October 27, 2008 – 3:07 pm
At 4 years, the relationship with Z is the longest one I have had.
Some aspects are drudgery. The minor arguements, the petty irritants. Unmade beds and unswept kitchens and forgotten resolutions to put away socks or pick up the coffee mugs. A conveyor belt of chores and small annoyances that are the price of cohabitation [...]
When Z and I first began seeing each other, he would ring me up saying he just wanted to hear my voice. A little further into the relationship I would ring him to tell him that I loved him.
It was our little ritual. Handfuls of SMS kisses. Brief conversations without much substance whose purpose was [...]
April 19, 2008 – 11:07 pm
Belgrade is lovely if crazy in its inability to make up its mind whether it is spring or summer or autumn. It is behaving like a mini-England at the moment, but that’s ok by me since I didn’t come here for the weather but for the free babysitters, oh yes.I’ll be here until the end [...]
November 19, 2007 – 2:48 pm
Ways in which my husband is a contrary creature:
1. When in the evenings being faced with the suggestion that he might like to do something bonding-like with the baby and acquiring a look in his eyes which suggests that he has a deep yearning to play computer games. On the other hand, when under the [...]
August 30, 2007 – 9:41 pm
what happens when you and your husband have the same shoe size
Originally uploaded by rainsinger.
Z: (defensively ) I couldn’t find my slippers.
(even more defensively) They are very comfortable.
N: You are a beautiful butterfly.
August 28, 2007 – 4:46 pm
N: No, no no. This isn’t right! Stop enjoying yourself and come help me clean!
Z: Do I have to?
N: Yes, you do! Because if I’m tidying and you’re gaming it’s not fair.
Z: Well what about when I was helping your mother move all by myself and carried endless boxes and bags for days on end? [...]
While I snoozed on the sofa and had disturbing dreams about small planes Z indulged his latest passion, Flight Simulator. And while I dreamed about being trapped in Cessnas and soaring on thermals and an incessant, maddening beeping noise Z pretended to fly some anarchic glider plane over the desert whose instruments made the [...]
The music was playing and time was slowing down and flowing around me like water and I was walking to the altar as though in a dream. And then there we were, standing together, he and I with the minister and our two attendants, still giggling at each other like teenagers except by now we [...]
January 23, 2006 – 8:34 pm
what I wake up to in the morning
Originally uploaded by rainsinger.
obviously what he wakes up to in the morning are phonecamera flashes
Z bless him has taken up interior decorating and finally bought a bed and gold sheets.
Gold! Gold! [the whole bed looks like a giant Toblerone bar FFS!]
Z: But really it’s less metallic than it looks in the picture I sent you.
N: *dares to hope*
Z:I think it’s just shy of being kitsch.
N: I think it [...]
