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I hope I can complete this post without network interruptions..

so these past few days (or the past month to be exact) have had some really great moments and some really bad moments. Like a shower that is cold and hot from one point to another. I guess that most people have this kind of periods in their lifetime. At first you panic, then you try to deal with everything and by trying things get done. Doing things under pressure should make you proud if you manage to achieve them or makes you feel like shit if you cannot deal with them. For me so far it seems that I am still in the middle of everything. I hope i can make them work in the end..

I' ve also had a very interesting conversation with the taxi driver that gave me a ride to work this morning. This guy had travelled a lot. He studied tourist industry in Canada (I don't rememeber which of Quebec or Montreal he told me exactly) and seemed to travel a lot. He had even worked in Ghana for a cloth industry! How bold and courageous of him. He loved good music and watched a lot of musicals in the theater. He had watched West Side Story and Singing in the Rain in a theater here in Athens and was so amazed by it that he started talking to me about the show.

After the ride I was thinking to myself that travelling is the one thing that I would love to do the most. I would be very proud of myself if I could travel from one country to another and live there for a while. But not as a tourist. As an immigrant. Imagine meeting all these new people and interacting with them. Trying to communicate and become friends with them. If I could make it under such circumstances, I would be able to make it under any circumstance. I would try to learn the culture and the language of each place. I would be full of life experience! Will I ever make it? I don't know. Will I ever try? I don't know either.

Friday night: I went on a date with my bf all over Athens-fantastic!!

Saturday: What did I do on Saturday?? I remember that dinner with the guys in the evening that was fun..Oh yeah! We went on a bicycle ride.. Lovely apart from the bad weather...

Sunday: We spent half the day gaming and in the afternoon I watched SATC 2 with my friends.. I didn't enjoy it as much, it would have been better if I stayed in..

Monday: I went to my parent's place for an hour. Other than that I did nothing..I think I didn't even cook for dinner..

Tuesday: I went to the supermarket and there was much rejoicing..

Wednesday: I did nothing. I came home at about 20++, so there was not much I had the strength to do.. Some bad cooking and a lot of browsing..I should have gone to that movie avant premiere instead of watching TV at home...

Thursday: I have a doctor's appointment in the evening so there is not much I can do before or after that.. Hope this goes well..

Friday: I have no idea how tired I ll be, but I think that since I will be busy cleaning up on Saturday, there is not much choice there either..

What a fun fun week! Can I have a couple of days off? Can I also spend some time with my bf?? All work and no play is just dull and frustrating!! :(

I ate almost all the cookies I bought on sunday.. For the past three days, I am having three cookies a day! Fuck that, I don't need that much sugar! Thank God, I had a light lunch, no extra oil, no extra bread, no fruit at all, all day... I am going to throw the rest of them away, they are such a yum yum temptation that just thinking about them makes me wanna eat them all..

For lunch tomorrow am having fresh beans.. I really need to cook that risotto I was thinking about, but I get off work so late every day, that I cannot experiment at all..

I also wish we went to that movie tonight and take a rest..

It seems that everything is upside down these days..I cannot make plans at all. And fuck that stupid machine called TV. Just what I needed, another corny movie: "How to lose a guy in 10 days"
How about how to lose your temper in a few weeks time...

update: I think I just burnt the fresh beans... :(

I think you get my point

So here is the story:
I got tired of buying herbs once a week from the supermarket, but never getting to use all of the quantity that I bought.. I decided to grow my own herbs in the balcony as a hobby. And so I did. I decided that I use more often basil and parsley, so these were the ones that I would try and grow.

I bought the seeds and I also bought dirt as well. I planted the seeds, watered them for a few days and then waited for them to grow. And they did.

Here is the result so far:





My only concern is that the basil seems to be "drowned" by some other herbs-these ones:

What are these? Are they edible?? Should I just take them out??

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