Growing up - again....

I am totally exhausted and I haven’t done anything! Yesterday my husband and I spent the day at the Fete Des Fleurs (for the pictures look in flickr) where I purchased lot’s of beautiful and maybe not so useful things (once again for the pictures look in flickr). I also bought the biggest lollipop I’ve seen in my entire life and a just as surprisingly big amount of candy floss. And after walking around all the stalls selling beautiful flowers trying very hard to stop Charlie from peeing over them, we then went home and spent the afternoon enjoying each others company!
I was actually writing an article last night for the blog but the two glasses of pastis (with water of course) consumed during the dinner have hit me too hard. Today when I woke up it was after midday, and after spending two hours of doing purely nothing I phoned my very good friend in Paris with whom I talked to for at least two hours. Then I decided to get dressed and take my beloved Charlie for a walk. So once I was clean and dressed I grabbed my mini disk player, attached Charlie onto his lead and of we went with Tina Turner singing you’re the best in my ears! We walked to the river where we have been the other day and Charlie actually pulled me into the water! After a few moments I had to pull the dog out of the water to walk home and that wasn’t the difficult part… Our house is 500 meters above the sea level which in approximately 200 meters distance is a steep walk upwards pulling the dog behind me! Charlie was completely exhausted when we got home and so was I.
After I had another few hours again of doing nothing I decided to make few adjustments to my life and create a schedule for myself which I will make myself follow. I guess it is time that I started acting like a grown up!
Now back to the Fete Des Fleurs. Because the day started of miserably I had to put on a completely different outfit and not my new birthday dress that I planned on. When we arrived in Lannemezan at noon there wasn’t many people but instead loads of flowers (the fountain in the middle of roundabout was turned into a one big bouquet), music was playing and around the very sad (because one family lost 4 members) memorial statue for the local citizens who died in the two world wars for France there was also a mini flea market, I spent a little too much there and purchased some silly and some sensible things (silly things included: a rag doll, clown, straw teddy, and a broken yellow clock that cost 44 francs not such a long time ago; sensible things included: 9 really old French books(i.e. A. Dumas 4 books, 1 beautiful picture dictionary, a blue guide to Pyrennees with a secret pocket containing a very old map!), a set of real old fashioned champagne glasses, two huge plates for roast or any big dinner with English hunting themes (no foxes in sight though!), a dish for sauce and a thing to put butter in), and my shopping wasn’t over I purchased some really fresh huge garlic that was being sold nearby, a cake (it was my birthday!) and 400 grams of sweets. In other words my husband let me do (and buy) whatever I wanted and I was being extremely spoiled!
The fete itself didn’t seem to attract much of the interest to the locals which is a bit sad, or maybe it was the weather? By two o’clock it cleared up and before I spent all our money in the flea market I offered to go home and enjoy the rest of the day together. And so we did.
Although I reviewed my purchased items about 20 times there is nothing at all that I regreted buying.
Anyway today I decided to become a grown up. I don’t like this whole grown up business but I have to act accordingly to my age (I think someone poisoned me). I actually wrote down a schedule for myself which I will print out after I finished writing here, I will follow it religiously and that should help me to stay organized. I am a walking chaos, so it is necessary. I wrote down 20 different dinner menus that I will start applying from next Friday when I go shopping, all the dinners will include a small starter and a main course and will be eaten at six o’clock and not later (I still say I’ve gone mad). To compliment the whole thing I am going to write down all the 20 menus and share all the recipes at the end of THIS month with you dear readers. And this is not all. From tomorrow I am learning 10 big words in English everyday. Three words starting with vowels and 7 with consonance, by the end of the year my English diction should be quite impressive, even this is not it. As well as all that I am going to learn 10 new French words as well, that should help me a lot. And this is not over just yet. I am going to spend at least one hour a day reading and 3 hours a day writing (dividing the time carefully so I have the time for everything) and I want to get into the habit of carrying a note book and the photo camera on me at all times! Am I asking too much out of myself? I hope not.
I promised myself to live in reality and only go back to my bubble when I am writing; walk at least for one hour with my dog everyday… I know this could be too much, but I’ve got to push myself otherwise nothing will get done. From tomorrow I am starting to translate my Lithuanian book into English if you would like to get the translation please write me an e-mail.
So here I am being all grown up, but deep in my heart I know my blog will be my escape route. Tomorrow I am going to list the 21 things that I promised to myself to do.
I am all grown up now (or so I think so); even though I look the same. I promise you one thing my writing style will not change under any circumstances unless it is an improvement!
Now I am going to print that famous schedule!

P.S. I used up my monthly limit on the flickr so for the rest of the photos you will have to wait until June. Sorry about this but I only noticed it after I finished the post.