Pardon me today, I am fairly tired. The yoga classes are strenuous and I come back home ready for a warm bath and some fresh and light supper, followed by a lot of sleep in my comfortable bed. Instead, because we lost the spare house keys, after yoga I had a long walk in the rain. We have no bath in the house and the hot water system is boink. M tried to do his best by doing a bit of shopping and having already cooked part of the dinner, but he clearly underestimated my exhaustion. I accidently left the French door a little bit open, and felt cold all night. I have a flight to catch tonite, and I haven’t packed my bags…

On top of it I had an epiphany a couple of days ago, a rather unfortunate one, but one that I will have to note down in black and white, before it will let me carry on to do anything else – The best and most I ask of life is comfort. There, I said it! But what I really mean is, that when you would find me most agitated and upset, it will most likely be because I am uncomfortable; and not, for example, because I am being a burden on the world. I need to work on that.

A couple of weeks ago, on facebook, I shamelessly asked people to write an adjective to describe me… It is amazing to find that people don’t really lie even when they are trying to be polite. For instance, no one wrote I was brilliant in any way… in all, I am a mild and harmless person… except with my closest family, with whom I lose my temper rather easily (but thankfully they didn’t put it on my facebook profile!)

This morning, I was reading a blog, because I am so tired*, and came across this:

Syrie Maugham was the leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and ’30s, and yet she didn’t even launch her business until she was 42, a detail that I find inspiring. (My favorite late-life starter was Julia Child, who didn’t even enter cooking school until she was 37! Proof that you don’t have to have everything figured out by your 30th birthday.)

Read more at Design*Sponge

It would have been very nice to believe, because I am about to turn 30, and feel like I have nothing figured out at all. But Julia Child was always rather impressive, if you only read her biography, even if on Wikipedia.

Anyway, I’ll leave you today with no conclusions, and wish you a good day!

*I try not to start my day with blogs, usually.