Project 289 - Day 169 : Nothingness is Good For the Soul (and Pasta Too!)

Today I went all Zen-like in my very own cave high atop Erskineville - my bedroom.

After the emotional stress of the last week, a full on few weeks preceding that, and a frantically busy day at work yesterday when I barely held it together, I needed a circuit breaker day. So rather chuck a sickie (there's a fabulous piece of Aussie lingo for you!), I applied for, and received a day of annual leave, and I made like a hermit and talked to no one bar my gorgeous guy.

I needed some time away from insanely crowded schedules - both personal and work ones - and even contact with people, since while I love and adore people, and enjoy social outings like any extrovert does, I don't switch off very well with people around... and I needed a day where I didn't complete tasks, didn't go anywhere, didn't buy a thing, didn't surf the web.....

Did I achieve it? Yes I did, and all I did was watch "Ellen" and "The View", read my novel, and napped, and then at night I went to dinner at my beautiful guy's place and he cooked the most delicious pasta and made an exquisite dessert, and I melted into his arms, finally feeling a sense of relaxation and peace for the first time in a long time.

(Oh, and the photo? Just my beautiful guy cooking up a storm.... a very melodramatically pseudo-violent storm!)