wants when she wants it. Not conforming to a society with to many rules about how to act in certain situations and what to do with your free-time.

I’ve known her for many many years now. I think almost 10. And we have done some crazy stuff together, and this summer we might embark on our biggest adventure yet. The idea is to go by car to Norway and just drive around, watch the nature, camp, improvise cooking, read in relaxing settings. Stargaze and maybe go by canoe into a fjord or something or another. Trying to get away from the hectic life in civilisation and go to a forest where nobody is. We have travelled together before, but nothing this big. And that’s going to be awesome.

And she is coming here! On Monday! I’m quite happy about it ^^, and have the evil plan of making her my slave for the week. I’ll be working as normal, but she will be guarding my apartment at day, against burgles, superman, and spiders. My evil lair shall encompass this minion of mine, and she shall have the food ready for me when I come home, and extra points if she manages to do this with a fresh loaf of bread. I think she said something or another about using my awayness to study, but I know her. I know my collection of movies. It’s going to be interesting to see how she fares in the face of the temptation my castle of Evil shall give her.

And this one, is especially for her. Because I think of her every time I hear it.