Around the World in Antwerp

I've been meaning to write this long post explaining a couple of things that have happened since January, but then I procrastinated and it never happened, and other posts that would've followed from "that big one" were never written.

So, I've decided to blog anyway, explain along the way or not at all.

Here I am, out & about in Antwerp, on a little excursion with a bunch of lovely people.

The trip was organized by the West-Flemish Rainbow House, where I started volunteering in February. It's not always fun & drinks there (though, frankly, often enough), but I've made so many new connections, met people from different walks of life. I still seem to get along better with people 15 - 25 years my senior though, so little change from my knitting groups there.

My main job as a volunteer is website maintenance, with a side of newsletters and social media.

Mad Men

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

The Saddest Thing

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SFBT

"I am going to say something widely inappropriate now", he interrupted my summary of the last few months.
"I missed the cadence of your speech."

SG

"That rotten feeling when you spot someone you used to connect with in the past
but haven't seen in 9 years
walking by with his arm around the shoulders of someone he connects with now.
And you're torn between wanting to run up to him to say hi
and hoping he hasn't seen you and thought, "Oh wow, she put on a lot of weight."

When SciFi explains...

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Hair obsessions

This morning at the hairdresser's.

A: Well, it's funky ^*) again.

B: Indeed. And you know what's best? I don't have to worry if the boyfriend will like it.

A: Ah, still single?

B: Absolutely and planning to keep it that way. I think I'm actually shooting "Leave me alone" rays. Pew, pew, pew.

^*) Note that she didn't use the word "special". Smart woman, that.