Before the Christmas Eve sparkles down upon us, my dear lover Skav and me went shopping for some warm clothing to keep our lovely pale bones protected from the humid cold that prevails in this country.
I ended up buying some lovely things, but that will constitute another post for sure. ;>
We came upon the most adorable book fair on our way to the shopping mall, and I couldn't stop myself from getting my tiny fingers on some occult literature!
these were all rescued, second-had or donated by publishers. I find this wonderful because the thought of giving new love to an old book just fills my heart with glee.
I completely adore the smell of old books.
the touch and feel of it never ceases to please me. the way the pages crackle and the sound they let go among the collected dust of years past... sheer heaven.
I tend to go for the original language; no translations please; and I know how odd that may sound coming from a translations student. but then again most people think the only job translators have is to sit down and convert a text from one language to another, like reading a story and telling it to another person.
this could not be farther from the truth.
when I come to this blog, I'm not working.
I'm just having fun.
I have many particular rules on what language to buy books, but if interest rises I won't mind putting up a few bullet points on the subject. ;>
we shopped until dinner time; and might I say, the entire odyssey of taking ones clothes and trying out new ones, while trying to navigate through a multitude of young teenage girls with their daddy's MasterCard, and withstand the furnace of a heat in the dressing rooms, is enough to make one despair and desist on buying a single sock!
*My darling spouse opening his gifts from his truly*
if there's one thing my partner knows about me is that, I do love to eat out at a proper restaurant where you can actually sit down, talk and order a bottle of wine.
sometimes we cannot indulge in these wishes, but since we were already there and it was late, we thought it wouldn't hurt to check out the restaurant area of the shopping mall we were in.
soon enough we came upon this lovely Italian restaurant (which I'd been itching to try for the past weeks) and the lovely lady at the front door was handing out coupons for a free pizza!
sadly to say I did not take pictures of the place or the deliciousness of the steamy pizzas, has I am still getting used to carry a camera around and the excitement was a little too much...
you will have to settle for this very unforgiving, and oh so unflattering photo of me laughing among a sea of reds and yellows with wine on my smile and love in my face.
*my darling spouse understands my taste for fine dinning!*
I do believe this is it for now my dears, Yule is almost here and there is much work to be done tomorrow, stirring syrup cauldrons, baking gingerdead men and cooking pumpkin pie (for, I now realise, a very Halloween-themed Christmas... hm.)
have a very special Yule with your loved ones,
that is my wish to you.
<3
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