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My fridge wants to kill me. It gave me a sign: a frozen egg. I mean, really. It’s on the lowest setting, fgs!

Well, since I’ve never seen an intact egg frozen, I’ve decided to have a closer look.

First thing to notice, the egg became solid and hard to break. I mean, I’ve dropped it from a height where a normal egg would have broken, and it was hardly scratched. I’ve removed the shell from one end, and it revealed a jelly-like material, which looked like some ribbed plastic thing, but it was also moist because the albumen hadn’t all go jelly. Then I’ve cut it into half, and it was still disgusting, also it tried to eat the knife, but with hard struggle I could free it from the yolk. It was simply disgusting, as the picture shows, it’s just it was even more disgusting.

It landed in the bin.

He’s Melvin. Melvin Udall. I got him for my birthday from Dóra. I’ll take good care of him, and he’ll look out for my stuff at home while I’m away. He can play the piano, so it’s really unfortunate I don’t have a piano – and he wouldn’t play it in public.

Yeah.

Yesterday was quite fun. I’ve finished the cleaning (well, I still have some smaller spots to do but the main thing’s over), and Szöszi* visited me in the afternoon. I served the food, she made some pancakes (they were delicious!), and some posset. We talked a lot, and generally, we had a lot of fun. Also we agreed if both of us wasn’t in love with someone else, we could probably make a nice couple – though I guess even if we weren’t fallen for someone else, we wouldn’t get together. Friends with a long past usually don’t.

Today I’ll meet Dóra, and after that probably Magdi too (before she’s off to Germany again), tomorrow I’ll visit a… job consulting place, where they may find some jobs for me, on wednesday Szöszi might come again, Thursday we visit Enkara and Redguy with Whitepony (still have to ask if they’re free though, his work might have some words about that), and on Friday I’m going to my parents’ place. Quite a busy week it will be.

Now I’m off to do the dishes – we’ve left quite a mess yesterday.

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*Szöszi means Blondie. I have the exclusive prerogative to call her like that, because back in University I asked her if I might. She knows how I mean it, and she would find it offensive for anyone else calling her as such.

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“Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my window watching
Where were you when I was hurt and helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else’s words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun”

After coming home I was quite depressed. The days with Annelie were great – knowing they won’t come again anytime soon was almost like dying. For a week I bathed in self-pity and didn’t want to do anything at all. I didn’t want to live on – what’s the point without her?

Now the time has come to come back to life. We didn’t part with hatred, and I still mean what I meant, I still feel what I’ve felt when I went there. I could die for her, but that’s easy. I’ll take the harder path: I’ll live for her. I’ll live for the moment we’ll see each other again. I’ll live for the hope, that one day… but I won’t write it down, I won’t tell it out loud, for I don’t want to jinx it again. I know, you know, and I bet she knows too.

“Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life”

So, the last three days I’ve spent with cleaning up the mess I was and the mess I was living in. There’s still things on the floor, but it’s because of I still don’t have wardrobes or shelves, only one for my clothes – and because I like to keep often used things handy. I decided to learn to cook (should have started years ago, but I never was in the need so I left it for things I thought were more important), and I already can make stew and potato noodles, tomorrow I’ll make some bolognese pasta. I visit many friends and ask friends to visit me. I should reinstall my OS soon as well, because it keeps doing strange hiccoughs lately. I have some catching up in programming and some other things as well, and I still have to find a job. I’m writing a long post about movies I’ve seen recently. I stopped thinking about what ifs, and start thinking about how it could turn out later.

“I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight..into the shining sun”
(Pink Floyd: Coming Back to Life)

Nie-chan, I’ll come.

My fridge is overcompensating. It’s on the lowest, and still it cools things as madmen. I mean, I’ve put a carton of milk on Saturday, and on Sunday it was full of ice. Not the fridge, the milk. I’ve put the rest of the potato noodles there (for I’ve only ate half the pot on Saturday) and the small waterdrops on the inside of the lid were frozen. And my fridge is way far from being empty anymore… What if it would go on full power?!

And the things in my fridge are not the only things which are frozen, but I guess I’ll be able to talk about this one after I melt out…

Today I made some… “potato pasta”. I’m still bad at food names, I just can’t find any good dictionary for them. When I finished with the cooking I realised I have nothing to drink with it (milk or tea isn’t good) so I went to a shop nearby to buy some beer and some other stuff I needed. When I left the shop, I stopped to fill and light my pipe, and a suspicious looking guy came to me (his “friend” entering the shop meanwhile) and asked if I can change a five-hundred note. I suspected he was up to something so I told him I can’t (which, actually, was true). Now he asked if I could give him some change, I said I don’t have money on me, I’ve paid with a bankcard. He asked if I could buy him something to drink then – that was the point when I was glad I’d said no, and I knew he was up to something. I told him no, I can’t. He asked if I could lend him my cellphone so he can send an sms to his mother to bring him some money, and of course I said no. Now he tried to convince me, he would just call her fast and she would bring him some money, but I said I don’t have my phone on me (fortunately noone called me at that time). He became angry, went into the shop, but shouted back “Oh fuck! You should be stabbed in the back!!!”

Ridiculous.

Anyways, food was tasty, though next time I have to cut the onions smaller. Now I finish my beer and continue cleaning the place.

Potato pasta

Ingredients:
70 dkg potatoes
2-3 onions
30-35 dkg pasta (square type)
oil, salt, pepper (ground), paprika (red, ground)

Cut the potatoes into large pieces, cook it in salty water, then mash it. Boil the noodles in salty water too (add a little oil so it won’t stick together). Mince the onions, and fry it. Add paprika (lots of it), then mix with the mashed potatoes. Add salt, pepper, and stir the pasta into it.

Serve with pickled cucumber, or with sour cream.

Many thanks for Magdi!

(Edit: I was told that the square shaped ones are called pasta, and the long spagetti-like ones are noodles, so I corrected.)

Hmm… I might as well quote the whole, it kinda fits (and that’s not only my opinion):

• The Monkey lover

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• Famous Monkeys

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