Picture from here.
It has been a rather disconcerting two days for various reasons. My body’s feeling a tad out of sync despite all the sleep that I’m getting and I feel a bit out of touch with everything. It’s like my consciousness and my being is in two separate places, could be due to all the running about that I’ve been doing though.
Thankfully, though it’s only about four days since last weekend but I’ve been blessed enough for sit-downs (FINALLY!) with friends over great coffee (and food at my favourite place!), comparable to melbourne desserts and tea. Very much like old times. very much.
Yesterday, whilst ogling food pictures, I chanced upon a picture of tiramisu and was suddenly filled with much peace. ahha. I wonder why. It wasn’t the exact picture above, but it’s close.
It’s the kind of feeling where all of a sudden, all the rush and the madness come to a standstill and all of it, EVERYTHING that you’ve been doing, making sacrifices for, all the fighting makes sense. Yea. I really haven’t figured out why, maybe it’s because even though tiramisu ain’t my most favourite type of cake around, it contains all the elements of my favourite things – soggy sponge figures, alcohol, chocolate, marscapone cream and if done right, an amazing sense of satisfaction.
I haven’t had the opportunity to take time out and bake much since returning from home of 6 years. It used to be very much my weekend rite of passage. Wake up, run, groceries, shoopping, bake and have the pretty things that I’ve made for tea and/or dessert. Yes I do have things twice, especially when I’ve made those things myself.
It is a bit of a rarity these days. With trying to juggle additional responsibilities (self-inflicted. ahha.), errands, gym, sleeping in more and just planning for the week ahead. I suppose it could be also because it takes too damn long to simply get home, much less even stop on the way back to buy groceries.
oh well. that’s life I suppose.
It hit off home too when found this quote in Madison by the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC, who probably is now rank #1 on the list of people that I admire.
She said:
“I’d like young women to understand that they can have it all, BUT NOT ALL AT THE SAME TIME. It’s so important to take good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual well-being, but it’s hard to do. IT’S EASIER TO BE A WORKAHOLIC THAN TO HAVE A TRULY BALANCED LIFE.”
Wise words indeed.
Tags: Australia., cafe, weekends.
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