I’m back! For awhile, after a month on the road. The bus driver looked surprised when he stamped my bus ticket and noted that the last stamp was dated four weeks ago. And strange again, because I came home to an empty house, with a load of mail waiting for me. I’ve unpacked all my things, knowing that I will have to pack them again pretty soon, which is fine by me, except that I have a shitload of laundry to do by Monday. 

This past month has been good. From being with friends to meeting friends of friends, though somewhat randomly and by tenuous connection (one always marvels at how Facebook improves communications by leaps and bounds), we covered London and Paris and then Portugal — which I loved — Lisbon more than Porto, but still lovely all the same.

I thought a lot on this trip, and wrote a lot. Someday the travel posts will come up; I have so many thoughts about so many places — they need to be recorded down somewhere.

Anyway I came back and realised that I have Christmas cards! Yay! I love mail; handwritten things. A nice letter or two. So wonderful :) And then, I realised that my Queen of Pirates DVD also got delivered! I now have three hours of pretty boys to entertain me! ALSO — I came back to even more wonderful things, like:

HIPBONES!

AND CHEEKY FACES!

I am happy. Pretty boys make me very, very happy. Also, how do you make guys have hair like that?!