memories - Obscure Journey

What Is left

Publié le 29 Mars 2023 par Charly C.

Catégories : #poem, #poetry, #cats, #memories

what is felt of you

lovely memories and a handful of whiskers

you were so small when you came into our life

then you started growing

sleeping with your spotted belly up

looking like a frog

what is left of you is a small black jar with ashes

many memories full of love and a handful of whiskers

all the places where you slept while i was trying to work

you gained a lot of weight because of me

you became cuter

a very good sleeping buddy

what we have from you are some pictures

a handful of whiskers and a small black jar

soft pillows were your favorite

as was sitting under the opened rain umbrella

in my arms or on my belly and chest

you rarely sat next to anna

but those moments are precious memories for her

our little fatty alien

we will always miss you

expect to see you come and eat

hope to hear your voice again

what is left of you...

RIP Mickey 2011 - 2023

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Blogmas '22 - days 1 through 4

Publié le 4 Décembre 2022 par Charly C.

Catégories : #blogmas, #Christmas, #celebrating, #challenge, #memories, #winter

Hey there!

It's that time of the year again - December, which means Blogmas around here. Since i didn't post in a long time, this will give me a chance to update the blog.

DAY 1

On the first day, over-bloggers were challenged to participate in a contest for a paid account.

The conditions were to tag 2 people and like the page - easy peasy lemon squeezy. I have no idea who won. The winner hasn't been announced yet.

DAY 2

blue car traveling — a random car we saw in summer, uptown

On the 2nd day, we're supposed to write our wishlist to Santa. OK, Santa, i hope you're ready for this:

move to Japan in 2023
buy a house
succeed at making a life for us in Japan

Putting this out to the universe, because.

DAY 3 and 4

It appears that the staff forgot to give us homework for the 3rd day. And the 4th day was designated a rest day.

However, i didn't rest almost at all. I cleaned the bedroom and tidied up a bit along with doing some decluttering. This feels great :D

I guess we'll have another update soon enough.

See you soon!

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almanah femeia 1980 supliment

Publié le 8 Septembre 2022 par Charly C.

Catégories : #Romania, #crafts, #fashion, #lifestyle, #memories, #resources, #spoilers, #vintage

Hello, everyone!

I came here to announce the creation of a special pinterest board i created. It's for an old Romanian publication that has unique fashion and hand-made projects inspirations.

You can find the board at this link. I will also share a few pics here, but not all of them.

As you can see from the title, the title of this little publication is "almanah femeia 1980 supliment."

I took pictures of each page of the tiny magazine. There's just one page missing: the very last cover. I forgot why I didn't take a picture of that page. I may add it at a later time.

I took these pictures because i haven't seen this magazine supplement anywhere in any used-books store. I wanted more people to have access to the ideas offered in it.

The creations also get explanations and patterns that can help you re-create the items. Should you want any explanation translated to English, you should post your request here. I may add new entries for each translation and whatever else is needed.

See you net time~~~~~~~~~

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The images belong to their creators and are shared for educational purposes.

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Memories from my Childhood

Publié le 13 Avril 2022 par Charly C.

Catégories : #adventures, #life experience, #people, #story, #memories

Hello, everyone!

This entry will be different compared to most of the ones i shared here. Through this post, you'll get to know me better. As the title suggests, I'll be sharing some memories i have from my early years in this world.

There are many things I remember since I was a child. I’m not sure which memory is the oldest. I want to write these down so I may still remember them.

One of the earliest is of my grandma on my dad’s side, holding me and one of my older cousins. It’s possible I was maybe older than 6 months old at the time. I remember my cousin was reaching out towards me to give me a kiss. All I remember is that I didn’t want to be kissed and I hid my face in my grandma’s chest. It is also possible I also started crying. There is at least 1 picture of that time. Now, both grandma and that cousin are dead. He actually died drowned in a lake probably a few months later than this picture. I also vaguely remember going to a part of his funeral. I remember a generally dark room, lots of people, and him in his coffin, surrounded by lit candles. I didn’t understand what was happening for sure.

When I was 3 years old, my aunt gave birth to another son. I was at the countryside, where my paternal grandparents lived. She brought her new born so that they would meet him. This time around, my new cousin being a baby, he needed to sleep a lot. My aunt and grandma would sit with their legs stretched out, and put the baby on their legs, while trying to rotate the legs from left to right and back. The motion was comforting for the babies back then as we didn’t have any other special crib.

When the baby would fall asleep, the person could slowly separate their legs, and the baby would not realize they’re on the bed. I realized that the motion is pretty easy to perform and so I asked if I could do it. I was allowed to do it, though I’m sure I was supervised. I also remember that despite me being 3 years old, I was still being put to sleep the same way. I remember I liked it so much, I was asking for it, until I was older and too long compared to the legs of the person I was asking.

Speaking of the countryside, many households have their toilet outside in the yard. I can’t remember exactly what type of toilet my paternal grandparents used to have. This is the outdoors toilet my maternal grandparents used to have until recently.

No, they didn't replace it with a modern toilet, just this construction got a bit of a revamp. Out of all my grandparents, just my mom's dad is still barely alive at 90-something years old.

Stick around for more stories coming up in the future.

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Two Museum Visits

Publié le 21 Septembre 2021 par Charly C.

Catégories : #adventures, #animals, #bucharest, #memories

Hello, everyone!

As you already know from this entry, Bucharest is currently opened for business after last year's mess that leaked into this year as well.

This meant that museums also opened, and honestly, since we don't have any Louvre or other similarly popular museums, i see no reason not to visit some of the ones we have.

One of the museums in the city, Antipa Museum, holds temporary exhibits on a regular basis. This year it held at least 2 temporary exhibits. One was dedicated to butterflies and the other one to the Moon.

Butterflies

We first went to see the butterflies first. These were tropical butterflies and they were alive. This exhibit will still be available for 1 month or so.

We decided to go early on a Saturday morning, hoping to be alone there. This didn't go as we had hoped since several families with kids also came. Most likely because it's a bit cooler in the morning than later in the afternoon. And that day was quite the hot one.

Luckily for us, not everyone came to see the butterflies. However, access into the museum [where the tickets are sold] was allowed to only small groups. The rule was to allow the groups to be decently distanced.

The butterflies were not held inside the museum, but in its garden. We did have to walk through the museum to get to the special greenhouse built for them.

We had to follow a special protocol to go in and out of this greenhouse:

show the tickets [to go in]
wait for the employee to let us in or out through the special curtains.

The exit from this exhibit was separated from the entrance. of course, all due to "lovely 'rona."

As i mentioned, the butterflies were alive, so we had to watch our steps, as not to step on one by mistake.
Besides us, there was maybe a family or two more.

The majority of the butterflies were blue when the wings were opened and brown when they were closed. The brown side seemed to have a pattern with eyes. The picture below is a bit blurry and doesn't do the butterfly any justice, sadly. There are actually 2 of them eating. Can you spot the 2nd one?

Most of these insects were resting with the wings closed, to show the eye (or perhaps scary side) of their coloring. See an example below:

The greenhouse was small, so the visit wasn't very long. An interesting corner of the enclosure was the box in which they showed the various stages of an insect that turns into a butterfly.

Even more interesting was the fact that some of the pupae were alive, especially those in the later stages.

There were many stages, and i couldn't capture them all in a single picture, if i wanted to understand something from the image. hello to my reflection and of random people in there, hehe.

Despite having a short visit, the butterflies made me really happy. this happened perhaps because they're usually associated with hope. they were also very colorful, and colorful stuff is cheerful.

When we left, we bought this stone tree. I'm not sure what most of the stones are, and thus what's supposed to attract.

Unfortunately, after we left, Anna started feeling bad and we couldn't continue our plans for the day.

Here are a few more pictures with the butterflies:

Look how beautiful this black butterfly is!

The Moon Impact Exhibit

As mentioned, the 2nd collection we went to see was dedicated to the Moon, and called "The Moon Impact."- link This exhibit will still be on until January.

This was a presentation with large images and some text, everything from the point of view of a billion of years globe Earth. If you believe in the Creationist theory or in the Hollow Earth, you're probably laughing at me for going to see this exhibit.

The presentation started with the Big Bang theory, and who is not even a bit familiar with it?

I didn't take pics at this exhibit, so, here are the tickets instead.

I didn't take pics because i found this presentation rather disappointing. I think it was meant for kids who lose their patience rather easily. It was a small one, just like the one with butterflies.

We also had to show our tickets before getting in, and the person checking them was sitting in such a dark corner we couldn't even see him.

Anna and i were the only ones there, though a family tried coming in as well, but they didn't have tickets for this expo so they weren't let in.

There were 3 or 4 large cases in which various rocks and/or minerals were held. This was the only interesting part of this exhibit.

Worth noting that the written presentation was both in Romanian and English. i completely recommend you go see something similar in your city, or even in Bucharest if you're in town until January.

see ya!

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