carrots, cheesecakes, martinis and shooting stars

on sunday morning i had a brain-wave and wrote a poem about something that had been floating around in my brain for a while. now i have had some feedback and tweaked it enough to feel it's finished but i have no idea what to do with it now.... anyway. i got a real high after i'd finished it, and it was a great feeling - for that brief window in time after you've finished something you've made and you're really please with how it turned out, you're just totally invincible... well, this feeling happened to coincide with a monday morning at work, and amazingly, it still lifted me up and sent me soaring... for about three hours. then i was dumped back into reality, rolled and rumbled in the harsh sands of reality, totally winded and dislocated and bruised, and i had to literally drag myself through the rest of the day. what kept me going was the promise of today, of the rest of the week, and a concerted, renewed effort to get back on track with the writing. if a poem can deliver such a potent high, imagine how i'll feel when i blast my way through the current scaffolding around my story? imagine.
that, and i have promised myself a martini on friday afternoon if i am a good girl this week.
hey, a girl needs a carrot occasionally, even if that carrot is a martini. get what i'm saying?

also speaking of things you make that result in a feeling of invincibility, i made this on the weekend and highly recommend it to all and sundry. trust me, you will not regret it.

last night while i was walking from the bus to my house, i saw a shooting star. initially i thought it was a very fast-moving plane, but i realised it was a shooting star when it disintegrated and left a brief but sparkly tail. i stopped and couldn't stop smiling, and actually said 'thank you' out loud. i have not seen one since i used to live in fiji, where the sky was huge and dark, and shooting stars were plenty. it so happened that mark was in our driveway at the same time, and saw it too - his first shooting star ever. special.