First of all, while I do admit that writing my last post was somewhat emotionally draining that is not why I’ve been quiet for the past few days.  Ever since we upgraded Wordpress we’ve had problems with the admin page.  It only loads about 20% of the time and we’re not sure how to fix it beyond uninstalling Wordpress and starting fresh with the current (hopefully debugged) version, so as soon as CB decides to take a break on Civilization Warlords I’ll ask him to do that.  That said, on to the topics of this post.

I’ve been trying to answer those that commented on Wednesday’s post with individual e-mails, but I want to thank each and every one of you that left a comment for me on that post.  I actually go out of my way not to post things that I feel are too personal on this blog.  It’s not that I’m intentionally giving a watered down version of my life to you, nor is it that I have anything in particular that I feel the need to hide.  It is simply that I often feel that writing about my problems, issues, past experiences is sometimes a bit self indulgent.  I mean, I realize that blogging in general is self indulgent, but I often find myself trying to focus on the today - the here and now, as opposed to my often dreary and depressing past.  I can understand though, why other bloggers air a bit more of their personal closet space with their readers.  The support and comments that I received were so very uplifting and positive and reinforcing.  I can’t even explain how much your opinions mean to me.  I was even more blown away when I saw this in my Google Reader queue on Friday.

Friday was my birthday (note to self: change my age on my About page) and having someone, especially someone of David’s caliber, recognize my writing and choose to share it with other talented people was a wonderful gift (so was the pint of Ben and Jerry cookie dough ice cream and box of chocolates CB bought for me…I’m afraid there might be some blood left in my sugar stream).

We went to a wedding reception in Turnhout for friends of CB’s last night so we saved the celebrating for today mostly, although I did end up drinking half my body weight in a bit too much white wine which resulted in an embarassing episode where I apparently promised to do several lewd things to my boyfriend (apparently white wine makes me think I’m Jenna Jameson) before falling asleep in the car on the way home and then hurling my guts out getting sick all over the passenger door upon waking (apparently I didn’t get the door open in time, seeing as I had tried to open it while we were going 120 kph…stupid inertia).  We had to return the car to Cabanaparents today and well, no matter how much Febreze we used the car remained pretty foul so we had to tell Cabanadad what happened.  I was hoping to not have to be there but Cabanamom got me a birthday gift (vriendelijk bedankt Cabanamom!) so I went along to return the car.  Soooo embarassing (and I had the WORST hangover ever, which I totally deserved)! But Cabanadad was very understanding and seemed to get a good laugh out of it, so it ended up ok, plus we gave him all the Febreze we had in the house.

After that we went on a nice walk to the city center, did some shopping, had a coffee in NTG in the St. Baafsplein, got some groceries for tomorrow and had a fantastic dinner at Port’A, a small restaraunt run by a man from Yugoslavia who cooks different dishes fresh, daily. Granted, every time CB looked at me he couldn’t stop chuckling over my foul mouthed promises from last night but I can give him that.  After all he still held me when I stumbled into bed after acting like a total ass on the ride home, he still picked a pansy for me this evening while we were sitting in the garden, and he’s still the most wonderfual man in the world.  Even if he does smirk every time we make eye contact today.

Oh, and last but certainly not least, take a look over at my treasureliscious widget.  My newest and definitely my most healthy addiction? Coconut Juice.  I’ve never liked the taste of coconut before although I love the smell, but then after CB used coconut milk in a few recipes I realized that it was the texture I’d been disliking all this time.  I had only ever had those nasty dried out coconut flake thingies before and I hated them. I loved the coconut milk until I saw the fat content and sadly decided to limit my coconut milk to the lotion I have from Body Shop (also on the T-lish widget). Until I found this.  Less calories than soda and a lot of other juices, with a whole truckload of health benefits and it’s a little bit of heavenly coconut goodness every time you sip.

mmmmm….the nectar of the gods, my friends, the nectar of the gods.