Day 164 (894) Saturday 3rd April
Thirteen Things
Since this year started I have:
1. Walked barefoot on a tropical beach on 1st January.
2. Been told 'welcome home' by the passport officer as I walked through the 'NZ Residents' line at Auckland airport, with no ticket back out of the country.
3. Been interviewed by The New York Times.
4. Had a photograph published in a book.
5. Discovered how much I miss the internet when I don't have it for a prolonged period and am thousands of miles away from almost everyone I know (and need the web for finding houses, etc).
6. Met up with my brother and sister-in-law after five years.
7. Paid (a lot of money) for a visit to the doctor - for the first time ever, apart from when I had food poisoning in India.
8. Sunbathed in the nude - now that I have a garden with private areas where I won't frighten or offend any one.
9. Joined a library - with no limits to how many books I could take out (just limits on how long I can keep them).
10. Posed naked for photographs on the beach/rock pools.
11. Went to the theatre with a (Meet Up) group of strangers (I usually go alone)
12. Sat in a spa pool under the stars.
13. Started to re-evaluate my life: where I'm at, where/who/what I want to be.
Of all the shots I took for this one, only the one with the top of my head cut off was otherwise 'good' (ie, not blurred, not with a hideous expression on my face). So I'm going to pretend that it is deliberate, an 'arty' statement of this list being 'off the top of my head' or maybe that I'm losing my head, or that I'm taking the lid off and looking inside.
The last time I played 'Thirteen Things was 30th December 2007 .
A year ago today I was able to eat again.
Day 164 (894) Saturday 3rd April
Thirteen Things
Since this year started I have:
1. Walked barefoot on a tropical beach on 1st January.
2. Been told 'welcome home' by the passport officer as I walked through the 'NZ Residents' line at Auckland airport, with no ticket back out of the country.
3. Been interviewed by The New York Times.
4. Had a photograph published in a book.
5. Discovered how much I miss the internet when I don't have it for a prolonged period and am thousands of miles away from almost everyone I know (and need the web for finding houses, etc).
6. Met up with my brother and sister-in-law after five years.
7. Paid (a lot of money) for a visit to the doctor - for the first time ever, apart from when I had food poisoning in India.
8. Sunbathed in the nude - now that I have a garden with private areas where I won't frighten or offend any one.
9. Joined a library - with no limits to how many books I could take out (just limits on how long I can keep them).
10. Posed naked for photographs on the beach/rock pools.
11. Went to the theatre with a (Meet Up) group of strangers (I usually go alone)
12. Sat in a spa pool under the stars.
13. Started to re-evaluate my life: where I'm at, where/who/what I want to be.
Of all the shots I took for this one, only the one with the top of my head cut off was otherwise 'good' (ie, not blurred, not with a hideous expression on my face). So I'm going to pretend that it is deliberate, an 'arty' statement of this list being 'off the top of my head' or maybe that I'm losing my head, or that I'm taking the lid off and looking inside.
The last time I played 'Thirteen Things was 30th December 2007 .
A year ago today I was able to eat again.